You're having a serious problem with reading comprehension:
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There's no possible way that the two teams knew this for DAYS but still spent all this time trying to hammer out a deal.
What a colossal waste of time for both teams if they KNEW this but still wasted time working on a deal.
Seriously?
Which to my point is STILL a fail by wasting time on a deal that was dead before it began.
The timing of when they wasted that time is moot point.
Reading comprehension.
They're at roughly:
LESS $65 million right now, doing nothing.
Move Eduardo and their payroll is down $80 mill from this year, before making any moves.
(Miggy, Schoop, Lorenzen, Boyd, Cisnero, Turnbull, Austin Meadows).
There's no possible way that the two teams knew this for DAYS but still spent all this time trying to hammer out a deal.
What a colossal waste of time for both teams if they KNEW this but still wasted time working on a deal.
Seriously?
This is a whiff by Harris...
If he's communicating with Eduardo... and is pretty certain he'll pull his no-trade option on a Dodgers deal...
Then he should have been all-in on the Orioles instead... Harris can still negotiate with the Dodgers/ Reds/ etc./ other teams...
But when push comes to shove, he has to pull the trigger on a deal from a team that Eduardo does not have on his no-trade/ cannot nix the deal. Even if it's a lower haul than a Dodgers deal... you take the best deal that won't be nixed.
Push the Orioles as far as they'll go and take their deal. Even if a potential Dodgers deal is better...
IMO.
I prefer this one (OPS+):
2017 (Det) - 133
2018 (Det) - 91
2019 (Det) - 70
2020 (Det) - 137
2021 (Det) - 121
2022 (Det) - 82
2023 (Wash) - 128
Which tells me that Candy is an ABOVE-average hitter and that 2019 and 2022 were simply outliers.