1 hour ago, rmc523 said:

His thought is to sign him to a very team friendly deal to tamp down what the team would pay him over the next X years.

To follow up on this, if they can sign him to a reasonable set deal instead of "risking" him having great performances and going through arb (with skyrocketing prices due to performance), it's not a bad idea to try to sign him early, even if you don't get any/many FA years.

Definitely a Rays way of thinking, and something we've advocated for a while of signing younger guys early to keep them around on reasonable deals.

Being only $15M apart on eury is absolutely embarrassing they didn’t get it done. Oh well whatever

2 hours ago, pollythewog said:

Being only $15M apart on eury is absolutely embarrassing they didn’t get it done. Oh well whatever

That is the whole budget for the next 5 offseasons.

3 hours ago, pollythewog said:

Being only $15M apart on eury is absolutely embarrassing they didn’t get it done. Oh well whatever

Unless it's annually in which case I get that.

But they'll bridge it if it's $15M total.

This place is very quiet, apparently nobody wants to talk about this team until they really do something.

9 hours ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

This place is very quiet, apparently nobody wants to talk about this team until they really do something.

How long have you been here now? This is normal offseason.

16 minutes ago, Michael said:

How long have you been here now? This is normal offseason.

But people said it's an abnormal Marlins off-season.

On 11/26/2025 at 4:31 PM, pollythewog said:

Being only $15M apart on eury is absolutely embarrassing they didn’t get it done. Oh well whatever

agreed if it was $15M total

13 hours ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

This place is very quiet, apparently nobody wants to talk about this team until they really do something.

what are we supposed to talk about if there’s no news?

2 hours ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

But people said it's an abnormal Marlins off-season.

Who said that?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/marlins-re-sign-tyler-zuber-to-minor-league-deal.html

Iglesias signed for 1/16 and Helsley signed for 2/28, so if Marlins think those numbers too high then I don't think they're really want to spend, if the rules of the CBA can't force Marlins to spend then nothing else would.

It really is still so perplexing they let Bruce Sherman buy this team knowing his financial limitations.

1 hour ago, Spike said:

It really is still so perplexing they let Bruce Sherman buy this team knowing his financial limitations.

It's so illogical MLB and other 29 owners choose poor guy Sherman (net worth 500 million) and not rich guy Mas (net worth 1 billion).

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11 hours ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

Iglesias signed for 1/16 and Helsley signed for 2/28, so if Marlins think those numbers too high then I don't think they're really want to spend, if the rules of the CBA can't force Marlins to spend then nothing else would.

Neither worth it.

10 hours ago, Spike said:

It really is still so perplexing they let Bruce Sherman buy this team knowing his financial limitations.

it was 100% due to Jeter being attached and nothing else.

I do totally expect Pete Fairbanks to sign with us though.

23 hours ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

It's so illogical MLB and other 29 owners choose poor guy Sherman (net worth 500 million) and not rich guy Mas (net worth 1 billion).

As pointed out above, had Jeter not been involved, I do think that the Mas group would've gotten the team. It's nice to see that they actually spend in MLS......payrolls are obviously at different levels between the two leagues, but they've put their money where their mouth is and have gone out and gotten big name talent (for a lot of money) to put on the Inter Miami roster. They're playing for the MLS cup on Saturday......it would've been nice to have had that with the Marlins for a change.

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3 hours ago, rmc523 said:

As pointed out above, had Jeter not been involved, I do think that the Mas group would've gotten the team. It's nice to see that they actually spend in MLS......payrolls are obviously at different levels between the two leagues, but they've put their money where their mouth is and have gone out and gotten big name talent (for a lot of money) to put on the Inter Miami roster. They're playing for the MLS cup on Saturday......it would've been nice to have had that with the Marlins for a change.

I dont get why they didn't just work out combining the two ownership groups. Like what the Dodgers have.

3 hours ago, Spike said:

I dont get why they didn't just work out combining the two ownership groups. Like what the Dodgers have.

IIRC, Jeter didn't want anything to do with that. He wanted to be the guy running the show, and I don't think that'd have happened with the Mas Brothers' group.

1 hour ago, rmc523 said:

IIRC, Jeter didn't want anything to do with that. He wanted to be the guy running the show, and I don't think that'd have happened with the Mas Brothers' group.

I wish Jeter a very merry go fuck himself.

Harsh reality, 3/45

7 minutes ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

Harsh reality, 3/45

It was interesting to see the marlins twitter goofballs who thought fish would get Devin on a 1 year “come back” “prove yourself” deal. Everything about Devin says his era was a complete fluke.

fish are going need go multi year for Fairbanks which seems quits unlikely

9 hours ago, TaiwanMarlins said:

Harsh reality, 3/45

It's not harsh reality - it was never realistic to begin with.