Doesn’t roughly the entire Atlanta Braves lineup consist of stars that signed extensions?
MLB has indefinitely banned the Yankees fans who interfered with Mookie Betts during the World Series.
A lot of it. Players WILL accept extensions.
Signing Guerrero to a $440 million deal or whatever is risky. But at some point you have to take a risk on someone, don’t you? I’m sorry but I really do not believe you have a serious shot at winning a World Series with nothing but guys making the minimum.
If you aren’t willing to take your chance on a guy who’s still not even 26 years old and hits like Frank Robinson I’m not exactly sure who you would take a chance on. Maybe he’ll burn out in four years, I dunno, but ANYONE can fail or burn out or whatever. Every contract is chancy. Every decision has uncertainty. The opportunity to tie up a guy like this, who is this important to the fan base, comes around once a generation if you’re lucky.
For shits and giggles, here’s the 2025 contenders for the HoF, and MLBNetwork’s Jon Morosi’s vote for who should and should not be inducted:
Yes:
Carlos Beltran
Mark Buehrle
Andruw Jones
Ian Kinsler
Brian McCann
Jimmy Rollins
CC Sabathia
Ichiro Suzuki
Chase Utley
Billy Wagner
No:
Bobby Abreu
Carlos Gonzalez
Curtis Granderson
Felix Hernandez
Torii Hunter
Adam Jones
Russel Martin
Dustin Pedroia
Andy Pettitte
Hanley Ramirez
Manny Ramirez
Fernando Rodney
Alex Rodriguez
Francisco Rodriguez
Troy Tulowitzki
Omar Vizquel
David Wright
Ben Zobrist
Now, I’m not as big a stat nerd as people like @RickJay are (and I mean that with affection), but I’m bored, and I want to read some more debates as concerns Morosi and his picks.
Here you go!
As to Morosi’s ballot, it’s stupid.
Voters put a lot of players on their ballots that they know aren’t Hall of Famers, and who have no chance of being elected. To them, it’s a way of honoring them as being really good players.
The only ballots that piss me off are the ones that omit clearly deserving players for reasons like “they should be unanimous” or “they should have to wait a few years before getting in”.
If I had a ballot, I’d put ARod and Clemens and Manny and Bonds in - but I understand people’s reasoning who don’t.
Toronto has freed up some funds (possibly for Sasaki) via a trade with Cleveland.
Toronto gets underperforming outfielder Myles Straw and $2 million in international signing money ($3.75 million total) in exchange for either cash or the ever-popular PTBNL.
Sasaki going to the Dodgers.
As a lifelong Yankees fan, I’m beginning to understand why everyone always hated us.
Why the past tense? We still hate you! 
This just means the rest of the rotation will suffer debilitating and stupid injuries all year long. Og forbid everybody stay healthy for the season. When’s the last time that happened on the Dodgers?
The tracker currently has these totals for those over 50%:
Ichiro 100%
CC Sabathia 92.8%
Billy Wagner 84.4%
Carlos Beltran 80.2%
Andruw Jones 72.5%
Chase Utley 53.3%
Only question now (top 3 are mortal locks by now I’d say) is what the private voters (who tend to be more small-hall and less forgiving of lapses in moral judgement) will do with Beltran.
The other question is will Ichiro be a unanimous selection.
Now that Mo broke that seal, maybe. Doesn’t mean much to me though and in time it won’t mean much to anyone. Everyone knows that it’s just stupid that Willie Mays and Tom Seaver and dozens of other guys weren’t unanimous.
Agreed.
Tanner Scott signs a 4 year, $72 million deal with…guess who?
The Dodgers.
Santander to Toronto, 5 years, $90+ million.
I’m not delighted. Santander isn’t a good outfielder. He can hit home runs but doesn’t really do anything else well.
Moving away from Baltimore’s horrific left field fence sure can’t hurt him tho.
Jurickson Profar to Atlanta, 3 years, $42 million.