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
former diamondbacks great shelby miller to the rangers
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Tell AT&T Park goodbye, Giants fans.
Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford and their mates henceforth will play ball at Oracle Park.
The Giants on Thursday will announce a 20-year agreement with the Redwood City technology company to affix its name to their waterfront ballpark in San Francisco.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
#Brewers in agreement with free-agent catcher Yasmani Grandal on a one-year contract, sources tell The Athletic.— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 10, 2019
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 January 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
nice pick up for the Brewers, who will have the best backup catcher in the league sitting behind Erik Kratz
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
nationals 'close' on brian dozier
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
really jealous of the brewers' signings over the past two offseasons
― na (NA), Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
yeah. they're doing things pirate fans can only dream of
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
jed lowrie to the mets?!?!?!?!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
i mean how many second basemen does one team need
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
the mets new GM just signing all his old over the hill clients >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
well, last year it was all first basemen
(phaps Cano will play first some)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
i don't hate the mets signing him -- he's old, but put up over 8 WAR over the last two seasons, and he'll be worth the money if he does a third of that -- but it seems an odd use of resources
i do find it amazing that the many teams who actually need second basemen wouldn't offer more than that. well, actually not that amazing because the whole system is obviously broken
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
lowrie was good last year but i'm just naturally suspicious of a GM whose big ideas are to go after his own clients. also it's the mets... there's no way them signing a 34 year old FA turns out well.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 January 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
It's a bit of a head-scratcher, considering what they really could use right now is another prominent reliever, but he's a quality (albeit older) player at a good price that gives more depth to the infield. There is no such thing as too much depth when you talk about the Mets lately.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
Moose Betts has 20M settlement with Red Sox— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 11, 2019
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
dj lemahieu to the yankees
all these nym/nyy second basemen should live together on the ues, they can call it keystone house
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
j0rdan, it's TWO Brodie clients, you cynic.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2019/01/11/arbitration-deadline-could-mean-more-than-usual/
Last fall, however, Ken Rosenthal reported something that got very little notice at the time: the players’ union believes that all 30 teams will take a “file-and-trial” approach to arbitration this winter.
― na (NA), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
Jaffe sez wait n' see on the Mets
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/jed-lowrie-joins-mets-overcrowded-infield/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
a's have avoided arbitration with five of six, marlins agreed to deals with all five of their arb-eligible players, bunch of other big names have agreed to terms today, so that xp might be premature
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
treasured canadian russell martin dealt to the dodgers
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
"...returns...", ya mean.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2019/01/11/economic-data-shows-mlb-spent-less-on-player-salaries-compared-to-revenues-in-2018/#9cb209c39d79
― na (NA), Friday, 11 January 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
I’m a little surprised how much $$$ the Jays are sending along with Russ.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
white sox sign jon jay
btw, fuck off deadspin
https://deadspin.com/white-sox-sign-shitty-player-1831656270
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 January 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link