Phillies will pull a Briere and not bother getting a translator for their star player.
Although this one will come from international money, right?“We made a substantially greater offer than the Dodgers did for [pitcher Yoshinobu] Yamamoto last year. He took their offer, turned away from us, gave up tens of tens of millions of dollars,” Middleton said. “… I’m afraid Juan Soto wants to be in New York, and I don’t mind being a stalking horse … but I get the feeling, we’ll probably say, you know what, we’ll probably not win this.”
Not sure but I was only joking, we aren't getting anyoneAlthough this one will come from international money, right?
He's only coming now to chase a WS with his buddies on the Dodgers. It's not that deep. And I don't blame him one bit.Sasaki If he stayed in Japan another two years and stayed healthy he could come to the US and sign a $200M+ contract like Yamamoto did.
Now he'll come to the US, get a $4-$6M signing bonus and then be paid $700K/$800K the next couple of seasons before he end up in arbitration.
He now has to stay healthy and accrue 6 seasons of service time. So he'd become a Free Agent following the 2030 season.
He is not Ohtani. He is not going to roll around in tens of millions of endorsements. Even if he avoids injury I'd estimate he's probably going to cost himself at least $100m to $150M all while having the risk of actually never 'getting a bag' if he should suffer a serious injury that destroys him arm in his late 20s.
48 soonThey have like 47 starters.
Japan is their minor league affiliateSasaki is going to be posted. Another one for the Dodgers. So f***ing lame
46 of them will be hurt during the course of the season.They have like 47 starters.