Damn, I was really hoping Skubal would sign a big extension in Detroit.
Way better than having him end up on the Yankees or Red Sox. Imagine going into a playoff series with those two teams and having to face Skubal/Crochet or Skubal/Cole?
Gross.
Yankees have been just laying in the weeds all off season so far too.
Would love to see Varsho extended at a fair price. The middle of the diamond would be secured defensively for several years with elite defensive players in Kirk, Giminez, Clement and Varsho. Clement and Varsho the oldest at 29 and all of them having shown the ability in the past to be good enough offensively to be 3+ fWAR players when combined with their elite defense.
Like I mentioned earlier, the Oka signing gave the Jays enough of a nudge to move ahead of the Yankees in fWAR projections and into 2nd place overall.
If they sign Bo or Tucker they will be breathing down the Dodgers necks.
Agreed, the Jays seeming willingness to spend changes a lot of things. I don't care if they sign Bo or Tucker and it forces Taters to be a bench bat as long he's not a malcontent in the room and if the Jays don't care about his money on the bench I sure don't.
I dunno, Giminez battled injuries last year. He was good at the start when he was healthy, and he was good at the end when he got healthy again. I think he gets the full time SS duties to start and keeps them unless he falls on his face with the bat again. I would not be shocked if he put up a 3 fWAR season, all he needs is a 90-95 wRC+ bat to do it.
This all reminds of the Varsho discussions of years past. He was playing LF because of KK and struggling to have a league average bat. As soon as he got the full time CF gig and put up a 99 wRC+ he had a 3.1 fWAR season. Now under Popkins he's 120 wRC+ and trending for closer to 5 fWAR over a full season.
I think they are in the same market as the Jays for Bo and Tucker .If the Jays sign both, they can't. I guess they could pivot to Bregman, although I don't see the fit.
lol c'mon man get real
Yesavage and Barger combined project the same fWAR value as Marte and Barger is 6 years younger, while Yesavage is 8 years younger. Plus they are both pre-arb
As of right now fangraphs has the Jays 3rd overall in projected fWAR.
I really hope they land one of Bo/Tucker/Bregman, but if they don't they're still a very good team on paper.
All this waiting around and it will probably go like this:
Bregman back to the Red Sox
Tucker back to the Cubs
Bellinger back to the Yankees
Bo back to the Jays