Roy T wrote:I thought Ohtani is the second coming of Babe Ruth?
LOL, Ohtani is way better than Babe Ruth
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Roy T wrote:I thought Ohtani is the second coming of Babe Ruth?
HurricaneDij25 wrote:Mariners farm system is stacked… Would be interesting there.
Dominater wrote:Damn Cactus jack takin over
Big J wrote:Who?
Capn'O wrote:We're the recovering meth addict older brother. And we've been clean for a few years now, thank you very much. Very uncouth to bring it up.
BoatsNZones wrote:And now he's definitely getting traded this season and will get a haul for them, which is also interesting. He's not having a particularly great year either.
Seeing a league without salary cap or limits on seasons owned has always been interesting. A true open market.
Granted, the two best players in baseball play on the same team (one as an elite pitcher/hitter) and they still have no chance of making the playoffs.
Egg Nog wrote:As a non-baseball fan, explain this to me...
1) The influence of any single player is sufficiently low that you could have a team with the two best players in the entire sport and not even make the playoffs
and yet
2) One player would plausibly get a 600 million dollar contract
NotAKnicksFan wrote:BoatsNZones wrote:And now he's definitely getting traded this season and will get a haul for them, which is also interesting. He's not having a particularly great year either.
Seeing a league without salary cap or limits on seasons owned has always been interesting. A true open market.
Granted, the two best players in baseball play on the same team (one as an elite pitcher/hitter) and they still have no chance of making the playoffs.
Trout and ohanti are def not the two best players in baseball
C3H6N6O6 wrote:second and third tiers NBA stars should consider themselves lucky that there is a limit to max contracts in the NBA otherwise they wouldn't making the money they are making. Top tier superstars would be eating away most of the money.
BK_2020 wrote:NotAKnicksFan wrote:BoatsNZones wrote:And now he's definitely getting traded this season and will get a haul for them, which is also interesting. He's not having a particularly great year either.
Seeing a league without salary cap or limits on seasons owned has always been interesting. A true open market.
Granted, the two best players in baseball play on the same team (one as an elite pitcher/hitter) and they still have no chance of making the playoffs.
Trout and ohanti are def not the two best players in baseball
Trout definitely was the best player of the 2010s.
JDR720 wrote:I will never understand why MLB teams give these contracts.
Has it ever worked? The impact of star players in baseball isn't that much higher than "normal" all-star level players or even solid starters.
The Angels have Mike Trout and Ohtani (who is insane) and they're still average as can be. And have been for a decade, they had Trout and Pujols for a while too and still sucked.
Look at the Braves. They let Freeman leave, signed a cheaper replacement (Olson) and Acuna has missed half the season (highest paid player), Mike Soroka has missed the whole season (best pitcher) and Albies has been out for a while... and they have been better than they did last season. They won 13? Games in a row recently.
For an even more extreme example, look at the Orioles. They have around a 30m dollar payroll TOTAL and are in the playoff hunt. The Mariners too, they've won 13 in a row.
HurricaneDij25 wrote:These teams need to start refusing to trade their star players to the Dodgers.
Mariners farm system is stacked… Would be interesting there.
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