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I mean if you can get Moreno you trade Ruiz. I think Toronto just is not in a position to do this type of trade. Prob not willing to go this far. Also, sounds like Hosmer contract was being mostly retained so you can even add another $30M of prospect value to the above example.

He deserves s***** because he's an ******* and has always been rude to reporters. Not because of the contract.

Why even put him in the deal then? Just cut him.

Manoah alone is worth significantly more than any piece Padres giving up His value has probably tripled in the last year

Name Position MTV ($Ms) Abrams SS 47.1 Gore SP 29.6 Hassell OF 38.7 Hosmer 1B -35.2 Susana RHP 2.5 Wood 1B 25.6 Total Value: 108.30 Name Position MTV ($Ms) Martinez SS 13.9 Moreno C 68.7 Pearson SP 3.3 Tiedemann LHP 22.9 Total Value: 108.80

There's the answer

If Hosmer kills this deal, a Padres fan might literally murder him.

The wording here is weird. Has not approved does not mean he has refused to approve it.

*in a small sample size their mediocre bullpen did not give up a lot of runs in the playoffs*

Me too Revenge pinch hitting heroics?

Hosmer's deal is lighter on the backend, which kind of matters. His AAV appears to drop to $13M for these final three seasons.

They robbed Washington. The package should have several other 40 or 45 FV prospects... Edit NVM lol Gore and more makes it good haha. Should have waited.

Wow So the Padres legendary farm system is basically no more. All spent, save for Campusano and Gore.

One of the rare times quantity might make more sense than quality Nats org is a dumpster fire They could get like 8 prospects from the Padres and it would really help

Alright this is going to be a banger

Something is definitely off. He does not look like 2021 Vlad, has not all year. Observationally he is just getting eaten up by breaking balls on the outside corner. It's like every at bat starts with a slider away and he is taking borderline pitches with calls not going his way (tough luck) or whiffing on them (bad swings). But some of the called slider strikes down there are not even great pitches and a locked in good hitter like Kirk pounds them the other way consistently. I dunno. Tough data to parse. He's not hitting the oppo homers this year that's for sure. He crushed fastballs last year and is not this year. Seems like he is caught in between fastballs and breaking balls right now. Like how they are pitching him is in his head and he doesn't know whether to sit breaking ball away or keep sitting FB. When you look at his "swing/take" profile on Statcast it really seems like the primary issue is simply not doing damage on pitches in the zone. That's it. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/visuals/swing-take?playerId=665489&playerSet=hitters&year=2021 toggle 2021 and 2022

Honestly makes sense for the O's, assuming the baby arms have stuff Lopez is vastly overrated and possibly not an elite reliever.

Yeah this is cool Sell everybody, O's

hmmm Povich has K-BB that jumps off the page, maybe he's legit legit

I did not expect him to maintain his 2021 level, let alone improve. Riley had legit contact issues, K rates approaching 30%, in the minors. And he is outhitting our generational talent 70 hit 80 power first baseman, simply because said first baseman has one very specific flaw this year with breaking balls down and away.

They just have to add him to the 40 man roster. Surely they have room on the 40 to protect Horwitz.

Make a trade. Lopez alone seems light for the arguable #1 prospect in baseball. Lopez+?

Sure he still exists. Should just be a reliever at this point though.

Riley could legitimately be dead money for 4/5 years on this contract, it takes him to 35. The age tips the risk assessment quite a bit IMO even if it's only 2 years. I don't think he's better either. Playing better this year but 2021+2022 Vlad is 8.8 fWAR and he is 9.3; it's effectively a tie. Riley also has/had some contact warts and projects worse across the board of projection systems. I don't think the Riley contract is necessarily bad, but my reference here was more to the people who didn't want to extend Vlad at all. Many were saying "he hasn't earned it" and s***, or they were not interested at all in long term deal at any conceivable dollar value. Just funny to see old friend AA lock up an older player for a decade in context. I still think they should lock Vlad up for a decade if at all possible. If anything the Riley contract could be used as a team friendly comp. I'd be ecstatic at anything close to that dollar figure and yeah I would go higher. Bo is completely separate consideration.

8:09am: The Phillies are believed to have Syndergaard “at the top of their list” as they seek rotation upgrades, tweets Jayson Stark of The Athletic. It suddenly feels like it's Syndergaard or nothing as far as SP acquisitions go