[Heyman] Breaking: Corbin Burnes to Diamondbacks, $210M, 6 years. opt out after 2 years.
December 28, 2024
[Heyman] Breaking: Corbin Burnes to Diamondbacks, $210M, 6 years. opt out after 2 years.
38 comments
Whatever. At least he’s not in the AL anymore.
Damn, what a surprise.
Totally fine with the Sox not being in on this btw.
seems like a pretty reasonable contract, wish the sox could’ve been more in on him but I’m high on crochet and buehler anyways
Feels like before we did everything else this wouldn’t be a crazy price. But now we’ve got what we have at the price we got it, makes sense we didn’t spring. Weird perspective moment if nothing else.
Dropping this nuke at 1am is diabolical lmao
Dbacks building up quite the team. And they’re supposed to be a small market
We were never signing him after getting Crochet and Buehler. I’m telling you the Red Sox have gotten better while both the Orioles and Yankees have gotten worse as of right now.
I think we’re pushing a top-5 team in the league if we get a big bat and maybe one more high leverage reliever and there’s a real world where we can take the division this **next season.**
opt out after 2 is interesting. arite cool, Burnes & Soto are out of the east. let’s spend some money & take this back huh
Wow, that’s way less than people were expecting, very disappointed we cheaped out and spent 21 mill on a guy coming off a 5 era season instead.
Burnes, Crochett, Houck would have been a World Series contender type rotation
I hope he wins a cy.
I mean credit to them they beefed it on their last two big SP contracts (Greinke and Bumgarner) and had the Monty debacle last year but that ain’t stopping them. Needed move with LAD in their division. That’s a sick rotation on paper Gallen Burnes Kelly E Rod Pfaadt (+ Nelson Monty)
Diamondbacks are lowkey cooking
Putting together a really nice roster
If that’s what he ultimately went for I can’t be too mad we didn’t get him. Yeah we need pitching, but for 210 million? I wouldn’t want Henry’s kids to starve or anything just to get us good players to pay the most expensive ticket prices in baseball to watch. I understand he has like 7 yachts and a new NBA team to worry about, the baseball team he’s owned 25 years can wait
Ugh, I hate that our owners are allergic to spending money
Cornering the market on Corbins, those bastards!
Pathetic that the Sox couldn’t pay that. Would love to know their offer. Like our rotation for the time being, this was always a pipe dream for me
And we could do this why 😭 Boston is so damn cheap it sucks
Wild
That’s the best place he can land besides Boston. Price is cheaper than I expected.
Happy for AZ. Kind of have to root for the Diamondbacks nowadays (work related not personal choice). Excited to see if he can put that team over the top.
Figured he wasn’t an option here once the Crochet deal was finalized. Was fine with that too. I’d rather have him all things considered. He will be getting a lot of Cy Young votes in the fall.
I am interested to see if the Sox ever explored a similar offer or not. You have to think Burnes will opt out in 2 years, and at that point you might as well try to add the talent and figure it all out later.
Imagine if we has just paid him rather than giving up a blue chip prospect for another pitcher.
i guess he didn’t have many teams offering him what he really wanted lol
Gotta add offense. Crochet and Buehler was who the Sox added to the rotation.
Glad he’s not in the AL anymore. Will be fun seeing him against SD/LAD.
Not a bad deal for Corbin at all. He can decide in 2 years how he feels about it all.
Another cheapskate offsesson by ownership. And suckers will still keep paying to go too.
Henry really is going to not spend again this is wild. So let’s say all these prospects work out. Are we going to let them walk after they’re not controllable anymore? What a cheap team. Keep raising the ticket/ shit Nesn plus prices though.
We really said we’re going out and spending this FA and got fucking Aroldis Chapman and Buehler just because he pitched good in one 5 game series after a shit season
Alden Gonzales on Twitter: [Corbin Burnes and his wife just had twins and wanted to stay home in Arizona, prompting a deal with the D-backs. It’s shocking, but also pretty awesome. The D-backs have been among the most affected by RSN uncertainty, and yet they keep going for it.](https://x.com/alden_gonzalez/status/1872893323666702691)
I have to imagine the Red Sox would have had to pay a decent amount more than this to get him in Boston
Huh
Yeah we can’t do that. We need someone slightly cheaper but with a big question mark coming off a surgery. Actually, we need two just like that.
I would have been fine if the Sox gave him this deal. Wtf.
Yeah everyone was worried about his declining numbers. This is what I was expecting. Higher AAV but less years. Surprised he signed for less total than Fried still, but with the opt out it makes sense. He bets on himself staying great and has a chance to make more money, but still has security if his decline continues. I still would have liked Fried’s contract over this personally, but I’m happy with Crochet and Buehler. The real win here is no longer with the Orioles.
I like what the Dbacks have done
This is unfortunate news. It’s probably true that Burnes and his wife wanted to stay close in Arizona, but you have to think ownership knew this ahead of time? Still, it’s not a great look. They were supposedly willing to spend $700MM+ on Soto, but not willing to spend that money elsewhere? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
I mean, I like that they’re trying to be aggressive, but this still smells like the days of moneyball (which does not work; fight me) with Bloom.
I would’ve loved if the Red Sox had simply paid for a top flight starting pitcher but it sounds like it wouldn’t have mattered how much money they threw at Burnes specifically, he wanted to stay near his wife and new babies and was willing to take a smaller contract to do so. Short of the organization relocating to Arizona there was nothing they could do.
Fried is the frustrating one TBH. He didn’t seem to have a preference about playing location, just wanted the biggest contract, and Henry/Breslow/etc refused to get uncomfortable despite everything they’ve been saying.
I’ve accepted that the Red Sox are unwilling to pay for premium free agents. They are going to stick to signing 2nd or 3rd tier level guys and hope they hit lighting in a bottle. They will continue to sign guys to one or two year prove it to me deals.
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Whatever. At least he’s not in the AL anymore.
Damn, what a surprise.
Totally fine with the Sox not being in on this btw.
seems like a pretty reasonable contract, wish the sox could’ve been more in on him but I’m high on crochet and buehler anyways
Feels like before we did everything else this wouldn’t be a crazy price. But now we’ve got what we have at the price we got it, makes sense we didn’t spring. Weird perspective moment if nothing else.
Dropping this nuke at 1am is diabolical lmao
Dbacks building up quite the team. And they’re supposed to be a small market
We were never signing him after getting Crochet and Buehler. I’m telling you the Red Sox have gotten better while both the Orioles and Yankees have gotten worse as of right now.
I think we’re pushing a top-5 team in the league if we get a big bat and maybe one more high leverage reliever and there’s a real world where we can take the division this **next season.**
opt out after 2 is interesting. arite cool, Burnes & Soto are out of the east. let’s spend some money & take this back huh
Wow, that’s way less than people were expecting, very disappointed we cheaped out and spent 21 mill on a guy coming off a 5 era season instead.
Burnes, Crochett, Houck would have been a World Series contender type rotation
I hope he wins a cy.
I mean credit to them they beefed it on their last two big SP contracts (Greinke and Bumgarner) and had the Monty debacle last year but that ain’t stopping them. Needed move with LAD in their division. That’s a sick rotation on paper Gallen Burnes Kelly E Rod Pfaadt (+ Nelson Monty)
Diamondbacks are lowkey cooking
Putting together a really nice roster
If that’s what he ultimately went for I can’t be too mad we didn’t get him. Yeah we need pitching, but for 210 million? I wouldn’t want Henry’s kids to starve or anything just to get us good players to pay the most expensive ticket prices in baseball to watch. I understand he has like 7 yachts and a new NBA team to worry about, the baseball team he’s owned 25 years can wait
Ugh, I hate that our owners are allergic to spending money
Cornering the market on Corbins, those bastards!
Pathetic that the Sox couldn’t pay that. Would love to know their offer. Like our rotation for the time being, this was always a pipe dream for me
And we could do this why 😭 Boston is so damn cheap it sucks
Wild
That’s the best place he can land besides Boston. Price is cheaper than I expected.
Happy for AZ. Kind of have to root for the Diamondbacks nowadays (work related not personal choice). Excited to see if he can put that team over the top.
Figured he wasn’t an option here once the Crochet deal was finalized. Was fine with that too. I’d rather have him all things considered. He will be getting a lot of Cy Young votes in the fall.
I am interested to see if the Sox ever explored a similar offer or not. You have to think Burnes will opt out in 2 years, and at that point you might as well try to add the talent and figure it all out later.
Imagine if we has just paid him rather than giving up a blue chip prospect for another pitcher.
i guess he didn’t have many teams offering him what he really wanted lol
Gotta add offense. Crochet and Buehler was who the Sox added to the rotation.
Glad he’s not in the AL anymore. Will be fun seeing him against SD/LAD.
Not a bad deal for Corbin at all. He can decide in 2 years how he feels about it all.
Another cheapskate offsesson by ownership. And suckers will still keep paying to go too.
Henry really is going to not spend again this is wild. So let’s say all these prospects work out. Are we going to let them walk after they’re not controllable anymore? What a cheap team. Keep raising the ticket/ shit Nesn plus prices though.
We really said we’re going out and spending this FA and got fucking Aroldis Chapman and Buehler just because he pitched good in one 5 game series after a shit season
Alden Gonzales on Twitter: [Corbin Burnes and his wife just had twins and wanted to stay home in Arizona, prompting a deal with the D-backs. It’s shocking, but also pretty awesome. The D-backs have been among the most affected by RSN uncertainty, and yet they keep going for it.](https://x.com/alden_gonzalez/status/1872893323666702691)
I have to imagine the Red Sox would have had to pay a decent amount more than this to get him in Boston
Huh
Yeah we can’t do that. We need someone slightly cheaper but with a big question mark coming off a surgery. Actually, we need two just like that.
I would have been fine if the Sox gave him this deal. Wtf.
Yeah everyone was worried about his declining numbers. This is what I was expecting. Higher AAV but less years. Surprised he signed for less total than Fried still, but with the opt out it makes sense. He bets on himself staying great and has a chance to make more money, but still has security if his decline continues. I still would have liked Fried’s contract over this personally, but I’m happy with Crochet and Buehler. The real win here is no longer with the Orioles.
I like what the Dbacks have done
This is unfortunate news. It’s probably true that Burnes and his wife wanted to stay close in Arizona, but you have to think ownership knew this ahead of time? Still, it’s not a great look. They were supposedly willing to spend $700MM+ on Soto, but not willing to spend that money elsewhere? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
I mean, I like that they’re trying to be aggressive, but this still smells like the days of moneyball (which does not work; fight me) with Bloom.
I would’ve loved if the Red Sox had simply paid for a top flight starting pitcher but it sounds like it wouldn’t have mattered how much money they threw at Burnes specifically, he wanted to stay near his wife and new babies and was willing to take a smaller contract to do so. Short of the organization relocating to Arizona there was nothing they could do.
Fried is the frustrating one TBH. He didn’t seem to have a preference about playing location, just wanted the biggest contract, and Henry/Breslow/etc refused to get uncomfortable despite everything they’ve been saying.
I’ve accepted that the Red Sox are unwilling to pay for premium free agents. They are going to stick to signing 2nd or 3rd tier level guys and hope they hit lighting in a bottle. They will continue to sign guys to one or two year prove it to me deals.
My 2nd team is the diamondbacks. Like this a lot.