Other Sports: Philadelphia Phillies: The Road To .500 Continues Into Red October (2024 Edition)
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Phillies will pull a Briere and not bother getting a translator for their star player.
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Although this one will come from international money, right?
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Not sure but I was only joking, we aren't getting anyone
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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.
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.
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DancingPanther
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
