Both.
I think the owner is rich and doesn’t care what you’ll have fun watching.
And in 2024 they will get no pitching from him
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The Braves haven’t made any big moves, but I appreciate that the GM Anthopoulos is always wheeling and dealing.
They needed a starting caliber OF, and targeted Kelenic. SEA wasn’t willing to part with him for the proposed prospects unless the Braves also ate some contracts they didn’t like in Marco Gonzalez and Evan White. Fine. I thought ATL might keep Gonzalez in hopes he bounces back from injury, but instead they were able to flip him to Pittsburgh. They then flipped White and a career minor leaguer to Angels, but the Angels also wanted them to eat some contracts they didn’t like in return in Stassi and Fletcher. They’ve now flipped Stassi to the White Sox.
Are they done? Probably not. I think AA is still looking to swing a deal for a starting caliber pitcher.
New rumors of the White Sox going to Nashville. I’ve been a lifelong White Sox fan and it shocked me that my first thought was literally “Bye”. Does that mean I’m not really a White Sox fan anymore?
Unlikely? First MLB game I ever went to was in Comiskey Park in the mid-70’s. Has it been updated or replaced? It was showing its age even then.
It was an old park then.
I can imagine Cook at the Disco Demolition…
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Yes. Probably would have gone to that event if I had lived in Chicago then given my aversion to Disco.
Comiskey was replaced. Not sure the year but sometime in 90s I think.
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Yeah, early 90s. The “new” park is pretty good if you’re in the lower deck. Not much character, but at least it was made after the horrible sterile cookie cutter age. The upper deck is far too steep and I know several people that won’t get seats there. The food’s good. I think the park started the era of the more diverse menu, but everyone else does it now, too, and many have surpassed it. Horrible baseball, though.
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This is the current style at many ballparks in order to get as many seats as close to the infield as possible.
Bobby who?
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So the PV is like $45M annually at today’s implied discount rate. That’s kind of in line with his projections after the UCL injury.
Canada really cracked down a few years ago on the taxation of deferred employment income. I doubt if Ohtani’s arrangement would have deferred his Canadian income tax liability if he was a Canadian taxpayer. May have been one more advantage the Dodgers had over the Jays.
A bit surprised that the US would recognize this deferral of his income tax liability but I am far removed now on how the US taxes deferred employment income. Will be interesting to see where Ohtani’s tax residence will be in 10 years’ time.
I’m sure he has an army of accountants well versed in Japan and US tax law. He’s probably even got a few Canadian ones for the 3 games every other year the Dodgers will play in Toronto.
I am sure his tax accountants and lawyers are on solid ground.
I am aware of the Canada-US international tax treaty provisions for how athletes working in the two countries are taxed in the respective countries. That is clearly covered. It is the deferred compensation tax treatment that seems to vary between our two countries.
Geez, imagine a team whose fourth/fifth starter is Clayton Kershaw. I mean, that’s where he is at now, statistically.
That made me check the stats. I somehow had the impression Kershaw had a bad season and that he wasn’t top of the rotation material now anyway. I guess that shows how little I was paying attention. Or maybe that the only game of his that I watched was his last one, where he stunk.
He’s still been quite good the last few years, but available for 20-25 starts/year rather than a full season. He hasn’t had 30 starts in a season since 2015.
He also hasn’t been nearly as stellar in the playoffs
They’ve always needed better pitching, so that Kershaw doesn’t have to do all the work. Now he can rest and pitch third or so in the playoffs, in a noncritical game.