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Kole Calhoun Market Taking Shape By Jeff Todd | December 11, 2019 at 1:48pm CDT We’ve yet to hear much of anything this winter regarding Kole Calhoun — a reflection both of the primacy of starting pitching on the market and the devaluation of the long ball around the league. The veteran corner outfielder has waited his turn as teams chase higher-priority targets. Now, it seems some attention is beginning to turn to Calhoun and other possible targets. MLB.com’s Jon Morosi tweets that the Blue Jays, Reds, Brewers, and Marlins all have some level of interest in the 32-year-old. Calhoun was paid a $1MM buyout by the Angels when his long-time team decided not to pick up his $14MM option. He popped 33 home runs in 2019 and has long been respected as a hard-nosed grinder with a quality glove, but his nice season wasn’t enough to warrant that level of pay even on a one-year deal. While Calhoun has at times produced well-above-average offensive numbers, his context-adjusted output wasn’t exceptionally productive in 2019. Over 552 plate appearances, he maintained a .232/.325/.467 batting line, good for a 108 wRC+. That was an improvement on his average-ish 2017 and awful 2018 showings with the bat, but hardly an otherworldly effort. Calhoun walked at a career-best 11.1% rate but also went down on strikes at a personal-worst 25.6% clip. The initial list of potential pursuers doesn’t seem to portend a bidding war. The Fish are biting this year, but don’t seem likely to go wild. They’re also looking at quite a few other options, as are the Reds. The Blue Jays and Brewers both make sense but don’t seem likely to spend past their internal valuations for a player such as Calhoun. Of course, it’s certainly possible that other clubs are in the picture or could join it depending upon outcomes with other segments of the market.

Suck a tailpipe retard, do us all a favour.

So who lands Rendon? Texas or LAA?

You guys like Didi taking 14M to bet on himself in a Bandbox, I think it's ballsy, but potentially very rewarding. I root for Didi!

You can put our trade through, dumn, dumn. I hope Lauer becomes something.

They just said on MLB Now that it's 1 year 3 million... incentives can climb to 7 million. That's quite different, lol.

Like I said, I thought of him as a CF, at time of post, I'd still rather Puig, unless Nimmo comes cheap. Would you comp Reddick to Nimmo at the same age?

Jays are not looking to sign pitchers at 1 WAR projection.

^^^ My post above, I doubt the Birds are in on him. I'd rather sign Puig.

Yeah, I was secluding him at CF.

Geez... that must f***ing hurt...

Yuck, Abom will agree. His D suxxxx

He's shown to be a better hitter than O'Hearn/Guttierez, not to mention it'll only be sporadically, lol. You guys are being silly.

I beg to differ if they upgrade, he has options.

I missed it myself, lol. You watch it?

lol

Ross Atkins will be on High Heat... live stream----> https://mlbstream.io/mlb-network-stream

Yeah, but they stink, I don't think Perez would like to sit...

Yeah the entire station/show's there... I've been watching all morning, lol.

You know where? I assume I'll get it on MLB Network.

Hey... WTF?!

I don't see what's wrong with that? He's coming off TJS.

Walker will be moving up quickly, he's a college pick just turned 23 and in high A... their both banking on upside obviously, it's a lateral move with the Rangers getting Steele, control, and the money they shave off Mazara's contract, that's why I give the Rangers the edge.

This spygate 2.0 is comical, the Patriot's are the worst! lol

We get front row seats to this juggernaut, has German been suspended yet? I can't recall.