Kemp is certainly not a buy low. It's going to take prospects and salary to get him. The dodgers aren't going to move someone with MVP potential for some ******** prospects and eat the salary. He may be buy low as in sure you're not signing the guy for 10yr/150MM but he's going to cost a lot both in prospects and cash.
Wouldn't be the first time he's supposedly pulled off a big trade. I think he's referring more to the smaller moves that make sense for the club, and the overpays in AAV for shorter years to guys who fit well with the club and what they're doing. The problem with Ben's approach is now people have caught on to it after winning the WS.
Also this talk of Choo and Tanaka is kinda silly. The Sox would benefit much much more if Tanaka were NOT to be posted this offseason. If he gets posted next offseason and they're interested, they'll have much more payroll space to gamble with.
Choo makes a good deal of sense for the Red Sox, but not at 18M a year.
They just need a decent RHH outfielder and a utility infielder. That's all.
Franklin Gutierrez, Trevor Crowe is a switch hitter, Andres Torres another switch hitter, Jeff Francouer, Mike Morse, Jeff Baker, a few others..
Mike Morse to me is the most intriguing option of that group.
"Cano's departure will hurt the Yankees in the short term but it's "a victory for the organization," The New York Times' Tyler Kepner opines, since the team has learned to avoid handing out potential albatross contracts."
From MLBTR. It's funny that this is considered a potential albatross contract, but the Ellsbury contract isn't.
Going into the season we thought it was going to be Hanrahan in the 9th and that was still a solid option. The current bp on paper looks a good deal better than last year's opening day bp did on paper
Well yeah but that was after the fact, and none of us knew koji would unleash the beast. I knew he was going to be a good piece but not hands down the best closer of 2013.
So instead of one team posting the highest amount and getting sole rights, every team can post and get open rights? Sounds a little more fair, but still leaves teams with a higher payroll with advantage
Not correcting you just adding to it. Did they change the agreement or something? Before they were saying that the new system was going to give lower ranking teams priority in case multiple teams posted the same amount