Still waiting on the full details here eh.
There has to be more complexity to it than has been reported. I just cannot accept, until it is confirmed, that the Rockies are just throwing $50M away with Arenado.
There's something about wonderful defensive third basemen... I don't have data but they seem to age well. Maybe that's just my brain jumping to a few players like Beltre and Rolen
It's well documented that having Coors as your home field tanks your road numbers. Something about constantly adjusting to different pitch dynamics. I'm not worried about Arenado's offense at all.
Rockies = Dumb is the assumption but we need to wait for all the details. Maybe there are some real nice lottery ticket prospects in there, or an additional major league piece... I dunno.
Okay so it makes more sense now. Rosenthal is saying Arenado would keep his opt out after 2021 and GAIN an opt out after 2022.
The Rockies eating $50M probably only applies in some complicated way if he does not opt out... Or maybe some of it applies in 2021 regardless. We will see.
That would justify the s***** return because STL likely only gets one year of Arenado.
Every team is going to be very worried about innings increases from 2020. At this point it seems like Toronto is planning on using a huge line of starters and moving people in and out of the pen/rotation (or up and down from AAA) all year. And doing lots of piggyback games. And skipping turns.
Don't expect any 33 games started or 180+ IP guys
Lol, no he wouldn't. He might even be their sixth best behind Ryu, Pearson, Stripling, Matz, and Ray.
Really it would just be a five way tie for second best. Walker would just be another body in the pile.
As far as I can tell, many teams are skeptical of his defense so the point that they don't think of him as an OF on any future contract. The talent comparison is JD Martinez of three years ago. That means the open NL DH question has severely chilled his market. There are also exactly zero competitive AL teams looking to land a big money DH/LF.