This signing seems kind of stupid. They already have Profar/Harris II/Acuna Jr. every day in the OF. Murphy/Baldwin eating most DH days. 20M for a 4th OF who can't really play CF is just an odd use of resources.
Yeah. The Mets have to add a big bat here, because they look like massive losers right now. And the only ones available are the ones we're sniffing around: Bo, Tucker, Marte.
Throwing away Santander for free is definitely smart business. He'd get like a 1/8 + an option deal if he hit FA right now. Obviously the team sheds that commitment if they could. Moot point though because they'd have to eat almost the entire thing and there's no reason to do that.
Not really sure what the Mets are doing. As things currently stand, McNeil, Vientos, Baty, and Tyrone Taylor are all in line for every day ABs, and that's not going to end well. They need to add like 3 bats.
I still can't wrap my head around having a talent like Skubal and not wanting to pay him. At least when Halladay left here, it was because he was fed up with a decade of mediocrity. He didn't want to stay here. But I think Skubal would stay in Detroit for market value. They just don't want to pay him.
It's honestly pathetic that Detroit has seemingly conceded that they won't sign him. They've been good enough that he'd likely stay if the money is there. So pay him the money. If he stays healthy he's on track to be a first ballot HoFer. Lock him in and people in Detroit will still be talking about watching Tarik Skubal's career 50-60 years from now. Detroit isn't even a small market.
Mets reportedly interested in Schwarber.
I don't understand their lack of respect for Alonso. By all accounts he wants to be there and is well liked by everyone in the org. He's not going to get outrageous money - just pay him and have him chase 500 HR as a career Met.
Rodriguez was good enough last year that there they they could have easily saved face by keeping on the 40-man (and 26-man for that matter). But it's obviously more valuable to the team to have him off the roster and providing depth in AAA. He's probably the 8th or 9th best SP on the team and 7th or 8th best RP (with more RP additions coming), but that can and will change when guys get hurt this season, and he'll be there able to fill in with innings that might be above replacement level.
There are probably fewer than 5 orgs that DFA him in this situation. This team is serious about winning.
If the team can find someone willing to take on Rodriguez's full contract, they should let him go. 3 more years at a 6.4M cap hit is too much for what he brings. He's basically the mop-up guy right now: he's not good enough to start games or pitch in high leverage spots, and Lauer and Berrios are both ahead of him on the swing-man depth chart.
Gausman, Cease, Yesavage, Bieber, Ponce is definitely the most fun Jays rotation of all-time, right? Like, with this defense we could set franchise run prevention records.
It's such a weird profile. The fact that he's projected to be comfortably above average offensively with a k-rate like that is pretty crazy. I won't be surprised if there are teams out there willing to pay big money for a 26-year old with prodigious power, hoping they can coach him to a ~30% k-rate.