Witz57

Has there been any reporting on whether the contract structure allows them to stay under the luxury tax threshold? It would be great to stay below and not lose the competitive balance pick, international pool money, and have downgrades to any picks they get for whoever of Skubal/Mize/Flaherty is turns down a qualifying offer and signs elsewhere. Please don't take any of the above as being unhappy about the signing though.

I don't think it should be a financial transfer, just the ability to spend additional slot money. Sorry if that didn't come across.

I'd like to see teams get a slot money bonus based on total contract value of free agents lost. Say you lose players who sign 500 million in contacts. Maybe you get 1% of that and you can spread between draft and international signings. Maybe it's reduced by the team's own spending. So if you lose a 500m player and sign a 300m player it's calculated off the difference. If you want to tweak it further, there could be a minimum amount you don't get the difference for. So it's calculated after say the first 50m. So if a team spends zero-50m and loses a 500m guy they get the bonus for the 450 million. This would encourage a minimal level of FA spending you don't "lose" extra bonus money for.

In Kaiju movies, they never attack Michigan.

Boffo for Rocco.

Baseball America has been all over Hamm, lately and has been calling him one of the milb's fastest risers.