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Nationals best pitching rotation? Pitching wins ?Comment -
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They don't make wetsuits to accommodate 350lb fat fukks lmaoComment -
NL east will be tough besides the tanking marlinsComment -
Contract breakdown for Bryce Harper's deal with the Philadelphia Phillies, sources tell ESPN:
2019: $10M (plus $20M signing bonus)
2020: $26M
2021: $26M
2022: $26M
2023: $26M
2024: $26M
2025: $26M
2026: $26M
2027: $26M
2028: $26M
2029: $22M
2030: $22M
2031: $22MComment -
Thats just gluttony for the sake of it. 300 million wasn't enough I guess.
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The Phillies signed Bryce Harper signed for $330M. Per Sports Tax Man,
if the Giants wanted to match the “net” after-tax dollars, they would have needed to pay Harper approximately $340M due to the higher state taxes in California. Their offer, per @PavlovicNBCS, was $310M.Comment -
While most Dodgers fans were angry and disappointed that the team failed to offer Bryce Harper a more lucrative deal, there was a sense of relief in one part of the team’s spring-training facility when the free-agent slugger signed a 13-year, $330-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Harper wore No. 34 during his eight years with the Washington Nationals. Had he requested that number in Los Angeles, it would have left equipment manager Alex Torres and long-time clubhouse manager Mitch Poole with a dilemma: Do they issue a number that has not been worn since Dodgers great Fernando Valenzuela in 1990?
“It came to my mind,” said Poole, who has been with the team since 1985. “I would have asked Fernando first and got his blessing on it, and it would have been something the front office would have to deal with. But for now, it’s safe.”
The Dodgers don’t have a written policy for retiring numbers, but each of the franchise’s retired numbers were worn by players who were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame with one exception — Jim Gilliam, the former infielder who was the team’s first-base coach when he died at 49 before the 1978 World Series.
Poole said the only other Dodgers player to request No. 34 was Manny Ramirez, who was traded from Boston to the Dodgers in 2008. Ramirez wore No. 24 with the Red Sox, but that number is retired for Dodgers for Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston. Ramirez didn’t get his second choice, either.
“I said it was Fernando’s,” Poole said. “He was OK with that.”
Ramirez eventually settled on No. 99.
Harper did not request No. 34 from the Phillies out of respect for Hall of Famer Roy Halladay, saying at Saturday’s introductory news conference that the former two-time Cy Young Award winner, who died in a 2017 plane crash at the age of 40, should be the last Phillies player to wear that number. Harper will wear No. 3.Comment -
Nationals will win the east - deep starting rotationComment
