The Marlins signed the Mesa brothers. Victor Victor got $5.25M and Victor got $1M.

Jimmy Two Times is pleased.

Eduardo Escobar resigned with the D’Bags for 3yr/$21M

Smart move. If he went on the market he’d probably end up as one of the dopes signing a 1yr/$2.5M deal in March.

The Blue Jays hired Charlie Montoyo as manager.

So they hired a manager before the hire a GM. That always works out well.

Does Kershaw take the opt out ? If you’re the Dodgers, do you kind is want him to? He’s post season poison. Also, how much is Eovaldi going to get now? One of the more overlooked selfless acts of the postseason is a guy with 2 TJ surgeries and in his free agent year pitching all those days in relief ( and pitching lights out ) for the team. I’d take a guy like that on my team in a heartbeat . But poor LeVeon Bell....

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Id be happy if the Cubs signed A.J. Pollock or Josh Donaldson. I think both will be bargains.

I think Kershaw stays with the Dodgers under a restructured contract.

Eovaldi is Brandon Morrow 2.0

And injured

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So they would fit right in with some of the other Cubs free agent signings.

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Duh, that's why they're bargains.

Neither is really "injury prone" though in the way of little nagging things coming up. Pollock had his elbow and thumb broken which accounted for his two main DL stints.

Donaldson played 155+ for years until his first major injury in 2017 which bled into 2018.

So the Mets actually did it and hired an agent to be their new General Manager. Good god man. This has spectacular disaster written all over it. If I were a GM I’d call this guy at least 5 times a day about DeGrom and Syndergaard.

Lol @ Kershaw thinking about opting out.. I mean there's no way in hell he's getting a pay raise if he opted out. Right?

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More guaranteed money? Absolutely

Holy crap the Dodgers are going to give Yasmani Grandal a qualifying offer?!? $17.9M for that pile of crap! I get the catchers market sucks but that dude can’t catch. I don’t know how the hell he turns that down.

Kershaw reupped for 3yr/$93M + incentives.

So he got another year at $28M + some chump change. Good for him.

Why would he do that? Some team would have given him a 5 or 6 year deal for $30M annually.

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That team would've been insane with his injury history, playoff record and fastball that topped out at 92 in September.

But that doesn't mean it wouldn't have happened.

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He’s already made over $150M and he’s guaranteed another $93M. He decided he wanted to stay and try to win a WS with the only organization he’s ever known. Gotta respect that.

His bad back will be fine.

Modern day Jaime Moyer

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I wouldn't have added on anything if I'm the GM, his velocity is down and he's got back problems.. He's also not performed well in the post season.

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Harper turned down a 10yr/$300M offer with no opt outs from the Nats.

Damn. I’m sure he’s gonna do better on the open market but I just can’t imagine what it would feel like to turn down 300 freakin million dollars.

Sounds like Seattle is gonna tear it all down, Cubs should grab Edwin Diaz.

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I'm not sure he will do better on the money. It is the opt outs that killed that deal.

Both guys will want the ability to hit the market again somewhere between 29-31.

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That amount of greed is sickening .

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Considering how much one player impacts a basketball game compared to baseball, it'd be amusing to see the NBA with no Salary Cap and/or no max offer limitations. It'd be fun to see Lebron turn down $500 million because another huge market team was willing to give him $700 million.

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I think he does better in years, money and opt outs.

MLB desperately needs a salary cap and a salary floor.

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I doubt that very much.

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The years and total dollars are almost irrelevant. If both players continue down this career path both will opt out with the same line of suitors waiting at their door.

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Is Giancarlo Stanton’s years and total dollars almost irrelevant because of the opt out clause?