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Bericht door zeux » za okt 08, 2022 1:26 am

Ok, je haalt Scherzer voor de wedstrijden waar het om gaat: postseason/wildcard/etc. Tegen Atlanta maakt hij het vorige week al niet waar en nu geeft hij in de eerste inning al een twee run homerun op…

Ik denk dat het met twee wedstrijden klaar is. Sinds eind augustus is het eigenlijk al klaar bij de Mets. Verliezen van sub .500-clubs, slaan matig en de pitchers leveren niet. De serie in Atlanta ‘sealed it’.
Gaat ‘m niet worden.
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Bericht door zeux » za okt 08, 2022 2:39 pm

4.2 innings: 7 ER.

Bloody fucking hell.

Scherzer plaatst even een uitroepteken achter mijn vorige post.

Vannacht DeGrom. Zit ook in een wak: gaf de laatste vier wedstrijden minimaal 3 runs op (5 tegen de A's). Da's ongewoon voor hem (0 of 1 is 'normaal').
Dat geeft geen vertrouwen tegen de hitmachine die San Diego is...
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Bericht door zeux » zo okt 09, 2022 9:40 am

DeGrom ok, bats alive, vanavond de decider…

Bassitt (3.42 regular season) moet het gaan doen tegen Musgrove (2.93 voor het seizoen).
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Bericht door zeux » ma okt 10, 2022 8:55 am

Kansloos. Weggeslagen, weggegooid.

Musgrove totaal dominant. 7 innings, 1 hit, 1 BB, 5 strike outs.
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Bericht door zeux » zo okt 16, 2022 12:40 pm

Ah, dat is dan toch nog milde genoegdoening. Padres winnen verrassend met 3-1 ook de serie tegen Dodgers (met 111 wins veruit beste record MLB in het reguliere seizoen) en gaan nu met phillies (even verrassend winnaar tegen Braves) om de National League-tite strijden. Verloren van de 'kampioen' dus?

Houston Astros zoals wel verwacht naar finale AL, maar hadden voor de win tegen Seattle wel 18 innings nodig (dubbele wedstrijd!), waarbij het tot de 18de inning 0-0 bleef. Ongekend. In totaal 18 pitchers gooiden gezamenlijk 498 pitches (123 at bat's, slechts 4 walks over de hele wedstrijd, 42 K's). Met 6 uur en 22 minuten was het de derde langste postseason game in de MLB-geschiedenis (één minuut korter dan de nummer twee).
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Bericht door zeux » zo okt 16, 2022 1:18 pm

Het is bij de National League wel een interessant lijstje geworden...

Standen regulier seizoen:

Dodgers .685 (111 wins)
Mets + Braves .623 (101 wins, Braves eindigen hoger doordat ze de onderlinge serie met 9-8 hebben gewonnen dankzij de 'sweep' in de laatste week).
Cardinals .574 (93 wins)
Padres .549 (89 wins)
Phillies .537 (87 wins)

En de onderste twee van de zes gaan nu voor de NL-kroon strijden...
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Bericht door GangstaRiB » zo okt 16, 2022 1:49 pm

ALCS - Astros vs Guardians.

NLCS - Phillies vs Padres.

Hoop op Guardian en Phillies in de WS. Maar het zullen die onsympathieke Astros wel worden.

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GangstaRiB schreef:
zo okt 16, 2022 1:49 pm
ALCS - Astros vs Guardians.

NLCS - Phillies vs Padres.

Hoop op Guardian en Phillies in de WS. Maar het zullen die onsympathieke Astros wel worden.
Nou ja, dan moeten de Guardians wel eerst nog winnen van Yankees vannacht... :ajaxsmiley.gif:

Phillies in WS? :eusa_naughty.gif: :1evil.gif:

Tja, Astros. Die hadden mazzel dat 2020-seizoen zonder publiek ging... Ontzettend jammer van een speler als Altuve, wat een fantastische tweede honkman is. Hier reconstructie in NY Times.
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GangstaRiB schreef:
zo okt 16, 2022 1:49 pm
ALCS - Astros vs Guardians.
Nog effe niet. :ajaxsmiley.gif:

(vannacht de decider tegen de Yanks: Guardian Civale (4.92) tegen Yankee Taillon (3.91), al zal het wel eens een veredelde bullpen-game kunnen worden)
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Bericht door zeux » wo okt 19, 2022 12:24 am

En het wordt Astros-Yankees.

Cortes met vijf sterke innings op short rest door de postponed game van gisteravond.
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Bericht door zeux » zo dec 04, 2022 1:54 pm

DeGrom naar de Rangers voor 5 jaar.

Het kan een blessing in disguise zijn. Eerste 2/3 van 2022 geblesseerd, gooide in augustus naar behoren, maar was in september niet de 'ace' waar je op kon vertrouwen (in zijn laatste vier wedstrijden van het reguliere seizoen 3-5 runs, extreem hoog voor zijn doen --> zijn ERA sprong in die vier wedstrijden van 1.66 naar 3.08). September ERA: 4.50 (waar een 0 run wedstrijd van 7 innings in zit).
Het was Scherzer die vervolgens tegen San Diego verzaakte, maar DeGrom in de laatste maand was op zijn best shaky. Na een paar jaar van blessure-ellende, wat voor een - inmiddels oudere - pitcher slecht nieuws kan zijn. Vraag het Matt Harvey. Of Syndergaard.

Dus wie weet, kunnen de Mets de focus voor hun pitching nu gaan verleggen ipv bouwen op een pitcher die de afgelopen jaren feitelijk niet meer leverde. Al begrijp ik dat ze bezig zijn met Verlander (en Rodon). Samen met Scherzer is dat wel een èrg oude rotatie...
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Bericht door zeux » zo jun 25, 2023 9:33 pm

Wat een shit team zijn de Mets toch. Echt een bunch of f*cking losers. Grrrrrr.
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Bericht door Dubbel » ma jun 26, 2023 10:11 pm

Ruim onder 500. Daar gaan koppen rollen als het zo door gaat. Is er al een short list met kandidaat schuldigen?

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Bericht door zeux » ma jun 26, 2023 10:39 pm

Alleen Scherzer ok kwa pitching. Senga 50/50. Verlander is een bust. 4&5 drama. Bullpen rust erg op Ottavino en Robertson.

Alonso is ok. Lindor produceert redelijk, maar zijn averages zijn laag. Nimmo doet het naar behoren. Rest is middelmaat.
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Bericht door zeux » di jun 27, 2023 3:46 pm

Ook de NYT keek naar het gestuntel in de Phillies-loss:
The Most Expensive Team in Baseball Is Not Getting Any Better
For the Mets, another dispiriting defeat felt like more of the same. “Hopefully,” one Met said, “there’s light at the end of the tunnel.”

By James Wagner
June 26, 2023

Nearly halfway through the 2023 season, the most expensive team in Major League Baseball history is closer to last place than first. After a dispiriting 7-6 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, the Mets and their nearly $500 million roster — once luxury taxes are considered — were left with a 35-42 record, dwindling odds of reaching the playoffs and a growing number of questions.

The Mets have won only five more games than the Washington Nationals, a franchise mired in a rebuild and, for the moment, the only team keeping them off the bottom of the National League East. The Atlanta Braves, who have won the division five years in a row and lead it again as of Sunday, are 15 games ahead of the Mets.

Even Manager Buck Showalter seemed to acknowledge on Sunday that his team has limited options to turn things around. Leading the Phillies by 6-3 entering the eighth inning, the Mets endured a disastrous four-run meltdown in which they surrendered only one hit. Instead of using some of his better relievers to close out the game, Showalter, saying they had been overworked recently, turned to less-established bullpen options.

“It’s frustrating for the players and everybody,” Showalter said after Sunday’s loss. “We shot every bullet we had, just about.”

Josh Walker, a rookie left-hander, had loaded the bases by walking two and coughing up a single. In came Jeff Brigham, a right-handed reliever, with a tall task. But Mets third baseman Brett Baty, 23, made a throwing error to second base, turning a potential double play into a Phillies run instead.

“There’s really no excuse,” Baty said. “That play needs to be made 10 times out of 10 and it cost us the game, it cost us the series.”

The inning then further unraveled. With the bases loaded, Brigham walked Brandon Marsh, and then hit both Kyle Schwarber and Trea Turner with pitches to allow three more runs and give the Phillies the lead.

“Hopefully there’s light at the end of the tunnel,” Brigham said, adding, “There’s definitely a lot of pressure as the season goes by.”


The season is certainly passing the Mets by. A roster with stars such as Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso had only a 16 percent chance of reaching the postseason after Sunday’s defeat, according to FanGraphs. Before the season, the Mets were expected to contend with Atlanta for the N.L. East title and even challenge for a spot in the World Series.

“Usually that’s what happens: We don’t play well, people lose jobs,” Lindor told reporters over the weekend. “But I don’t see us as a team that’s going to sell out. I see us as a team that’s going to contend, that’s going to be there. We’re built to be contenders.”

If they continue to lose at their current rate, they may not be in a position to add reinforcements ahead of the Aug. 1 trade deadline. Instead of shopping for a late-season push, they may be looking instead to shed players — and salary — to other teams with actual playoff hopes.

The only other option would be to ask the billionaire owner Steven A. Cohen to try to patch the Mets’ problems with trades that could mean further bloating the team’s player budget, which already includes a record $377 million 40-man roster and an estimated $105 million in luxury tax penalties.

On Friday, the Mets made a modest move that didn’t quite fit either direction, sending the veteran third baseman Eduardo Escobar to the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for two pitching prospects.

Seen as a key player ahead of last season, Escobar struggled this year and lost playing time to Baty, a rookie. But in order to bring back better pitching prospects in the deal, the Mets agreed to pay most of the remainder of Escobar’s $9.5 million salary. But nothing in the deal will immediately improve a pitching staff that entered Monday with a 4.65 earned run average, sixth worst in M.L.B.

Scherzer, 38, and Verlander, 40, are both multiple-time Cy Young Award winners, but each has been alternately injured or pitching poorly. The rookie Kodai Senga has been better (3.52 E.R.A.) but he pitches only once a week in his first season from Japan. The rest of the rotation — Carlos Carrasco, Tylor Megill and David Peterson — has struggled.

The troubles of the starting rotation have only been exacerbated by a bullpen that entered the season with holes, chief among them the injury to the star closer Edwin Díaz. Showalter’s use of the bullpen hasn’t helped either: He saved David Robertson, the Mets’ best healthy reliever, for the ninth inning on Sunday rather than use him when the game was on the line in the eighth.

“I just can’t pitch the same people every night,” said Showalter, who also declined on Sunday to use reliever Adam Ottavino for a second day in a row and Brooks Raley for a third. “I just can’t do it. What else can we do?”
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Bericht door Dubbel » wo jun 28, 2023 6:51 pm

De donkere wolken boven Queens...

1. Their pitching is inefficient.

The Mets have a mediocre offense and below-average defense, but you must start here when explaining them. Only the A’s throw fewer strikes.

Lowest Strike Percentage

Team Percentage
A’s 61.6%
Mets 61.9%
Rockies 62.4%
Brewers 62.5%
Nationals 62.5%

And that means the Mets don’t often enough get the biggest advantage in baseball: controlling count leverage. The average major league hitter bats .285 when he is ahead in the count and .201 when the pitcher is ahead. Mets pitchers rank with some awful teams when controlling count leverage.

Highest Percentage of Pitches Behind the Count

Team Percentage
A’s 29.3%
Rockies 29.2%
Mets 28.6%

2. Their pitching is poor

Here’s where the Mets rank in key categories among MLB rotations:

Mets MLB Rotation Ranks

Category Amount - Rank
Innings 375.1 - 22
Quality Starts 20 - 23
WHIP 1.447 - 25
ERA 5.01 - 26
K:BB 2.17 - 27

The ERA for the Mets’ rotation has been more than five only twice in a full season: 2017, when New York lost 92 games, and 1962, when it lost 120.

3. The starting rotation is old.

The Mets planned a rotation around Justin Verlander, 40; Max Scherzer, 38; and Carlos Carrasco, 36. Only three teams had three qualified starters 36 and older, and those were so long ago they don’t apply: the 1945 Reds, ’45 Cubs and ’83 Angels.

The problem in today’s game is older pitchers need more rest. Mix in Kodai Senga, 30, who is accustomed to pitching once a week in Japan, and the Mets can’t lean on their starters to pitch every fifth day. In the rare times they try it, Mets starters are 3–5 with a 6.71 ERA.

Fewest Starts on Four Days’ Rest

Team Starts
Angels 1
Astros 10
Red Sox 10
Padres 11
Mets 13

No first-place teams there. Unlike the Angels, the Mets’ specific problem is they don’t have an inventory of good young pitchers to support so much extra rest for the starters. New York is 19–15 when Verlander, Scherzer and Senga start and 15–25 with the six other starters they have tried.

New York Mets starting pitcher Justin Verlander pitches against the New York Yankees
The Mets struggle with giving starters like Verlander enough rest.

4. They play from behind too often.

The Mets have been outscored 139–100 in the first three innings, having walked the most batters and given up more runs than all but three teams. With a league-average offense, New York has trouble making up early deficits.

5. They have few players in the sweet spot of their careers.

The Mets have only two qualified hitters and pitchers in their 20s: Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso. That ties them for the fewest in baseball with the Yankees, Rockies and Tigers. Not a standout group. In a year of the pitch timer, more stolen bases and more ground to cover on defense without shifts, youth and athleticism have gained value.

Some of the biggest upstart teams this year are among the seven youngest teams: the Rays, Reds, Diamondbacks and Orioles. The Mets have used 24 players in their 30s, the most in baseball.

How bad is the Mets’ predicament? Don’t write them off yet. The past three full-season NL pennant winners all looked somewhat adrift through 74 games: the 2019 Nationals (36–38), ’21 Braves (35–39) and ’22 Phillies (39–35).

How many teams were as bad as the Mets 74 games into a season and rallied for a playoff spot? It’s a short list:

34–40 or Worse to Postseason

Team Through 74 Games , Final
1914 Braves 32–41 , 94–59
1973 Mets 32–41 , 82–79
1984 Royals 34–40 , 84–78
2005 Astros 34–40 , 89–73
2008 Dodgers 34–40 , 84–78
2013 Dodgers 32–42 , 92–70
2022 Mariners 34–40 , 90–72

Let’s assume the barrier for a wild-card spot these days is 87 wins, the Phillies’ total last year as the final seed. Now you’re down to just four teams who pulled off such a massive turnaround.

What will it take for the Mets to make that kind of history? The 2019 Nationals remade their bullpen with trades, the ’21 Braves remade their outfield, the ’22 Phillies fired their manager and the ’22 Mariners went on a 14–0 run in July in which they won all six one-run games.

The Mets have a run in them. The question is whether it will be big enough. They should be getting José Quintana off the IL soon to help the rotation, but he’s 34 and doesn’t change the equation so much. Their most likely option is to continue to trust “the back of the baseball card,” as the cliché goes, and ride this group. Here’s the problem with that thinking, and it’s a problem the Yankees face as well: The game has turned to favor young players when it comes to health and performance.

Since the mound was lowered in 1969, the five worst seasons of hitting for players ages 31–35 happened in the past six seasons: 2018 (.244), ’20 (.245), ’21 (.244), ’22 (.242) and ’23 (.245). The Mets have given more plate appearances to players in that age bracket than every team but the Dodgers, Marlins and Angels and just ahead of the Yankees.

To reach 87 wins, the Mets must play at a .602 clip in their remaining 88 games (53–35). Possible? Sure. But here is the question owner Steve Cohen and GM Billy Eppler face: Do you trust this roster as constructed to play .600 baseball or do you shake it up next month with younger players?
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Bericht door Dubbel » wo jun 28, 2023 7:07 pm

Shohei met kroon op een sterke juni maand :blub.gif:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcS0SDs ... hannel=MLB

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Bericht door zeux » vr aug 25, 2023 8:47 am

Dubbel schreef:
wo jun 28, 2023 7:07 pm
Shohei met kroon op een sterke juni maand :blub.gif:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcS0SDs ... hannel=MLB
Maar er nu als pitcher uit voor het seizoen. Tweede operatie in vijf jaar?

LA Times is niet mild. Botst het 'experiment Ohtani' dan toch op de grenzen van het menselijk lichaam?
Six years ago, Shohei Ohtani shocked the baseball world by signing with the lowly Angels. The reason gradually became obvious over time: They would grant him every opportunity to become a two-way player in the major leagues.

Unlike the Dodgers or New York Yankees, the Angels weren’t in position to say no to him. They couldn’t tell him to abandon hitting, or, after he underwent his first reconstructive elbow surgery, pitching. Regardless of how the two-way experiment unfolded, there was never the possibility of the Angels saying to him that his individual pursuit could cost them important games. The Angels didn’t play important games.

The freedom Ohtani was afforded eventually produced the most remarkable three-season stretch in the history of the sport, as he was simultaneously a first-class pitcher and first-class hitter.

These same liberties, however, could be attributed to the lack of oversight that resulted in the unmitigated disaster that unfolded on Wednesday.
ncinnati Reds after only 26 pitches, Ohtani underwent an examination that revealed a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. He won’t pitch for the remainder of the season. While general manager Perry Minasian said Ohtani will receive a second opinion before deciding whether to undergo another elbow operation, surgery appears likely.

Minasian said the diagnosis caught him by surprise. According to Minasian, Ohtani never mentioned anything was wrong with his elbow, so the Angels didn’t suspect anything could be wrong.

“This is the first day we’ve heard about it,” Minasian said.

Ohtani skipped his previous start and the Angels didn’t think anything could be wrong? His fastball velocity was down and they didn’t think anything could be wrong? Never this year did he resemble the pitcher he was last year and they didn’t think anything could be wrong?

“We trust him,” Minasian said. “He knows his body.”

How could they trust him?

By now, the Angels should have known Ohtani well enough to understand that his desire to play, and win, overwhelms his every other instinct.

The last time he wasn’t in the Angels’ starting lineup was on May 2. The only other time this season was on April 12. And when he’s played, he’s played hard, evidenced by the ferocity with which he’s runs the bases, even on days he’s pitched, even with the Angels pretty much eliminated from postseason contention.


Most impending free agents are extremely mindful of how much money is at stake, which explains, for example, why Max Scherzer refused to pitch for the Dodgers in Game 6 of the 2021 National League Championship Series. The Dodgers lost the game, and the series, but Scherzer went on to sign a $130-million contract.

If the Angels counted on Ohtani to have a similar dollar-sign-adored restraint, they shouldn’t have. This is someone who passed on the opportunity to come from Japan to the major leagues as an unrestricted free agent because he didn’t want to wait until he was 25. Ohtani said last year that he came to the United States at 23 because he thought it would improve his chances of becoming a Hall of Famer. His classification as an international amateur limited him to a $2.3-million bonus. The decision might have cost him $200 million.

The fact that he scaled the mound on Wednesday, a week after his skipped start in Texas, pointed to his disregard for the record contract that awaited him in the winter.

As a sports franchise operating in a country that values money over everything, the Angels were blind to his way of thinking. They consequently failed to recognize they had to protect Ohtani from himself.

Even if they had, the terms of their relationship with Ohtani were already established. He told them what he wanted to do, and they went along. He wanted to play every day, so he did. He wanted to pitch on Wednesday, so he did. He insisted on hitting in the second game of the doubleheader, so he did. And if he wants to be the Angels’ designated hitter for the remainder of the season, as he did when he previously tore his UCL in 2018, he will.

Ohtani is unlikely to pitch next season, and when he returns the year after, he’ll likely be working his way back from a second operation. There’s no guarantee he will ever be the same pitcher again. This injury might have cost him $100 million, maybe more.

Ironically, the Angels’ chances of retaining Ohtani might have just dramatically improved.

With Ohtani leading the majors with 44 homers, many teams should still be interested in signing him this winter. Some teams might want to reduce how much he pitches to ensure his hitting isn’t compromised. A switch to closer might be suggested, maybe even to the outfield.

But if Ohtani has made anything clear, it’s that he wants to be a two-way player for as long as possible.

“There’s a part of me that feels it’s not just mine,” he once said, recalling the small group of people who believed he could both pitch and hit when he was breaking into the professional ranks in Japan.

There’s one team he can be certain will extend him every chance to make close to 30 starts and pitch more than 160 innings again: the Angels.

Minasian already sounded prepared to oversee Ohtani’s comeback to the mound.

“If anybody can bounce back,” Minasian said, “it’s him.”

And if there’s anyone who will be patient with him as he rediscovers how to be a two-way player, it’s the Angels, who won’t have anything else to play for until deadweight Anthony Rendon’s contract expires after the 2026 season.

The Angels have traveled this road before. They’re familiar with the journey ahead.
En Trout terug naar de IL...

Ze zullen engelengeduld moeten hebben in Anaheim.
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Bericht door zeux » zo okt 08, 2023 12:15 pm

Ik neem aan dat je een goede nacht had Dubbel. Enorme faal van Kershaw: 0.1 IP --> 6 ER. :neutral.gif:
Bizar hoe die keer op keer tekortschiet in postseason.

Als je naar zijn careerstats kijkt:
Reguliere seizoen: W-L 210-92 met 2.48 ERA
Postseason career: W-L 13-13 met 4.49 ERA
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Bericht door zeux » do nov 02, 2023 5:06 pm

Rangers WS-winnaar. Voor het eerst. Nou, gefeli.

Kunnen we nu gaan shoppen, want er moet nog wel wat verbouwd worden in Queens...
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Bericht door Jinne » do nov 02, 2023 6:08 pm

Viel me op dat er nog maar weinig clubs waren die de WS nog niet hadden gewonnen. Is de MLB dan de oudste Amerikaanse sport of komt het vooral ook doordat het succes van een club toch willekeuriger is dan in de andere sporter. Met een paar toppers in je team daar kan je soms jaren domineren. Vooral bij Basketbal natuurlijk het geval.
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Bericht door zeux » zo dec 10, 2023 5:05 am

Ohtani voor 10 jaar en 700 miljoen $$$ naar Dodgers…

700.000.000 (net iets minder dan het tv-geld dat àlle eredivisieclubs zes jaar lang mogen verdelen van espn)

Voor een werper die zijn tweede Tommy John operatie heeft gehad… New territory: komt hij terug op niveau???
Ook een goede hitter, maar niet 700-miljoen-goed.
Zijn waarde zit in de combi. Werpen en slaan.
Of dat eerste nog gaat, weten de Dodgers over iets meer dan een jaar. En welke ‘arm’ heeft hij dan nog? Een speler die weigert te rusten.
De kans dat hij die tien jaar als werper vol gaat maken, lijkt (heel) klein.

Je moet de (kostbare) gok maar willen maken, maar ja, hij kwam nù op de markt.
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Bericht door zeux » wo dec 13, 2023 3:02 am

Interessante betaalcondities:
Shohei Ohtani has agreed to defer $680m of his 10-year, $700m deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers until after the contract is completed, The Athletic and ESPN reported on Monday.

According to the reports, Ohtani suggested the deferrals and will be paid $2m a season for the duration of the contract, then will receive the deferred money without interest from 2034 to 2043.

The contract – which is expected to be finalized soon – will allow the Dodgers to continue spending around Ohtani and fellow stars Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, providing the club with payroll flexibility and cash flow.

The two-way superstar from Japan isn’t hurting for money, as he reportedly earns $50m a year away from baseball through endorsements and other deals.

Regarding the competitive balance tax, or luxury tax, the expected average annual value of the contract is close to $46m per year, the reports said. That allows the Dodgers more room to remain in the hunt for top free agents such as Japanese right-handed pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Tyler Glasnow.

“[Ohtani] is excited to begin this partnership, and he structured his contract to reflect a true commitment from both sides to long-term success,” Ohtani’s agent, Nez Balelo, said in a statement at the time the deal was announced.(Guardian)
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Bericht door Arthur » wo dec 13, 2023 8:04 pm

Zo, dat is toch een gigantische hypotheek op hun toekomst? Dan zitten ze over 10 jaar voor 10 jaar lang met een gigantische salarispost die ze beperkt in het halen van spelers, terwijl ze voor dat geld niet eens een speler hebben op dat moment. Hopen ze dan dat ze de komende 10 jaar zoveel winnen dat het daarna wel even wat minder kan?

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Bericht door zeux » wo dec 13, 2023 8:17 pm

Precies!

Bizar contract. Het lijkt genereus van Ohtani, maar het is een fuck you voor de periode na hem. Kortom: na hem de zondvloed.

Hij zal een jaar of zeven kunnen gooien? Slaan iets langer, maar eind dertig wordt dat bij allemaal minder.

Heel heavy contract.
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