Max Fried gets 218 million over 8 years from the Yankees.
Yelich will get 22 million next year.
The Dodgers currently have 6 players making more than that next year. The Yankees have 4, and the Mets have 5.
I'm sure they each add at least another 2-3 guys.
The problem I have with guys like Mark Anttanasio is they benefit greatly from the top 5-6 teams. Whatâs the valuation of the Milwaukee Brewers organization? Iâm sure if he sold the team tomorrow he would double or triple his investment.
To me, if you receive revenue sharing there at least needs to be a floor. And Iâd argue there needs to be some version of a luxury tax.
I realize that teams like the Dodgers are playing games with the whole deferred compensation approach with Ohtani, but it shouldnât be allowed that 3-4 teams be able to spend 10 times what another team does. If so, then they should be handled like they do in the NBA with the tax and aprons.
@Tschmack posted:The problem I have with guys like Mark Anttanasio is they benefit greatly from the top 5-6 teams. Whatâs the valuation of the Milwaukee Brewers organization? Iâm sure if he sold the team tomorrow he would double or triple his investment.
To me, if you receive revenue sharing there at least needs to be a floor. And Iâd argue there needs to be some version of a luxury tax.
I realize that teams like the Dodgers are playing games with the whole deferred compensation approach with Ohtani, but it shouldnât be allowed that 3-4 teams be able to spend 10 times what another team does. If so, then they should be handled like they do in the NBA with the tax and aprons.
I think Attanasio's payrolls have always been somewhere around 20th overall. I wish he'd spend more money, but to his credit, the Brewers haven't done the tank jobs that the A's, Devil Rays, Pirates, Marlins, Royals, etc. have done for some of the recent years.
Realistically, the Brewers don't have much of chance of winning a World Series next year, so if that's really the goal every year, then any extra money you spend could be considered a waste. Attanasio's goal is basically to be competitive every year and hope that lightning strikes one year and they go on a run in the playoffs after getting in. For small market teams, that usually depends on having a couple of elite starting pitchers that can cancel out all the first-ballot Hall of Famers that teams like the Dodgers have at the plate.
Of the small market teams, the Tigers or Pirates are in the best position to do that over the next couple of years since Skrubal or Skenes can win you 2 (or maybe 3) games in a series almost by themselves. I don't think Freddie Peralta is going to do that.
Of course, the Pirates and Tigers have to actually spend enough money to have a team that can go 500 in the games that Skenes or Skrubal don't start to get to 85 wins on the year.
Cubs trade for Kyle Tucker of the Astros. Unless a new deal is reached Tucker will be a free agent at the end of the 2025 season. Cubs gave up 3 players in the deal including third baseman Isaac Paredes.
Cubs trade Cody Bellinger to the Yankees in what looks like a salary dump (they got a 30 year old Cody Poteet back and had to also send 5 million in cash). They avoid paying Bellinger 55 million guaranteed over the next 2 years.
Maybe someone will take Hoskins in exchange for some single A player with an OPS of about 250 last year?
Salary dump indeed. Poteet is due $800,000 for the 2025 season. Will be arby 1 in 2026. Glad Bellinger is out of Chicago. Not really a Brewer killer but you never knew when he could get hot.
Crew will keep Hoskins for this season. Who else is going to play 1st? Tyler Black is not ready as of now.
Yelich at 1st? I think his days as an outfielder could be over (slow legs), could be rong. Maybe he shifts into a DH role?
@ammo posted:Salary dump indeed. Poteet is due $800,000 for the 2025 season. Will be arby 1 in 2026. Glad Bellinger is out of Chicago. Not really a Brewer killer but you never knew when he could get hot.
Crew will keep Hoskins for this season. Who else is going to play 1st? Tyler Black is not ready as of now.
Bellinger is a good player, just not worth anywhere near 27 million a year. As much of an albatross as the Yelich contract has been, he's only at 22 million.
But Hoskins and Yelich getting 40 million combined is not a good situation for a small market team.
@DurangoDoug posted:Yelich at 1st? I think his days as an outfielder could be over (slow legs), could be rong. Maybe he shifts into a DH role?
I guess, but coming off of back surgery, he's likely to be more a slap hitter. Not what you typically want at those positions. If you have some power coming from other places, you could get away with it. But Turang, Ortiz, and the new guy from the Yankees around the rest of the infield won't even match Adames' output.
Yelich has not slowed down. In 73 games last season he had 21 stolen bases and was caught only once.
@ammo posted:Yelich has not slowed down. In 73 games last season he had 21 stolen bases and was caught only once.
Speed hasn't been the problem since he signed the big contract. With the exceptions of a couple of stretches (like for a few weeks near the start of the 2024 season), his power has dramatically gone down, likely because of his back injury. Before he fouled the ball off his knee in 2019, he had hit 80 home runs in 1063 at bats as a Brewer. Since then, he's hit 65 home runs in 1994 at bats. A home run every 14 at-bats versus every 31 at-bats. It's like the difference between being Juan Soto and being just being an average player.
OK maybe I was rong on the slow legs, perhaps I read his arm strength from the outfield was not so good anymore? Anyway I had read the outfield may not be his best position anymore, that could have been false news?
I didn't see anything from Yelich last year that made me think his defense was slipping. 2021 and 2022 I think were a little different story. Guys were running on him and he was occasionally a little shaky overall.
But last year I thought he was back to being a plus defender.
@PackerHawk posted:I didn't see anything from Yelich last year that made me think his defense was slipping. 2021 and 2022 I think were a little different story. Guys were running on him and he was occasionally a little shaky overall.
But last year I thought he was back to being a plus defender.
His throwing arm has always been a bit suspect.
One underrated part of him has always been he's a tremendous baserunner - going first to third on a single, a great stolen base percentage, etc.
He was having an excellent year last year before his back wore out, but even then his power was diminished.
I don't even know that I would even call it a little suspect. I'd say average to above average.
He's not Clemente or Ichiro but his arm was good enough to play right field almost exclusively in 2019.
Brewer killer Goldschmidt now a Yankee. Good riddance I say.