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She's not a pawn so much as a prisoner of war.

21 Savage, Meek Mill, or BlocBoy JB should do the trick.

Following up with you on this because it's your thoughts I am interested in hearing about this. If it's only about the best contract and nothing else for ballplayers, do you think Aaron Judge would take a 10/410 contract to play with the Pittsburgh Pirates over a 10/400 to stay with the New York Yankees? Do you believe the extra $10 million would make up for all the losing and absence from playoffs?

@Tenacious D? Is he speaking for you?

I'm interested in @Tenacious D's answer to the question.

Do you think he would take a 10/410 contract to play with the Pirates over a 10/400 to stay with the Yankees?

This postseason thread sure has taken a turn ... 😏

What, 12/500 isn't an overpay?? 😉😅 I agree he could overpay, but I think the overpay would have to be dramatic to pry Judge from his organizational home of nine years. It's not going to come down to who gives him the extra penny.

I know nothing about Rob Metzler per se, but he does have fairly extensive scouting-for-the-draft experience with one of the most innovative acquirers of talent in the game, so based strictly on resume, I approve.

Well, heck, this is an upgrade to Chadd:

I can personally attest to the fact that he looks way too young to be a Chuck. 😏

He could, but I can't see the Yankees allowing that to happen, at least by lowballing Judge on the offer. It would have to be something on an order of magnitude like, I don't know, maybe Yankees offer 10/400, but Cohen offers 12/500. Something like that. He wouldn't abandon the Yankees for the Mets because they're giving him an extra ten bucks.

I can see the Yankees working some creative accounting with Judge/PSI such as deferred comp into the 2060s, to keep the money off the near-term books due to cap considerations.

Quite possible. Judge already rejected a long-term deal to bet on himself with a one-year deal once, just this year. The main two impediments I can see to that kind of waiting game are (1) Judge will be 31 next year, so the window rail is definitely not going up; and (2) he set the bar so high this year that even a season during which he slashes something like .270/.360/.580 with 45 homers will look like an off year and may drive down his 2024 market price as a 32-year-old. THIS is the year he wants his long-term deal off of. It's almost certainly never going to be better than this.

I don't know how the Yankees can rationalize to their fans and their media letting Judge walk after putting up an all-time-great season, including breaking the Yankees' presumed birthright that is the American League season record for home runs. Since it is the Yankees, I don't think "but we can't afford it" applies here. He's going back to New York. Book it.

He’ll go where he can get the best contract and where he believes he can win.

I can’t imagine any market conditions that would lead Correa to accept five years from a team that he believes will be sub-.500 for at least a couple more years. Perhaps if it’s the only offer he gets.

Right. He is going to be 40 next year and will not want to spend any of his sunset seasons playing for what everyone will surely expect to be a sub-.500 team.

Which he of course would refuse outright, so why bother? If Aaron Judge wants to win next year, he won't be coming to Detroit. While I'm at it, neither will Carlos Correa. We may attract free agents of that caliber once we are otherwise loaded enough to win the division.

I’ve never even considered getting my own gun before, and I am still hopeful that I will shed this mortal coil before I ever have to.

I’m not sure we’ve seen even the serious beginning of that.

Take him seriously.

I doubt Schoop is in the mix for third base, since we already have a better third baseman available to us.

FWIW Cody said on his pod that he thinks Jeimer will get non-tendered, and who knows, someone might have already told him so and he just can’t say. Or not.

Lol ““projections””