I really hope Posey has a plan that includes reducing salary for this year to reset the cap or something, and is not just the next “yes man” to acquiesce to ownership greed
How can you tell BEN stock is sucking?
>In order to find room to spend this winter, San Francisco plans to explore trades involving some arbitration-eligible players, including first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr., closer Camilo Doval, and outfielder Mike Yastrzemski.
I’ll be pretty damn disappointed if they cut costs by trading Yaz. That ain’t a success plan that works for me. I’m all for passing on Snell and Soto. Pick up HSK, though, please.
This really doesn’t make sense. Cut costs by ditching Yaz, Wade and Doval? That saves, what, $8MM? After bringing in a legend as POBO? I don’t buy it.
Reducing salary yet still employing Wilmer….?
Smart move. I’d put the brakes on big spending until the farm system starts to bear fruit. We’re not competing with the Dodgers anytime soon so may as well use this time to develop.
I hope this is some kind of dodge so writers maybe don’t poke and prod too much, meanwhile the FO is sitting down and having successful negotiations with Soto, Adames and Burnes.
If they’re really choosing now of all times to take a step back then I’d be supremely disappointed. The free agent classes don’t look so great going forward. I think Vlad Jr signs an extension in Toronto (he’s not a Boras client so he won’t be advised not to), Chicago’s not buying out Robert’s option, and Tucker’s likely to extend in Houston. Nobody else in the class could potentially change the trajectory of a franchise. So we gotta go for Soto, we might fail but we have to try with everything we got. The Giants’ money is just as green as New York’s.
All this panic over a reduction in payroll. The Giants projected payroll going into 2025 is 140 million with a luxury tax threshold of 241 million. This still leaves almost 100 million before reaching the first tax threshold. That’s plenty of space to not only sign a Soto if that’s what the concern is, plus a high leverage arm or two. Why we’re worrying about what a 2025 Giants team may look like in November is beyond me but even then the panic seems rather premature.
Always works in baseball.
Team with high payrolls rarely win.
Posey has mentioned he wants a sustainable farm system and we are 9 figures before the first tax apron. Signing a bunch of free agents was always unlikely. Let’s be real, Soto is a pipe dream.
Can we wait to see the reduction before bitching about it?
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Gotta “break even”
I really hope Posey has a plan that includes reducing salary for this year to reset the cap or something, and is not just the next “yes man” to acquiesce to ownership greed
How can you tell BEN stock is sucking?
>In order to find room to spend this winter, San Francisco plans to explore trades involving some arbitration-eligible players, including first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr., closer Camilo Doval, and outfielder Mike Yastrzemski.
I’ll be pretty damn disappointed if they cut costs by trading Yaz. That ain’t a success plan that works for me. I’m all for passing on Snell and Soto. Pick up HSK, though, please.
This really doesn’t make sense. Cut costs by ditching Yaz, Wade and Doval? That saves, what, $8MM? After bringing in a legend as POBO? I don’t buy it.
Reducing salary yet still employing Wilmer….?
Smart move. I’d put the brakes on big spending until the farm system starts to bear fruit. We’re not competing with the Dodgers anytime soon so may as well use this time to develop.
I hope this is some kind of dodge so writers maybe don’t poke and prod too much, meanwhile the FO is sitting down and having successful negotiations with Soto, Adames and Burnes.
If they’re really choosing now of all times to take a step back then I’d be supremely disappointed. The free agent classes don’t look so great going forward. I think Vlad Jr signs an extension in Toronto (he’s not a Boras client so he won’t be advised not to), Chicago’s not buying out Robert’s option, and Tucker’s likely to extend in Houston. Nobody else in the class could potentially change the trajectory of a franchise. So we gotta go for Soto, we might fail but we have to try with everything we got. The Giants’ money is just as green as New York’s.
All this panic over a reduction in payroll. The Giants projected payroll going into 2025 is 140 million with a luxury tax threshold of 241 million. This still leaves almost 100 million before reaching the first tax threshold. That’s plenty of space to not only sign a Soto if that’s what the concern is, plus a high leverage arm or two. Why we’re worrying about what a 2025 Giants team may look like in November is beyond me but even then the panic seems rather premature.
Always works in baseball.
Team with high payrolls rarely win.
Posey has mentioned he wants a sustainable farm system and we are 9 figures before the first tax apron. Signing a bunch of free agents was always unlikely. Let’s be real, Soto is a pipe dream.
Can we wait to see the reduction before bitching about it?