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Santander is a moron lol

Lots of signing and news last couple of days! Lindor needs hamate surgery Verlander to Detroit

Schwellenbach elbow pain, 60 day IL to start the year Damn. He might be cooked.

If his hair wasn't a bit longer you could question whether or not they were taken on the same day It is amazing how fat he can get. Amazing how his baseball talent is just PURE genetics and baseball IQ (ignoring baserunning) since he appears to be a bottom of the barrel workout guy. He basically gets fat and sloppy and then pays a PT for 8 weeks in the offseason to help him lose 15 lbs and add 10 lbs to his bench press. Remarkably divergent as far as modern professional athletes go. Might as well be smoking and eating hot dogs during the games. OR on the flip side, people just hyperfocus too much on aesthetics when it comes to physical preparation for some sports. Body fat can be beneficial, especially for recovery and generic human health and of course strength athletes are always "fat" and a lot of what he does (hit ball hard) is an exercise in strength. Maybe too many guys these days try to look like underwear models and then just blow out their obliques every year or come back slow from every injury (Tyler O'Neill)

I think what their plan will be with Bieber is to slow walk him through the first leg of the year with the ultimate goal of having him fully healthy and firing on all cylinders in the fall. Essentially, the Dodgers approach with some SP. I doubt the team cares about his IP or GS totals in 2026. And Bieber probably has no illusions that he is going to get paid as a workhorse anyway so 140 quality innings will look better for his free agency than 180 innings where he gets rocked a bit or ends up hurt. So, b) from your list will be closer to the truth but the first and second halves of the season may be quite different.

Lmao

Only really interested if he's cheap and will be going on the 60 day IL until summer for some phantom injury.

Red Sox To Acquire Caleb Durbin By Steve Adams | February 9, 2026 at 8:26am CDT The Red Sox are acquiring infielder Caleb Durbin from the Brewers, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN. Milwaukee receives a three-player package including lefties Kyle Harrison and Shane Drohan as well as infielder David Hamilton, Passan adds. Boston is also picking up infielder Andruw Monasterio, catcher/infielder Anthony Seigler and a Competitive Balance Round B pick, per Will Sammon of The Athletic. Weird trade!!!!!!!!!!!!

Basically every worthwhile remaining FA is a pitcher. By projected WAR the top 13 left standing are SP. Gallen and Bassitt through Corbin and Mikolas.

Sell high!

Buck on the LOE is weird for me He was not a good announcer, for a long portion of his tenure, and was the butt of many jokes His play by play was awful lol

Decent turnout. That's Matt Davidson in the DH spot. Maybe Black gets those PAs though. Sucks to not see Freeman, Brash, Pivetta, Cade Smith, Sabrowski and I guess even Romano. Jonah Tong was a long shot. The bullpen looks very weak.

The Fangraphs tracker uses the present value. But we don't know what the deferrals are yet for Framber's deal. No matter how you chop it up, Cease's AAV looks great in comparison to others. The only real wrinkle with his deal is the 7th year. Framber Valdez SP R L HOU 32 6.163 4.0 3.6 5 $140.0M $28.0M ❌$22.0M DET 3 $115.00M $38.33M 📝 Dylan Cease SP R R SDP 30 6.089 3.4 3.8 5 $130.0M $26.0M ❌$22.0M TOR 7 $210.00M $27.02M 📝 Ranger Suárez SP L L PHI 30 6.112 4.0 3.4 5 $125.0M $25.0M ❌$22.0M BOS 5 $130.00M $26.00M 📝 Michael King SP R R SDP 31 6.004 0.8 3.1 4 $88.0M $22.0M ❌$22.0M SDP 3 $75.00M $25.00M 📝 Brandon Woodruff SP L R MIL 33 7.161 1.8 2.9 3 $66.0M $22.0M ✅$22.0M MIL 1 $22.03M $22.03M 📝 Shota Imanaga SP L L CHC 32 2.000 0.9 1.8 2 $38.0M $19.0M ✅$22.0M CHC 1 $22.03M $22.03M

Silly opinion though. Aging curves get steeper as players get older! The expected decline is more intense AND there is a higher risk every year of completely being done.

Trading Gausman is possible. Not likely and it would not be popular but if you ignore popularity it could make sense. Jays need SP from 2027 on, hence signing Framber (32) for several years Gausman (35) is more of a year-to-year guy given his age and bag of pitches (fringe velo, two pitches) Gausman in 2026 has surplus value. 3 win projection + durability and resume for a tidy salary. Signing Framber and trading Goose is still a mild SP upgrade Trading Goose could fetch a big upgrade elsewhere. I won't speculate, but they could get creative and package him with various players for a big upgrade on the position side and/or in relief.

Don't they do dynamic pricing? I believe they do so prices would get updated periodically maybe even daily

Framber would be sweet. Wonder who they would trade. Berrios is the one everyone mentions but he's such a dead weight, negative asset.

Doesn't make sense to compare Santander and Suarez. Every FA market is its own context. Santander was projected for 4/$80m and got 5/$68.6m, as a 30 year old. It was not a bad contract at all, they weren't paying him to be that good, maybe hoping for a 2 win player for 3 years. Obviously year 1 went as bad as possible lol. Suarez was projected for 3/$60m and got 1/$15m but probably turned down something like 2/$30m from the Pirates. At 34 years old. Interesting to see that all of Suarez's projections have nose-dived as he is a DH on the depth chart now. Not a single 2 WAR projection. It's pretty clear that teams think he is a butcher at 3B. So there is big disconnect between his expected 2026 value and his 2025 and prior WARs.

I wonder if Ben Williamson is better than Brendan Donovan

Wow Suarez really capitulates 1/$15m to the Reds I think most lists guessed 3/$60m for him He has 2.0+ WAR projections so on paper it's a great deal for Cincinnati Obviously what happened is the industry does not think he's a 3B anymore while the projection systems are still giving him some credit for the defensive side.

Jacob Wilson is pretty similar to Ernie a guess Not as good with the mitt but not quite as aggressive with the stick either

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