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Jake 23
$48MM will finance a lot of hobbies over the next 12 to 18 months.
Lionel Bossman Craft
Cashman dodged the bullet here; seems most fans and people in the industry said he was the number one priority/signing to make.
Sleeper
He was a priority for NY, but Cashman had a feeling a team was going to pay more than they were willing because of injury risk and blow other offers out of the water. It’s sad that he was right,albeit it wasn’t a shoulder issue this time, McCarthy is a good guy to have around no matter the team.
Lionel Bossman Craft
I don’t think anyone came close to the Dodgers offer.
pft53
His last 1/2 dozens starts were not all that great. This is a guy who has been an injury wreck most of his career and a teams whose pitching staff had a lot of injury risks already. Maybe if he was willing to consider 2 years the Yankees may have been interested, but he was not and the Yankees never made him an offer.
Teams know their own players best, and it may well be that in McCarthys short time there they saw something that concerned them. Players talk to the trainers and teams track what is going on with their guys (meds, treatments, etc), enough so that they know a players injury risk better than other teams.
nando390
Brandon Mccarthy is the new Jason Schmidt.
ateam043
In what way?
nando390
Schmidt 3 year 47 million and was a bust.
Mccarthy 4 year 48 million. He wasn’t a top tier pitcher to begin with and giving up bombs left and right on his starts weren’t stellar either. I can only imagine how much worse he’ll be after Tommy John surgery.
BigGameJames
Sure. Except one was the 2nd highest paid player in the NL while the other is the 80th highest paid in MLB. Also age 31-34 Schmidt was worth 12 bWAR even with a negative age 34 season. Pitchers making $12M-13M in ’15 R.A Dickey, R.Nolasco, T.Hudson, C.Bucholz, U.Jimenez, McCarthy, Jorge De La Rosa, M.Garza, R.Porcello.
treday
Here’s to a speedy recovery!
Cam
Well, he isn’t going to pitch 200 innings in a season, might as well turn him into an overpaid reliever when he’s back. 130 innings across three years got Andrew Miller 4/36, so why the heck not?
MadmanTX 2
Looks like the curse that plagued the Rangers has spread to both coasts. Oops.
mrshyguy99
But what happen to the Rangers hurt them more then what happening to the Dodgers. Since dodgers have the depth to help with all the injuries. The Rangers didn’t have that
Bruinsfan94
I though zach was owed 77 million for the next three seasons?
BigGameJames
He has an opt out after this year.
mrshyguy99
So does this mean zach lee will get a shot? Dude earn it so far this season
BigGameJames
Joe Wieland and Mike Bolsinger at AAA have been lights out too. Lee’s looking great and getting high K’s and GB’s while limiting BB’s but he’s still so young that it might be smarter to pitch the older guys.
David Coonce
It seems odd to me that a team with, basically, an unlimited payroll is already pitching Mike Bolsinger and Scott Baker in April, while also carrying dozens of outfielders and infielders on its 40-man roster. Odd roster construction for a team that can literally buy anything it wants.
BlueSkyLA
These are reasonable options for #5 starters, and only two of many the Dodgers have. That well is pretty deep. They will probably go shopping at some point, especially if Ryu is really still more than a month away (not what we’ve been hearing until now). What they won’t do is panic and deal away some of their key farm players, which is probably going to be the real price for Hamels or any other quality starter who becomes available at the deadline.
David Coonce
It just seems with so much depth everywhere else on the roster that the rotation options are incredibly thin. Baker isn’t really a major league pitcher anymore; I suppose Zack Lee is an option. Just surprising that the rotation doesn’t go 7 deep, like it does with even small-market teams.
BlueSkyLA
The problem is the lack of good starting pitchers with options pretty much everywhere you look. If they aren’t coming up from within a team’s own farm system, then money is not going to buy them (though prospects might). This is why the Dodgers took a flier on Brandon Beachy.
BigGameJames
Baker and Bolsinger have ERA’s under 1.10, K/BB ratio over 5, H/9 under 6 and neither looked overmatched for the MLB team this year. Bolsinger is a good option as a 6th starter and Wieland and Lee are better. Ride the hot player until the younger guys convince the team they’re ready. If being the org’s 5th best healthy starting pitcher was the only criteria then Julio Urias would be in McCarthy’s spot.
David Coonce
Pretty tiny sample sizes there, though. Bolsinger is more interesting than Baker; Baker’s been terrible for several years now. It’s not as if the lack of depth is hurting the Dodgers right now, however, so they’ll probably be fine.
David Coonce
I wonder if LA will set some sort of record this season for paying players not to play for them. Just off th top of my head – McCarthy, 12M, Kemp 15M, Gordon/Haren 13M, Brian Wilson 10M, Ryan Webb, 2.8M – that’s 53 million dollars right there.
BigGameJames
Counting injuries? Yanks paid a lot of $ to guys who were hurt like Tex and CC last year. They would have been better off paying Jeter and Beltran to play somewhere else. It’s unfair to group McCarthy with the others, they don’t share much.
David Coonce
True, I guess take out McCarthy and they’re only paying out 41 million to guys who aren’t on the roster. That still seems like a lot.
TheMick
Lohse and Garza are ok pitchers, but the Dodgers are in a win the World Series or the season is meaningless situation. Hamels clearly gives them the best chance of doing that giving the Dodgers one of the toughest, if not THE toughest 1-2-3 in baseball. Plus he’s insurance against Greinke opting out.
BlueSkyLA
The Dodgers probably will make some kind of run at Hamels, but not because they need him in the top of the rotation, but more because they will have to replace McCarthy somehow (and as you say, hedge against Grienke’s opt-out). Until we hear otherwise, the Dodgers are still bringing the very tough 1-2-3 combination of Kershaw, Greinke, and Ryu.
David Coonce
Ryu? When is he actually going to pitch?
BlueSkyLA
“Possibly May” is his official status. Second BP session tomorrow.