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They wont for elite players. Cause you are putting yourself at a real risk. 10 years 300 million is 300 million no matter what. If he takes four, gets hurt he will never come close to that 300 in total.

But that's a huge difference. Your just pushing it off like nothing. Look at our rotation at the end of last year. Skubal and crap. The crap could hardly be counted on where as Skubal started the key games, saved the bullpen and gave the team a morale boost. A player at half the WAR isn't gonna do that. These aren't robot and just saying oh well its 30 fewer runs NBD is downplaying not only the human element of the game, but a good pitchers actual value.

Wouldn't that be worked out after a year? Year 0: Mix of Juniors and Seniors Year 1: Seniors and only handful of juniors Year 2: Seniors which includes all those juniors who would have gone but stayed in Year 1. Then just that cycle from now on instead of the Year 0 cycle. So the argument makes sense last year, this year it shouldn't matter as that nil gapped was filled now. Ill use the Sabastrian Castro example. He was draft eligible last year and projected day 2 pick. But he came back for NIL money. HE then goes undrafted. Did he get worse? Probably not. He just wasn't that good to begin with. But that was masked and he was drafted after his junior year and then he washed out. Now he just washes out. Not sure washing out and being a higher pick means deeper talent pool.

Laporta wont get near kittle money. Good player but not near that level. And they wont trade an oline dude. There'd be a cap hit with that and you aren't getting jack for an old lineman. Maybe a 7th rounder if your lucky. Just easier to let them walk/retire

way too many variables to do pick by pick. But in aggregate its been done 100 times over

George died and the yankees stopped paying the tax

So excited to be at the Yankees in early April. Makes going so easy and fun to sit in the cold and get heckled

Wait attendance isn't important?! It hugely important, ticket sales and concession are the main revenue drive. For example, the Braves made $100 million from tehir RSN last year. Their total revenue was $663 milliion

Ok. It is still a completly ridiculous proposal then. Lets use a first round pick to save $5 million in four years

ummm what cap space savings? LaPorta is on a rookie deal and has a $2.5 million hit this year, and $3million next year. Pick 29's cap hit is larger than that. It would actually costs us more to have Loveland

Doubt it. Only cause spring training trades are crazy rare and anyone who is moved sucks and if you get anything out of them its just a fluke (nyjer morgan anyone). Teams spend all offseason prepping their teams and getting the guys they like/want/afford in place. Unlikely teams are gonna make a change at at the 1130th hour for some other team cast off. Plus nobody is gonna give up much knowing guy X isn't good enough for your team. Especially not an unproven guy like Tork. Why would any team say give up a decent pitching prospect for a guy who already has his clock going that has major league struggles and the Tigers replaced? So your just getting crap back. Be better just to keep him.

totally fair

Rogers nears deal with the Steelers

rather have him in toledo on starter's schedule then on a bullpen schedule

They still dont

Ok and which player are the cubs gonna cut to keep him, one of the free agents they signed this offseason or their top prospect?

But when he came up didn't they modify it so it was more sinker and less that splitter he had in college?

Workman was taken in the rule 5 by cubs from us. IF he doesn't make the cubs roster he is returned. That is what Edman was referencing. Not the DFA situation

Luis Gonzalez was signed 2 weeks before he was let go

Yeah it might be. I guess i just dont get why so many want jung so bad and want to bring out the pitchforks for tork or he's done or move on or what not, so definitively. This time he was a guy we were counting on and a guy with an arrow pointing up given how he finished 2023. He fell flat last year (albeit still with a positive war) but is that one year enough to just write off a 25 year old No. 1 pick? I dunno i guess i just want to see if that guy bounces back before saying he's done. It has happened before that guys just have bad years.

I dont get why people are so eager for Jace and so quick to just say dumb Tork. Jace hasn't shown much at the ML level either.

i don't think it's fair to say they spend the whole offseason wishing for one player. They wanted him no question. But they did sign Torres and sign two starters to help improve the team. In terms of other RH bats. Literally four other 3rd basemen have signed and all suck. Keith from all indications was heading to first no matter what so you lose that spot. They kicked around on Stranander and the other right handed hitting outfeilders were a bunch of meh. They wanted a really good player and missed. Btu still was one of the more active teams on the market and will see payroll go up next year. That is certainly not just wishing for one player.

It's executive of the YEAR not who built up his franchise by getting the best guys for the future.