3RunJohnson

Spotrac has our projected payroll at $123 million, and they say that takes into account arb estimates...but that is clearly wrong if you add up the veteran contracts at the top of the list.

So assuming Bogey opts out (and not assuming that we decline Paxton's option), our money on the books goes to $103 million. Then I just added the listed arb estimates for each arb-qualified player. Some players don't have estimates, and I gave them very liberal totals (like giving Darwinzon $1 million, which is about the same as McGuire, who is obviously more valuable). This gave me a grand total of $145 million, which puts us $88 million under the luxury tax.

Anyone have a better estimate? I've j

Since this sub can't go two days without dwelling on Mookie, I felt like giving my 2 cents in post form. The annoying thing about this whole debate is that it's really two separate arguments, which often get wire-crossed with each other. When we talk about the Mookie trade, we are talking about two FO decisions/actions: 1) the decision not to re-sign Mookie and 2) the return we got for one year of Mookie. Whether or not 2) was good has no bearing on whether 1) was the right decision (even though it was). So I want to make it crystal clear when I'm addressing which point. I'll start with the decision not to re-sign Mookie. And another caveat: I'm not covering every argument in favor of my sid

I mentioned this in a comment on yesterday's game thread, but I think a Josh Bell trade makes all the sense in the world for the Sox, especially with Casas being set back. What's really interesting is how similar Bell is to Schwarber as a potential acquisition.

In both instances, we're dealing with the Nationals, who are clear sellers.

Not only did both sign 1 year contracts, both were for exactly $10 million.

Kyle Schwarber had a 146 ops+ with the Nationals. Josh Bell currently has a 146 ops+ this year with the Nationals.

Kyle Schwarber has a 120 career ops+. Josh Bell has a 121 career ops+.

Schwarber had 7.7 career WAR before the trade, Bell is currently sitting at 8.0.

And I

Kevin Plawecki walk

Bobby Dalbec single to center

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You can just smell the pathological need for brownie points, like they've never been able to recapture the validation of teacher praising them for being well-behaved.

In general I don't understand the mindset of anyone preoccupied with the individual morality of their favorite athlete. If anything, you should be participating in sports fandoms with the assumption that most of these guys are shitheads.

Sorry for the culture war post, I'll put together an artpost of stills from my favorite stop-motion animation or something like that as recompense.

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