hot stove 2019-20

what if they could get lol Trout?

ok, yes. they allowed to trade him for Trout.

arbitration salary predictions from mlb trade rumors for 2020:

mookie $27.7m
lindor $16.7m
bryant $18.5m

feel like lindor would be likeliest, considering how cheap the indians are

that's got to be a record arb amount for Mookie there.

a tiny bit of self-awareness

MLB usually presents The Belt this morning at the GM meetings. But they have now decided against doing so, telling team execs today it is not in their best interest to keep doing so.https://t.co/kf08AI06yU

— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) November 11, 2019

Hmm, feel like that tweet should have been along the lines of:

Set. At The Belt...does not deliver.

NO COLLUSION

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/11/mlbpa-investigation-braves-gm-alex-anthopoulos.html

I'm not sure I understand this—wouldn't checking in on availablity of other teams' players necessitate having a feel for who those teams migh re-up in free agency?

might re-up

i believe this sorta shit is flatly prohibited under the Basic Agreement? depends what AA "meant" maybe....

One more year for Waino!

We have agreed to terms with free-agent pitcher Adam Wainwright on a one-year contract for 2020. pic.twitter.com/ZzKnVUKly1

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) November 12, 2019

he is DEFINITELY going to repeat his age-37 performance in 2020!

just being whiny. i don't think he'll do quite as well next year (i would guess an injury will intervene), but it will be pretty cool to watch him go out with yadi (if molina ends up retiring at the end of 2020).

astros are cheating cheaters

The #Astros stole signs electronically in 2017 - part of a much broader issue for Major League Baseball. Story with @EvanDrellich. https://t.co/VyS35fDT5D

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) November 12, 2019

haaaa fuckers

I think this is the game that Farquhar is talking about (video at a little after 2:58:30). The changeup sign is put down, then you can hear two bangs (even on the broadcast!), and then Farquhar steps off to switch the signs.https://t.co/dmKADpJQdA https://t.co/D3jFJKZKny pic.twitter.com/PyPMMR8DZl

— Lucas Apostoleris (@DBITLefty) November 12, 2019

Astros using cameras to steal signs, a breakdown pic.twitter.com/rncm6qzXxw

— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) November 12, 2019

Great topic but has nothing to do with the hot stove? Start a new thread you n00bz.

I thought hotstove was a catchall for “off-season things”.

bee ok's new favorite manager: gabe kapler

Gabe Kapler will be hugely popular in SF

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) November 13, 2019

this took me a bit - but is it because he's hot af?!

He just knows how to run a clubhouse. Once you’ve handled a Brooklyn classroom full of Sweathogs you can handle anything.

Signed,
Epstein’s Mother

40 years ago it woulda been just the Castro

LaRussa to Angels as baseball ops adviser

Will Smith to Braves

Ben Cherington is new Pirates GM

Kind of surprised Abreu and Odorizzi took the QO.
I guess last off-season has them spooked?

abreu strikes me as a guy who would get a decent two, maybe three year deal, but he also feels like a guy who could drop off a cliff any season now.

1b is really shallow this offseason too.

everything sounds great at the owners meetings in arlington

Astros owner Jim Crane is sitting about 30 feet away. We're not allowed to approach him and a sherriff and constable are standing in between the media and the owner. He'll get to decide whether he wants to speak about the cheating investigation. Stay tuned...

— Laura Albanese (@AlbaneseLaura) November 20, 2019

Jacoby Ellsbury Poly has been released.

Way to mess up my vanity search results

lol it took me a second to get that

Sorry, Poly.

OFFICIAL: The #WhiteSox have agreed to terms on a four-year, $73-million contract with free agent All-Star catcher Yasmani Grandal (@YazmanianDVL08). Under terms of the agreement, Grandal will receive $18.25 million per year from 2020-2023. pic.twitter.com/dczzZo8UTE

— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) November 21, 2019

nice signing imo

dude had a low-key Tettleton-esque season last year

oh wow

although i guess the perception of grandal depends on how much stock you put in pitch framing value stats

only thing that worries me is that he's 31 and caught a *lot* of games over the last couple seasons (137 last year, 135 in 2018)

surprised the Brewers didn't try to match that offer. their backup is not exactly someone you'd want in the lineup every day and I don't think they have anyone on the horizon. maybe they're saving up for a monster offer to Yelich.

are the brewers in a good position to offer a massive contract to someone like yelich without hurting the rest of their team?

(hurting the rest of the team by not having much extra money to sign/extend other players, i mean)

They don't have a whole lot on the books right now. Actually the Stearns era is the first time I can remember us not having some 35 year old starter signed who absolutely sucks but is still getting paid $15 million so he gets to stay in the opening day rotation, then eventually mop up duty by early June. 2 more years for Braun, 3 for Cain, combined $30m, plus Yelich. I'm not sure who else on that roster they'd want to give a significant extension to. Houser, Woodruff, and Hiura aren't free agents for a long time. They'll probably keep a ton of players through arbitration but some of the potential big money guys like Shaw & Jimmy Nelson basically tumbled off a cliff last year. Hader & Knebel might be kinda expensive I guess. They're gonna have to field some sort of rotation next year but there are a lot of options for them there.

Steve Stone was on the Russo's show and was saying since rosters are going to 26, the White Sox will most likely carry three catchers with Zack Collins and James McCann then use them also at DH. Grandal's switch hitting fills having a lefty for the lineup to split things up. Seems plausible.

So which starter would you give the long term deal to, Cole or Strasburg?

I’m going with the + 2 years of prime Cole offers.

Abreu resigned with the Sox, 3 years, 50 millions.

like to see a stalwart get re-signed, but i'm not sure that was a great idea

White Sox love their lumbering long time first basemen. Idk how much Adam “Sports Dad” Laroche counts, not much imo, but it’s been Thomas/Konerko/Abreu going back to 1991.

If the Sox offered all that money undeferred, it might be worth more than his LA extension?

tbf . . . jbj is already 30 and his defense won't be able to carry him much longer. and they have at least extended bogaerts (for cheap)

but yeah

i would rather live in LA

I may run past Fenway Park (it’s 2 miles from me) when the Mets are playing in a week or so to check out the atmosphere, but otherwise looking forward to a Boston team tanking for the first time in awhile.

turn the stove off and put on the AC

Foltynewicz DFA'd

We have signed RHP Matt Harvey to a minor league contract. #Royals

— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) July 28, 2020

mets to sign bruce maxwell

jarrod dyson to white sox for international $$

taijuan walker to blue jays

Jays also traded for human refrigerator, Dan Vogelbach

that made me think of refrigerator perry. jeez, that guy has a really sad "personal life" section on wikipedia. :(

siri, tell me about the personal life of another public figure

Well, now I’m sad.

rick renteria fired as white sox manager - not sure why since it felt like they overperformed or at least met expectations this season

that is weird

what team dares hire aj hinch/alex cora

they fired don cooper too

i have no particular opinion on how good a manager rick renteria is, but the way front offices value field managers is just bizarre

if you get hired to manage shitty teams -- which is usually where the openings are! -- you apparently get pegged as a guy who can only manage shitty teams

also ~curious~ which managers get multiple chances and which are never heard from again, e.g. gabe kapler vs. bo porter or willie randolph

also, lol

Huh pic.twitter.com/olaxPlvrll

— B-Mad (@brianm731) October 12, 2020

i mean joe torre was a terrible manager for three different teams before lucking into being hired by a rich juggernaut in 1996. even then he was notorious for killing relievers (where are u now, scott proctor) although i give him credit for keeping all the egos more or less in check

wtf

Can confirm Angels granted White Sox permission to interview Tony La Russa for managerial opening, as @BNightengale said. I don’t know if he has desire to manage again, but he was apparently very invested/involved as a special advisor this year. Still seemingly has that itch.

— Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) October 14, 2020

please no

he would be a fun new role model for the young, exciting team they have

so much fun in the clubhouse

make abreu player-manager imo

LaRussa would ragequit once he finds out about the "Relievers must face 3 batters" rule.

he'd be right to it's dumb