Other Sports: Philadelphia Phillies: The Road To .500 Continues Into Red October (2024 Edition)

[Chinatown88]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854976091414245493

 

[FLYguy3911]

Danny B better watch out.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[ponder719]

IOW, one (1) Juan Soto, give or take...

 

[FLYguy3911]

Gonna need like 100 more plus someone to foot the luxury tax bill.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[CutOnDime97]

The money is going elsewhere

https://x.com/i/web/status/1855134504915976620

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

The money is going elsewhere

https://x.com/i/web/status/1855134504915976620

Phillies will pull a Briere and not bother getting a translator for their star player.

 

[Chinatown88]

IT'S TIME TO BUILD LITTLE JAPAN @JojoTheWhale

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The money is going elsewhere

https://x.com/i/web/status/1855134504915976620

“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.”

Although this one will come from international money, right?

 

[CutOnDime97]

Although this one will come from international money, right?

Not sure but I was only joking, we aren't getting anyone

 

[CutOnDime97]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1855140475411611770

 

[DancingPanther]

Sasaki is going to be posted. Another one for the Dodgers. So f***ing lame

 

[Flybynite]

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.

 

[DancingPanther]

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.

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.

It's just annoying lol

 

[FLYguy3911]

They have like 47 starters.

 

[Cody Webster]

And the Dodgers already get better

 

[DancingPanther]

They have like 47 starters.

48 soon

 

[renberg]

Sasaki is going to be posted. Another one for the Dodgers. So f***ing lame

Japan is their minor league affiliate

 

[Flybynite]

They have like 47 starters.

46 of them will be hurt during the course of the season.

(although even before Sasaki was posted the Dodgers were saying they were going 6-man rotation in 2025)

 

[FLYguy3911]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1856002272934969741

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Not many career arcs as fiery as Wander Franco’s. Went from being an untouchable rising star to an untouchable villain in such a short time span lol

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Read on the Athletic that Luis Robert is likely to be traded and Phillies are a fit. Word is they are also pursuing Crochet IIRC. I wonder if they could somehow land both and what that would cost. I'm a big Robert fan so I would love to nab him.

 

[DancingPanther]

Robert is not a fit lol

 

[Flybynite]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1856372112014860650

He just came off the best half-season of his career and likely this will go down as the best offensive season he ever has IMO. He's a flawed player and he isn't the offensive player he needs to be. He can't play 1B (even if Harper wasn't there already) since he can't give you enough offensively to justify that either.

Sell high (or as high as you can get at this point).

Phillies daycare is effin over. Bohm, Stott, and Marsh are all older than Bryce Harper when he debuted as a Phillie. Tired of hearing about their youth and growing pains.