More will be revealed, but I'd bet that the Giants balked at the opt out. Giving any pitcher 4 years of insurance on a 2 year contract is bad business.
I think the decision on Flaherty will be on length of contract. He'll be 30 next season. He's a #2.5 or #3 starter. And he doesn't tend to stay healthy.
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I have to disagree. Signing Adames and having a full year of Lee should get us a few more wins. Plus we have to expect our young guys will approve more. That includes our young pitchers to get better, Snell was only good for half of the season, so I see us matching that. Optimistic ? Perhaps as I was the guy who protected us 91 wins for 2024. I expect a winning season, maybe not by much but more victories are incoming for the 2025 season.Welp, no ace for us to replace Snell. Don't see this team improving more than a few wins at most. Oh well
Didn’t know he lives in AZ, so this signing makes sense. Plus the Giants were not going too deep for him:
The Giants’ pursuit of Corbin Burnes signaled that the club was willing to make another splurge, though Slusser notes that they didn’t offer Burnes more than the $210MM over six years than the righty received from the Diamondbacks. Indeed, Slusser frames the Giants’ courtship of Burnes as fairly limited, writing that “San Francisco’s pursuit never advanced much beyond initial talks at the general manager meetings…and an offer made at that point did not get things off the ground.”
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Sure if everything goes right they surprise to the upside and win 90. But not everything goes right. Usually some things do and some don't. The talent level we've got is 84-85 wins or so IMO, and that's with injury luck.
It could work for 2025, with Wade and Alonso switching between DH and first, and the same for Eldridge when he replaces Wade in 2026. But I prefer not to with giving up more picks since we don’t have many to give as it is. Plus too much money and Alonso’s glove not being that good.
We don’t have the farm potential now that we had in ‘09/‘10. You can’t just wish something in to existence. If ownership wants to win, than right now FA and trades are the ONLY way to possibly make that happen. I don’t like the idea of trading Eldridge, but we value him MUCH more than the national writers do. Remember how high we were on ToJo…
Why would they care so much about an opt out? In this case, you get a motivated guy for 2 years and can plan accordingly. If he underperforms, you are stuck with the whole contract. If he meets/exceeds expectations he’s probably going to opt out. Why is that bad for the signing team v. a straight 6 year deal?
No, you actually work toward building something into what it should be. Yet the ownership does not show any inkling that they want to do so. Tanking isn't the only way to do it but there has to be more than just lip service to building the farm.
Isn’t tanking illegal in baseball like insider trading is in Congress?
Nope but it is "discouraged".
Because the team only loses. They never get an asset that is worth more than it cost, but often get assets that cost more than it’s worth.
In this example, you would certainly get surplus value if the player opts out after 2 years. If he doesn’t opt out, you probably overpaid him in the first place. Bottom line, it’s a weird line in the sand for a team to have. I like the idea of guys playing for something and not being complacent. But I guess that’s why Buster Posey is running the team and I’m not.
