hot stove 2019-20

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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

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(Blanton-ly obvious?)

love to receive bats and pieces

Well-regarded pitching prospect Matt Liberatore has been traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the St. Louis Cardinals, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. It's part of a trade expected to send major league pieces back to Tampa Bay, which has been searching for outfield bats.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 9, 2020

it will be either fowler (pleeeeeeease), arozarena (noooo!), o'neill (noooo!), lane thomas (i mean that's fair), or jose martinez (technically can play OF, but would mainly be a DH)

Brewers get Logan Morrison, a dude I thought would've been a real great fit in 2011 or so

you know who's a pretty good outfield bat? tommy pham. alas, the estimated $8.6m for a three-win player was just too much

these guys are both cardinals now

Just messin’ around🤯 @NolanGorman pic.twitter.com/EooehYEUmx

— Matthew Liberatore (@libby3232) November 28, 2018

(gorman is the other guy, and also a really good player)

god i hope they don't still do this game - KEEP YOUR HANDS PROTECTED

pirates sign 29yo outfielder guillermo heredia, who hit .225/.306/.363 for the rays last year before being non-tendered

haven't really been paying attention but i think this is only the second major-league (so to speak) move the pirates have made this offseason. the other was signing luke maile, a 29yo catcher with a career wRC+ of 48

it is indeed Arozarena for Liberatore – and also Jose Martinez; both of whom i expect to go full Austin Meadows next season.

i think that's a good trade for both teams. jose martinez has been my favorite player the past couple years. the way he plays OF brought me excruciating pain, it really was like a train wreck. he'll be a great DH and he's also one of the most likable people in the game. arozarena has speed and power. he might take a couple years to hit his stride, but he really is good.

i don't know much about liberatore other than his prospect (i'm talking round 1, not round 29. fuck you derek jeter!) status, his good results in his first season, and that he's comfortable throwing a ball really fast in a clubhouse at a whirling nolan gorman. all of that, plus the fact that the cardinals system is pretty much depleted of plus starting pitchers, makes me really happy with this trade

>he's comfortable throwing a ball really fast in a clubhouse at a whirling nolan gorman

he's a what now?!