I wouldn't be surprised to see his "new approach" go completely out the window when he has to face MLB pitchers again. The breaking pitches are just so much better than any other league.
Again, I don't see that happening. No way Rogers forces Shapiro's hand... You don't hire a new president known for squeezing value and then force him to make a non-value move.
I just don't see it. If you look at anything Shapiro has done/said, you would see he wouldn't give out a giant contract to a 30 year-old pitcher. Especially since their are some good deals to be had for other starters on the market.
Only way we sign Price is if he agrees to 20 million a year for like 6 years.
How is there not enough money? We had around 30 million available for this offseason IIRC.
11.5 going to Estrada, 5 going to Chavez... still leaves us with like 13.5 to play around with. We could also trade Revere to offload 6 million.
Yeah who's decision was it to put those guys in the bullpen anyways? Some dimwit name Alex...
Shapiro probably has all 3 of them starting in AAA next year as depth. If we add 1 more starter we could have some pretty sweet rotation depth
Stroman
FA starter
Estrada
Dickey
Chavez
Hutchison
Sanchez
Osuna
I don't think Arod ever tested positive either, yet was suspended for a full year with no precedent. I wish MLB would just forget about past steroid usage and only blacklist guys that TEST POSITIVE in the non-steroid era. So many good guys will be left out of the HOF even though there were no rules against steroids while they were playing and literally 70% of players were on steroids anyways.