Bauer (Trevor Bauer)
Dodges lost a lot of players after this year's playoffs, but they were unable to strengthen the free agent market, which has a lot to do with their signing of strong shots to Ball before the season last year!
The free agent market in the major leagues is booming this year. So far, more than 30 free agents have signed contracts with an average annual salary of more than 10 million US dollars. In addition to the New York Yankees who left Judge Aaron Judge with a nine-year and 360 million-year run, the two strong players in the East of the National League, New York Metropolitan 4 and Philadelphia Phillies have made great efforts. Although the Metropolis lost the ace pitcher "sweet potato" DeGrom, they left the terminator Edwin Díaz, pioneer outfielder Brandon Nimmo, and signed Justin Verlander, bullpen player David Robertson, left-handed pitcher José Quintana, and Japanese pitcher Chiga Honda, who is very confident that he will challenge the single-season Yum again.
Phillies signed former Dodge shortstop Trea Turner and right-hander "Taijuan Walker" to continue to maintain competitiveness in Guodong. In the West Side of the National League, San Diego Padre and San Francisco Giants also continued to strengthen. The Padre signed with an eleven-year contract to win shortstop Xander Bogaerts, the Giants signed the original sailor Mitch Haniger and pitcher Sean Manaea, leaving gunner Joc Pederson. Other teams such as the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers are also active frequently, leaving only two shortstops Carlos Correa, Dansby Swanson and left-hander Carlos Rodón. This series of signings makes people wonder, will the Los Angeles Dodgers, who enter the playoffs every year, stop playing in the 2023 season?
Trea Turner
Shortstop Trea Turner was attracted by the Philadelphia's super long contract, and the momentum will have a significant impact on the Dodger's offensive and defensive power.
Dodges have lost many main players after the season this year, including two Trea Turner, Justin Turner, Cody Bellinger, starting pitcher Tyler Anderson, Andrew Heaney, backup pitcher Chris Martin, Tommy Kahnle, and Craig Kimbrel. There are many holes to be filled on both ends of the shooting, but so far, they have only signed a one-year contract with the older Clayton Kershaw and signed the pitcher Miller, who has been suffering from injuries in recent years with a "lucky bag" mentality. Miller, and signed a minor league contract with Jason Hayward, a severely degraded former Chicago Bears outfielder. If this continues, Dodgers will definitely boldly launch their own farm rookies in the new season. With the current lineup, it is difficult to defend the title in the West of the National League and even enter the playoffs. Such an operation that fans cannot understand is likely to be related to a failed bet two years ago by the Dodgers.
Miller (Shelby Miller)
Miller has been wandering around in recent years, winning only 1 win in 5 years, and it is no longer as powerful as the pitching player at the Cardinals. Dodge has no fish and shrimp, so he signed to strengthen the bullpen for $1.5 million.
In early 2021, Dodgers, who just won the World Championship, signed a three-year, huge contract worth $12 million in total, making Ball the highest-paid player in the major league season that year. In the 2020 shrinking polo season, Ball won the NFC defensive rating with a defense rate of 1.73, and advanced data such as strikeouts, , base rate, hits per nine innings, ERA+, etc. are also among the best. The Seynn Award is not lucky. In addition, Ball's real marks in Cleveland Indian (now renamed Guardian) in the past few years and his very resistant to shooting and not easily injured. He is also in his prime of pitching. Dodge signed him and combined with Kesha, Walker Buehler and Julio Urías to take the lead in a super gorgeous starting rotation to seek defending the title.From the perspective of baseball alone, this is a very reasonable investment.
Of course, Dodge fans are very clear about what happened next. Ball has only started 17 games for the Dodges. Since early July 2021, he has been forced to leave administrative leave by the league because of his accusation of sexual violence and has never been able to play in the major leagues again. In April this year, after months of investigation, the league's verdict was released. Ball was suspended for two full seasons, 324 games, and no retrospectives were not directly suspended until after the start of the 2024 season. By then, Ball and Dodge's contract has been completed.
Baul
Baul happened to be the best performance in his career in 2010 shrinking polo season with 5 wins and 4 losses and a defense ratio of 1.73. Dodge immediately brought a lot of money to sign with him, but unfortunately stepped on a big landmine.
Regarding Ball's sexual violence case, although Ball has not been convicted by law so far due to lack of clear evidence of crime, it can be seen from media reports from various parties and Ball's own statements that at least three women accused Ball of exceeding the scope of agreement between the two parties during the sexual behavior and using violence to make the other party lose consciousness and hurt in the process. According to the alliance's anti-domestic violence policy, such behavior has clearly violated the alliance's regulations, but Ball has always been tough on the alliance, unwilling to soften and apologize, which has also prompted the alliance to decide to punish Ball with an unprecedented sentence. After the verdict for the suspension was released, Ball immediately decided to appeal and issued a statement denied that there was anything wrong with his behavior. At the same time, he also opened a new legal battlefield to accuse the parties involved in the incident and several media reporters such as The Athletic slandered their reputation. Because of this, many people predict that after the suspension expires, there is likely that no team will be willing to risk him to invite him to join, and his major league career may have ended.
Bauer's arbitration for the league's suspension appeal is expected to have a final result at the end of this year or early next year, and this result will determine how much salary Dodge will need to pay Ball. If the original ban for two years is maintained, Ball's salary of up to $60 million in 2022 and 2023 is equivalent to almost all of them being lost. Dodge no longer needs to pay Ball one cent, and the team's salary space can be freed up, which is the best result for Dodge. But if Ball's appeal is successful and the two-year ban is completely cancelled, then Dodge will not only have to pay his full salary, but also have the luxury tax to bear, and the total amount may reach about $100 million. It is reasonable that Dodge cannot give up on this free agent market this year before knowing whether this large amount of money needs to be paid.
Baul
Baul was known for his weird personality during the Indians and liked to do scientific experiments. He was regarded as a weirdo by his teammates since high school. The Indians traded him to the Reds before the contract expired in exchange for another controversial figure Puig.
For Dodge fans, some of the weird leagues punish too heavily, and some of the weird Ball's private field is too ridiculous, but what really has to be blamed is the Dodge team itself. Before signing with Dodge, Ball had many personal deeds that were not worthy of compliment, including unreasonable harassment of female fans on Twitter, ridicule of transgender people, spreading false conspiracy theories and rumors, etc. Many local media in Los Angeles have long warned that Dodge should not ignore the problems that his personal character may cause in order to pursue Ball's pitching talent. What's more, the value represented by Ball is obviously contrary to Los Angeles' inclusiveness and diversity and tolerance, and the Dodge, who just won the championship, does not have an absolute urgent need to do anything for his record. Unexpectedly, within a few months, Dodge suffered a bad consequence. Not only did he not get Ball's pitching results, but his private life also affected his future team building plan. In the 2023 season, will the Dodgers not have a playoff game since 2013? Let's continue.
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