jacksonianmarch

I legitimately do not understand why some people still don't embrace DD. He created one of the best teams of all time an won a title in the meantime. If this was 2004, Dave Dombrowski would be pissing gold. The only knock on DD was that he ruined a great farm system. But he did so to win a title. You make that trade every time

He’ll be 34 on opening day. A 3 year deal is a dicey proposition for a guy who hasn’t had to deal with a velocity drop. My assumption is KRob has another year or two of high level production, but the wheels fall off relievers typically in rapid fashion. He’s also diminutive, which makes it all the more likely he sees a velocity drop soon. I’d like him back in NY, but on no more than a two year deal. Preferably 1

The only trade you can rag DD for is the Thorburg one as clearly the sox gave up more now talent and more future talent for a broken down horse. Other than that, he did give up quality prospects, but he also got back top notch big league performers. The area you can rag DD on was drafting and developing. Now, that isn't entirely at his feet, although the person who makes those decisions was hired by him, so it is indirectly his fault. The sox haven't been successful in bringing in top notch IFA talent and their draft picks have been either too injured to play or too inconsistent to rise. There is a hole in the farm that is a mile wide that cannot be fixed in a single draft/signing season

But Porcello also got a 4 year deal and has been far more consistent than Corbin.

That's the rub of being good, the talent brought in isn't as good. That being said, I think DD picked the wrong players and has a development team that isn't pulling their weight

I'd be totally on board with Kickuchi. I am also on board with Happ. Eovaldi is a wild care for me and with Boston and Houston involved, the bidding may get uncomfortably high for a guy with his kind of risk.

Yanks are now in on Eovaldi and Happ. I’m not surprised about 6 yrs, but I am surprised at $23.3 mil per.

6 and $140 mil is an awful big investment for a guy coming off a singular career year. Wow

The conversations are with clients and to be honest with you, as a player, these guys want to make it to the big leagues. And if a s***** team has a great development staff and a quick path to the bigs, that’s a bigger draw than a team known for some development issues and frequent dealings of their prospects

Bradley is an enigmatic, streaky bat that makes fan ponder what if while looking at the glove and seeing a top notch defender at a prime position. Eventually people need to be okay with the current and forget about the what potential could be

So the winter meetings start in a week. To this point, no major FA dominos have fallen for the most part except for Kershaw re-signing and Donaldson betting on himself in Atlanta. Corbin has done his national tour. Machado’s chatter has been non existent as has Harper’s. I anticipate deals will be made soon. That being said, with the unprecedented amount of trades being made and more players seemingly available by the minute, the winter meetings are likely to stir the trade market even further. Taking the above point into consideration, I’d be very surprised if the Yanks move Andujar. I know he’s an easy name to throw out there with Machado available, but it’s not gonna happen. Here’s why. Machado is likely to sign later this month or even drag into January. Deals for pitching will occur likely around the meetings. There’s no way the Yanks would deal the ROY runner up and leave open the chance that we fill in 3b with garbage should Machado spurn us and go somewhere else. Also, with Didi set to miss maybe the first half of 2019, moving Andujar without first acquiring a suitable replacement would be asinine. I’d anticipate we may be in the market for Machado at SS with Andujar keeping 3b. When Didi returns, we’d have an embarrassment of riches in the IF and make it far more suitable to move Andujar next offseason. The other thing one must consider is our 1b spot. If Voit doesn’t show he can hang beyond a raucous debut in 2018 and Greg Bird ends up flopping again, we could see Andujar take 1b where he’d be a plus defensively. Right now Andujar is a solution to some unsettled positional needs and not a guy who’s entirely expendable. My guess is we sign Corbin and make the Andujar for pitching argument moot. The rotation would look like 1. Severino 2. Corbin 3. Tanaka 4. Paxton 5. CC If we sign Machado following this, our lineup would look like this by the ASB 1. Torres 2B 2. Judge RF 3. Machado 3B 4. Gregorius SS 5. Stanton LF 6. Andujar DH 7. Hicks CF 8. Sanchez C 9. Voit 1B That’s a dominant team right there with depth behind it. Shifting focus to the pen, there’s a rumor we are in on Ottavino. His 2018 numbers were stupid, but I’d be fine with a KRob reunion. Either way, 2019 might be a banner year if we follow this path

He is at that point, but he’s also been worth it through the first half of his contract. If he eeks out two more great seasons, then the last three years are gravy. You don’t measure these long contracts on how they finish. Any team agreeing to a huge contract knows the last year or two will not be pretty

Well, Divish nailed this one. Segura on his way to Philly. Apparently Carlos Santana and JP Crawford are on their way to Seattle. I see what the Mariners are doing here. They’re taking the best deals they can get while using their financial abilities to eat some bad deals. They’ll then start those bad contracts, try to recoup value and deal them off while eating some money to gain more assets. This is a really interesting rebuild. They might end up fielding the same or a higher payroll in 2019 while rebuilding

They wouldn’t. The owners are entirely happy with the arrangement on young talent. If there was a shortening of the arb process, more than half the league would be up in arms as the balance of power would once again shift to the big markets. Right now, we are in the age of player development and parity. The teams that can blow it up the fastest and develop from within will end up sustaining a winning window. Teams that spend huge may win, but end up with longer down phases as you’re paying more for the end of a career than for prime years. Decreasing rookie control would essentially eliminate the A’s, Royals, Twins, Rays, Marlins, Pirates, Reds, and Padres at the outset and seriously impact the mid market clubs from having any sort of window beyond a year or two.

I agree. If this were the Guardians trying to get to the top of the heap in one final push, I’d understand it, but the Mets are an entire offense away from competing. They already had a good closer in Familia and still ended up below .500. Adding a guy like Diaz, while better than Familia, is not gonna fix the fact that they cannot hit. I get that Cano upgrades the offense, but a lineup of Nimmo, Conforto, Cano and essentially a bunch of no hit guys isn’t going to win ball games in a tough NL East. If this was dealing for an asset at the low point of value, I’d get it. If that’s the case, then they’d spin off Cano and eat even more money and grab someone useful while also dealing off Diaz for a kings ransom. But it’s the Mets, and I’m sure they’ll try to compete and only end up below .500 again, then be stuck with a Cano that needs to be a 1b and a not so cheap closer

He’s not an RI native, he’s an Alabama native. He currently lives in RI

This trade boils down to two separate deals Diaz for the three Mets prospects Cano plus $20 mil for Bruce and Swarzak. The Cano deal essentially ends up being 5 yrs $66 mil for the Mets. That’s not terrible for his production, although the years are long for a guy his age. I still think they could have gotten a prospect for Cano at that price. Diaz for the three is probably a good return, although they may have gotten better from a team in dire need who is in their window. I think they should break up the trade and if both trade partners end up being the Mets, so be it

Herrera is coming off the same foot injury that caused the Sox to build in insurance for JD. I doubt they throw the closers role his way. Lisfanc injuries are tough

It’s a cheap contract for a guy who at his peak is nasty. It’s a cheap hope that he regains form

The only angle I can see here is that the Mariners think they can rehab Bruce or Swarzak and can turn them into something.

This doesn’t make sense at all, then. What a strange deal. The Mariners insist on dumping Cano with Diaz. They then take on two s*** contracts and include half of the money for Cano while also moving Diaz and all they get are three prospects? This makes no sense at all. They can deal Diaz for a king’s ransom on his own and if the Mariners advertised a willingness to eat half of Cano’s remaining contract and eat a bad contract, teams would be willing to jump at that. Strange indeed. The money involved makes this deal tilt towards the Mutts

They tried to move Cron and couldn’t find a taker, hence they waived him. Cron’s season had bad D and a very HR inflated OPS in an otherwise pedestrian offensive season. If his HR totals drop, he ain’t worth jack.

They are and will always be a train wreck.

It would have made sense for ellsbury as he’s from the Pacific NW. But the Mets have decided to just be the dumbest franchise in sports and throw two first round picks and a high velocity kid in Bautista to Seattle. Yes, they’re dumping Swarzak and Bruce, but taking on the Cano contract with Diaz is a lot to take on when you’re giving up big talent

The Mariners want his contract gone and are willing to add a talent like Diaz to get it done. If the Yanks actually want to make this move, they’d have to eat all of Cano’s deal. Diaz is a superlative talent under cheap control for 4 more years. Heck, he’s pre arb for one more. We’d either have to pay in prospects to get the M’s to chip money in, or have to pay in cash. I’d pass to be honest, and just sign Murphy if we are looking for LH punch at an older age. No need to pay Cano for 5 more years