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

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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/

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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!!!

thank you all for honoring dr. morbius properly by arguing about something that happened in baseball like 100 years ago

bosox/orioles postponed :(

"And at the MLB for not having a salary cap."

wait what

A couple days late, but Mets opening day. I knew they had a good opening day record, but this is amazing:

The Mets begin the 2021 season with the best Opening Day record ever -- a 39-20 (.661) mark that ought to be the envy of every other club. It’s all the more remarkable considering that the Mets, born in 1962, did not win the first game of any season until 1970. They are 39-12 (.765) since then.

Back of the napkin calculations but the Cleveland Neo-Naps could give Lindor the same contract as the Mets and they would still be 112 millions under luxury tax threshold.

Their revenue in 2019 was 290 millions.

There is no excuses.

rich hill to the mets

why are the rays trading away pieces if they're trying to contend by signing nelson cruz

in any case, it's fun that the first two big names to move in this trading deadline are both 41 years old

why are the mets trading for rich hill when he's been absolute garbage since the goop got banned

i think the Rays want Patino to replace Hill, so their math is they're better off with the relievers they're getting back and Patino in the rotation.

why are the rays trading away pieces if they're trying to contend

it’s the only way they know how to live

really curious what ends up happening with him -- god-tier defense and occasional flashes of offensive brilliance but he'll be 28 this winter and he's fucking hurt all the time. once in seven seasons has he played 100 games! anyway he has one more year of arb before free agency in 2023

Byron Buxton has rejected a contract extension from the Twins, sources tell me and @DanHayesMLB. Story coming.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 25, 2021

Some team is going to pay a lot of money to get one serviceable season out of the guy.

jesus luzardo has been terrible this year but he still seems like a lot for the a's to give up for two months of starling marte

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Oh god, Gallo in pin stripes.

some large adult outfielders in the bronx

free agents

yasiel puig
ryan braun
zack cozart
jedd gyorko
sean rodriguez
edwin encarnacion
matt wieters
matt kemp
yoenis cespedes
rick porcello
andrew cashner

i was surprised to see a few of these names

You’d think if Pujols could find a team that can make room for him, a few of those dudes on the list could too.