sk7326
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Everything posted by sk7326
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We will have enough payroll to field a contender every year - if we don't it is because management f'ed up. That includes 2018. Pitching wins championships is both a great saying - and a peculiar one given the World Series which just ended.
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They were further along than say the Padres. They traded Dee Gordon for basically nothing, Stanton for a couple of very far away guys ... Castro probably nets a mid-level prospect and a sack of potatoes. They have not converted their players into assets largely - just salary relief. And this is salary relief that came because they were greenlighted by MLB despite having so little of their own money. Somehow they cannot operate despite having a new stadium more or less gifted to them by the city. You take that - as well as letting go some of the actual popular Marlins-brand figures, taking a genuinely weird approach with Stanton. Now Jeter is getting a bit of a bad rap. The real money man, Bruce Sherman (who picked the Miami Herald clean) was bound to do this. If he did not have YEAH JEETS! as a partner, he ends up not really being any better than Jeff Loria. It is funny as hell that ARod in their post playing incarnations comes off much more likeable - but that's just me.
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because major league baseball was so desperate to have dreamy derek jeter as a team frontman that they overlooked the fact that he and his partners HAD NONE OF THEIR OWN MONEY!!!! And somehow Mark Cuban could not get greenlighted.
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he is also 24 and has only 764 career plate appearances. it is easy to forgot given how much exposure he has gotten and how good the Cubs have been.
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we are very lucky. that said, the idea of some teams just being feeders (which i thought was true-ish in the 90s) is basically gone now. with revenue sharing and so forth, every team has a payroll they can win with. now the recent changes to the CBA to suppress amateur bonuses is very harmful to these teams. that part does threaten this.
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was also a really humane thing for them to do
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Salazar is a terrific pitcher, but I prefer my pitchers actually pitch. Is he going to be a Brett Anderson level tease - putting together Cy Young caliber results in between season destroying injuries
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He was 2B in high school - obviously playing 3B right now. I would not be surprised (thought I read somewhere) if they tried him at 2B just in case (although odds of him staying there seem low).
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If you sign JD, you want 1B to be open ... because Martinez is basically a potted plan anywhere else on the diamond. My hopes would be for Chavis ultimately ... I have doubts he can stay at 2B, though the Red Sox are right to at least try it.
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Abreu's Age 31-32 seasons vs Santana's Age 32-34/5 ones. Abreu's ceiling is higher. Santana I think is the clear high floor candidate of the 1B sorts.
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Maybe. Essentially this is a 1 year/$8M deal with the Twins paying Pineda $2M to rehab.
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The analytics staff is still there (yes a lot of them left) ... Cora was hired partially because of analytics
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Terrific pickup for the Twins
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Jake McGee back to Rockies - best reliever on the FA trail, sigh
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The real thing is a MUCH more favorable contract potentially.
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Higher OBP - Moustakas is an okay third baseman, which makes him a better defender (positional advantage). Hosmer's metrics not great, although 1B not really a position where UZR sort of stats are very helpful. Both are risky bets. Hosmer has been more durable - although neither are bad. Both guys have been pretty volatile performance-wise. The significantly better OBP wins out here.
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Moustakas is not better than Hosmer - he does hit more homeruns
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You're right - it might take until he's 23 ... he forced them to call him up. Yes the guys they had stunk - but they could have given some magic beans for Todd Frazier. But they thought he was a better choice - and he was. I don't think they intended on promoting him in 2017 - but he made it impossible for them not to.
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He forced them to rush him - which is the way it should be.
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As long as he was? He spent sixteen minutes in AAA!! You don't think he hit some milestones defensively to move from AA? He needs work - but again, I have no problem betting on the kid, because the kid was earned that consideration.
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Given the prospect price, I'd imagine Abreu is lower ... but contractually we are thinking similarly, somebody with arbitration control etc. Ozuna has his 2 arb years coming up and makes $3.5M now. The skinflint Yeah Jeets ownership doesn't have to fire sale him yet.
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He has overcome every challenge the org has given him since he was 17. He forced their hand in making him their 3B last season (by simply being better than the alternatives, both in house and via trade). I'm betting on the kid. Best option for a bat is to revisit the Abreu trade to see if there is something reasonable - and then look at Santana for a high floor, meh ceiling one. Or Hosmer for the real boom/bust one.
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It will be interesting to see if the Sox re-visit the Abreu talks - and from a value perspective, he is the best option for 1B. And yes, I could see an argument for dealing Chavis and stuff for him.
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Fwiw, at minimum Keith Law pointed it out at Moncada's callup ... a lot of the scouting stuff I read saw a guy whose natural athleticism compensated for a lot of lacking craft which played at AA enough
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I think it could have worked - but Stanton had to want to come here. Alas