Posted on 12/09/2023 2:13:08 PM PST by Bullish
Yay!
Out of control — $700M for a seriously injured player? Uh, no.
Stupid Dodgers. In five years, robots will be doing a better job for half the cost...
“He’s expected to pitch in by 2025.”
Doubt it. Not after two Tommy John surgeries. They paid hit to him homers and draw fans and sell merch.
Holy cow! A lot of talk in the sports world about this. Moneyball is a good movie.
Stupid Dodgers. They aren’t winning a title as long as Dave Roberts is the manager. No matter who they sign.
Fools and their money...
A ten year contract, for a player who is unable to throw and can only DH for the foreseeable future, is absolutely stupid.
Fools and their money...
They won the title with him during the Covid shortened year.
They need a three year limit on these contracts.
Most of these big money guys never have a great year after they sign and definitely flame out in 3-5 years. Then your stuck with them, like the Yankees with .195 hitting Stanton.
But they did win a championship with Roberts. Granted it was the COVID season but still...
and MLB conitnues to destroy its own sport. The players will never accept a salary cap, and the fan bases of once great baseball cities will keep shrinking....they know they have zero chance of ever winning. And people wonder why tv ratings for baseball continue to crater....
“The modern-day Babe Ruth.”
Yeah right. Let’s look at the numbers:
Lifetime batting average: Ruth .342, Ohtani .274
RBIs per 162 games: Ruth 143, Ohtani 101.
Homers per 162 games: Ruth 46 (in much bigger ballparks), Ohtani 40
Lifetime ERA: Ruth 2.28, Ohtani 3.01
Plus Ruth was one of the best outfielders of his day. Ohtani is a DH.
Not in the same ballpark, not in the same league.
29yo, fresh off Tommy John surgery, signed to a 10 year, $700 Million contract. Go figure.
Ping
The Dogers are going to have to sell a lot of hot dogs and Bud Light to pay that salary.
“They paid hit to him homers and draw fans and sell merch.”
In looking at his last year with the Angels he had 497 official at bats, not including 91 walks, had 151 hits, 44 homeruns, and had 95 RBI’s. Workable. But he also had 143 strike outs almost as many as his hits so he was only successful a little over half the time. And as he does not actually play a position except pitch, which is questionable at that level now, I can’t figure out what makes him worth $70M for 10 years. The only thing I can figure is that with prices at the parks the way they are and Chavez ?Ravine selling out all the time anyway, they may do better than break even by buying out his contract in around 5 years. And since he started in the LA basin, he won’t be hard to market. The last one the Dodgers had like this was Valenzuela. And they sold him big to the Mexican market.
wy69
Probably. But then the robots’ programmers will command the big bucks, and the robots will get...something.
Great. Nerds on baseball cards. Honus Wagner would roll in his grave...
Yeah; no appeal there.
I wonder what dfwgator’s thought is on this.
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