MLB 2018-19 Offseason Thread

Teams often look at the player opt-out as a detriment, but signing a Boras client to a 10-year deal with a 5-year opt-out is as good as signing a 5-year deal. Nothing wrong with paying Harper $30M/year until he's 31, letting him opt out, and letting someone else pay for his post-prime years.

Hell, I'd offer him opt-outs after years 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in exchange for one team opt-out after year 7.

A non-Boras player changes the calculus, but Boras is always going to take his player to the market.

 

This is true, but only if the team is smart enough to bite. It killed me when the Yankees extended Arod & Sabathia when they opted out. They let you out of the worst part of their long term deals, and you re-up for more just to capture 1 or 2 more prime years? Maddening.

 

Do you agree with Bill James?

 

Couldn't we say the same about nearly everyone?

 

Certainly about any "senior adviser" in any organization in human history.

 

Rizzo gonna have some splainin to do if they lose Harper.

 

Why? Either Harper wants to be there or he doesn't.

 

They were never gonna get him for 10/300. Why the lowball offer?

 

If they take the $30 million they had marked for Harper and spend it on the pitching staff instead, I'll be content.

 

Because they had to make a qualifying offer?

(That's a question, not a comment)

 

Nope.

 

Cleveland Indians prove that replacing their players doesn't make people want to come back and forget about the old ones.