Wow. 300 million for 10 yrs. That's alot of money tied up between him and Hosmer. Something like 425 million.
Machado
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A lot of cash for a dirty player and doesn’t run out ground balls even in the playoffs...
An amazing talent who will lose interest as soon as the Padres fall 8-10 games behind the better teams in the division.
I read that Machado can opt out of the deal after five years. My guess is he'll start pondering that opt-out about mid-June 2019.
I read that Machado can opt out of the deal after five years. My guess is he'll start pondering that opt-out about mid-June 2019.
Pads have a monster minor league system. They'll be in contention soon.
Guess he'll lose interest before Memorial Day. Their GM is the same clown that orchestrated their 2015 disaster.
It might work out the way A.J. Preller and the Padres' brain trust envisions, but color me skeptical. I just don't see Machado performing up to that contract for a bad team because better days may be out there somewhere on the horizon. Could happen, but I doubt it.
Man I can't wait for MLB to get rolling. I even love listening to preseason game on the radio. Baseball was made for radio IMO. Love some of the old player color guys and their stories.
VERY tired of listening to ball players whine they aren't signed yet. Gheesh, Harper turns down $300 mil and players are trying to tell me the system is broke? Well I agree with half of what they say. When you have no salary cap and only a handful of teams who can win, why would most other teams pay Harper or Machado? ...and why did Machado go to the Padres? Money, duh. So here we have a player who turned down a better chance to play for a winner, instead chasing the money, and he doesn't see the irony of claiming the system is broken?
There is a soft salary cap. Dont think I heard either machado or Harper complain about the system. The current system works fine for free agent stars. It does not work well, relatively speaking, for the avg veteran player who cannot realize his true value for the first ten years of his professional career and then by the time he can realize his true value in free agency, his skills are on the downside.
I don't have the stats handy, but Petco is among the worst hitting parks in the game, even with the fences moved in.
Petco is less of a hitters' dungeon than it used to be, before the dimensions were changed. But for night games, with the marine layer, it's still pretty brutal.
So true. The $20 MLB app is the best annual investment I make. Baseball all night every night.
The Padres organization will be in contention for winning the AL West possibly this year, maybe win it in 2020. Straight up. When I lived in San Diego last year, I met a few of the executives in the radio personnel department and I was blown away with their minor league system. What really drew me in was the radio guys in SD now were in Tampa Bay when they had their playoff runs a few years ago. The personnel guy said it feels the exact same way in SD's organization right now.
Except that while the Padres were landing the Rays' former radio guys, the Dodgers were hiring the GM who pulled that off in Tampa.
I hate the Dodgers, but Andrew Friedman is an outstanding GM who now has access to gobs of money.
The Padres will never contend in the AL West and the Dodgers own the NL West.
6 division titles in a row and our minor league system is loaded. Oh yeah, we also know all about Machado's act.
Some years back, MLB wanted to start charging to listen to out of area games over the internet. I told them to take a hike.
Machado isn’t worth half that contract because I don’t think he makes those around him better by his actions and he won’t get the protection overall he needs. Match that up with the attitude and effort issues at times, he will be looking for a trade before the opt out happens.
A loaded minor league is one thing but AAA to the majors is still not a promise of success.
A loaded minor league is one thing but AAA to the majors is still not a promise of success.