Angels_Make_Me_Drink

I know you're being sarcastic but not all these dudes are making $40-60 million a year in endorsement and marketing deals. Yamamoto, if he lives up to the hype, could probably make a pretty chunk every year in endorsement deals. No one is exactly lining up to put Blake Snell all over everything lol. 

I know you're being sarcastic but not all these dudes are making $40-60 million a year in endorsement and marketing deals. Yamamoto, if he lives up to the hype, could probably make a pretty chunk every year in endorsement deals. No one is exactly lining up to put Blake Snell all over everything lol. 

Arte's conversation with Ohtani started like this...
"Hey Shohei, we can't even afford to send our radio broadcast team on the road..."

Dude got outrageous money and found a way to make it light on his teams payroll during his playing years to maximize his chances at winning. Dodgers living the good life

Dude wanted to be a Dodger all along. If there was a DH back then he would've chose them.
 

If the Angels had pulled this off with the deferred money deal, everyone here would be thinking Arte was a genius.

The Dodgers are playing 4-D chess.

Dodgers front office - elite 

Every time up teams should just give Ohtani an IBB

They can just pay him $2 million/year for playing baseball and then the rest of the $700 million later in a "special services contract."
Ring a bell?

@Docwaukee told us this right after the signing. He is vindicated.

When paying someone $700 million grosses you more money it is not insane.

It's not insane. The Dodgers are a worldwide brand. The broadcast rights and Ohtani merch sales will be enough to make that money back well before his 10 year contract is up.
They'll up the ticket prices and charge more for food/beer as well.

The Dodgers have been cited as the textbook way to run an organization how many times?  But now they are “insane”?
I’m in my late fifties. Forgive me if I roll my eyes a bit when fans have labeled every single contract escalation over the last 40 years as “insane.”

Ohtani is gone time to move on. 

This discussion is already in the angry ex gf stage. He left, get over it. Time to build with the budget. Combine all of the threads and move on already. 

Can we all agree that Salmon, Weaver etc "loyalty" came under a different regime that was winning and considered a good franchise.
Times have changed.

The only way you trade for Burnes is if he agrees to an extension. You don’t trade for a one year rental when you’re a team in our position. 

Ok when do we expect a couple Angel signings now that Arte has been shunned and humiliated? 

Ohtani didn't owe us any sort of loyalty. He has made it known that winning is his #1 priority. There is no need to drag Trout's name through the mud for wanting to be with the Angels for the majority of, if not all, of his career. Trout let it be known that he thought spending an entire career with one team is something special, like Jeter did. 
Ohtani gave us 6 LOYAL years where he put it his body on the line and gave us a great chance to win. He fulfilled his loyalty to the organization and the fan base. He never requested a trade, never acted disgruntled, never disrespected the organization. Ohtani was loyal to the Angels. He earned the right to elect free agency and control the remainder of his career. 
Thank you for your loyalty, Ohtani. 

Ohtani didn't owe us any sort of loyalty. He has made it known that winning is his #1 priority. There is no need to drag Trout's name through the mud for wanting to be with the Angels for the majority of, if not all, of his career. Trout let it be known that he thought spending an entire career with one team is something special, like Jeter did. 
Ohtani gave us 6 LOYAL years where he put it his body on the line and gave us a great chance to win. He fulfilled his loyalty to the organization and the fan base. He never requested a trade, never acted disgruntled, never disrespected the organization. Ohtani was loyal to the Angels. He earned the right to elect free agency and control the remainder of his career. 
Thank you for your loyalty, Ohtani. 

The notion that fans should expect any sort of loyalty from a player is silly. Players come and go. They have to look out for themselves.
It was a fantasy to think that Ohtani would be loyal to the Angels.
Also labeling Trout's actions as loyalty is equally silly. He elected to stay in Anaheim for various reasons but loyalty isn't one of them.

The bottom line with this situation is that Arte was just outclassed by a first class organization that wins a lot of baseball games and hasn't devolved into a shit show like the Angels have.

No doubt Trout wants to win, I just don’t believe it’s that important to him in the grand scheme of his career.  Other things like comfort, stability, and money clearly take precedence to him.  He has every right to live his life/conduct his career that way but there’s absolutely nothing about the guy that screams “this guy badly wants to win”