Re: Jose says NO!
He’s not friendly with the media. That’s about it. He’s absolutely adored in the dressing room. He speaks, you listen. Now the biggest thing he’s said is he hates the nickel and diming by teams, and players. To me, he’s saying he just doesn’t want to play that game and I don’t blame him. “here’s what I’m signing for, now balls in your court”. I’d do the same, I hate that game we all play when dealing a trade. You undersell, he oversells, you eventually settle where you both wanted/comfortable with. He’s going in and just saying flat out what he wants, and it’ll at least be 5yrs/100mill. AT LEAST.
He said something about 5yrs down the road, or a 5yr plan or something during the interview, so it’s safe to say he wants to be signed for 5yrs. Also goes with Rogers 5yr “FA” rule.
2 thoughts came into my head here. 1 was, the team didn’t win with JB and EE. They needed the other pieces (Martin, JD, Tulo to an extent, Colly, and the other pieces) to win anything. Baseball is a depth sport and needs everyone working together. This isn’t basketball where you pay big bucks for a few players, you need that depth. 20mill for an older guy whose defensive abilities are deteriorating is a lot. He’ll have to be moved to 1st, or DH soon.
2nd thought was, very ironic that this Jay Bruce talk came out 5 hrs after. RF/LF same difference almost when you play defensively. It’s close enough where the trade that was being laid out made sense for the RF Bruce to play LF. But, you get 1yr extra contract wise from Bruce, and he can switch to RF after this season, and Pompey play LF that yr as well.
I never saw anything wrong with what Bautista said. He never insulted the team or the GM, he just said he told them what he thinks he’s worth.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll