It’s a players market. Free agents are going to get a boatload.
Nobody ever needs an excuse for that
With the 4th highest payroll in mlb
That’s how i feel about Outlook email: if it’s not on the preview pane i didnt read it.
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Padres had the 5th highest payroll, but they were largely considered an underdog. 6th and 7th highest payrolls missed the postseason.
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May be climbing up ranking: T2 11/$300
Well, every team not named the Dodgers we’re considered underdogs. But there was this narrative from the national media that the Phillies were just scrappy young homegrown draft prospects, overlooked by everyone else, playing for peanuts and sheer joy, who came out of nowhere to rock the baseball establishment. Pretty much the opposite of how that team was really built.
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WTF?!?
Dude was front and center every day setting the pitchers up for success and did so while having a broken hand and sports hernia down the stretch. F’ing idiots!
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People should try to be nicer on the internet.
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Some context would be helpful.
Cannot possibly be Houston fans. Machete is an all-time Astro. I hope he knows how much true fans love him.
I have transitioned from shock at JV’s signing with the Mets to being really pissed off. In my naïveté, I thought JV would be different. I had little hope for Springer or Cole and no hope for preening hot dog Correa, but I thought JV would be grateful for Crane’s faith in him with a two-year deal worth $50 million when no one knew if he would pitch again. His blah, blah, blah about all the perspective he gained convinced me.
Nope. For sale to the highest bidder like Houston never happened. Fuck that. Glad he was an Astro for sure, but I am tremendously disappointed in him.
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"How fast people forget.
I don’t forget."
That is not particularly enlightening either. I’ll assume the tweet was just clickbait.
It wasn’t about the money. Verlander has more money than he can spend in four lifetimes. It was about the number. Just like Correa before him, his ego demanded that he seek the highest number even though it wasn’t in his best interest.
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No Verlander, no problem.
Nah, the GM (Bagwell) said he was only going to play in LF 45-50% of the time.
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Verlander was protected in an Astros six-man rotation and a deep bullpen, a situation which will not exist with the Mets. Hard to see how victories or career longevity are enhanced with his new team.
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I agree re ego and highest number.
But remember, they’re only going for the highest number “so the younger players coming up have a better shot at bigger contracts.” When I hear JV or Cole say it it brings to mind that line from Shawshank - the colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous.
Makes you appreciate guys like Altuve, Bregman (so far), Bagwell and Biggio. All of those guys could have left and probably got more years/money but stayed. I’ll always appreciate Verlander for what he did for Houston but now think way less of him as a person for turning his back on his team and going to New York strictly for money. If he wanted to win, he stays with the team that he just won his 2nd championship with.
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