The Dr. Morbius Memorial 2020-2021 MLB Hot Stove Thread

“Franchy” is an 80-grade first name tho.
Surprised to see the royals trading away Lee.

i feel pretty much less than nothing for the sox these days but it still stings a little to see the last 'killer b' go two years removed from winning it all

Now the first and true Killer B's--Bell, Barfield, and Moseby--can be restored to their place of privilege.

uh, I believe you mean Biggio, Bo and Bvlad!

Turner back to the Dodgers, who might be in the upper bracket of the luxury tax at this point!
is this gonna be like a yankees situation, where it takes years of trimming to get back down under?

your framing of the situation pains me

dominating the league do have its downside.

Mets stocking up on people whose last name ends in -illar

Fifth team for Pillar in two years, wow. If he continues to hit like he's been hitting recently, he's a good guy to have around.

Star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. and the San Diego Padres are in agreement on a 14-year, $340 million contract extension, a source familiar with the deal tells ESPN.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 18, 2021

one owner didn't get the memo

jesus

(also that's awesome)

It has to be a record.

OMG

if you're going to give out a 14-year contract, it might as well be to a player who's 22 years old

dude doesn't even have a full season under his belt

neat

The Giants have made a unique addition to their coaching staff: former Rays outfielder Fernando Perez joins them as a video analyst. Perez is a Columbia alum, a documentary filmmaker and a published poet. He's also a Spanish speaker who can help Latino players w/video analysis. pic.twitter.com/4eH0c9hhxo

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) February 18, 2021

Cute optics but big picture though:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/14/crowley-charles-johnsons-ownership-is-a-shame-for-the-san-francisco-giants/

clown

The speech, which was downloaded to YouTube and went Twitter viral on Sunday morning, offered information that the Mariners' front office would likely never share publicly to the media or the fan base. https://t.co/g4rRecXKxX

— Seattle Times Sports (@SeaTimesSports) February 21, 2021

Mariners have released a statement: Kevin Mather has resigned.

— Corey Brock (@CoreyBrockMLB) February 22, 2021

forced to resign for saying out loud what every front office truly believes

remarkable idiocy though. rotarians!

Seattle should put up a statue of Mather for getting Kelenic in the Diaz/Cano trade.

Manfred must be so so pissed.

is it bad that, as a lifelong fan, i want the CBA negotiations 10 months from now to utterly destroy baseball

not at all

I don’t know if the players deserve that.

group economics

Blue Jays just announced they are no longer going to have a radio team. I still listen all the time in the car or while doing work around the house - and listening to TV broadcasters try to paint a picture of what I can’t see is going to be some serious garbage.

Time for some pirate radio announcers to swoop in

xp Wait, what? Yeah, I listened a lot on the radio. Yet another reminder that I'm old, because this doesn't even compute to me.

yeah, hoping for a cottage industry of amateur feeds, who knows?

Oh I see, a "simulcast". Bah, radio is a craft not to be taken on by anyone. Thankfully Wilner is gone at least

Close your eyes and imagine...

Joe carter rounding the bases after hitting a world series winning home run. One of the biggest hits in baseball history...

As the sound of Buck Martinez's strained "howme rawwwwwnnnnnnnghghghghg...." call trails off, Pat Tabler chimes in with "Joe Carter is a baseball player, Buck."

Our collective souls die a little inside. "Touch 'em all Joe" is so out of reach for our middling TV crew.

Time for some pirate radio announcers to swoop in

you don't want any of the pirates' announcers

tbf dan shulman is a total pro and has worked in radio, so if anyone can make it work (assuming he's allowed to!), i'd trust him

Shulman is a saving grace, definitely

for sure.

I think it goes more like this:

Close your eyes and imagine...

[Joe carter swings the bat]

Buck: get out of here ball, get out, get out!

[ball clears the fence, crowd erupts, Jays win the series]

Pat: Whoa! How about that!

Hypothetical radio listener: ??????&*&

jbj to brewers, 2 years, 24M

Blue Jays just announced they are no longer going to have a radio team. "

That' some cheap BS in the age of zoom. F'n Ronnie Reagan was doing baseball radio broadcasts by wire (and many others also did so) back in the paleolithic era.

Lindor extended w/Mets. Just before April fools.

Boy is it gonna be awesome reliving the Manny Ramirez betrayal all over again.

only ‘betrayal’ here was by cleveland ownership

what was the betrayal?! i was not following baseball in the early Manny years.

afaict the betrayal is "chose to sign with a different team in free agency"?

which i guess is worse than "was offered nothing by a team that has been crying poor for years, got traded to a different team where he was offered one of the biggest contracts of all time and accepted it instead of going back to the first team in free agency for some reason"

but not by much

Manny signed with the fucking Red Sox and won a goddamn World Series and Cleveland didn’t.

Yes of course it’s the owners I’m mad at. And at the MLB for not having a salary cap.

Poor people should not be allowed to own professional sports teams.

tbf he won two world series with the red sox

and larry dolan is worth $4.6 billion, fourth-most among mlb owners

aren't even small market teams fairly profitable? i think the issue might be too many, let's say, "wealth oriented" groups owning teams!

ALSO: OPENEING DAY!!!