Do You Have Options?

[metirish]

Brooks Raley does and the Mets are picking it up, $6.5 million



Dobgers will not pick up Lance Lynn at $18 million

[metirish]

Old friend Seth Lugo declined his option

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'd welcome him back.



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[MFS62]

He left to be a starter. I doubt he'd come back to be in the bullpen.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's what I meant. Invite him back as a starter. The Mets have several openings.

[metirish]

Old friend Justin Turner declined his player option

[MFS62]

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Old friend Justin Turner declined his player option

[metirish]

Reds declined option for Votto

[metirish]

Stroman declined his player option, 21M and one year

[metirish]

Conforto ops in with the Giants and will make $18 million



Are the Giants happy?

[Gwreck]

Ottavino declined his option for 2024 with the Mets and is a free agent.

[metirish]

https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1721663664078332392

Wow

[nymr83]

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Ottavino declined his option for 2024 with the Mets and is a free agent.

[Gwreck]

I appreciate his honesty. Ottavino was a favorite player and it'd be a shame to lose him.

Edited November 6, 2023 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That every baserunner turned into a double was a drawback for a late inning reliever.



I do like his point about the lack of continuity. It's hard to believe the Mets whacked Buck so as to wind up with Mendoza

[Edgy MD]

Tim Anderson — whose season was so disastrous that it really made me appreciate Jeff McNeil's 2023 — has had his option unsurprisingly declined by the White Sox.



He's had some really good times, but it's going to be a hard time finding a major-league deal after his season's highlight was landing on the wrong side of a brawl with José Ramirez in which most of the league took Ramirez' side, despite the video evidence being ambiguous.

[Lefty Specialist]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That every baserunner turned into a double was a drawback for a late inning reliever.

This. He was really atrocious at holding runners on. I'm OK with him leaving.

[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: Tim Anderson — whose season was so disastrous that it really made me appreciate Jeff McNeil's 2023 — has had his option unsurprisingly declined by the White Sox. He's had some really good times, but it's going to be a hard time finding a major-league deal after his season's highlight was landing on the wrong side of a brawl with José Ramirez in which most of the league took Ramirez' side, despite the video evidence being ambiguous.

Anderson was one of the worst hitters in MLB last year on top of having a history of being a less than model employee. Couldn't pass harder on a guy.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, that's a pretty bad slash line for '23

He never walked much so a .245 BA and the .286 OBA to go with it are bad enough. But then his power disappeared too: 100 of his 121 hits this past year were singles. 50 or so 'Isolated Slugging' points is Bud Harrelson/late-1960s territory.