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2023 MLB Thread -- World Champion Rangers - Hot Stove Warming Up - Soto to the Yanks - Ohtani's destination unknown

Phillies and Washington each scored 6 runs in the fourth inning yesterday. Nats won the other innings 2-1 and the game 8-7. An odd game with so much of the hitting and scoring in that one inning.
 
crazy the announcer pregame exactly predicted the guy's 1st homer. Which at bat pitch sequence and pretty much exactly where he would hit it.

 
hhahahahaa that is one of my all-time favorite Mariners clips
soooo good
 
The question for the Orioles going forward is whether or not the cheapskate owner will pay the players once the rookie deals expire. Right now they are near lowest major league payroll.
 
Deaconblue said:
ion for the Orioles going forward is whether or not the cheapskate owner will pay the players once the rookie deals expire. Right now they are near lowest major league payroll.
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Angelos basically came out and said he won't.
 
With the Mariners up big on the White Sox, M's pitcher Luis Castillo threw 47 consecutive fastballs to the White Sox....

 
Ohtani started on the mound today and also homered, but then:



Angels are cursed.
 
Ohtani out for the season. I don’t even follow baseball and this makes me sad.
 
Stephen Strasburg is retiring.... Perhaps, the most heralded pitcher to come out of college (Paul Skenes might be #2). At times, unhittable, but oft injured. MVP of the 2019 W-S....

 
Pilchard said:
Stephen Strasburg is retiring.... Perhaps, the most heralded pitcher to come out of college (Paul Skenes might be #2). At times, unhittable, but oft injured. MVP of the 2019 W-S....

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He pitched 33 innings during his $245 mil contract. The Nats declined to purchase disability insurance on him. Oops.
 
deacdixieboy said:
He pitched 33 innings during his $245 mil contract. The Nats declined to purchase disability insurance on him. Oops.
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True, but it's not like the Nats didn't vet the issue or that insurance was readily available.

The insurers knew that Strasburg had a lot of miles on his arm, and an injury history, including TJ surgery. So, the word is that the cost of the insurance was close to 40% of the contract amount, and included all sorts of outs for the insurance company. Even though Strasburg threw few innings, he did pitch in 2020, 2021 and 2022; so, who knows what the insurance company would claim the amount that should be paid to the Nats. Also, with Strasburg retiring with years left on the contract, there may be a settlement reducing the amount to be paid over the final years of the deal. Not sure insurance would have put the Nats in that much of a better position given the cost and that Strasburg has retired.

Bottom line is that it was a terrible contract to a pitcher with a fragile arm, and an injury history. Even so, the Nats would have never won the W-S without him, he was the MVP, and they rewarded him for past performance rather than paying Stras on expected future results.
 
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Good post Pilch. Nats are on the wrong side of the rewarding players for past performance with contracts vs future potential scale (as are several bad teams) and this was the worst of the bad deals. But they absolutely don’t win their title without him.
 
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