His replacement is way down list of what our problems were/are
I agree. It's north of $40 million coming off the books. Need a good bat at SS and a top quality pitcher this off season with that money.

I have no complaints with Edman, but if Wong was kept he’d be playing SS while DeJong was sucking ass.

I like Sosa, but he shouldn’t be starting.

Nice run Cards, but sickening the Dodgers even had to play in a wildcard game. They were one game away from having the best record in baseball. Just ridiculous. Glad they made it.

Flaherty clearly wasn't right when he returned from his injury. He made it through a few starts and then basically got shut down as he struggled.

He was excellent in April and May. His peripherals for that time period don't show any major deviations from his 2019 and 2018 seasons, especially for a sample of that size.

His performance - even looking at FIP-, which is a very advanced metric and a great way to compare guys year-over-year, he was a top 30 SP in baseball and likely would have turned in a 3 win season. Gotta apply some context.

Acting like a top 50 prospect becoming a top 30 SP in MLB by the age of 25 is anything less than a success is just goofy.

Wtf are you even talking about?

His FIP- was 102 (below average), 104 in his starts. If you look at all pitchers who threw 70 IP he's tied for 110, not top 30. This year was his 2nd worst year in FIP- and 1 of his only 2 years below average. It was 80 in 2019.

They're gonna cite Arenado actually being on the payroll in 2022 (as opposed to the Rockies footing the bill) + raises to Wainwright and arb eligible players as justification to make only nominal 'improvements'.

Those nominal moves will be for guys like Andrew Miller who aren't actually improvements over organizational chaff anyway.

Who they need is Corey Seager. A left-handed bat with a plus approach who is a solid shortstop and has plenty of post-season experience. He's not quite as good a fit as Harper was 3 years ago, but he's close.

If they dip into the SS market at all it will be for Story because he's older (thus less term) and had a bad platform season, so his AAV isn't likely to be as high as the Correa/Seager/Semien trio.

Yankees are going to go all in on Seager IMO.

By my math they're at about $130 million in cash payroll before arb figures for Gallegos, Hudson, O'Neill, Bader, Flaherty, Hicks and Reyes.

I suspect Gallegos, Hudson, Hicks and O'Neill will average about $2 million/per. I could see O'Neill getting $3 million given his season. Flaherty is probably looking at about $8 million? Bader probably near $6 million? So you're looking at $25-30 million there. That gets you to a 22 man roster if you include the Pre-arb guys. Those 10ish pre-arb guys probably run you another $7 million or so.

The payroll is already at $160-$170 million at that point (after you fill the remaining roster spots, even with league minimum guys).

Their payroll last season was about $170 million fellas.

They aren't going to do much this off-season.

EDIT: I think I double-counted Wainwright as I went down the spreadsheet. So if you target the low side of the arb estimates and remove my double counting, I could see up to about $25 million in 'dry powder'.

I feel like that's going towards a 4th starter and a relief pitcher. I think Story's about the best you can hope for and I'm honestly not sure he's someone you should be targeting at $20+ million/season.

We lost not because of the bullpen. We lost because we were 0 for 11 in RISP. That's it.

Yeah and I don’t see the Dodgers keeping him. Sucks as a Dodgers fan but I expect it to happen.

Something tells me the Dodgers will be A-OK. They are the only franchise around willing to piss on the luxury tax thresholds.

Oh they’ll be fine. They’ll just move Turner back to SS.

And it wasn’t a result of good pitching.

Scherzer, Kelly and Treinen ALL gave Cardinal hitters good pitches to hit with RISP.

The Arenado at bat was particularly bad. He missed 2 hung sliders and took a third.

They had their chances and just didn’t get the job done.

WTF I am talking about is how he was performing before he was injured.

Use Fangraphs.

Filter through end of May.

He was not right when he came back and the sample size was small enough to skew his overall numbers.

Dodgers weren’t doing shit with them either.