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Mahle's TJS was in May, right? He would be like one month ahead of the 2023 Ryu timeline. So in 2024 the signing team wouldn't get much, especially if he has any rehab delays. Severino's 2023 was one of the more puzzling SP seasons. The Yankees rotation was absolutely f***ing hilarious between him, Montas, and Rodon. Cortes also kind of funny with ERA regression.

Wow Seems dumb tbh

I'd be on board with trading for Eugenio Suárez Ernie Clement should do it

Dunno who this guy is but I doubt Toronto will miss Lantigua And I also kind of doubt they want to pay Chapman $100M+

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/brendon-little/21574/stats?position=P Dunno if anyone mentioned it but Toronto traded cash for this guy ^^^

No, but he probably doesn't hit a huge amount of doubles either. Just a weird player. If it all works out I guess he'll probably look sort of like 2023 Lars Nootbaar at the plate. But of course the 1B version of him. 15 HRs, .370 OBP kind of dude?

I wouldn't want him after 30 years old but he's 26. Not really concerned about the K rate right now.

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Ryan Noda is going to hit arbitration in 2026 so Oakland might want to cycle down and trade him before he costs $2M a year. Horwitz for Noda

Should Horwitz even matter? 25 year old with 10 HR in AAA in almost 500 PA. Sure, the BB and K rates look nice but again he was 25. He has options. I think he's a guy I really like on my 40 man roster but prefer not to have on my 26 man MLB roster.

I could get behind a big trade for Robert but it wouldn't be comfortable. Tiedemann + Orelvis + Arjun Nimmala might even fall short.

The White Sox head into the offseason looking to turn things around under a new general manager after a disastrous 2023 campaign. Chris Getz, promoted from his prior post as assistant GM after the summer dismissal of Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams, met with reporters yesterday at the GM Meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz. and discussed his team’s outlook. While the rookie baseball ops leader emphasized that there are winning pieces on the roster, he also acknowledged that on the whole, “I don’t like our team,” adding that it’s “not a well-rounded club” — a blunt recognition that broad changes are needed (link via Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times). While Getz didn’t delve into specifics as to how those changes would be realized, he took an open-minded approach when asked about trade possibilities, conceding that there “are no untouchables” on his roster. That’ll surely lead to a frenzy of fan speculation regarding talents like Dylan Cease and particularly Luis Robert Jr., although Getz also noted that he won’t be “proactive” in exploring Robert trade scenarios and called the center fielder the type of player a team should build around. The general tone of Getz’s comments, plus Robert’s talent and extremely appealing contract — he’s signed through 2025 at a total of $29.5MM guaranteed, plus club options for the 2026-27 seasons — will lead to ample interest. Still just 26 years old, Robert is fresh off a .264/.315/.542 showing in 145 games and 595 plate appearances with the South Siders. He popped 38 homers, swiped 20 bases and played standout defense in center field. It’s an MVP-caliber package of tools, and the fact that he’d earn a total of $67.5MM through 2027 if both his club options are exercised creates considerable surplus value for both the Sox or potential trade partners.

Cody Bellinger has to be the scariest big ticket free agent since Javier Baez - demonstrated replacement level downside - xwOBA in 2023 forty points worse than his wOBA - 2023 career lows in average EV, hard hit rate, and barrel rate - troubling injury history

Yeah. Can't fire the hitting coach because Vlad is low IQ.

zoom out. Martinez has been the hitting coach since 2019. 2019 - 92 (18th) 2020 - 104 (13th) 2021 - 112 (2nd) 2022 - 118 (2nd) 2023 - 107 (8th) If results are all that matters it's hard to let him go unless we are being very short sighted

Awkward. What Cashman probably wanted to say is something like "we aren't interested in giving a starting role to a player like Peraza who was a fringe-average hitter in AAA"

signal vs. noise it's possible that the hitting coach was not the problem. coaches are often scapegoats. there is a lot of luck involved in RISP results. coaching changes are a higher risk move than people think. there is a benefit to keeping groups of employees/staff/players together over the years. many of the Jays 2023 hitting problems can be individualized and the fix is just on the player. All the coaches can do is identify the problem and give the player drills or tips to fix it. It's on the player to gain comfort in the changes and implement them. So if Guillermo Martinez is on record telling Vlad to stop swinging at low strikes, Chapman to get out in front more, Kirk to get out in front more, Varsho to not be so flyball obsessed, etc., and he working with them and offering proper instruction and drills, and the players still fail... it might not be a coaching issue. they ARE making some minor coaching changes so it's not like the staff is all returning in identical functions and last, a portion of the Jays 2023 offensive issues are just personnel related. FO made a conscious effort to prioritize defense. (just supplying to other side of the coin as requested, don't tar and feather me bros)

Some of them are out to lunch but it's mostly fine The Bellinger one is wild The Jordan Montgomery money is insane to me but I dunno

His Fangraphs scouting grades are choice. 60 speed, 60 defense, 60 hit, 50 raw power. junghoolee51.com is funny. it immediately references Bo Bichette and Vlad ? https://junghoolee51.com/Scoutingreport Five KBO gold gloves in CF... hmmmm..... I am super interested Okay, Ha Seong Kim is the obvious comp. KBO: .294/.373/.493, ages 18 to 24, K and BB rates were about 11.5% with a ~.200 ISO in his last two years MLB: .245/.325/.383 Lee KBO: .340/.407/.491, ages 18 to 24, 11% BB rate with 6% K rate last two years and .226 and .136 ISOs Looks like he is Kim with better contact/avg and less pop. .275/.350 with 10-12 homers? He didn't have the KBO SB that Kim did. He's probably somewhere in between Kim and Steven Kwan as a hitter. It definitely plays if the defense and BsR are rock solid. Imagine Kwan with 45 power instead of 30 power. Or to put it another way, imagine Masataka Yoshida if he was a good athlete instead of a butcher DH.

Lee has a pretty swing. The homers look nice on the youtubes. I wonder if the lack of power, high contact is somewhat intentional based on approach and if he could hit more dingers if he wanted to.

please hire him

very excited for JP Morosi to use the Blue Jays as a fake rumor on literally every free agent just because Ross Atkins calls them all to say hi and kick the tires

Trent Thornton is the one!

It's possible I mean Seattle's motivation in trading for him is evidence towards this. Teams do overpay for this kind of player. They do it in trade, like Seattle did, and they do it in free agency, just see the contracts for guys like Schwarber and Castellanos and Bryant and Avisail Garcia and George Springer and others - all horrendously overpaid corner outfielders who ostensibly have pop.

Truly executed to perfection by Atkins