Balta1701

The problem for the Mets is that there are strong suggestions that one of Cohen's motivations behind the spending is that he's after one of a select group of NY State Casino Licenses that are about to be given out by the state legislature. To do so literally will require the permission of the state legislature, so he is actively employing NY State lobbyists on the subject and this may very well be why he's willing to put so much money into the Mets. https://fortune.com/2023/01/08/casino-new-york-city-mets-owner-steve-cohen-gets-community-input-gambling/ How would New York State Politicians react to him employing Trevor Bauer? Is Bauer worth derailing a billion dollar casino project? Naw.

Congrats. Something about "I was right" bragging posts doesn't sit particularly well with me given the topic. This is literally a "No, no one could have predicted or planned for this" setup.

The other thing with Bauer is that if you sign him, you almost certainly know you will have to deal with him trending for something he does in the future. This isn't just these 2 women who made complaints against him, it's also his online persona, where he's bullied women by "quote-tweeting" things they dared to tweet about him so that his followers go after them, he's fiddled around with the antisemitic "George Soros is evil" stuff which won't go over well with any owners who happen to be Jewish, he's made "jokes" about trans people. You don't just have the risk of him abusing some woman again while you've signed him, you also have the darn near certainty that your team is going to have to deal with something else he says online.

Cleveland just fired their DC so guessing that means the HC is safe?

He was very obviously a caretaker for them when no one else wanted the job last year after they were trying to hire Josh McCown or whatever they thought that mess was.

Does Lovie Smith have a charity that all the Bears fans can get into for a day?

The official statement is fairly clear he will not be ready for opening day.

https://www.phillyvoice.com/recent-history-teams-trading-back-nfl-draft-and-acquiring-future-first-round-pick/ Depending on the pick you got, it sure looks like "3 first round picks and change" is probably an important goalpost if the Bears start taking offers.

Detroit could definitely be in play for a long term QB option. You could definitely get teams like the Colts offering a top 10 pick, an early second rounder, and maybe a 2nd next year? Maybe the Raiders would do a first this year and next?

How do you know his current ownership share?

…solid pre arb player with 4 years of control? I have no idea why they’d do that without getting a top 100 prospect+ back. It absolutely starts with Montgomery and then adds more.

The Packers, the Raiders. Maybe the Broncos again. Nathan Peterman remains a specific casw of failure. How can you guarantee that he stays healthy while you throw all 17 games? If Gardner Minshew and Taylor Heineken can win multiple games then so can whoever you have as Peterman’s backup. How can you be sure that Williams has no serious injury? The odds aren’t big but certainly aren’t zero. Tua looked looked like a no brainer number 1 pick a year before he was drafted and fell after injury. Since you like them I’ll give you a bet with odds, if Williams has no major injury I will take a week off and if he does you are banned for life. If you’re totally certain that college Quarterbacks never get hurt that’s an easy win for you right? That’s the kind of bet you’re saying is a no brainer for the Bears.

Or Caleb Williams trashes his leg in a bowl game and is out for the whole next season. Or Rodgers leaves the Packers and now you play extra hard to win your rivalry game against a bad Green Bay team. Theres just too many ways with too high a likelihood that this strategy goes bust. If you don’t like Fields for whatever reason, it’s Stroud or Young. That is a risky move but it’s one that at least could work.

4-13 is going to get a couple of very bad teams top 5 picks. Let’s also not forget that the Bears will be adding what, 8-9 drafted players this year, and spending $50 million in free agency just to get tO the salary floor? They could still be bad next year without a QB, but one or two guys step up and your QB less team is drafting 6th while the raiders brought in Garoppolo, he got hurt in game 3, and they went 2-15.

I wouldn't have offered him a big league contract either. If he got one, congrats to him.

The same sort of chatter has happened on Houston sports radio about goign with Lovie and Davis Mills for another year to try to fill in the rest of the roster if they don't get the #1 pick this year. Between the fact that the players can't throw games since they're playing for contracts and the fact that Peterman won't be the only QB on the roster, they'd still win a couple of games and it would be a tossup.

Major league contract for Engel? Fair enough, good luck.

There is zero guarantee that, even with Fields gone, the Bears would be set up to get Williams. Whatever team gets the #1 pick next year is almost certainly going to grab him.

At this time in 2021, Fields was talked about as a potential top 2 pick. Teams like the 49ers and Jets talked themselves into other Quarterbacks during the scouting periods. I think there's a chance Young is looked at as a slightly better prospect as Fields, but he's not on the "Trevor Lawrence" level because of his height (6'0" if he's on his tiptoes). I think Stroud is somewhat comparable to where Fields was viewed at the time. Selling on Fields would presumably be something like trading for an additional mid-first-round pick, comparable to the pick that was originally used on him. The fact that he's used up a couple years of pre-free-agency should drop his value a little bit compared to guys with a full 5 years, but he doesn't look like a bust as some of his draft contemporaries do, so somewhere in picks 10-20? I could see a team like the Jets or Colts missing out on veteran options and maybe trying to meet that price, but I'd probably hold onto him personally.

Yes, apparently a lot.

No, some veteran minor league contracts come with clauses saying "If this person is not added to a big league roster by (for example) May 1, they have the right to be released from this contract". Often done for veterans who know they may or may not get roster spots, which is what all of these guys are. Apparently there's actually a clause in the last CBA that requires it for some players. Both Marisnick and Billy Hamilton would have qualified in 2022. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/04/several-veterans-on-minor-league-deals-have-sunday-opt-outs.html

Do we know if any of these guys have clauses where they have to be released if they're not called up by a certain date?

Wait didn't I literally just see him sign overseas? Who was that? Edit: it was Marwin Gonzalez, the Astros's other utility guy.

When they already moved $10 million out of the $27 million they've spent on free agents into future years, I have a pretty sensible guess as to why they haven't done that.

As with the catcher's spot...if he has a moderately serious back problem that lingers into this year, then the downside is that they aren't willing or able to replace him and they wind up with the same exact issues this year but no available free agents to replace him.