G-Snarls

Yep. No team can afford to pay their whole starting rotation 10-20M per guy. (s***, we even have a AAA starter making 7.5M) A league minimum guy or two can help enormously wityh overall team finances. Just ask Tampa Bay.

Yeah, I'd trade probably any other prospect for him

Yep If you can nab this guy for a reasonable cost and sooner rather than later, do it

Last thing we need, if true, is more guys like that

But .198/.306/.261 Ick. That's Thole caliber BA and SLG. Only his walk ability seems acceptable. Is his defense so good it makes up for it? Maybe, don't know enough about him. Edit: Scratch that. Looking at his whole career in BR it's clear that 2013 was a MAJOR outlier offensively. Great bounce back candidate. Career .262 .359.343 .703 Very nice for a catcher who provides plus defense

Reds Likely To Move Ryan Hanigan By Steve Adams [November 15 at 7:42am CST] NOV. 15: Hanigan "is going to be traded," tweets Olney. Multiple teams are interested in Hanigan, and the Reds feel they can get a good prospect in exchange, Olney adds. NOV. 8: The Reds have agreed to a two-year deal with free agent Brayan Pena, giving them three catchers on their 40-man roster: Pena, Devin Mesoraco and Ryan Hanigan. It appears that Hanigan is the odd man out, as Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports hears from a source that Hanigan is likely to be moved (Twitter link). ESPN's Buster Olney tweets that the Rays and Yankees, two teams with question marks at catcher this offseason, have liked Hanigan in the past. Hanigan, 33, struggled through the worst season of his career in 2013, batting just .198/.306/.261 and tying a career-low with two home runs. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projects Hanigan to earn $2.3MM through arbitration this offseason, which should be a cheap enough sum for interested parties to take on. The main culprit in Hanigan's poor season appears to have been a .216 batting average on balls in play. That number figures to trend back toward his career mark of .283, especially when considering that Hanigan's batted-ball profile didn't radically change in 2013. In fact, Hanigan's 21.5 percent line-drive rate was actually a slight increase over his 2012 mark (21.2 percent) and is right in line with his career mark (21.9 percent). Hanigan has long been known as a patient hitter that is tough to strike out, as evidenced by a career 12 percent walk rate and 10.1 percent strikeout rate. Detractors may point to the lofty walk rate as a product of him batting eighth in an NL lineup so often (one spot in front of the pitcher), but Hanigan's career walk rate in more than 300 plate appearances out of the seventh slot in the order is higher than his walk rate in 1,110+ PAs in the eighth slot. Hanigan also carries a reputation as a solid defensive backstop, having led the league in caught-stealing percentage in 2013 (45 percent) and 2012 (48 percent). His 40 percent career mark is about 12 percentage points higher than the league average, which tends to be around 28 percent. He's also known as one of the best in the business in terms of pitch-framing -- an art he discussed at length with Ben Lindbergh for a Grantland piece back in May.

Pretty much. Would cost 1/4 of the team.

That's the right attitude Would I trade one of them in a big package for Felix Hernandez? Of course I would For Ryan Hanigan? No F'n way

I know what you mean I guess I'm thinking, I would much prefer to see our needs addressed through free agency and a smaller trade while keeping these 2 young promising arms SP - FA C- FA 2B - Trade Probably unrealistic though

Any team would give Adam Lind 5 million dollars to DH/1B if they didn't already have 2 good players there

Just heard on ESPN radio that Alex Rodriguez cancelled his meeting today with MLB because he was sick, and actually SENT THEM A NOTE from a doctor stating he was too sick to travel to NY for it.

Good read from an Arizona writer who voted for McCutchen:

Me too. They both project so highly. Would hate to see them go.

I really can't see trading Stroman or Sanchez. So close to MLB ready and cheap good pitching is so hard to find.

Jim Callis says Sanchez has "the look of a frontline starter" http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article/tor/aaron-sanchez-kyle-crick-have-the-look-of-frontline-starters?ymd=20131114&content_id=63933500&vkey=news_tor

AND he got a PS4 already:

28/30 first place votes for Cutch

McCutcheon is NL MVP Easy choice there. What a sweet all around player.

Eg. Marcum for Lawrie That's what you do until you're close to contention. Then maybe you overpay for a critical need or two via free agency (preferably) or trade (from depth) AA thought the team was ready for that jump when in reality it wasn't. I still blame a lot of the failure this year for doing NOTHING 2 off seasons ago.

218 acceptable innings pitched in 2013 in a good division

[Covers lap with blanket] FAP FAP FAP

They can't get any of these players Buck won't be able to pronounce the names!!!

1/2 of 100M I hear? I wonder how much of that comes from ownership vs other sources (local business/government/etc)

Uninspiring targets

I don't know how Rogers would feel about a one time 60+M payout. To the company it's chump change but to the baseball operation it's not. Yeah I can't see it.