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That may be true some of the time.
Like last Friday night...I wanted to watch "Dune" for movie night. For various reasons, we settled on "Encanto", which wasn't bad, it just wasn't the epic, surround sound extravaganza I wanted after a long work week.
I love my wife, and 3 daughters, but I admit I come out on the short end of the stick for movie night most of the time.
Someone needs to tell Chelsie that SoCal isn’t what it used to be.
Yea but it’s still pretty great too.
Freddie and wifey wanted to go home. Cant blame him. let’s Play Ball Braves. Run it back! Go dawgs!
Freddie ended up with 6 years 162 million from the Dodgers. can't believe he actually got that from someone else. Well he got his contract and his SoCal retirement home, so I guess he won out. AA must have known this was coming
I hate to see him go, but I think it worked out for everyone.
Freddie takes home quite a bit less at 27mil/year in LA than he would've with the 26/year offer in ATL. He does get the 6th year though if that was his deal breaker, but all future HOFers get those big one year deals at the end of their careers. I think, as Chipper said, Freddie will play where he wants to play. And that clearly was not Atlanta.
Something to be said about being comfortable and where you grew up. When he makes that amount of money, the little things are important.
Sounds like he wanted that extra year and wanted to go home. Braves got a new guy. Seems like a win/win to me.
That contract is very close per year as to what the Braves were offering him. Guess that sixth year meant a lot.
Matt Olsen for 8 years is going to be very exciting. The dude absolutely crushes, top 5 power. My father and Matt's father were college teammates and still friends. So don't get me wrong, I am really pumped about Olsen. Just like Freddie, Matt is coming across the country back home. As you said...win win.
Finally glad to see a baseball gm not cave to fans emotionally attached to a player on the tail end of his career. This was what made Dodgers great back in the day, keep them thru their prime then let someone else pay them at the end of career. Maybe Freddie will be great throughout his contract but odds are he want.
Baseball has the most out of whack pay structure in all of sports and it never changes. Long term guaranteed contracts have put many MLB franchises in the toilet.
Hats off to AA for trying to keep Braves relevant for years to come.
He acted like a GM instead of like a friend and, for that, I think Braves' fans should be thankful. the comparative #'s surprised me a little, especially the # of walks.
I think Rosario may be the steal of steals. He was a very good player before he got to the Braves and they got him and keep him for relative "peanuts". Not sure why his previous employers gave up on him. Funny game, baseball.
Hard to figure what is magical about 6 when compared to 5. As has been stated, he'll be well off enough after 5. He'll never spend it all. Would love to be privy to his thought process on all of this. I wonder if his agent messed up.
That is kind of what I thought. There is the added issue of California income taxes, which I have been told are higher than Georgia's.
So I am not sure that he got a "more lucrative" deal with LA, just more years. I also believe that our final offer was more per year than what he signed for with LA even though it was less years.
So it seems like a bigger win for the Braves than for Freddie. Don't think that his agent did him any favors unless the move to So. Cal and the one year extra meant more to Freddie than staying here. Bet he has a new agent soon.
If he even needs one now.
Really hate that for him. Will miss him.
Probably cause he was hurt when they "unloaded" him to us last year and didn't want to wait it out. Or they had a worrisome medical report.