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Not picking at YOU personally but I find it a bit “off” for fans to keep citing the $700m future payment obligation in any context that views it or compares it to a contract without a deferment. It’s really for current conversation purposes a ten year $460m(ish) deal.

Agreed. You can’t complain about what was available to every team. Every team FULLY understands that deferred money is an option. Would these same complaining Angel fans really want the Angels to have a $70m cash obligation for ten consecutive years to a retired player?

JT strikes me as a guy that wants $14.5 million dollars.

Wow, jsnpriitchett and I have agreement on a few consecutive comments. Maybe he doesn’t completely loathe me as a human being after all?

The negotiation clearly mathematically includes interest. And mlb has a set interest rate standard calculation to properly VALUE the compensation in todays dollars in order to properly include the most accurate amount in the current salary tax calculations. You seem to be asking for something that is already 100% employed.

Yes exactly. They didn’t find a loophole. The Dodgers found a player that uniquely didn’t really have any need for immediate cash flow from salary. And Ohtani found an organization that can fearlessly financially absorb the eventual mismatch of paying that level of deferment to a retired player no longer producing for them on the field. So it’s not some newly found loophole. It’s just the perfect relationship to execute what has already been done of tons of times, just done to an extreme because both parties can uniquely accept the extreme nature of the deal.

I almost feel compelled to post something after your broken record posts, just to save the next thread viewer from the painful, disappointing gut punch letdown of seeing your comment as the most recent addition to a discussion.

Grossly insensitive to Native Americans.

Not hard to recoup a zero dollar expense. He paid no tax last year.

I’m just glad I probably don’t have to worry about Washington repeatedly calling him “Hicksey”

As long as he doesn’t fall somewhere between Casey Kotchman and JT Snow.

Exactly how many of the 94 players ranked ahead of Schanuel would you trade him straight up for? The answer is exactly where he should be correctly ranked.

Lorenzo says yes.

Yeah, and pro-rated for just the nine months of baseball.

Somebody is going to need a lot of Kleenex after reading that, like maybe 1961 sheets.

No, Wenger

A healthy OHoppe catching well and hitting well is extremely exciting. I have always been enamored with the advantage of having a potent bat attached to an excellent defensive catcher. What a luxury.

Genger

Wenger

The Angels need a for sure theng, someone that doesn’t geve up dengers, so ef you want to fenger a target, you should seng the praises of a real renger. Es that really Clevenger?

Fixed.

What is IIRC? Oh wait, I remember.

The period goes inside the quotation mark.

Tony Conigliaro

I am personally not a big believer in Ward. I am concerned that the injury just postpones the team’s opportunity to find out if he is the real deal or not, with the downside being wasting time and finding out he isn’t really that good. That is my last choice outcome and I am willing to gamble a little to avoid that last choice outcome. I would rather tap into the possibility that he is a decent player now and spend that perceived value as trade capital while you can. Ward is 30. I don’t feel like the odds are good that a really late bloomer’s success is all that sustainable, so to me the window to move him is now.