The Bryce is Right, Bitch

[PackLandVA]

What is the status of Brian Roberts?

[The_Achiever]

He's going to hate it there. Maybe we can trade for him in a year or two.

[Brian]

[UMFan83]

Christ, 13 years? Obviously that's for luxury tax purposes but Bryce is obviously pretty sure he wasn't going to have a career after 36 (which, given the way of things these days, is probably a safe bet)

Surprised he didn’t get any opt outs in there.

Rosenthal is saying he didn't want an opt-out.

That doesn't make any sense unless it was to get extra money out of them. There's no reason to not want as much control as they are willing to give you.

[Post Count Padder]

Anyone have the ricketts email to send them a strongly worded letter

[Flames24Rulz]

blocked

[Irrelevant Dude]

Single game tickets are on sale now!

[Brian]

full no trade

[Irrelevant Dude]

full no trade

In other words, he will pick who he wants to be traded to once he figures out how much he hates Philly.

[UMFan83]

Anyone have the ricketts email to send them a strongly worded letter

I wonder if we will see less Tom walking around Wrigley greeting fans this year.

[Brian707]

Single game tickets are on sale now!

[toonsterwu]

If this is the contract, then Boras/Harper screwed up by passing on the Nationals reported offer (10/300) and the Nationals rumored offer (higher than that). Yeah, he sets a record, but Machado ended up with a higher AAV, and if there's no opt out, this is just a weird, weird ending to the Harper FA. Sure, he's going to a more competitive team than Harper, but it sure feels like the Nationals offer was better, so it feels like Boras, along with ... well, a lot of us, misread the market, but we don't have a client's future at stake.

This is just a bleh deal. Tbh, it's a pretty solid deal for the Phillies, outside of the latter years likely being a mess.

[Irrelevant Dude]

Anyone have the ricketts email to send them a strongly worded letter

I wonder if we will see less Tom walking around Wrigley greeting fans this year.

It would give me great joy to see him roundly booed when shown on the big screen, but 90% of fans at Wrigley will be oblivious to what has (or hasn't) happened this offseason.

[champaignchris]

Holy horsefeathers



So much for not really wanting to play in Philadelphia. He is now a Phillie for life

25.4 per year...or put another way Brandon Kintzler plus Cole Hamels plus .4 million

Horsefeathers Theo just as much as Tom

Now think about what Russell is making

Chatwood + Duensing + Descalso + Russell + Kintzler = $25.9M. That's 5 guys that will have pretty negligible value this year and you could still have Hamels.

(BTW, I will cop to being all in favor of signing Chatwood, although it quickly became apparent over last offseason that the Cubs could have waited and signed him or someone very like him for quite a bit less.)

[Hunter]

Time to update the thread title.

[Perd]

The no opt out thing is pretty crazy. What a miserable offseason.

[Brian]

If this is the contract, then Boras/Harper screwed up by passing on the Nationals reported offer (10/300) and the Nationals rumored offer (higher than that). Yeah, he sets a record, but Machado ended up with a higher AAV, and if there's no opt out, this is just a weird, weird ending to the Harper FA. Sure, he's going to a more competitive team than Harper, but it sure feels like the Nationals offer was better, so it feels like Boras, along with ... well, a lot of us, misread the market, but we don't have a client's future at stake.

This is just a bleh deal. Tbh, it's a pretty solid deal for the Phillies, outside of the latter years likely being a mess.

the no opts (by choice) is the bad thing for Bryce, 10/300 v. 13/330 i'm not sure is much of a mistake. It will depend how he is at 36, I doubt many if any players have earned 30 million in new contracts after age 36.

[Andy]

Surprised he didn’t get any opt outs in there.

Rosenthal is saying he didn't want an opt-out.

That doesn't make any sense unless it was to get extra money out of them. There's no reason to not want as much control as they are willing to give you.

Yeah, he probably didn't want one in exchange for the record contract. Which seems like a weird objective for him given that Trout is probably going to get a bigger one in a couple years anyway.

[TMan92]

25.4 per year...or put another way Brandon Kintzler plus Cole Hamels plus .4 million

Horsefeathers Theo just as much as Tom

Now think about what Russell is making

Chatwood + Duensing + Descalso + Russell + Kintzler = $25.9M. That's 5 guys that will have pretty negligible value this year and you could still have Hamels.

(BTW, I will cop to being all in favor of signing Chatwood, although it quickly became apparent over last offseason that the Cubs could have waited and signed him or someone very like him for quite a bit less.)

I never use emojis but this one really fits

[Bull]

25.4 per year...or put another way Brandon Kintzler plus Cole Hamels plus .4 million

Horsefeathers Theo just as much as Tom

Now think about what Russell is making

Chatwood + Duensing + Descalso + Russell + Kintzler = $25.9M. That's 5 guys that will have pretty negligible value this year and you could still have Hamels.

(BTW, I will cop to being all in favor of signing Chatwood, although it quickly became apparent over last offseason that the Cubs could have waited and signed him or someone very like him for quite a bit less.)

I like this better because without Hamels you're still paying smyly 7 million.

But when I say I like this better, be sure you understand that only means I hate it less, because I hate everything and always will beginning today.

[The Logan]

The only reason he signed with Philly was because MLB The Show backed him into a corner and was like "horsefeathers pick a damn team, we gotta print these horsefeathering sleeves by next month"

[ConstableRabbit]

This is an interesting deal. On one hand, part of the allure of being able to sign a good player in his prime is that you can do a long-term contract and not have to pay for horsefeathers years. Going to 13 with full NTC doesn't really get there.

On the other hand, the AAV gives the Phillies a lot of flexibility in the prime years.

At least he's not a Dodger and at least it spreads out the talent in the NL East.

[Old Style]

Chatwood + Duensing + Descalso + Russell + Kintzler = $25.9M. That's 5 guys that will have pretty negligible value this year and you could still have Hamels.

BRAVO, THEO! BRAVO!

[sneakypower]

Theo sucks, i hate the Ricketts, oh well, it is what it is

[big ball chunky time]

he barely makes more than jason heyward does lmao, we're horsefeathers