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[rocketeer357]

Why is a guy making 10 million a year hamstring them. They can eat that contract.

That's the Cohen effect working its magic on you! What's 10 million when you've already over-committed to so many players? Or 20 million for that matter?

I think it's easier to get rid of McCann if you're Eppler. Hell, he didn't make the deal, just fixing up some other loser's mistake. With the Yanks, Cashman has proven very stubborn with his horrid trades and signings, especially with washed up veterans. The pain in New York is going to be fun to watch. Maybe not in the next year or 2, but both New York teams are going to be paying out contracts that make Bobby Bo's deal look like lunch money. The candle in New York starts burning in 2023, and that burn rate accelerates with every passing year.

A World Series win might alleviate that pain to some degree...but anything short of that is a lost season/era. The good news for those of us who loathe the direction baseball is going and can't stand the Padres, Mets, Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, is that only one team can win it all. And that means there'll be a guaranteed line up of losers come October.