(07-18-2018 09:42 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(07-18-2018 09:34 AM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  

(07-18-2018 09:17 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(07-18-2018 09:00 AM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  

(07-17-2018 11:45 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Just saw from Jon Heyman-
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22m

Machado deal to dodgers is agreed upon, tho could be still some medical/approval to go. Press conference slated for Wednesday or Thursday. Many prospects going to orioles (believed to be 5). No $ in deal (LA will remain under threshold anyway)

So with this, LA would be pretty much right at the threshold from what we've seen. Maybe a smidge of wiggle room. But not much at all. Going to be really interesting to see if they would be able to get any bullpen help going forward. Like I said earlier we thought they had roughly 8-9 million to play with, and this deal will take up about 6.4 million of that.

I think you're close. The number I've seen is they're between $184-$186MM right now, with Maeda likely due $4MMish. They probably *should* make another deal for a reliever but at this point if they do it'll have to include a MLB guy.

Maeda has already earned 1 million in bonuses(15 starts).
He's at
16 starts
86.2 innings

you would think he'd be a lock for at least 9 more starts to get up to 25 starts- or 3 million for starts
and 73.1 innings- or 150 innings total- or 1.75 million for innings
so I'd say he's fairly likely to be due 4.75 million- with 5 million extremely possible(getting up to 160 innings very reasonable to see)

Did you notice they brought Maeda out of the pen the other day? These numbers are controllable, to a certain extent. And by the way, it's $3.5MM if he gets to 25 starts (25 worth $1.5MM). I expect to see Maeda used out of the pen quite a bit in the 2nd half if the other guys stay healthy (big if, I know).

They used him out of the pen on Sunday only because of the All Star Break. He last had pitched on the 11th and basically by the 15th had him as an extra pen arm. Absolutely nothing to read into there IMO- just a chance for an extra pen arm.

Nothing to read into?! You seriously don't think the Dodgers would control his starts and innings to stay under the threshold?