[Mick]

Former Giant update: Blake Snell, signed for one year, $32 million with the Giants went 5-3 in his 20 starts with the Giants. Since joining the Dodgers on a five year contract worth $182 million ($52 million signing bonus), Snell has had 18 starts across the two years, going 9-5 with 99 innings pitched.

When he's not injured, he's a great pitcher. He holds the career strikeout average rate at 11.2 per nine innings pitched.

Next year he'll be 34. At that point, Cain, Lincecum and Bumgarner were already out of baseball. I'm guessing there's a few more injuries in Snell's future.

BTW, like Ohtani, he deferred much of his compensation to 2035-2046, at which point he'll be out of baseball and will presumably be domiciled in a low- or non-state income tax state. It passes Federal muster. Basically, Sec 4 114 holds that if it's at least ten years in deferred income, it is considered a retirement plan and not part of normal income. CA's legislature passed a bill to try to recoup the income tax, but not only did it die in committee, all it would have done was to lobby the Feds to change federal tax law. So, Snell and Ohtani and the other seven ballplayers to whom the Dodgers owe $1.06 billion in deferred payments will be able to able to dodge their taxes (pun intended) in the low-income jurisdiction of their choice.

[Mick]

Former Giant update: Blake Snell, signed for one year, $32 million with the Giants went 5-3 in his 20 starts with the Giants. Since joining the Dodgers on a five year contract worth $182 million ($52 million signing bonus), Snell has had 18 starts across the two years, going 9-5 with 99 innings pitched.

When he's not injured, he's a great pitcher. He holds the career strikeout average rate at 11.2 per nine innings pitched.

Next year he'll be 34. At that point, Cain, Lincecum and Bumgarner were already out of baseball. I'm guessing there's a few more injuries in Snell's future.

BTW, like Ohtani, he deferred much of his compensation to 2035-2046, at which point he'll be out of baseball and will presumably be domiciled in a low- or non-state income tax state. It passes Federal muster. Basically, Sec 4 114 holds that if it's at least ten years in deferred income, it is considered a retirement plan and not part of normal income. CA's legislature passed a bill to try to recoup the income tax, but not only did it die in committee, all it would have done was to lobby the Feds to change federal tax law. So, Snell and Ohtani and the other seven ballplayers to whom the Dodgers owe $1.06 billion in deferred payments will be able to able to dodge their taxes (pun intended) in the low-income jurisdiction of their choice.