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It's time for thread on the off-season moves, isn't it?  Got to talk about something while waiting for pitchers and catchers and/or HS and college baseball.

Here in NorCal we're all on pins and needles about the potential Stanton trade, and we seem to be evenly split on whether or that would be awesome or a disaster.   The hope for Ohtani to become a Giant is more unanimous, though who knows how real the hype is until he gets to the MLB.  Everyone  is talking about Cain and JD Martinez, too, but our offense is so bad that Palmero coming out of retirement might hit in the middle of the order.

Anyway, who has dibs on Darvish and Arrieta?  Those are going to be interesting.

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BOF posted:

Thanks JCG. Sorry but Stanton is going to the Dodgers, because that is where he wants to play and the Marlins have no choice unless they want to sit on his contract. It may take some time but here is a pretty good summary of what the trade is going to look like:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/h...-to-be/#3794a8cc464a

 

 

 

Everybody knows he wants to go there, but I hadn't seen that analysis of why the numbers make sense for the Dodgers.  Interesting, but I'm not sold on the Marlins going with that scenario.   

We'll know soon enough!

TPM, to be realistic...

Jeter buys the Marlins, at an inflated price, mostly with someone else's money and heavy debt, guts the front office of long time employees in what would be considered unprofessional manner, gets rid of a generational player in a disjointed poorly managed process (purely for cash reasons) and for lower level prospects who have little chance to contribute in the near term, and is running a team that has had lackluster fan support over the years. The best run teams now bring in smart people to manage them, which the Marlins don't seem to be doing. In addition, former baseball players are not known to be mental giants and have traditionally failed miserably running a complex baseball franchise and your excited? 

I think Jeter was a great player and classy representative of a storied franchise, but his start at running a team is not going so well right now. On the positive side it can't get any worse....

Just say'in.

PS: Oh and the Gordon trade for mostly cash reason, so they have saved $300M, I might be wrong, maybe it can get worse....

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