Heard the same thing about the Reds...Originally Posted by JCM11
Heard the same thing about the Reds...
I saw Bobby Matthews on the list, and thought to myself he's one of those non descript 40s-50's-60's pitchers. Bobby Matthews sounds like he played with Duke Snyder.
I was stunned to see the era he played in and had never heard of most of those teams.
I love baseball.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Here Are TheTop 10 Worst Contracts In MLB Free Agency History
https://sportsnaut.com/mlb/lists/top...gency-history/
Why doesn't anyone write about the ten best LTC's in history?
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
It'd be hard to get to 10.
WHEN DOES IT STOP!?!?
757690 (11-08-2024)
Could make it pretty formula driven. Total WAR/inflation adjusted salary.
That worst list should done the same.
I wish the Reds had done something like this LAST off season.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Joeyjection19 (11-09-2024)
Assuming they sign him and run with a 6 man rotation next year, the Dodgers could field Ohtani, Yamamoto, and Sasaki. The sponsorship money those three could generate would be nuts.
Ohtani
Glasnow
Yamamoto
Sasaki
and 2 of: May/Miller/Gonsolin/Stone/Kershaw/free agent
I'd be willing to bet that's where the Dodgers spend any remaining cash, too, since their starters were the only weak spot this postseason. They've already been tied to Snell, for example.
redsfan39 (11-09-2024)
Sasaki will be on a rookie deal when he signs similar to Ohtani so it will cost next to nothing to land him.
NPB’s Chiba Lotte Marines To Post Roki Sasaki For MLB Clubs
MLB classifies players who sign out of a foreign league before they turn 25 as amateurs. Those players can only sign a minor league contract and are subject to a hard-capped bonus limit. Whichever team signs Sasaki is allowed to add him to the MLB roster by Opening Day — he isn’t going to start the season in Triple-A even though his first contract will be a minor league deal — but he won’t be able to sign for huge money.Yamamoto’s deal came with a windfall for his former team, the Orix Buffaloes. The Dodgers paid the Buffaloes $50.625MM to release him from his contract. The Marines will get a fraction of that. If Sasaki signs for $10MM — and there’s a decent chance his bonus will land below that — the team would receive a $2MM posting fee.In April, Baseball America’s Ben Badler published a list of teams’ bonus allotments for the ’25 signing period. The Reds, Tigers, Marlins, Brewers, Twins, A’s, Mariners and Rays have the largest pools at $7.5555MM each. If one of those teams acquired another 75% via trade and devoted the entire allotment to Sasaki, his maximum signing bonus would be around $13.22MM.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Were I Krall, I'd absolutely be on the phone looking to acquire international bonus money. Sasaki is the type you spend your whole $13M on and count yourself lucky.
NC Reds (11-11-2024),RED VAN HOT (11-09-2024),Redsfan6272 (11-11-2024),RedTeamGo! (11-11-2024)
I agree but he will be signing with the Dodgers
What would you say.....ya do here?
Some interesting Sasaki discussions;
To say the fans of the Chiba Marines aren't taking this well would be an understatement. They are enraged over this. So much that a small few are suggesting things...violent things. This, sadly, isn't the first time where hooligans in Japanese baseball have threatened players and followed through with it. In the 70s, a generational talent by the name of Takashi Arakawa had refused to sign with the team that drafted him in the Yokohama Whales (now the Yokohama BayStars) because Arakawa wanted to play in Tokyo for either the Giants or the Atoms (now the Swallows) to be close to his adopted father. Whales fans were outraged at what they deemed was arrogance with two of them giving Arakawa a beat down in a dark alley with a baseball bat. Facing a PR nightmare from the attack, the Whales had to ship out Arakawa to the Atoms but the damage was done. Arakawa suffered permanent damage in his right eye from the attack and eventually went blind in said eye, ending what could've been an amazing career.
It's been over 50 years since the Arakawa incident and NPB has solved its hooligan problem for the most part. But every now and again...it rears its ugly head. I hope no one does something stupid and attacks Sasaki.
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And the scathing criticism for Roki Sasaki and his decision to force his way into MLB has continued to pour out of Japan, with former legendary Saitama Lions manager and Japanese Pro Baseball Hall of Famer Tatsuro Hirooka taking aim at the young pitcher. Hirooka, who was also the GM behind bringing in Bobby Valentine to Chiba in 1995, branded Sasaki as being a "selfish player" that was overly babied by Marines, which enabled this situation to happen. Hirooka continued to lay into the young pitcher by saying the following:
“Maybe the team simply got tired of him, since Sasaki complained that ‘this hurts’ or ‘something’s wrong’ over and over throughout the season. The 25-year-old rule? Forget about it. The team will be stronger without such a selfish player. The sooner they get rid of him the better. Honestly, it’s so sad and regrettable. More and more, Japan’s star players are leaving for MLB. Sasaki was a pro for just five years, and did absolutely nothing his first year, so it was really on four. How many games did he win? In MLB, where contracts need to be earned, he will get fired and end up back in Japan, where some players, like Yakult’s Norichika Aoki produced upon their return, while others, such as Daisuke Matsuzaka, just got a ton of money without doing anything to earn it. It’s time for the commissioner to take the lead on this and fix the rules that allow for this.”
When asked about whether he thinks Sasaki will succeed or not in MLB, Hirooka didn't hold back:
“He’s going to fail, no doubt about it. In MLB now pitchers have to work on four or five days’ rest, and if he tries that, he’s going to break down. He lacks the physical strength now. Even Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who won three straight Sawamura Awards (NPB's equivalent of the Cy Young) got hurt. When Sasaki goes over there, he’s going to get a reality check. MLB teams sign Japanese talent so they can be of immediate use. They give no thought to signing them in order to develop or bring them along.
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'The Dodgers have the most money left in the International Pool, Roki will wind up there.
The rich get richer.'
That means nothing. Roki has said on numerous occasions that he would like to play with his mentor from the 2023 World Baseball Classic in Yu Darvish, who currently plays for the Padres. He's also said that he doesn't want to play on the same team as Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who was his rival back in NPB when Yamamoto played for the Osaka Buffaloes.
Justin Wilson has been signed by the Red Sox.
I am surprised he is still getting guaranteed major league contacts.
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