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It doesn't appear there is great success in pitchers coming back from a second UCL tear.
He had a second UCL tear. That is what really what matters.
His going to generate over half that in marketing and licensing for the Dodgers and now makes them a front runner to land Yamamoto.
That is a travesty. No way that should be allowed
This is dumb
It's not a good history, but a lot of the examples are older players that were probably done anyway - not sure Randy Wolf or Edinson Volquez were going to produce much value past 35. Medical science is always improving, and Nathan Eovaldi is an encouraging recent success story.
I agree that technology has gotten better for sure which gives some optimism but in general I think baseball has gone the way that will lead to this from here on out. Max velo has required stressing all components to lead to the weakest link failing.....which is the UCL. I think lifting weights and strengthening all the muscles of the body to maximize velocity just puts too much stress on the UCL until it snaps. It's unfortunate.
Agreed. To endure as an SP you’re going to have to be a physical freak of nature like Nolan Ryan.
See, I don't think that Nolan Ryan necessarily was a physical freak of nature. Don't get me wrong.....he was a big, country strong dude for sure. But pitching philosophy and training were not the same back then. I think Nolan Ryan coming up today would have UCL issues because training would have strengthened him to the point where his UCL would snap. Max velo attainment would dictate maxing out effort every throw coupled with strengthening everything to the max would lead to the UCL snapping as the weak link.
wow....
Going to make the Dodgers the most hated franchise in sports, and I'm okay with that.
Yea, I'm a Bay Area Giants fan..... I can't stand the Dodgers, and it's made worse by the fact that they have so many likeable guys on their team.
it’s good to have someone to root against but this isn’t bad for baseball, it’s horrendous
SO has to be killing it with endorsements. Great player , very likable,impeccable reputation and a terrific ambassador for the sport.
Anybody else still think the Dodger’s brass are dumb?
Interest free are you kidding. Put it in some money market account and make 5-8% guaranteed.
Done.
Not really, because the luxury tax will go way up and more creative accounting will happen.
Right, but it seems like the tax isn’t really having its intended effect.
The law of unintended consequences
That's always going to be the case with any sort of system, but it nevertheless seems like they could build a better mousetrap in this instance.
In this case, it’s not that a loophole was exploited. The CBA specifically calls out there are no limits on the deferred $ or % of total deferred. It was the bargained outcome.
Baseball made great strides to improve the game over the objection of some stakeholders this year and I hope they continue on that trajectory.
I wonder if some of the reason that they wanted this was to protect the players to some degree. Having all that money deferred means they can't blow through it and become destitute the minute they stop playing because they are spending everything they get. You don't hear about that as much in baseball but deferring the money is a nice byproduct for those that don't know how to save.
He can move to Toronto and that becomes close to 1 billion canadian dollars.
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