Will always love Mattingly but he's simply not a good manager. That being said I look at that Dodger team and outside of the big two pitchers what the hell are they spending $300 million on? Seriously?
Guggenheims Grandsons investment firm, has more than fkd up MLB in numerous ways. Buying like money grows on trees, in Chavez Ravine, home of the LAPD Academy, Griffith Park, The GP Observatory, The LA Zoo, The Greek Theater, and Hollywood Bowl. At the top lays Chavez. Separated from Downtown Hi-Rises by the double decker I-10 Harbor Freeway, (from sea to shining sea, LA to Jacksonville). This firm is going to fk up MLB for decades to come, I fear.
One - they paid 1/3 of their 300 Mil$$ payroll, a Mil (plus/minus 1/2 Mil $$), to stay at home, and worse: to play on another Team on the Bums dime. Literally paying players to move off of the Roster, yet pay them to not play, and/or numerous players have been traded for, then DFA'd a month of two later. As well as big dollar money on the DL.
The Bums paid these guys the noted amounts to play on other Teams: (see 'old friends' on link)
Hector Olivera, traded to the Braves; the Bums are on the hook for His 28 Million $$ signing bonus.
Kemp, 18 MIl, this year alone, and 3.5 Mil for 2 more years, to be a Padre.
Haren, 10 Mil
Wilson 10 Mil
Brandon League 9.5
Dee Gordon 2.5 (see URL link)
Barney 2.0 Mil
Uribe 2.0 Mil
Brandon McCarthy, damn good the Yanx let Him go for 17.0 Mil the Bums ignorantly threw at Him. Unproven to qualify for that fat a contract IMO. One of those, "you don't care to see Him return next year either."
stick a fork in Him, he started out nicely, then blew it literally.
Ryu 4.5 Mil
Arroyo 4.5 Mil
Erisbel Arruebarrena 5.0 Mil, suspended for a year, reduced to 30 days, Bums placed him on the restricted list, and He can't collect a dime, then upon the 1st day back, DFA'd. Fat.
NTM- with open season on Cuban Players, they don't flinch to purchase a commodity player, who can't pass a physical neither. Friedman has his hands full. The Owners, are doing what all teams may like to do,
It's unfair to off players with $$$, then turn around and buy another top dollar free agent, tho' this year they had already acquired enough to stink to high hell, and not land a big FA, since their SP staff turned out to have only a solid #1-2. The Cuban, Pan-Am, and Japanese players market can be cornered/corralled and bought with money.
Then ya' got Time Warner Bros. Cable, who paid over 2/3rd of this years Payroll with TV revenue contract big bucks for the next 20 years, again, this is going to ruin MLB, or change the game where we no longer know it???????........... I hope to hell not........!!
Bird has proven he can hit and play first. Yet all players need seasoning, some don't, Tex pay to play elsewhere? or keep?
Ellsbury will probably never be worth half his contract, (I hope to be proven wrong).
No one's at 2nd, to speak of, other than Ref, so give him a shot)
