NEWS/RUMORS/DISCUSSION Thread

Fuck that, and it is nothing against Shelby Miller, because he is preety damn good, and young, but there is absolutely no damn reason to create a hole on your team by not keepimg someone like Zack and filling it by having to give up valuable assets for someone like Shelby Miller.

 

A player like Joc is sabermetric spank-bank material. I doubt our front office finds a trade partner that values Joc more than we do, and therefore I'd be very surprised if he gets traded. Joc isn't going anywhere just because of the type of player he is.

 

They can have both?

 

It wouldn't be a one or the other scenario, it probably would be both, whether it's Greinke or Price and Miller/Carrasco/Salazar (and probably other similar guys in play) none of these guys are making any real money yet.

 

Puig for Carrasco is meh for me too btw

And don't get me wrong I think Carrasco is real good.

 

Don't you see the writing on the wall? Do not be shocked when we don't sign Greinke or Price or Cueto or Zimmermann and hire Kaplar.

 

@chrabe: Andy Van Slyke on STL radio: "Highest paid player on the Dodgers told GM, you gotta get rid of Puig." Kershaw? "Didn't say his name." Uhh...


Bye bye Puig

 

I don't know about the writing on the wall, but I know math. They said around 200MM and they currently stand at 152MM. I see Kapler as a factor in them probably getting Price. It's mostly about who they replace Puig with in RF for me.

 

:lairmob: CK

 

Thought I would never say this, but if CK and Greinke don't like Puig, and you can get a SP or a great BP middle reliever, go for it...trade his ass.

I know.....racist.

 

200-152=48-30 going to Arb players (Jansen, Hatcher, Avilan, Ellis, Turner, Grandal, Nicasio, SVS etc) that leaves 18. If you consider 200 a hard number, that's the situation, however, it doesn't account for the money they will likely save trading Ethier and/or Crawford and/or Puig.

 

Apparently this is actually misleading as Eric Stephen of TBLA actually listened to the audio of it and he said that is what the top paid.player on the Dodgers should do, not what he did

 

Right, so then you're back close to that 48 number. That's really enough to work with even if 200 is a hard number

 

Nah, I am thinking AVS is referring to Kershaw, at the risk of misinterpreting it again, here is what Andy actually said:

"When the best player, the highest paid player on the team goes to the GM and is asked what is the number one need or what are the needs of the Los Angeles Dodgers club, the first thing you need to do is get rid of Puig. That’s all you need to know."

 

If they made Crawford a $5M/yr player (2 years) I think someone would take him, Ethier at about $9M/yr and obviously their would be no salary retention with Puig. That said, I don't think all 3 would be moved, at most 2.