2017 Baseball Season: Let's Play Two! (2 Viewers)

[Warrior]

Al,

Forgot to include the Os. Might as well throw in the Jays and Rays too.

Looks like a salary dump as the Marlins receive Castro (no, not Raul) and two prospects who are not supposed to be top prospects. Marlins have now traded two of their stars.

If the Marlins had to cut payroll, why did this group buy the Marlins if they can’t afford to run a major league team. Jorge Mas would have been a better choice. Glad I’m not a Marlins fan.

The only way this is not any worse for Miami would be if his first name was Fidel.

The Marlins got missile bombed.

Can you imagine sitting behind a podium and trying to sell this trade to the Marlins fans, what a disgrace.


Those five guys are pretty pissed right now,.

The worst part of this is seeing how our GM overreacts here and guts the rest of our already gutted farm system thanks to his boneheaded trades.

Some poor bastard on Boston sports talk radio just lost it, complaining that the Red Sox did nothing to get in on this.

ANYONE with more than a two ounce brain knows this has collusion written all over it, Jeter did his ex team a massive solid on this one.

And he STILL has no range to his left, so **** him.

 

[Louis Badolato]

The only way this is not any worse for Miami would be if his first name was Fidel.

The Marlins got missile bombed.

Can you imagine sitting behind a podium and trying to sell this trade to the Marlins fans, what a disgrace.


Those five guys are pretty pissed right now,.

The worst part of this is seeing how our GM overreacts here and guts the rest of our already gutted farm system thanks to his boneheaded trades.

Some poor bastard on Boston sports talk radio just lost it, complaining that the Red Sox did nothing to get in on this.

ANYONE with more than a two ounce brain knows this has collusion written all over it, Jeter did his ex team a massive solid on this one.

And he STILL has no range to his left, so **** him.

George, don't hold back . . . tell us what you really feel!{sm4} Obviously I am thrilled at the acquisition of Stanton for Castro and a couple of bags of balls, but this is going to screw up the Yankees big time down the road, just like A-Roid did. The last 5 years of the contract Stanton is going to be in serious decline, and the Yankees are going to be stuck with that huge salary. But for the next five years, the Yankees are going to have an epic lineup . . . Stanton . . . Judge . . . Sanchez . . . about 120 homers a season between them.^&cool^&cool^&cool^&cool^&cool

 

[lancer]

George, don't hold back . . . tell us what you really feel!{sm4} Obviously I am thrilled at the acquisition of Stanton for Castro and a couple of bags of balls, but this is going to screw up the Yankees big time down the road, just like A-Roid did. The last 5 years of the contract Stanton is going to be in serious decline, and the Yankees are going to be stuck with that huge salary. But for the next five years, the Yankees are going to have an epic lineup . . . Stanton . . . Judge . . . Sanchez . . . about 120 homers a season between them.^&cool^&cool^&cool^&cool^&cool

It looks bad for the rest of the AL East but the Achilles heal of the deal is Stanton's health. He has averaged only 123 games a season over his career. This may hold him to 'only' 40-45 Hr's a season.:wink2::rolleyes2: -- Al

 

[Warrior]

"Obviously I am thrilled at the acquisition of Stanton for Castro and a couple of bags of balls"................Yeah, gee there Louis, there's a news flash, what a joke of a trade, an embarrassment to baseball, people aren't mad, they're laughing at how pathetic that trade was from a Marlins standpoint.

"but this is going to screw up the Yankees big time down the road, just like A-Roid did. The last 5 years of the contract Stanton is going to be in serious decline, and the Yankees are going to be stuck with that huge salary"..................Oh yeah, the poor small market MFY's, how are they ever going to manage the last five years of the contract. Don't worry, they'll find some sucker to take him off of their hands. Speaking of which, any takers for Ellsbury yet ,I'm sure he'll be shipped out of town now to the Angels for Trout.

"But for the next five years, the Yankees are going to have an epic lineup . . . Stanton . . . Judge . . . Sanchez . . . about 120 homers a season between them".............................We're all happy for you Louis as the MFY's are such a lovable bunch to begin with.

No pressure on the MFY's now, all they have to do is win five WS in a row to make their fans happy......................

 

[Warrior]

Just watched the Marlins press conference where they introduced the newest Marlins to their fan; they held it in a phone booth as a result, they're just glad the guy had no other plans today and could make it.

Jeter introduced the four bats they acquired and the two boxes of balls, he was firm when he said "The Yankees wanted to give us just one box of balls, but I held out for two"............................if this guy was our president during WWII, we'd all be eating strudel and goose stepping around wearing lederhosen.

 

[jazzeum]

Part of the blame lies with Stanton; the Marlins had trades worked out with the Cards and Giants but Stanton vetoed them (blame Jeffrey Luria for giving him a no trade clause). Stanton put the Marlins in a difficult position when said he would accept a trade to the Yankees or the Astros; Jeter had little negotiating room. However, sometimes you have to learn to walk away even when you don't have leverage. That's what Jeter should have done. The Yankees would have upped their offer and if the Yankees walked away, it would have weakened Stanton's leverage; the Marlins could have told him, "fine, we will just trade other players away and you'll spend your best years on a last place team."

Jeter has a lot to learn about Negotiating 101.

 

[Warrior]

Part of the blame lies with Stanton; the Marlins had trades worked out with the Cards and Giants but Stanton vetoed them (blame Jeffrey Luria for giving him a no trade clause). Stanton put the Marlins in a difficult position when said he would accept a trade to the Yankees or the Astros; Jeter had little negotiating room. However, sometimes you have to learn to walk away even when you don't have leverage. That's what Jeter should have done. The Yankees would have upped their offer and if the Yankees walked away, it would have weakened Stanton's leverage; the Marlins could have told him, "fine, we will just trade other players away and you'll spend your best years on a last place team."

Jeter has a lot to learn about Negotiating 101.

Great post; the tail does not wag the dog, let him squander another year on a last place team then, I love how he claimed he wanted to go to a West Coast team and ends up on the MFY's, like when that moron Teshada said he signed with the MFY's because he wanted to be closer to his wife's family that lived in Baltimore...............then sign with the Orioles then, or when Clemens left the Red Sox and claimed he wanted to live closer to his ailing Mother in Texas and signed with the Blue Jays.

You made another great point earlier too; Jeter bought a share of this team using other people's money, cleaned house in the front office, now trades away a top three or so ML talent due to lack of funds...............the owners never should have let this group led by this bozo buy the team then.

Baseball really is a farce; before the season has even started, 90% of the teams are already out of it. Barring injuries, I'd be stunned if the MFY's don't at least make the WS, reminds me of 2008 when the RS and Rays met in the ALCS, the Yankees were so annoyed they spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the off season and bought their only WS title this century.

Looks like they just bought another one, just wonderful.

The sport needs a hard cap and they need to ****can these ludicrous guaranteed contracts, but naturally the players association would never allow it, so the haves continue to dominate the sport over the have nots, what a joke.