G-Snarls

Agreed He's as good as gone.

Cause the nightmare scenario is JD plays 1/3 of a s***** season and Espinal plays most of the year at 3B Can't. Let. That. Happen.

Maybe, if: You can't sign Chapman for a reasonable deal You have a quality backup who can play 3B when Donaldson is hurt You're getting a significant offensive upgrade in LF/DH as well

Everyone, including players on those teams if they're honest, know that the Braves were a better team this year. Yet still the DBacks made it farther in the post season. Better team vs better season not the same

Mustache Heaven

Actually yes. The Varsho trade carries too much recency bias And the Berrios trade was great but oddly in part because Austin Martin never panned out... Let's say: Signing free agent pitchers Signing stop gap 1 year free agent position players Trades Drafting (it's hard to gauge extensions because it's really only been Berrios and Grichuk, and I don't know of failing to sign Vladdy and Bo long term is a good or bad rthing LOL)

Smart organizations trade guys like this (top players who they know they can't keep long term due to cost/inability to reach an extension/desire to be somewhere else) with 1.5-2 years of control left rather than waiting for them to walk for a draft pick (a draft pick that doesn't even come in the first TWO rounds anymore at that) Dumb ones wait too long (Orioles and Machado, Red Sox and Betts, Angels and Ohtani, etc...) It sucks and the fans hate it at first but sometimes it's just the right thing to do (All that said I still hope they can sign him long term but if feels like that might be a problem)

Atkins success rates in descending order: Signing free agent pitchers Signing stop gap 1 year free agent position players Drafting Contract extensions Trades

A little over 2 years for me here in AB Will always be an east coaster at heart though You me and one other regular poster that I know of livin' the dream out here

Worth it for all those playoff winz! Oh wait...

Holy s*** this is gonna be great https://bluejays.fanportal-mlb.com/ballpark-renovation/construction

Would he come back? Would we want him back?

I'm hearing they want to trade like half of them for Mike Trout

Seems like it...

I want him so bad but sounds like he just really wants to stay in Cleveland: https://www.si.com/mlb/bluejays/news/blue-jays-jose-ramirez-trade-guardians-extension In the final days of 2022 spring training, approaching an imposed deadline for extension talks while Toronto and San Diego ramped up trade efforts, Ramírez pushed to stay with the Guardians. Ramírez's agent, Rafa Nieves of Republik Sports, told Gonzalez he and others tried to talk the Cleveland infielder out of taking the well below market value deal he eventually signed. "He knows that he left money on the table," Gonzalez reports Nieves said. "But he says, '$150 million or $200 million, my life is gonna be the same. I'm happier with $150 million in Cleveland than $200 million somewhere else.'" Toronto's interest in Ramírez was long-reported, dating back to at least midseason 2021. Touching on the days leading up to Ramírez's eventual extension, Sportsnet's Jeff Blair adds that industry sources told him "three of Randal Grichuk, Cavan Biggio, Alejandro Kirk and Pearson would have been the package" sent to Cleveland for Ramírez. ------------------ Interesting article with more details than I knew were out there. He has full no trade clause according to Sportrac.

Josh Donaldson wRC+ from 2020-2023: 132 126 98 78

2025 Gausman Berrios Bassitt Woodruff Tiedemann Like it

Feels like an Atkins move Pay him a modest amount to not pitch in 2024 then pay him appropriately after Ryu and then Kikuchi are both off the books

Pretty much confirmed now

Soroka has pitched a total of 46 innings over the past 4 seasons. After finishing 2019 ROY-2 and Cy-6.

Meanwhile they're still paying Chris Davis and Mychal Givens to not play

They're the one team that didn't even make a pitch to him when he was first coming to MLB (so when he was cheap AF too)

2 seconds? Wtf why bother. Current times feel fine.