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BadCo
KC on the cheap… Amazing what a following of fans that team has and a regional sports TV contract like most teams and seem to be always playing the cheapskate role… Amazing
kjh05
Amazing! Their TV contract is one of the worst if not the worst in baseball. Facts. Amazing.
RunDMC
KC has a TV contract that pays them $20M through 2019.
ATL has a contract that pays them between $10-20M per year through 2027 (publications have reported closer to $12M per year). We won’t be crying you a river.
Gogerty
Yeah Atlanta takes the prize on that one.
mick58kc
You must be thinking of the Royals of over 10 years ago. They have a established habbit of signing players to extensions. Like Greinke, Butler, Gordon, Perez, Escobar, Ventura. They certainly have not played cheap on trades of prospects. And have hit free agents as they needed & could. Those things combined had them in back to back world series.
dbackfanjc90
As a die-hard D-backs fan, I wish they would just be realistic and say that we overvalued this team in the offseason, and weren’t ready to add someone like a Zack Greinke. Realistically, if we could just trade him to a team for a low-tier prospect and they take most of the contract, we should pull the trigger. I like Greinke, don’t get me wrong, but this team needs major overhaul.
eilexx
” Realistically, if we could just trade him to a team for a low-tier prospect and they take most of the contract, we should pull the trigger.”
Who would take that contract? Grienke pitched arguably his best season last year and ANY team could have signed him. The D-Backs got him because they were willing to pay more than anyone else. He hasn’t pitched as well this year, and likely will never get back to the level he pitched to in LA. He’s still good, but not $200M+ good. No one is taking that contract. To move him the D-Backs would have to eat significant salary…
Philliesfan4life
I thought the dbacks were going to be good this year with the additions of greinke and miller. But losing pollock also hurt them big. they gave up kings ransom for miller, Didn’t they offer Cueto 6 years in the 120 range?
coachbrad
Zack Greinke wouldn’t command more than a bucket of chicken, and that’s if the Diamondbacks pay 20+% of his salary.
Nice pitcher. Unbelievably bad contract.
4ATalent
Could the Sox be considering a package for the Marlins’ Hernandez with Rodriguez being the centerpiece for Miami? Seems like addition by subtraction for the Sox, at least in the long term as Rodriguez projects as a young ace on the rise.
tigermr1
Who’s Hernandez?
prf999
Lol, he’s dreaming of getting Jose Fernandez….I guess he’s also not paying attention to a well the Marlins are playing. Keep dreaming buddy.
stl_cards16 2
You mean Fernandez? No, the Marlins are a playoff team. They’re not trading their best pitcher.
flyerzfan12
Like the others have already said, Fernandez is going nowhere and I’m not sure if you know what the meaning of addition by subtraction is. Addition by subtraction would be the Phillies getting rid of Ryan Howard.
73rangers
“It would take a great return of players and the team would have to assume the entire contract. The Diamondbacks wouldn’t pay a dime.”
put another way:
We made two huge mistakes this off season and now we hope some other team is as stupid as we were/are.
Mike M 2
The Marlins scouting Erod makes no sense. Boston wouldn’t trade him unless receiving a SP in return.
Dwalt
Just Cafardo making stuff up as usual.
SupremeZeus
Greinke has a limited no-trade clause that allows him to block trades to 15 teams and if he is traded he receives a $2M trade bonus. Greinke’s k will likely be a disaster at age 36 & 37 but if healthy he will provide k value or even surplus value in the first few lower $ seasons. Greinke at least provides some performance/value, the real disaster was signing Yasmany Tomas for $70M and blowing their bonus pool $ on Yoan Lopez.
mookiessnarl
If you find someone willing to take Buchholz you don’t waste time discussing details. You just pay him and send him away. He’s taking a roster spot that could be used on any one of two or three better relievers in AAA.
Priggs89
So let me get this straight. Greinke decided he was going to the highest bidder in the offseason, and the Dbacks gave him a MASSIVE overpay of a contract that nobody else wanted to match or beat. Now they expect someone to give them a great return of players AND take on the contract that nobody else would’ve given him when all they had to pony up was $$$. Please tell me this is a joke.
Philliesfan4life
If the dodgers offered him a 6th year, I bet he would of gone back there. But I can see it from Greinke’s view, he said he joined the dbacks because of their offense. And they gave him over 200 million. They got out of the gates slow and they didn’t recover. One of the big losses for them was losing Pollock in an exhibition game.
coachbrad
The D-Backs are 18 games out. If they had Mike Trout, Josh Donaldson, and Jose Altuve for the entire season, the three leaders in WAR this season, they still wouldn’t be in first.
This is a deeply flawed team with problems that go way beyond losing Pollack.
Priggs89
Thankfully, for the Dodgers sake, they were smart enough to not offer the 6th year.
And please tell me you don’t really believe he went there because of their offense…
dbacksrs
They don’t want to or need to trade him. We’ve lost a lot of players this season due to injuries, and in Shelby Miller’s case, inconsistencies, but Greinke has been solid this year, albeit, not as great as last year, but still solid. I’m looking forward to the D’Backs contending next year.
Priggs89
I know that they don’t need to trade him. The fact that they have the balls to even ask for a great return of players while having someone else take on the entire contract is almost as ridiculous as the Shelby Miller trade.
dbacksrs
So if you don’t want to trade Player A but the media keeps asking you about it, you make a statement like that. Similar to the Braves approach with Julio Teheran. And did the Miller trade look bad at the time? Yes. But those are the risks that GM’s have to take.
Priggs89
You make a comment along the lines of, “Every player is available for the right price.” The situation couldn’t be any further from the Julio Teheran one. If Julio Teheran was a free agent last year and got significantly overpaid, and then the Braves asked other teams to give them great prospects in return AND pickup the entire contract, then the situations would be similar.
And no, good GM’s don’t take those kind of risks like the Dbacks did when trading for Miller. They overvalued an already overrated pitcher and overpaid to get him. Those are the kind of risks that (should) get GM’s fired.
Gogerty
Wasn’t the big thing in Grienke coming out of KC was that he had anxiety issues? I was surprised with that he did as well as he did in LA, wonder if the massive contract made it too much for him to live up to.
mike156
The comment on Greinke makes no sense. Even if you assume that his contract is not an overpay, it’s irrational to accept all of it, and “give a great return in players.” Cafardo, at this point in his career, often has motivations other than purely journalistic. I wonder if the Red Sox aren’t quietly looking at Greinke, and this is part of a campaign to lower the price by discouraging other suitors.
Priggs89
I don’t think there will be very many suitors, with or without Cafardo’s campaign.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
Wait. If no one was willing to pay Greinke more than the Diamondbacks did this past offseason, why would anyone give up “a great return of players” in order to do it now?
philliesphan1984
I’m waiting for someone to make the “change of scenery” argument. Eyeroll.
Priggs89
They wouldn’t/won’t.
McGlynn
I wonder what kind of package the giants would have to put together to get frazier. Their offense is pretty much non existent right now and I really don’t believe that Duffy is the answer at 3B
philliesphan1984
If/when the Phillies deal Hellickson, I seriously doubt a 31-year-old soon-to-be free agent reliever would be part of any package. That’s madness.