hot stove 2018-19

i thought the goldy trade was fair for both sides. it's possible kelly never really hits and weaver is just a 3/4 starter, but there's enough upside that i think you'd feel pretty good getting that for just one year of goldy.

weaver is projected for 2 WAR next year... if you think he's closer to his rookie season than last season maybe that creeps up to 3 or even 3.5 if he really figures it out. goldy has been a consistent 5 WAR player... the trade might not even look that bad for the d backs just off next year alone.

Yankees President Randy Levine is among the names being mentioned for White House Chief of Staff, per @MSNBC

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the hottest stove

please god he will do less damage there

billy hamilton to the royals

sunday night baseball will start at 7 ET next year

i expect Goldschmidt to start winning All-Star elections at 1B, as Redbird Nation will vote often for such a towering, boring hunk of white manmeat.

i believe that d-bag nation voted him into the all-star game the past 6 years, as well

Freddie Freeman last year, right?

Goldy has 6 selections, but not sure how may times he won the vote (at least twice)

pirates shed salary -- shocking, i know -- by sending ivan nova to the white sox

pirates will apparently fill that hole in their staff by signing jordan lyles, a right-hander with a career WAR of -3.3

Sources: Phillies are in agreement with Andrew McCutchen, pending a physical.

— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) December 11, 2018

blue jays have released tulo

am surprised they pulled the trigger on doing that! essentially paying 38 million to free up a roster spot.

I may regret these words, but bargain of the year.

lol

http://www.facebook.com/BlueJays/photos/a.381692688771/10156242608293772/?type=3&theater

I know the club's happy to get rid of him, but they don't to actually thank him for leaving--that's a little much.

tbf i saw a quote from tulo's agent being grateful -- he said shapiro et al were very professional about everything and that it's much better for his client to be cut loose now than at the end of spring training or something

i mean it's kind of insulting, but he still gets paid, and will have more fun playing somewhere where he's wanted (assuming he can ever stay healthy)

pirates will apparently fill that hole in their staff by signing jordan lyles, a right-hander with a career WAR of -3.3

Lyles had some good games last year. Had a perfect game going against Colorado through 7.1 in May.

happ back to the yankees

Brandon Hyde, Orioles manager

last week his name was Jekyll

charlie morton to tampa, two years/$30m

nice to see from tampa

yeah i don't think they've ever had a $15m/yr player before.

also that seems like an extremely team-friendly deal for a guy projected to put up 3+ WAR next year (only marginally less than patrick corbin's projection). that no reputed contenders offered something better seems like a bad sign

the reds and nationals pulling off the rare tanner-for-tanner trade

lance lynn to rangers, $30 million/3 years

edwin encarnacion to seattle for carlos santana

not entirely sure i see the point

7M dollar difference afaict

all else equal, i'd much rather have santana. but i don't know either system's prospect/depth situation

they each have a 3 year, $60 million contract (2017-19 for encarnacion, 2018-20 for santana), with a one year team option that seems unlikely to be exercised at the end (25.5M for encarnacion, 17.5M for santana)

oh, edwing's 2020 is a team option while santana's is guaranteed, so that makes sense for seattle

wait, there's more to it. it's a three-team deal, with the rays

yandy diaz goes from indians to rays
jake bauers from rays to indians
encarnacion from indians to mariners
santana from mariners to indians

i think?

mariners send high five to rays
rays wave back to mariners

i don't understand how that's a three-team trade, rather than just the indians making two different trades at the same time, but ken rosenthal says it's true so

when was the last three-team trade that did not involve the rays

@CoreyBrockMLB
Seattle GM Jerry Dipoto, who was out sick Wednesday, was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.

@JeffPassan
Today’s three-way trade with the Mariners, Indians and Rays is the first from-a-hospital Winter Meetings deal since 2006, when the inimitable Jim Hendry locked in Ted Lilly’s four-year, $40M free agent contract while on a gurney being wheeled in to the OR to have an angioplasty.

am i the only one who thinks dipoto is a walking galaxybrain

Joe Kelly to Dodgers for 3 years

Jeurys Familia back to Mets for same

is JK confirmed?

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25523201/joe-kelly-agrees-deal-los-angeles-dodgers

The San Diego Padres have reached an agreement with free-agent second baseman Ian Kinsler on a two-year, $8 million deal, according to multiple reports Friday.

Yonder to Chisox

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25536970/yonder-alonso-cleveland-indians-traded-chicago-white-sox

until today, i didn't realize that the cardinals will be paying matt holliday $1.4M per year through 2029. i also didn't realize they're paying pujols $1.2M per year through 2029.

That will be team #6 for Alonso in 9 seasons. He has moved around quite a bit.

Matt Adams to Nats

supposedly the rockies just made (like last week) their final payment to mike hampton, who last played for them in 2002

Mets paying Bobby Bonilla through 2035 FTW.

wilson ramos to mets for 2 years

was hoping for Grandal, but at least they didn't overpay for Realmuto

Matt Adams to Nats

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, December 16, 2018 2:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was like "uh ok is this even news" until i remembered that the phillies, cards, and nats are not all, in fact, the same team, but distinct National League teams with the same colors. i will never not mix these three teams up until i die and i hate it when someone moves from one of them to the other because i get confused