Around Baseball 2019

[glory]

Boras will break a billion after Ryu, Keuchel, and Castellanos sign. Damn. This much excitement in the off season and it's early December is a damn good sign. I know it's an unusually great free agent class this year so that might be the reason but Boras had his guys sign early this year and it has been so much better because of it. Hopefully this trend continues.

 

But yeah, the Angels need to add at least one of Ryu or Keuchel now.

[TheHurl]

If the Angels don't get Ryu or Keuchel their offseason would be a horrible failure. The FO better not call it a day by acquiring Bundy and some average starter from FA.

 

f*** a pitcher. Give them a catcher. Stassi and Bemboom are worse than having a pitcher hitting. Jansen and Giles for Jo Adell.

 

Best infield defensively in baseball now?

[Orgfiller]

f*** a pitcher. Give them a catcher. Stassi and Bemboom are worse than having a pitcher hitting. Jansen and Giles for Jo Adell.

 

Best infield defensively in baseball now?

 

Probably not with Pujols still playing a bunch of games at first, but aside from 1B which no one even cares about an infield with Simmons, Rendon, and David Fletcher who can also back anyone up is up there. Hard to top Arenado and Story on the left side of the infield though.

[TheHurl]

Probably not with Pujols still playing a bunch of games at first, but aside from 1B which no one even cares about an infield with Simmons, Rendon, and David Fletcher who can also back anyone up is up there. Hard to top Arenado and Story on the left side of the infield though.

 

Just two more years left on that contract. Time to say to Pujols, join Maddon on the bench full-time. Actually straight up using him only against lefties you can probably get positive value out of him. The 326 PA's he had against righties is about 300 too many. Him and LaStella make a pretty nice tandem at 1B.

[Spanky__99]

WTF... lulz, love ya!

[glory]

The Angels top 3 prospects are Adell, Marsh, and Adams. All outfielders. They have Trout and Upton at the big league level. If they can't sign a SP they'll probably end up trading for one. Joel Sherman mentioned Kluber's name but don't know if that's actually something being discussed. They seem to be in a good position to trade from their system though. Wonder if they'd want Giles for the pen.

[Orgfiller]

The Angels top 3 prospects are Adell, Marsh, and Adams. All outfielders. They have Trout and Upton at the big league level. If they can't sign a SP they'll probably end up trading for one. Joel Sherman mentioned Kluber's name but don't know if that's actually something being discussed. They seem to be in a good position to trade from their system though. Wonder if they'd want Giles for the pen.

 

I feel like they'd rather eat a bit of Upton's salary and trade him in return for a prospect (pitching most likely) than trade Adell for an ace, but we'll see.

[RobinThicc]

Lol @ giving strasburg 7/245 when you could've given that to rendon

[Bobthe4th]

 

Rendon to the Angels

 

Perfect signing to go with the return of Ohtani the pitcher and Adell's promotion later in the year. They really, really need Ryu to complete the off-season though.

[Spanky__99]

Perfect signing to go with the return of Ohtani the pitcher and Adell's promotion later in the year. They really, really need Ryu to complete the off-season though.

 

Ryu's next.

[Bobthe4th]

Its going to be very interesting to see what contract Josh Donaldson now gets.

[Spanky__99]

its going to be very interesting to see what contract josh donaldson now gets.

 

25 aav

[L54]

Donny will get his 100M

[Spanky__99]

Donny will get his 100M

 

You think? 1 year too many.

[glory]

Porcello gets 1/10 from the Mets.

[SaskJaysFan_2]

Porcello gets 1/10 from the Mets.

 

I think JD gets 3-year/$80M

[Brownie19]

Gardner back to the Yanks. 1 yr $12.5M + a $20M option for 2021.

[G-Snarls]

Gardner back to the Yanks. 1 yr $12.5M + a $20M option for 2021.

 

Was sure he'd stay with the Yankees. That's a little more money than I thought he'd get.

[G-Snarls]

I think JD gets 3-year/$80M

 

I say AA talks him into 3 years 75M plus an option with a 5M buyout.

 

Edit: Which means it prob amounts to exactly the same thing.

Edited December 12, 2019 by G-Snarls

[Orgfiller]

Gardner back to the Yanks. 1 yr $12.5M + a $20M option for 2021.

 

You're off on the details a bit. It's 10M for year 1 with a 10M club option for year 2 with a 2.5M buyout for a 12.5M guarantee.

[Sorrow]

You're off on the details a bit. It's 10M for year 1 with a 10M club option for year 2 with a 2.5M buyout for a 12.5M guarantee.

 

Was originally reported as 20M option.

[Orgfiller]

Was originally reported as 20M option.

 

I imagined this was the case so I went soft on him.

[devo]

It’d be a fun exercise to calculate how much commission Scott Boras has made this offseason for himself.

 

He’s at $814M in guaranteed contracts between Cole, Strasburg, and Rendon with Ryu, Keuchel, and Castellanos still left to go. Does he get to $1 billion???

 

Boras is at $878 million when you include Moustakas. Will get to $1 billion easily.

[G-Snarls]

Boras is at $878 million when you include Moustakas. Will get to $1 billion easily.

 

And Boras apparently takes 5% no matter how large or small the contract.

 

So this off season alone will get him approx $50M paid at various rates spread over the next 4-9 seasons

[Krylian]

And Boras apparently takes 5% no matter how large or small the contract.

 

So this off season alone will get him approx $50M paid at various rates spread over the next 4-9 seasons

 

More than any of his players make.

[keggy]

Just two more years left on that contract. Time to say to Pujols, join Maddon on the bench full-time. Actually straight up using him only against lefties you can probably get positive value out of him. The 326 PA's he had against righties is about 300 too many. Him and LaStella make a pretty nice tandem at 1B.

 

I would go a step further and say that a team fighting for a playoff position can't squander a valuable roster spot on a right handed platoon player with no baserunning or defensive value. He's basically Kendrys Morales who can hit lefties.

 

If the Angels are serious about contending this year, they need to work something out with Pujols.

[TheHurl]

And Boras apparently takes 5% no matter how large or small the contract.

 

So this off season alone will get him approx $50M paid at various rates spread over the next 4-9 seasons

 

He also has 75 employees to pay and 5 offices. It's not like he's a 1 man show taking all the money.

[BTS]

It warms my heart to see the Red Sox scraping the barrel for Martin Perezes and Jose Perazas while looking at eating like 40M to shed David Price and possibly losing Mookie Betts to free agency and having a maybe-broken Chris Sale.

[z3r0s]

truly a Christmas miracle.

[P2F]

Tsutsugo to the Rays

 

I can't believe he couldn't get a bigger deal than 2/12. Everyone seemed to think he would get a 4/40 deal lol.