MLB 2025 World Series

The Juggler

tbergs said:

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Cliffy6745 said:

But the reality for the rest of baseball is far more grim, for the signing of Cole isn’t a blast from the past, but an embodiment of the game’s worst fears. The Yankees are well-run, well-heeled and well-schooled in the art of reeling in the big fish. And as a result, the best pitcher in the game joins a team that will be favored to win the World Series. It happened not because of impulse or short-sighted thinking, but because a calculated process rooted in data led the Yankees to a clear conclusion.

https://theathletic.com/1451329/2019/12/11/carig-gerrit-cole-is-a-yankee-and-now-everyone-else-must-pay-the-price/?source=shared-article

And here I thought 9yr contracts to older players was a thing of the past.

Yankees front office said to me "hold my beer"...

AND to a pitcher!

Yanks better get at least 2 WS out of this.  They only got one out of A-rod and he was the reason they did get that one.

I'd say 2 at minimum for that insane money. 

I'll go out on a limb and say they make 3 appearances in a world series within the first 5 years and Cole is top 5 pitcher the first 3 years, but no CY. Then he basically becomes a journeyman who can still scrounge 10 -15 wins a year with a low 4 ERA and the Yankees don't get past ALCS. By 2025, he's dead weight.

Sounds about right

cutz

igotid88 said:

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

I think it had more to do with 9 Years/$324 MILL.

No-Brainer to me. I'd pitch anywhere in the world for that money.

tempo_n_groove

cutz said:

igotid88 said:

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

I think it had more to do with 9 Years/$324 MILL.

No-Brainer to me. I'd pitch anywhere in the world for that money.

"All you'd be pitching would be Jack and Shit.  And Jack just left town..."

HesCalledDyer

tempo_n_groove said:

cutz said:

igotid88 said:

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

I think it had more to do with 9 Years/$324 MILL.

No-Brainer to me. I'd pitch anywhere in the world for that money.

"All you'd be pitching would be Jack and Shit.  And Jack just left town..."

igotid88

cutz said:

igotid88 said:

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

I think it had more to do with 9 Years/$324 MILL.

No-Brainer to me. I'd pitch anywhere in the world for that money.

Angels and Dodgers were offering 8/over $300 million. So he would had made more per year with either of those teams

tempo_n_groove

igotid88 said:

cutz said:

igotid88 said:

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

I think it had more to do with 9 Years/$324 MILL.

No-Brainer to me. I'd pitch anywhere in the world for that money.

Angels and Dodgers were offering 8/over $300 million. So he would had made more per year with either of those teams

Angels Artie Moreno will spend the money but no one stays.  The ones they do land are the wroong ones.

Think Mo Vaughn, Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton.

It would have been nice to have Cole on the Halos.

Dammitt.

Cliffy6745

This has been an amazing offseason

Wobbie

Cliffy6745 said:

This has been an amazing offseason

all three days of it?

Cliffy6745

Wobbie said:

Cliffy6745 said:

This has been an amazing offseason

all three days of it?

Exactly, these contracts are better at the winter meetings than in spring training 

Wobbie

so, the giants picked up some bum pitcher....3-9 with a 5.72 ERA last year....apparently, he was in line for $10M if he took the reds to arbitration. $10M? WTF?

cutz

tempo_n_groove said:

cutz said:

igotid88 said:

MayDay10 said:

How did they convince him!?

He was a Yankees fan growing up. They drafted him. Cashman wanted him for a while.  

I think it had more to do with 9 Years/$324 MILL.

No-Brainer to me. I'd pitch anywhere in the world for that money.

"All you'd be pitching would be Jack and Shit.  And Jack just left town..."

HAHA

cutz

Rendon to the Angels: 7 yr.s/ $245

MissPennyLane

cutz said:

Rendon to the Angels: 7 yr.s/ $245

For reals?

Wobbie

MissPennyLane said:

cutz said:

Rendon to the Angels: 7 yr.s/ $245

For reals?

yes. they’ll be better but won’t win anything.

MissPennyLane

Wobbie said:

MissPennyLane said:

cutz said:

Rendon to the Angels: 7 yr.s/ $245

For reals?

yes. they’ll be better but won’t win anything.

You just read my mind. Damn. I grew up an angels fan and going to angels game, not no more as I can't keep up who is on the team anymore over the past years.

MissPennyLane

How times have changed. Lol. Sigh.

Jearlpam0925

Your team has the best player in the world. You should watch the Angels.

Poncier

Jearlpam0925 said:

Your team has the best player in the world. You should watch the Angels.

They have no pitching.

Jearlpam0925

Poncier said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Your team has the best player in the world. You should watch the Angels.

They have no pitching.

Still has the best player in the world. Reason alone to watch if you're an Angels fan.

Wobbie

Jearlpam0925 said:

Poncier said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Your team has the best player in the world. You should watch the Angels.

They have no pitching.

Still has the best player in the world. Reason alone to watch if you're an Angels fan.

like when the giants had Bonds.