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Guy is a clown for tweeting about this at all lmao.

Tucker to Toronto is guaranteed now. Cohen would not say that if he was going to the Mets. He would know what was going on if that were the case.

Bellinger is just a bizarre free agent. His seasons have been so up and down and his splits (L v R and home v road) in recent years are all over the place. He also looks like a stoner. I don't really want him on a deal like he is rumoured to get (5 years+ $30m+) I would assume he's a minus CF going forward as well

BA Blurbs In 2025, the Blue Jays signed Dominican shortstop Juan Sanchez, who hit .341/.449/.565 in 253 plate appearances in the Dominican Summer League. He’s already a top 10 prospect in the organization and tracking as one of the best Latin American position prospects Toronto has signed in several years. This year’s international class for the Blue Jays again leans heavily into hitters. Venezuelan catcher Juan Caricote ($1.95 million) has a good balance of skills in the batter’s box and behind the plate. He projects to stick at catcher, where he’s an advanced receiver comfortable handling high-end velocity. He’s athletic and agile, helping him block balls in the dirt. It’s not elite raw arm strength, but he projects to have at least an average arm once he’s physically mature. Caricote has a lean build for a catcher with a swing that’s loose, fluid and whippy from the left side and the strength projection to grow into a 15-plus home run hitter. Michael Mesa, signing for $900,000, is a lefthanded outfielder from the Dominican Republic with a strong, physically mature build for his age at 6-foot-1, 190 pounds who stood out early in the scouting process for his offensive upside. It’s a sound, slight uppercut lefthanded stroke, and while he’s still learning to recognize breaking stuff, he has the strength behind that swing to drive the ball well to both gaps and over the fence to his pull side. Mesa likely settles into an outfield corner, but he has improved his speed over the past year to become an average runner, giving him a chance to move around all three outfield spots at the lower levels. Dominican outfielder Aneudy Severino, signing for $700,000, is a talented player with an unconventional look. At 5-foot-9, he’s on the shorter side, but it’s a powerful build that’s extraordinarily strong for his age. His strength and bat speed allow him to drive the ball with high-end exit velocity from the right side of the plate, albeit with a flatter path for now that’s more conducive to loud line drives than loft. Severino is an above-average runner, though with a thicker body type that should get wider and could lead his speed to back up, there’s a good chance he gravitates to an outfield corner. Shortstop Sebastian Casanova from Venezuela is an excellent athlete with premium speed. At 5-foot-10, 175 pounds, he’s a plus-plus runner with explosive lower-half athleticism to play all over the field. He has experience both in the infield and in center field and should play somewhere up the middle, whether it’s a shortstop, second base or in center. He’s a hard-nosed player with good all-around instincts, a line-drive approach and gap power with an all-fields approach from the right side of the plate. Venezuelan shortstop Gabriel Porras is just 5-foot-7, 160 pounds, but he could end up a sneaky value signing. He has a relatively clean swing from both sides of the plate and good bat control to make contact at a high clip with gap power. It’s a good blend of game skills and athleticism with above-average speed and a middle infield profile, whether it ends up being at shortstop or second base.

good thing I'm not a whiny pissant anyway

perfectly fine! not my money!

8*40 = 320 10*32 = 320 You could think about B as A with deferrals.

Ugh the Red Sox rotation + rotation depth is annoyingly good Outside looking in: all of Early, Tolle, Crawford, Harrison, Sandoval, Houck I guess they might trade Bello. Some rumours they wanted to.

91 poo in the AL East Dude's gonna age like Nestor Cortes

The annoying thing is that the Dodgers SHOULD. Their OF is kind of poo for a team that should be elite everywhere. LF and RF both project to be just average

Translation - Tucker is signing with Toronto but using the Mets to try and milk more money out of Rogers

Feels like teams were trying to hold the line on contracts for the big bats but are now panicking and looking at the next two free agency classes and we might see some silly numbers 4/$200 for Tucker 8/$240 for Bo 6/$180 for Belllinger stuff like that

Carlos are you okay

Why do you think this? Straw's contract is a drop in the bucket now. The Jays have a $300M payroll.

lol what

Nobody is going to want to pay Straw so you aren't saving money by cutting him. You could cut him for baseball reasons (he is your worst projected player) or asset retention reasons (he won't get claimed, so you can DFA him and outright him to AAA). I don't think they will really do that, since he is the only backup CF on the 40 man. Clase/Loperfido don't seem to have the skills or instincts. But they could outright him off the 40 temporarily as a sneaky asset retention thing and give him the business explanation of "this changes nothing it's just a procedural move, you probably still break camp with us"

Every solid group of super friends needs one or two *******s

Marlins are dumb

I don't think it's 3/$150. It might be $50M in 2026, then a player option for 2027 and 2028

Well it's just the Bregman thing on a bigger scale Bregman took $40M for a year from BOS and then got $155M present value this offseason, making his effective deal(s) 6/$195M combined. If Tucker is looking at 9/$35m AAV (315M) from Toronto and comparing that to 3/$47m AAV with opt outs from the Mets, it's right for him to think about it. He could take $50M from the Mets for 2026 and then just try to beat 8/$265M next offseason to be in the green. And he probably would unless he sucks or gets hurt.

If Tucker is $45m AAV on a short deal with opt outs, he's probably $35m or so AAV in a longer term deal

Arenado for $5m and $6m is hilarious Just a funny sequence of events to see two teams pay so much money to get rid of Nolan Arenado, a borderline HOFer (or easy HOFer if you think the GGs carry the case, which they probably do).

I would say no, it's not normal to lie. There is a game to be played but most people who want a long career as a player agent would not be out there lying.

Kirk gonna have a 40+ WAR career all for Toronto isn't he

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