Betts to Dodgers

[BigKen]

According to Boston Sports Tonight, this is a done deal.

The hang-up right now is that the teams are haggling over how much the Red Sox will pay the Dodgers for David Price's contract. Dodgers want them to pick up 50% and the Red Sox only want to pay 25%. The guess is that the Red Sox will end up paying 32.5% and the Dodgers 62.5%.

So it's Mookie Betts and David Price to the Dodgers for?????

 

[poewelch84]

Not enough, they can try to blow smoke up everyone's a As if they want but the ownership didn't want to pay Betts the kind of money it would take to keep the best homegrown player since Ted Williams (their words not mine). They are going the cheap route and the product on the field will suffer for it.

 

[BigKen]

Not enough, they can try to blow smoke up everyone's a As if they want but the ownership didn't want to pay Betts the kind of money it would take to keep the best homegrown player since Ted Williams (their words not mine). They are going the cheap route and the product on the field will suffer for it.

Would sign Betts to a guaranteed $420M for 12 years? They offered him 10/$300M and he refused.

I don't see that as being cheap. They didn't want to pay him $35M a year for 12 years. What happens if he has a Pedroia type of injury in three years. Then they're on the hook for the next 10 with a guy that can hardly walk, let alone run the bases.

 

[poewelch84]

Would sign Betts to a guaranteed $420M for 12 years? They offered him 10/$300M and he refused.

I don't see that as being cheap. They didn't want to pay him $35M a year for 12 years. What happens if he has a Pedroia type of injury in three years. Then they're on the hook for the next 10 with a guy that can hardly walk, let alone run the bases.

They offered a deal they knew he wouldn't except. You can never guess the injury game so he could also have been healthy and productive for 10 of the 12 years or all 12. They going cheap because they are going below the luxury tax, I'm not sure how they could manage the teams talent much better than they have with most position players coming up through the farm system, the pitching staff doesn't have a lot of homegrown talent.

 

[The Q]

They offered a deal they knew he wouldn't except. You can never guess the injury game so he could also have been healthy and productive for 10 of the 12 years or all 12. They going cheap because they are going below the luxury tax, I'm not sure how they could manage the teams talent much better than they have with most position players coming up through the farm system, the pitching staff doesn't have a lot of homegrown talent.

from what I gather they offered that before Harper and machado signed.

 

[poewelch84]

from what I gather they offered that before Harper and machado signed.

He was never going to sign anything until after Machado, or Harper signed they knew this and knew they weren't willing to spend the kind of money it would take.

 

[The Q]

He was never going to sign anything until after Machado, or Harper signed they knew this and knew they weren't willing to spend the kind of money it would take.

I don’t blame them. He wanted trout money and while he’s good, he’s not trout.

 

[The Q]

He was never going to sign anything until after Machado, or Harper signed they knew this and knew they weren't willing to spend the kind of money it would take.

he wasn’t going to sign anything period.

this is what he always wanted.