My all-day lineup is doing pretty good.
Allen, Jones, McKissic, Woods, Diggs, Beasley, Gronk, Kupp, Rams. 118 points with 3 guys to go.
CPT: Jones, Brady, Godwin, Evans, Thomas, Sims in the showdown tonight. Not sure about this one.
You're talking about a deal that's like 7/260 if you assume he gets 60M in arbitration (it might be a little more). I really don't see that as value that they should jump on now rather than 2 years from now when they have more information on him. I can't see a deal 2 years from now being considerably more per year than 37 or 38M.
Roark's profile has changed the last few years. His ground ball rate has plummeted (and is continuing to do so). I think someone who puts up an xFIP in the upper 4's is probably what we'll get from him, and that's probably no different from what Shun will provide in the same usage scenario now that he's had a year to adjust to the ball. I think Shun has a little higher upside though, if he can get ahead and start using that splitter as a proper weapon. The ideal scenario would be neither.
Well, that stings if true. Yamaguchi had better find it quick next year
I do think we'll see some big improvements from him, I'm just not sure they'll be big enough.
The tags for that article again point to Martino (literally, right at the bottom). I'm not saying he's wrong, just that (as far as I can tell) we only have one single source for all the contract discussion, and one who seems to only have ties to the Mets front office rather than any of Springer's reps. Heck, the article does not state that the Jays offer was 5 years, only the contract total. He's probably correct, but we'd be stupid to assume it.
As far as I remember seeing, Martino is the only one who's mentioned the offer totals for both teams. He may be pulling them out of his ass, or it's also possible the Jays have offered something like 4/115 and he only knew the total and assumed the term.
We don't need to spend this offseason just because we can. If the right player can't be had, for whatever reason, there's nothing wrong with holding onto our flexibility for the trade deadline or offseason next year.
And Palmer was off to a terrible one. He's fighting back though.
My lineup is in the weekend long one, so I'll just be happy if everyone makes it past the cut (assuming this tournament has one). I only entered one of the small ones since I didn't have time to research it.