Well...LOL...I’m a Dodger fan..and well Houston will soon learn what Altuve, Correa and Springer will be able to draw on the open market. To keep this team they will have to pony up many hundred millions themselves. Altuve May be the best hitter the game has ever seen...and he will be paid (by someone) commensurately.
“and he will be paid (by someone) commensurately.”
Not the Pirates. We like to trade players like Altuve a year or two before free agency so that we get prospects and financial flexibility for the eventual playoff run in 2078.
The owner of the Pirates is a textbook example of why socialism fails. He gets free money from both the government (interest payments on the new stadium) and MLB (revenue sharing). He only does the bare minimum to keep things chugging along. He doesn’t care about paying down the stadium since taxpayers cover that bill. If too few people show up, MLB increases its welfare check to the Pirates.
I wish they’d move the Pirates or contract the team out of existence to be honest ... I hate what that scummy, filthy deadbeat owner has done to that team.
Sorry for the rant :-).
I’ll trade Baez for him, right now!