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Unbelievable.
5 years/$182M
With everybody healthy next year, Ohtani pitching again, and now Snell – will they win 120???
$36.4 AAV for ages 32-36.
Gray is signed still for ages 35-36 at $32.5 AAV or if the option is picked up ages 35-37 at $30 AAV. If, and big if at this point, Gray was willing to waive the NTC the money may not be as big of an issue as I thought it could possibly be.
Overall contracts, Gray vs Snell, Gray gave us a discount to choose his location and acquire a NTC. Now the knee jerk club that signed him, wants to dump him.
The FO could have signed Wacha or a comparable salary to finish off the rotation last season. They chose Grays 3/75mil as a value signing, and liked it well enough to backload it, pulling their perceived value out in year one, as the Rays do. Now Gray is a wash on surplus value, or less, at 2/65 or 3/90 as Cards667 noted, and the NTC he seems to value still needs bought out. Moving Gray now is about moving the budget floor down, and less about an expected marginal trade return.
On paper the Dodgers have an impressive rotation of Ohtani, Snell, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Kershaw,etc…but that might be the most brittle and injury prone rotation I have ever seen. I doubt if any of them get to 120 IP. Of course they will have a plethora of young guns to take up the slack.
The Dodgers don’t care how many innings any of those guys throw though in the regular season. They are trying to ensure they have 3 healthy aces in the playoffs. They know these guys are injury prone much to Blings chagrin, but a partial season of ace level pitching is more valuable to a playoff club than 180+ innings of a #4 type starter.
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