1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

No.... Aranado has been a sinking ship for years. Hesley is just average..... I thought that Emerson kid played for SEA ?

16 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’d prefer to keep Crawford. I’m guessing most teams like him as he can play cf. obviously he’s young and got a bunch of controllable years. I’d prefer to trade Sterling Caba becayse I just don’t think there’s any room for him to get to the major league level. But I bet the Phillies look at Caba as a better prospect simply because he’s a switch hitter, arguably already good MLB level defender at his age. Also the fact that they might be thinking he could play shortstop, Miller can play third sometime down the road and they move Turner a second.

I dislike the platoon of marsh and Rojas in CF. Marsh isn’t a cf and relying on a platoon means asking two guys to carry their own weight and really i feel like Rojas is just not good enough against MLB level pitching and marsh will likely always struggle vs. lhp. I’m guessing Crawford, Bohm and another prospect are going to be dealt if they trade for crochet. I suspect Adames or Bregman is signed. And possibly another deal where they might acquire someone like Bellinger. 

I dont think i can handle another season of Marsh and Rojas platoon. They both suck ass as hitters. Rojas at least has great defense, marsh is average at best. 

4 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I dont think i can handle another season of Marsh and Rojas platoon. They both suck ass as hitters. Rojas at least has great defense, marsh is average at best. 

Marsh in left field was actually really good. Problem is he’s really bad against LHP and even against RHP he’s super streaky. Frankly the CF market sucks in FA. And not many CF on the trade block. 

45 minutes ago, Steve 17 said:

No.... Aranado has been a sinking ship for years. Hesley is just average..... I thought that Emerson kid played for SEA ?

He is. It’s a 3 way trade where Bohm went to Seattle 

Dodgers going to be really stacked until he and glasnow both get hurt 

 

20 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Dodgers going to be really stacked until he and glasnow both get hurt 

 

Ugh, freaking dodgers apparently dont give a crap about how much they spend to keep buying world series. 

40 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Ugh, freaking dodgers apparently dont give a crap about how much they spend to keep buying world series. 

Apparently, they deferred some of the money on this too. At some point in time baseball needs to come in and be like you can’t have every contract be deferred down the road. Or if they do you still pay the luxury tax on what the per year annual value is for the year 

8 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Apparently, they deferred some of the money on this too. At some point in time baseball needs to come in and be like you can’t have every contract be deferred down the road. Or if they do you still pay the luxury tax on what the per year annual value is for the year 

it's because they are not afraid to move from their core pieces to get younger and be able to spend again, phillies are opposite of the dodgers, they want to keep everyone their prime until they cant play and then have to rebuild again for another 10 years, it's similar to what the sixers are doing.

it's the reason why the eagles have been winning for so long, they know how to move on older pieces to be able to spend on more talent.

These deferred payments are b.s.. If I'm a player, I want my money whenever I can, usually spread over the length of the contract. That's why Harper didn't re-sign with the Nats. The Lerner's wanted to defer a chunk of his money. How the hell do I know that Major league baseball will be around in 30 years for me to receive whatever deferred money I'm owed? The owners/ and or commissioner could step in and stop this madness. It's a blatant circumvention of the luxury tax and Mr. Manfred and his fellow owners just turn a blind eye to it all. 

39 minutes ago, toughfighter83 said:

it's because they are not afraid to move from their core pieces to get younger and be able to spend again, phillies are opposite of the dodgers, they want to keep everyone their prime until they cant play and then have to rebuild again for another 10 years, it's similar to what the sixers are doing.

it's the reason why the eagles have been winning for so long, they know how to move on older pieces to be able to spend on more talent.

wtf are you talking about, kershaw is still there and old as crap. Muncy isn’t young either he’s 34. They brought back Hernandez who’s 33. The only older player they let go was Justin Turner.

 They basically just keep kicking the can down the road with deferred money so they can have it not effect their luxury tax threshold and payments right now so can keep signing big time free agents. Has absolutely nothing to do with letting older guys go. They have essentially gotten betts, Ohtani, freeman, Yamamoto and snell in the last 5 years because of deferring money so they could afford it with avoiding a worse luxury tax 

18 minutes ago, vsptroops said:

These deferred payments are b.s.. If I'm a player, I want my money whenever I can, usually spread over the length of the contract. That's why Harper didn't re-sign with the Nats. The Lerner's wanted to defer a chunk of his money. How the hell do I know that Major league baseball will be around in 30 years for me to receive whatever deferred money I'm owed? The owners/ and or commissioner could step in and stop this madness. It's a blatant circumvention of the luxury tax and Mr. Manfred and his fellow owners just turn a blind eye to it all. 

Smaller market teams are just not going to try and it’ll ruin the competitiveness even more. At some point fans will get sick of it being the same team and numbers will drop. Either get a soft salary cap like nba or force teams who defer money to still have to pay on the luxury tax threshold for what the per year salary should be.  

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

wtf are you talking about, kershaw is still there and old as crap. Muncy isn’t young either he’s 34. They brought back Hernandez who’s 33. The only older player they let go was Justin Turner.

 They basically just keep kicking the can down the road with deferred money so they can have it not effect their luxury tax threshold and payments right now so can keep signing big time free agents. Has absolutely nothing to do with letting older guys go. They have essentially gotten betts, Ohtani, freeman, Yamamoto and snell in the last 5 years because of deferring money so they could afford it with avoiding a worse luxury tax 

accept the dodgers arent paying the old players in double figures which is what the phillies have right now, what's so wrong about moving on from casty, jt, schwarber and replacing them with some younger talent in fa? if you didnt learn anything from 2011, keeping everyone past their prime and refused to go younger to afford more talent is the reason why they havent sniffed the playoffs for 10 plus years, is this the path you want to go through again?

32 minutes ago, toughfighter83 said:

accept the dodgers arent paying the old players in double figures which is what the phillies have right now, what's so wrong about moving on from casty, jt, schwarber and replacing them with some younger talent in fa? if you didnt learn anything from 2011, keeping everyone past their prime and refused to go younger to afford more talent is the reason why they havent sniffed the playoffs for 10 plus years, is this the path you want to go through again?

Dude, the dodgers are about to pay ohtani, Snell, Mookie Betts, freeman, glasnow into their mid to late 30s. Freeman is 35 and getting paid. Betts is 32 and is going to be paid well into his mid 30s. Ohtani is going to be paid big money into his mid to late 30s. Snell is going to be paid $36 mil per at 32-37. Literally did you even look up the ages of the players making big money on the dodgers? Or just talking out of your ass like normal? Yamamoto was the only "young” player they signed. They dealt for betts cause the Red Sox were idiots financially. The dodgers aren’t some young team. Their best players are all 30-35 years old besides Yamamoto. Next season everyone who’s over 30 on the dodgers: Ohtani, Betts, muncy, freeman, glasnow, snell, kershaw, will smith, edman. So your point make no sense. So the Dodgers five best players are all in their 30s.

So you’re gonna tell me the Dodgers are getting younger players? The only place the Dodgers are young is in their bullpen and a couple of role players. the Phillies bullpen isn’t a problem because of their age either. The two teams are actually similarly set up in terms of the ages of their best players. Difference is dodgers keep adding due to BS deferring of money  

again, you like to come on here and just go off on a tangent, but you don’t actually do the research. Your point makes little sense as the Dodgers are paying a ton of guys in their 30s just like the Phillies. Eventually, those guys are gonna decline too. It’s going to be a problem for them at that time. The only reason why they’re able to keep bringing new good players is because they circumvent the system by deferring money on these new contracts so they don’t have to pay a luxury tax that would be ridiculous.

 

9 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

This is my favorite Phillies podcast. The ALLPHLY Phillies podcast, while I'll watch clips here or there, doesn't even compare. 

7 minutes ago, vsptroops said:

This is my favorite Phillies podcast. The ALLPHLY Phillies podcast, while I'll watch clips here or there, doesn't even compare. 

Phillies therapy with Matt gelb is pretty good. Usually gives good nuggets too. But yeah that’s the best one. High hopes is good when they get guests on. Otherwise it’s a hard listen at times. 

Nearly a billion dollars in deferred payments. Ridiculous. The deferred payments were not set up so that you could have $1 billion off the books so that you can have an high payroll without paying an astronomical luxury tax. At some point in time I gotta imagine MLB is gonna do what the NBA did with their new CBA.  made it super hard to build a super team without paying a hefty luxury penalty and potentially harsher penalties such as loss of draft picks. That’s a gross exploitation of what it was intended for 

 

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Nearly a billion dollars in deferred payments. Ridiculous. The deferred payments were not set up so that you could have $1 billion off the books so that you can have an high payroll without paying an astronomical luxury tax. At some point in time I gotta imagine MLB is gonna do what the NBA did with their new CBA.  made it super hard to build a super team without paying a hefty luxury penalty and potentially harsher penalties such as loss of draft picks. That’s a gross exploitation of what it was intended for 

 

It will happen..... eventually other owners and ownership groups are going to start stomping their feet....  plus plus fan bases will dwindle as it becomes "what's the point?" Fans will stop spending money on their own teams when they realize there's little chance of seeing a world series winner other than the Dodgers. 

 I would have to believe that animosity will also start to develop among all MLB players.

One of the biggest problem with major league baseball is they are very slow to react to these types of things.

6 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Nearly a billion dollars in deferred payments. Ridiculous. The deferred payments were not set up so that you could have $1 billion off the books so that you can have an high payroll without paying an astronomical luxury tax. At some point in time I gotta imagine MLB is gonna do what the NBA did with their new CBA.  made it super hard to build a super team without paying a hefty luxury penalty and potentially harsher penalties such as loss of draft picks. That’s a gross exploitation of what it was intended for 

 

I really didn't have an issue with the Dodgers, im starting too... 

Can thank the dodgers for the work stoppage coming up in the future 

 

 

4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

Holy hell! Forget that! 

1 minute ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Holy hell! Forget that! 

It isn’t my money. do it!

2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

It isn’t my money. do it!

Is Soto really worth Ohtani money? Im genuinely asking, i know he is pretty damn good. Just didn't think he was at that level. 

1 minute ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Is Soto really worth Ohtani money? Im genuinely asking, i know he is pretty damn good. Just didn't think he was at that level. 

No cause Ohtani can pitch and hit. He’s also a better hitter. Gap isn’t Grand Canyon cause I’d argue Soto is likely top 10 hitter and is just 26. That said Ohtani got $700 mil