Terrance Gore back to KC for one year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
The Nationals have agreed to a deal with right-hander Anibal Sanchez, I’m told.— Anthony Fenech (@anthonyfenech) December 20, 2018
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
looks like the cardinals will likely get andrew miller, who will definitely bounce back to 2017 form and won't get injured in early may
― Karl Malone, Friday, 21 December 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
He's a year removed from his two big years, but I figure Daniel Murphy will do a passable Rogers Hornsby imitation in Colorado anyway.
― clemenza, Friday, 21 December 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
puig your red
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
Wow ! Must have a real inclination Harper is willing to sign
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Lol Reds
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
for those who don't get notifications, ie me
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25589407/los-angeles-dodgers-trade-matt-kemp-yasiel-puig-alex-wood-cincinnati-reds
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
i presume the dodgers aren’t actually going to let homer bailey pitch for them
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 December 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
i was going to call it the Homer Bailey trade
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
This trade is about clearing cap space and room on the forty man roster and literally nothing else, right?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 21 December 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
yeah it seems that way
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 22 December 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
Some people think this is trade one and a second trade is brewing with Cleveland perhaps for Corey Kluber.
Reds still will need to get 'someone' that can play CF or at least someone that can platoon with Scott Schebler, unless he is dealt.
― earlnash, Saturday, 22 December 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
Reds hitting coach Turner Ward is supposed to be fairly tight with Puig and knows Kemp from working with them in LA.
I think Puig could make some serious cash playing in Great American for a year (even for a single year). Worked out ok for Kevin Mitchell and Sin-shoo Choo.
― earlnash, Saturday, 22 December 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
weird hot stove is the new normal hot stove
look at everyone who's still unsigned: https://www.fangraphs.com/tools/free-agent-tracker
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
didn't they establish some sort of training camp for unsigned players last year, so they could work out during spring training? might need to make that a permanent thing i guess (the island of misfit toys)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
The Island of Dr. Boras.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Rays analyst promoted to uniformed coach
https://www.tampabay.com/blogs/rays/2018/12/05/so-what-will-rays-new-process-and-analytics-coach-do/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 31 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Clayton Richard and cash considerations are heading to Toronto in a trade with the San Diego Padres that has minor league OF Connor Panas going to San Diego.
To clear a roster spot for Clayton Richard, the Blue Jays designated Oliver Drake for assignment, leaving him to search for his seventh team since May.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
whoa, i missed that Kikuchi signed with the Mariners. kind of a complicated deal:
TODAY: Kikuchi will earn $43MM over the first three years of the contract, Heyman reports (Twitter link). At that point, the Mariners can then choose to extend Kikuchi for $66MM over the 2022-25 seasons, which would make the deal a seven-year, $109MM contract overall. If the M’s don’t exercise this four-year extension, Kikuchi then can opt to exercise a player option for 2022 that would pay him $13MM.YESTERDAY, 10:34 pm: The deal is for three years plus a player option for 2022, per Heyman (via Twitter). The Mariners have the unique option of replacing the player option with an additional four year guarantee, thus securing seven years of team control for Seattle. Theoretically, the partnership could end after three years should both the Mariners and Kikuchi decline their options.
YESTERDAY, 10:34 pm: The deal is for three years plus a player option for 2022, per Heyman (via Twitter). The Mariners have the unique option of replacing the player option with an additional four year guarantee, thus securing seven years of team control for Seattle. Theoretically, the partnership could end after three years should both the Mariners and Kikuchi decline their options.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/01/mariners-appear-nearing-deal-free-agent-yusei-kikuchi-rumors.html
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
i like Kikuchi because his last name (菊池) translates very poetically to "chrysanthemum pond".
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
i did not know thatthat's awesome!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 01:13 (five years ago) link
minor league OF Connor Panas going to San Diego
curious about how this guy ended up in the deal, and if it's as completely random as it seems
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
how do you mean?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
i'm full of cough syrup, bored and hungover, so i'll try to answer... i've been keeping an eye on him because he's a canuck in my teams' farm system, and he's shown some potential - tho he had a rough 2018 for sure. he's shown some discipline and power and his 2017 gave me high hopes (but now that i'm checking he was a good clip above the average age for high A). he's probably the best fringe prospect they could have hoped for really, in return for a negative-win pitcher.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 03:43 (five years ago) link
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/report-yankees-agree-deal-former-blue-jay-troy-tulowitzki/
If there's a situation where I end up regretting all the mean things I've said about him, this would be readymade...
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
Ya, I find this somewhat irksome.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
clayton richard is terrible and had already been dfa'd, so the padres had no leverage to extract anything from toronto. that they got the jays to pay half of his $3m salary for 2019 was a small victory. richard is at least left-handed and might conceivably have some use as a loogy or mop-up dude at $1.5m, so it's a low-risk proposition for the jays.
none of that has anything to do with panas, a corner outfielder who turns 26 next month and was bad in his lone season above A ball. the deal was about the padres saving $1.5m, so why was *this* non-prospect included? was a minor leaguer included to make the cash sale of richard more palatable to the public? are the padres short of double-a corner outfielders, or do the jays have a glut? do the padres really have a scouting report on panas and think they can make something of him? the jays do have a tendency to, other things being equal, take fliers on canadian players, so why trade away this one?
anyway i was just curious, and also hopped up on cough syrup
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Lucroy to Angels for a year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
Lucroy's such an odd player, a lot of his value as a catcher was tied up into his pitch framing skills which went from league-leading to genuinely awful in the span of only a couple of years. I'm not sure what happened to him. But 3.6m for 1 year seems like a good bet.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
How does that skill even decline?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
could be noise
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
i think that's supposedly happened to other catchers too (maybe yadi?) and i don't understand it either
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
david robertson to the phillies, two years/$21m plus club option year
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 January 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
The Mets signed pitcher Arquimedes Caminero and outfielder Rymer Liriano to minor league deals.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
"We focus on the Yankees and Cubs, the Phillies and Dodgers, but a team like the Pirates can not only sign Manny Machado without risking a loss, they are positioned to get more from the signing, based on the marginal wins he would add, than almost any other team. It’s teams like the Pirates refusing to take themselves seriously that is grating. The 2019 Marlins shouldn’t be spending money. The 2019 Royals shouldn’t be spending money. The 2019 Pirates should. That they’re just accepting 81 wins and fat checks should be more an embarrassment to MLB, and frankly to Bob Nutting, than it is."
joe sheehan otm
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Mark Loretta, new Cubs bench coach
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
This was pretty fun.
'the team would be pretty gritty'
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-managers-trash-talk-spot-mvp-baseball-2005-lineup-002104365.html
― earlnash, Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:45 (five years ago) link
.@Mets acquire OF Keon Broxton from @Brewers for RHPs Bobby Wahl, Adam Hill and INF Felix Valerio.— MLBRosterMoves (@MLBRosterMoves) January 5, 2019
― na (NA), Saturday, 5 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
anyone know if those guys they gave up are any good?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 5 January 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
NYY sign Zach Britton 39/3
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 January 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
The busy Mets acquired infielder J.D. Davis and Minor League infielder Cody Bohanek from the Astros on Sunday. Houston received Minor League outfielder Ross Adolph, infielder Luis Santana and catcher Scott Manea in return.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 January 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
Looking those guys up, I'm guessing Davis was out of options and Houston is pretty packed where this guy could play. Davis has hit for some power in the minor leagues.
― earlnash, Monday, 7 January 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
kelvin herrera to the white sox 2/$18m
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
Mets also sent Kevin Plawecki to Cleveland
https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-kevin-plawecki-j-d-davis-1.25616997
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 January 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
BREAKING: MLB Sees Record Revenues Of $10.3 Billion For 2018 via @ForbesSports https://t.co/BGHBiUoqoY— Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) January 7, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/1/8/18173625/free-agency-slow-signing-pace-manny-machado-bryce-harper
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
the dilemma of teams’ bottom lines being divorced from their on-field results
indeed
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Jonny Gomes is Arizona's new "outfield and baserunning coordinator"
as pointed out on the EW podcast, he was good at neither baserunning nor OF defense
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link