5 inning game. Every inning starts at the top of the lineup. no DH (helps end too long of an inning).
Screw the record books. Love to see an 15 out perfect game. 15K perfect game?
stealing from cricket t20, make one team face all 27 outs without switching sides, then do it for the other team. If a teamās down 12-0 they can just forfeit their inning
Willy Adames to the Giants for 7/$182 million.
weird, Dodgers couldāve bought a shortstop and didnāt
As a Yankee fan, Iām glad. He was horrible on defense. He would stab at balls in RF that Judge would catch routinely. And $765 is so high, no one is gonna blame Steinbrenner for not signing him.
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lolmets
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Been doing my victory laps everywhere about this to comment here about it. He can option out in 2029 (much later than other deals we heard) if they donāt increase by $4 million a year. $75 million signing bonus. My victory lap was that he was always, always, always going to ask for a lot and friedman would never come to a deal with boras. Thus, heād never be a dodger (and thank god). Agree he is a defensive liability. Letās see how he is at 31-32 and weāll really see if heās worth that absurd tag. my god
the apoplectic yankees influencer reactions are really good
I donāt get these 12-15 year deals that are becoming more and more common. I must be missing something but Iād rather give Soto 4 years $300 million or something insane like that. Thereās nothing worse than a guy screwing up your team because his salary is far higher than what heās producing.
Heās not going to mess anything up. Steve Cohen has unlimited money. When heās no longer worth the salary, perhaps theyāll use him to buy prospects like they did with Scherzer and Verlander.
Multiple teams were willing to give him $700+ million with opt outs so he has the opportunity to make another insane deal if he stays great but has that $400+ million to fall back on if he gets hurt/injured/fat/whatever. He basically signed a 5 year $255 million contract that includes a 10 year $550 million option and if stays as good as he is he can probably get another $700+ million deal instead.
the last 3-5 years of his contract heās very unlikely to be on an active roster. That seems like a bad deal for the mets until you consider the angels would gladly pick him up for that price when his career is over.
Yeah, good on Steinbrennerās poverty franchise for only offering him $700m+, not $700m++.
Reportedly the yankees competing offer was 16 years $760.l, which is hilarious. greedy fuck.
The money has to go to someone.
Heās 26, so the contract runs through age 41. Heās pretty likely to be able to play into late 30s. He wonāt be that good, but most stars last that long. Maybe they work out some buy out if he really wants to retire.
What your missing is that structuring the deal like this is better for the player and the team.
For the player they get more guaranteed money. For the team, they get to spread out the cap hit to avoid luxury tax. The team knows full well those years at the end are going to be an albatross.
Itās not really a 15 year deal worth 60 million a year. Itās more like a 8 year deal worth $75 million, with added years tacked on to help the team. You see this all the time in other sports - used to be really bad in the NHL until they limited how many years you could do (some guy signed a 17 year deal at age 28).
I lolād so hard at a yankee fan complaining about losing a player and itās too much money anyway and really, he sucks
thatās what every other fan does as copium when the yankees were doing that to everybody. Never seen the yankees do that before tho.
Also the yankees have the money, some teams actually donāt.
Soto isnāt getting deferred money so I presume he laughed in the dodgers face at their little trick.
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