Trevor Bauer is a freak and a weird dude

[Sanlmar]

On the plus side, I bet Bauer won't be opting out of his contract anytime soon.

You've got him...."locked in" for awhile now.

He won’t opt out but can’t he be bought out for $40m?

Whether he gets bought out or suspended for no pay doesn’t that open up about $15m in cap for the Dodgers? That will fuck up the trade deadline for so many teams like the Red Sox who need starting pitching. These stories always begin with Scherzer.

What the Dodgers situation does to at least a half dozen Sawks-like teams is they can’t offer the money & the prospects the Dodgers can. Teams who were gonna take their players off market suddenly might change their mind for the prospects the Dodgers can offer.

Then… the Dodgers need to filter out the sticky stuff pitchers. Good luck with that.

It’s a crazy cascade of consequences.

I’m not even going to touch the Dodgers clubhouse mood. Nobody is dancing in the dugout hanging Padres-like swag-chains and laughing. The locker room after games has got to be a morgue.

Libertarian wishes and caviar dreams Druff. You can’t separate the law and public sentiment (politics).