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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

Im happy for Kikuchi, but that is a bag despite the assumed Angels tax.

I very much fear we miss out or are told no on Burnes/Fried ( worth overpaying) and settle for the less risky Severino/PIvetta/Flaherty on a gross overpay in the 20-23M range ( sweet spot of Shatkins)
 
Jays are not going to get anyone in the top tier ( Soto, Fried, Burnes, Adames, Bregman, Santander, Teoscar) and will do some combination of trading for someone else's dude ( Montgomery, Arenado, Bellinger, Bohm) or sign from a tier that cant afford to turn down their 5 x 20-25M overpay where they are comfortable spending ( Gleyber, Severino, Pivetta, Flaherty, Oneill) and get a bunch of random bullpen guys for low to mid money that their nerds ( and no one else's nerds) like.

Vlad wont be extended

Team will be in a mid range all year

Garbage
 
Deferred money doesn't really matter. It's basically just the team and player agreeing on the terms of a loan. MLB itself has some pretty set rules for how to treat those for CBT purposes. In the end it's mostly a tool for agents to brag about a higher number. So Ohtani can be a 700m player, when in reality for MLB he signed a 465m contract.
 
Well, regardless, it’s stupid and now being exploited by the most expensive team in baseball. Like if they get Soto for 3 mill per with 690 mill deferred, MLB should step in or no one is going to care about baseball outside of LA. Should have stopped it last year when the Ohtani contract came through their desk.
 
MON4NHLTOR4MLB said:
Well, regardless, it’s stupid and now being exploited by the most expensive team in baseball. Like if they get Soto for 3 mill per with 690 mill deferred, MLB should step in or no one is going to care about baseball outside of LA. Should have stopped it last year when the Ohtani contract came through their desk.
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Yup , gone too far MLB is broken top to bottom

I get the super rich teams but this is a fucken joke when half the league is done
 
UWHabs said:
Deferred money doesn't really matter. It's basically just the team and player agreeing on the terms of a loan. MLB itself has some pretty set rules for how to treat those for CBT purposes. In the end it's mostly a tool for agents to brag about a higher number. So Ohtani can be a 700m player, when in reality for MLB he signed a 465m contract.
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It does a little at least given the upfront costs would go towards other MLB teams in the luxury tax. That's the biggest issue here.
 
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