hot stove 2019-20

What's the best site to see who the front-runners for FAs like Ryu Puig, Donaldson might be?

wtf, OF is like the one thing Milwaukee doesn't need

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mlbtraderumors is the best site for all of this IMO

it probably goes w/o saying but avoid the comments here^ at all costs

they're not bad. i've seen WAAAAAY worse.

Asked at Winter Meetings about adding veteran leadership, Ben Cherington said FA catcher could fill that bill, but “Role should be legitimate; You’re not going to get a guy who hits .150 just because he’s funny.” Yesterday, Pirates signed Luke Maile... who batted .151 last year.

— David Laurila (@DavidLaurilaQA) December 17, 2019

wtf, OF is like the one thing Milwaukee doesn't need

― frogbs, Tuesday, December 17, 2019 8:05 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

sounds like this lets them move braun to 1b

as of last night, it seems the cardinals are about to sign 31-year old lefty Kwang-hyun Kim, who has pitched 7 years in the KBO

err, oops, he's been pitching longer than that! he debuted in the KBO as a SP at age 18, it looks like.

sounds like this lets them move braun to 1b

that's probably what's gonna happen but they don't have to, he's still as mediocre defensively as he's been his whole career, plus you know he's gonna miss 20-30 games with various injuries. you'd think you could just sign some aging slugger on the cheap to play there.

i think y'all are forgetting Blue Jays legend Eric Sogard is still available.

to the brewers!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMF3iNpW4AA82uF?format=png&name=large

I like the Sogard signing, dude was pretty good last year

Justin Smoak to the Brewers, 1 yr/$5m

so I guess Brauny not going to 1B after all?

the Kwang-hyun Kim deal got finalized with STL: 2 years, $8M (plus up ot $3M in incentives). i'm pretty hopeful about it! upside would be something approaching the sweet deal they got with miles mikolas coming out of japan a couple years ago.

gio gonzalez to the white sox
julio teheran to the angels

feels like the brewers now have 50 position players

white sox also signing cheslor cuthbert

Reds did their bi-annual "living the Burt Reynolds lifestyle on the Mac Davis salary" signing of lefty Wade Miley a few days ago. It is possibly work out well. The contract is only 2 years and not crazy money. All depends on health and being able to throw up ground ball outs and not home runs.

Great American Ballpark does get into some pitchers heads. Kyle Lohse years back was a free agent signee that totally got lost pitching for the Reds. Miley might work out ok and having a lefty and gives the Reds some rotation depth.

I'm guessing the Reds might take a page out of the Cardnails book and move a couple of the top prospects to work out the pen and be starter #6.

The White Sox have reached agreement on a deal with free agent lefthander Dallas Keuchel, according to a tweet from ESPN’s Jeff Passan (link). It’s a three-year deal for $55.5MM, with a vesting fourth year that could take it to 4/$74MM, reports Jon Heyman of MLB Network (link).

i did not expect this, but the Jays just won the bidding for Ryu!
4 years, $80 mil

also they signed Travis Shaw.

with them also adding Roark, Anderson, Yamaguchi and getting their first full seasons out of Guerrero, Biggio and Bichette (and possibly Pearson making his debut) – this teams looks like they could make a run at the wild card.

nice!

The pitching is still iffy even if Ryu stays healthy and Pearson starts dominating right away (two huge ifs). But I do like the moves they're making.

i have lost track of who's on the white sox now. edwin encarnacion apparently?

i was vaguely wondering if their spending is motivated in part by leeching local baseball fans away from the non-spending cubs. it's working on me at least

So far they have resigned Abreu, signed Grandal, Edwin, Keuchel, Gio Gonzalez and traded for Nomar Mazara (for some reason).
They have been pretty busy!

I heard a bit of Ryu's introductory press conference on the radio; he opened with "Hello, Canada" and "Bonjour."

*swoon*

just finding out Mets signed Betances

misleading uRL

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28383869/sources-marlins-corey-dickerson-reach-2-year-175-million-deal

good hitter, solid player

rich hill and homer bailey to minnesota

luis robert gets a $50M extension before playing a game in MLB

the white sox are going to be pretty fun

did Rich Hill check out the Twins' bag policy first?

Outfielder/pitcher Oscar Colás, one of the best prospects to emerge from Cuba in years, has defected and will seek a deal with a major league team, sources familiar with his plans tell ESPN. Colás, 21, played in Japan last year and hit .302/.350/.516. He’s a LHP up to 95, too.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 3, 2020

unsigned at last check: Donaldson, Castellanos, Ozuna, Puig, Hudson, Cabrera, Vizcaino, Chirinos, Maybin, Frazier, Cishek, Iglesias, Pence, Kintzler, Gordon, and Dyson

Starlin Castro to Nats

Jason Castro to Angels

jose iglesias to baltimore 1yr/$3m with a club option

eric thames to the nats for roughly the same

steve cishek to white sox, 1 yr/$6 million

did the White Sox strike gold under second base?

Dodgers signed Jimmy Nelson to a one-year contract full of incentives.

In bizarre lawsuit, Yankees’ failed prospect says Derek Jeter ruined his career https://t.co/5ZEADEa6l7 pic.twitter.com/kKU5HG1sEg

— NJ.com (@njdotcom) January 9, 2020

Garrison Lassiter
2008 June Amateur Draft - Round: 27, Pick: 28, Overall: 830, Team: New York Yankees

i guess it's easier to say "prospect" in a headline than "organizational depth afterthought"

kid might have a point tho, looking at the stats from jeter's last two seasons

this reminds me that i needed to send that letter to ozzie smith's lawyers to let him know i'm suing him for blocking my progress back when i was struggling through the end of the 13-year-old league season

i think $75 million sounds right. $1M for each of my heartwrenching sobs per night, on average

He alleged that it was “blantanly (sic) obvious” that Jeter controlled the Yankees organization

http://www.milb.com/images/430599/generic/180x270/430599.jpg?