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Originally Posted by Cod
What y'all are saying makes sense, so I'm interested to see how it plays out. However, that news being followed by the Diaz contract has me more baffled. At that price, if he appears 60-times (his average during good to great seasons), he'll make ~$33k per appearance. Also, has any deal that long and that much for a relief pitcher ever "worked out"? The only one I can find recently is Raisel Iglesias, who was traded less than a year into his 4-yr/$58M deal. Emmanuel Clase signed a 5-yr/$20M deal which is probably going to be a steal for the Guardians.
All that is a long winded way of saying, "Is Steve just throwing money at the team and assuming they'll win for years to come?"
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It's a lot of money for somebody who has been kinda terrible for long stretches, notwithstanding we hope last year was his new normal. I will offer my usual justification with the Mets... at least they didn't throw more money at someone worse for the same job :/
The Vogelbach thing is concerning because he takes up a roster spot and can't really even pretend in the field. They wasted too many roster spots on platoon players (ESPECIALLY A DH PLATOON!!!) last year. But for $1.5M, he's not so expensive that they'll be reluctant to dump him if he's terrible. But they're not going to just throw gold bars at every position, or pay $500 squijillion dollars in luxury tax. So given the sheer number of spots to fill they need some filler. I guess I'd rather use a roster spot on immobile lefty that can hit a homer sometimes than Herb Washington Jr.