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Who said that?Seems to me this is another instance of GM/Ownership going along with what the player wants so they don't cause any unneeded tension between each other. Player doesn't follow thru on his end of the bargain, right or wrong, and owner goes into retaliation mode.Happens in the opposite manner too. We all know all of this.'Snotbubbles said:
The Dodgers look like they're going to be around $50M over the threshold in 2013. That will cost them $11.25M which is about 5% of their total wage bill. If they remain $50M over the cap in 2014 & 2015, that amount will increase but their owners don't seem fazed by that.The luxury tax revenues don't get redistributed to the clubs under revenue sharing. Salary inflation will be a windfall for the other benefactors.
Looks like LA vs LA it is.
Can I somehow parlay the Tigers to win it with the Yankees NOT to win it? 12/1 for that team is a joke.
ITS A LOCK :IBTL:
I'm getting away from futures, as I think they're a bad use of bankroll, but Nats 9/1 seem like the best value there. They seem most likely of any team to win their div. They only have one team in there that has a chance of competing with them, and I think they're a couple steps ahead of them.
3b is the only position the mets DONT need. Can he play another position?
that seems like too much, imo, but not unreasonable.
1B. Maybe he could learn LF/RF, but the limited experiment there for the Rangers (3 games) didn't go well, iirc.
Ha. Come on. Because of last year? The only team dead in the NL East for 2013 is Miami...I mean DOA. The others can put it together. Okay maybe not the Mets but the Phillies are not dead and Atlanta is right there.
Or not...Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal
(Gose and Arencibia) or (D'Arnaud)assume that phrase would be parsed this way. D'Arnaud alone should be plenty to get Dickey.
If not too much for a 38 year old knuckleballer coming off of a career year. But I'm just angry because I have Travis in my AL only keeper league and will get the Dickey if D'Arnaud is involved. 
NYM is not sniffing the playoffs next year. Especially given that they're trading their best player from last year for prospects. Good move for the future, but they're years away.Miami is obviously DOA.Not sure what the Phils have done to lead anyone to think they're going to be decent. Michael Young is out to pasture.Atlanta should be fine. Upton for Bourn's probably close to a wash. They have some great pitching. But I think Wash is still several games ahead of them.
The Dodgers will buy the AL at the deadline
I'm a big fan of win totals, only because I'm pretty good at them. I think the Tigers are easily the biggest division favorites this year, but Leyland teams love slow-rolling the regular season so who knows.
A lot of people say "Moneyball only works for so long, then other teams figure out what you're doing." Well, not all teams. Yuck.
After Bal and Oak last season, I'd be more careful declaring teams out of the playoff hunt before the season starts.
Not liking giving up D'Arnaud for the Blue Jays. True, they already have Buck/Arencibia, but elite catching prospects don't grow on trees.I guess you really can't judge Dickey like a usual 38 year old pitcher, though. Not sure Dickey will be around as long as Niekro, but no reason to think he can't pitch well into his 40s.
Theyre getting a cy young pitcher. They dont exactly grow on trees either. Jays a re legit title contendor if they get him.
But his contract ends after this coming year, so unless they can get Dickey to agree to an extension beforehand, I think trading their best prospect for him is tremendously risky. Knowing how smooth Anthopoulos is, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a deal get done without D'Arnaud involved.
My understanding is that a team would agree in advance to an extension before they traded for him.
He was very good in 2011 and 2010 in addition to winning a Cy Young in 2012. Fangraphs shows just how good he's been the past few years: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/r-a-dickey-and-the-myth-of-one-great-year/ he throws an unconventional pitch and is older is skewing your judgement.Maybe it took him a long while to master the knuckleball. Whatever the reason, the guy has been one of the better pitchers in baseball the past 3 years. And going off the history of knucklers, there's little reason to think Dickey can't continue to pitch well for the next several seasons. He'll be a big help to whichever team acquires him.
Who knew he's just as good as David Price? Something tells me Price will win another Cy Young before Dickey ever comes close to sniffing another.He was very good in 2011 and 2010 in addition to winning a Cy Young in 2012. Fangraphs shows just how good he's been the past few years: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/r-a-dickey-and-the-myth-of-one-great-year/ he throws an unconventional pitch and is older is skewing your judgement.Maybe it took him a long while to master the knuckleball. Whatever the reason, the guy has been one of the better pitchers in baseball the past 3 years. And going off the history of knucklers, there's little reason to think Dickey can't continue to pitch well for the next several seasons. He'll be a big help to whichever team acquires him.
40 minimum.Are the Astros going to win 30 games next year?
Really don't get this. Isn't Dickey 36,37?'Billy Bats said:
Just looked...... He's 38?!?!?!Arguably the best C prospect in baseball getting moved for a 38yo pitcher?
Glad I'm not the only one. But he's a Cy young winner, who apparently is as good as David Price. 
He's a 38 year old knuckleballer. He's entering his peak years.
With AA's history, I'm hoping there's more to the deal than is being reported. I don't mind giving up one of d'Arnaud or Syndergaard, as long as Dickey comes with an extension, giving up both seems really high.
The Red Sox are in the toilet. The Yankees are old and in a money crunch. Its time to make a play to be serious contenders now.With AA's history, I'm hoping there's more to the deal than is being reported. I don't mind giving up one of d'Arnaud or Syndergaard, as long as Dickey comes with an extension, giving up both seems really high.
It took 88 wins to get into the playoffs last year. The Mets won 74 with plenty of holes. Patch a few with ok players and say they're a 80 win true talent team. With a little sequencing luck they could certainly outperform expectations enough to be a playoff contender and make a deadline deal to further improve the team. This isn't the Astros roster and the second wild card dramatically lowers the barrier for the playoffs. Mets ownership wants to claim its not doing a full tear down - they are, they're just doing it in stages to mask the stink.
4.5 wins is heading off to Toronto. Even if you get 1-2 from D'Arnaud this year, recovering from injury, you still have a pretty big gap to cover to get to 80.Deal is apparently in place, Toronto now working on the extension with Dickey.
My point is they weren't in a position where a trade of Dickey was necessary, especially since they just locked up Wright. They either should have traded them both or kept them both. And if you keep trade both, eat salary on Santana and move him too. I ####### hate the Wilpons.
David Wright is 29. RA Dickey is 38. A 38 year-old knuckleballer, but 38 nonetheless. FWIW, I think they're doing a good job given the hand they're holding. They've only got a year left of Santana's albatross, but I don't think there's much to be done there. They'd have to eat most of the money if they traded him, or less if they included prospects. After that, Wright's the only guy left who's going to be making serious money, which gives them a lot of flexibility to start taking care of their own guys as they come up for arb.
Yea because R.A. Dickey has been Cy Young material for so long. 
