jacksonianmarch

Machado isn’t signing an extension. Hence why his worth is down via trade

Drury is good. I still don’t know why we won’t be okay with the kids we have currently ready at those positions. Andujar and Torres are ready and they’re very good

I don’t want Greinke

There are big things brewing with Boston. I think they swoop in and get JD. My question is whether the sox end up swooping in and getting Machado too. I could see the sox dealing Bradley, Chavis and others for Machado and signing JD

Headley was quietly a 2 WAR player. He plays good defense and while he isn't a slugger, he had a nice OBP and a nice OPS. I am surprised he was dumped for nothing, unless there are secret negotiations afoot for another high priced acquisition.

We could have, but Cash needs the salary cap relief. If we ate $5 mil, we probably get something of value, but re-setting the lux tax is incredibly important. Btw, I’m hearing the Yankees are looking at Nunez on a short term deal

Whomever proposed that deal is an abject moron

I’m aware he will return more than Stanton did. I just think he’d return less than what we got for Chapman

It sounds like the MLB ball has flatter seams. This means more direct contact to the baseball core and also less spin generated for pitches. Raised seams = wicked breaking balls

Right now, they won’t get a phenomenal haul since there’s no truly desperate team. We got an insane haul for Chapman because the Cubs were desperate to win and needed a closer badly at the deadline. You have to remember, Machado is coming off a down year. If the O’s are expecting to get a haul for 2016 Machado, they’re sorely mistaken. My anticipation is the O’s do deal him. I think the ALE balance of power is so tilted to NYY and BOS that the other teams will not try to build up to overtake them. But I think you’ll be surprised at how little the O’s get for him

The Headley deal tells me he has something else coming. It tells me he had to drop money, otherwise what’s the point? He used a guy who was out of options and wasn’t making the team barring injury to pair with him to dump the salary. With Castro’s $8 mil AAV and Headley’s $13 mil AAV, we’ve almost completely offset the Stanton acquisition ($25 mil AAV - 3 mil per year) financially. We’ve got something like $25 mil to play with right now and that’s before we try to dump Ellsbury. Something else is coming or he wouldn’t have needed to that

BTW, we dumped Headley and a guy we were going to DFA for full salary relief? Wow

Why the heck would you deal two major SP prospects for Machado when you can get him without a trade next year

SD ate the whole contract. Wow. Mitchell was going to get DFAd

Yankees in on Corbin and Fulmer. Corbin is a good but not great starter. Fulmer is a young ace coming off ulnar nerve surgery. The cost for Corbin won’t be huge, but the cost for Fulmer would be astronomical

The fireworks came a day before the winter meetings, but day 1 was mostly a dud (except for the introductory press conference that is!). Today and tomorrow are the big days as Thursday is more Rule V then leave

It’s a no-brainer if there’s no better option available by trade. Sabathia is the only FA who makes sense. Once Tanaka declines to opt out, our need for a big fish was gone and we could focus on the back end of the rotation. Sabathia would allow us to keep grooming our kids and not force us to dip into our depth from the getgo. There will be injuries, especially with sabathia’s knee, Tanaka’s arm, Sonny Gray’s everything and with our young guns far exceeding their innings max in Sevy and JMont. Plus, it’s just the nature of the unnatural motion of pitching. Our AAA rotation will be stupid. We’ll be entirely ready for any injuries that should arise 1. Adams 2. Sheffield 3. Acevedo 4. Cessa

Yes, if your farm is good

And once again Keith Law is late to the party. Guzman has some of the best pure stuff in the minors and has the hardest fastball in all of the minors and second in all of baseball only to Chapman. The kid has the stuff to either be an elite reliever or develop into a front line ace. His proximity to the bigs made it easy to deal him. His stuff is insane

Meh, you're always tinkering! I'd leave things as is for now unless a pitching trade falls into our laps. Maybe after failing to get Ohtani or Stanton, the Giants go into rebuild mode. Maybe Cole forces his way out of PIT. For now, I hold onto my chips and wait to see who falls out. I don't like any of the FAs for us right now. A trade for Ozuna doesn't make sense. We have a loaded bullpen. We have a top 3 that can hold against any team in baseball. Our lineup should be legendary. No need to take the rug right out from under us and deal from our farm when we don't have a glaring need. I would seriously look at CC for a short term acquisition or I'd look for a minor trade for a stopgap until Adam, Acevedo or Sheffield are ready. Unless I can get a Stanton level starter, I don't make any more big moves.

Dewey, the new penalties are far harsher and involve damaging your internal development of talent. With steroids mostly out of the game, players don't play at prime levels into their late 30s anymore. With the smaller market teams taking up front risk to lower contract demands later, we aren't seeing prime free agents hit the market in their mid 20s anymore. Hence, free agency is turning into a really bad method of filling a team as most FAs are early 30s and likely have 2-3 years of prime while you are paying them for 7 years and will eat it on the back end. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The sox were the first large market team to see this and their development machine kicked in after the 2004 title. That title developed solid talent enough to put the 2007 title winning team together and to build a core of home grown players that allowed you to win another title in 2013. The Yankees saw this and unfortunately were already tied into massive contracts that made their ability to shed salary and rebuild unlikely, but they did develop their system to where they are now. Fast forward to now and the best method to build your team either via trade or homegrown is to develop talent. The large market teams can develop talent and then deal it off for higher priced assets (like we did with Stanton, Robertson, Frazier, Gray to an extent, etc). But the importance here is the development of talent. Now, signing a QO free agent hurts more for large market clubs. With the slotting of the draft, losing a 1st rounder crushed your draft so they scrapped that. But losing a 2nd and a 5th rounder plus taking a big hit in the INTL market means 2 less higher value draft picks, losing the extra slot funds to sign a later round HS talent and also losing funds that could be distributed to 3 or 4 good INTL signees. It is no longer just a 1 for 1 deal. Now, signing a QO FA and being over the lux tax as a large market club entails the possibility to sign that one player and lose up to 7 players you had your eyes on in the amateur realm. Add in the extra funds being over the lux tax and the impending chance to have your 1st rounder dropped 10 slots for being over the top limit hurts you further. The penalties don't sound as bad on their face, but they are really onerous, especially for any large market club intending on developing talent from within

The arrest was for domestic assault and prevention of a 911 call. That entails a little more than just yelling. Like I said, he may not have touched her, but he may have blocked her access to a phone or broken her phone. You also don’t know what was said. Either way, let the process sort itself out. My guess is she’ll drop the charges and he’ll get a nominal suspension from the MLB

The reported Dodgers offer was AdGon and Kazmir for Stanton and $30 mil. At least Castro is dealable.

We haven’t been the biggest spenders on the block in years. The dodgers have had that mantle for 3 years now I think.

Dgale, Ells played more games and put up a significantly lower WAR than Hicks. Hicks was clearly the better player in 2017, but he clearly faded at the end. It’s easy to look retrospectively and put Ells in, but after the season Hicks put up, you kinda have to put him in there and hope he turned it around