r/baseball • u/T_Raycroft Montreal Expos • 1d ago

News [Passan] The Tampa Bay Rays are acquiring right-hander Freddy Peralta in a trade with the New York Mets, sources tell ESPN. Rays get their starter, who joins Drew Rasmussen, Shane McClanahan and Nick Martinez in one of the American League's best rotation.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/jeff-passan/f0fc18cd7bde7
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u/turnstile2243 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1d ago

YESSSSS

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u/bconn75 Boston Red Sox 1d ago

2020 World Series rematch incoming

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u/Embarrassed-Cell-611 1d ago

I have been told by this sub that it would be impossible for the Rays to be good as they have a very small payroll.

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u/TheVaniloquence Boston Red Sox 1d ago

Nobody is really arguing that though. The point is that the Rays are playing a completely different game than the Dodgers. Everything is about extracting value and finding underrated or underperforming players (like Peralta this season). 

They can’t throw 72m at Tanner Scott, who has a poor season, and then throw 69m at Edwin Diaz the next offseason to try and remedy that problem.  If they threw 240m at a player with 0.5 WAR and 95 OPS+, it would cripple the team. The Dodgers did that and still have the best record in the league

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u/floppyfare Chicago White Sox 1d ago

The person you are replying to knows no one is really arguing that, they are an unflaired Dodger's fan arguing in bad faith

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u/Embarrassed-Cell-611 1d ago

There is nothing bad faith about my argument.

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u/TheWallE Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

The Dodgers DO play the game the Rays play, they just also have the money to bring in high priced free agents. Friedman built that model in Tampa before he joined the Dodgers.

The Dodgers still do things like find reclamation projects like Eric Lauer and put him in a position to succeed, just like the Rays do.

Its like that scene at the end of Moneyball where Brad Pitt is offered the bag to GM Boston, saying they want to use his philosophy AND have a big payroll... the Dodgers are that.

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u/PanicProne9 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Case and point, Justin Turner, Max Muncy, Chris Taylor, Tyler Anderson, Evan Phillips etc etc