Joel Sherman just said that he's heard the Jays like Drury and that Drury is available. That's all I took from his tweet. I doubt it was related to anything specific like the Jays wanting him in return.
No way the Jays voluntarily let a player they are about to acquire stay in a game even if it’s the minors. It would serve no benefit to them.
I wonder what’s the hold up. Physicals probably. The Rangers were scared of Oh’s medicals in the winter so who knows.
Agreed. High risk and far away from the Majors but huge upside. Rather have that than guys closer to the majors with less upside. But will Yankees move him for a rental?
This will be Oh’s second really good year in 3 years and he makes $2.5m next year. He’s not prime Britton, but Britton isn’t even prime Britton anymore and is a rental. I’d hope the Jays get more but reputation is on Britton’s side.
Dombrowski is AA on steroids when it comes to trading prospects. Don’t think it means anything for rest of the market but who knows. I just want Happ traded at this point.
Only took the A's three years to bounce back from the s***** JD trade (and the 2014/15 moves in general). Not bad. Hope they beat the lucky M's for the WC.
I think teams know what Happ is at this point. If he had a better defence behind him and pitched 6 innings and say 1 or 2 runs against the Red Sox, what do the Yankees offer? More than they are willing to now? I don't think teams operate like that. Happ has established himself as a 3 war type starter over a full season. That is what he has been so far this year. His value is probably the same as it always was. The only way it would have changed for the better is if he was pitching like DeGrom or something (would have changed for the worse if he was pitching awful, on the flip side).
Last two starts: 1.04 era, 1.89 fip, 8.2 ip 1 bb, 15 k, 9 hits (7 singles, a double, and a HR to Betts on his 45th pitch in an inning or something crazy like that).
High pitch counts definitely a concern but defence behind him has been ass.
I don't think Happ's value was ever really high to begin with. Well, it is maybe high in terms of what a rental can get nowadays, but not high as in getting another team's top prospects. I think two B/B- prospects is probably realistic. Shatkins probably waiting for a team to get desperate but Happ isn't good enough for that. Donaldson if he was healthy maybe, but not Happ.
In reality the rentals aside from Happ and Donaldson aren't particularly good to begin with. We were hoping that we'd be able to utilize a half season of success and turn it into something but really guys like Clippard, Granderson, Loup, Axford, etc, are so fungible that it doesn't really matter how they do. Estrada was a bit of a wild card but would any contending team have him in their playoff rotation?
Shatkins better get something good for Happ. Oh is another guy they should move but I fear the cheap option might make them hold on to him (hope I'm wrong). They really need to start selling guys with more than a year of control left.
The Mets would take a sandwich in return if the other team absorbs the entire contract. They make Rogers look like prime George Steinbrenner by comparison.
The market has taken a giant dump on first baseman and DH's. Smoak is a real good hitter but I don't think teams will value him enough to make a trade worthwhile.
I don't think $5m is too bad, but that 2020 option looks pretty bad. Yeah, I'd move him, even if the return is small. Likable guy but bad defender and league average hitter at best. If you can get something even remotely interesting for him, then go for it.