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Blake Tidwell and Dom Hamel will combine for over 50 meaningful innings on the major league club.
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Would Dedniel Nunez count?
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I think they've all reached the point where they should take what they can get. But who knows?
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I'll go with August 19, because it's my birthday.
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I don't like this one. I'd much rather have Iglesias on the major league roster, and with Williams, Acuna, and Mauricio all at AAA the need for organizational depth is zero.
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The Tigers did a good job of waiting out the sellers' market.
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There is definitely going to be a roster crunch. I would argue that the first victim was Mike Vasil, whom the Rays took in the Rule V Draft. But payroll will be eaten somewhere. Not necessarily in large amounts, especially given Cohen's wallet, but somebody with a major-league deal is not coming to Queens in late March. I think a six-man rotation is insanity, especially given the sellers' market for starting pitchers. Pay them more, use them less? Not a good business model, especially if one of the infield corners winds up being manned by somebody who belongs in AAA. I also don't think the Mets can afford a four-player bench, especially if there is a platoon at DH (as seems likely). That being said, the Stanek deal is low-risk and can work out nicely if he pitches close to his playoff form for the whole season.
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Spencer Torkelson: Let's discuss him
smg58 replied to Johnny Lunchbucket's topic in New York Mets Talk
I could picture a Baty for Torkelson swap, although the Tigers already have a lefty third baseman. The Tigers also have a very deep pen I wouldn't mind picking from, but I'm really not sure what they want in return. Torkelson can hit lefthanded pitching well enough. The question is how much more than the going rate for a short-side platoon 1B/DH would you offer for his perceived upside. -
But they've already relegated themselves. Hell, Carl Pohlad was the wealthiest owner in the league pre-Cohen, and he was willing to have the Twins contracted. It's past the point where the Dodgers could simply have made this much more money than any of these other teams. People off the coasts still go to games.
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Having said that, I cannot fathom that the Dodgers really still have so much more available spending money than literally any other team that nobody in need of a relief pitcher -- last I checked, there were 30 teams who could use an upgrade in their pen -- will get in their way. At some point you have to ask these other teams if they're more interested in winning, or whining.
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Is it weird that we spent $750M on a guy this offseason but I feel like another team is making a mockery of free agency?
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The Mets are talking about Tanner Scott
smg58 replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
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It's very fair to wonder what the Plan B is for both sides at this point. Given what other first baseman (most of whom are coming off better seasons than Alonso) have gotten, I can't see the market for Alonso being better than what the Mets appear to have offered. But how would the Mets pivot? I'm not for overpaying Alonso, but you can't replace him with nothing. One of the MLBTR articles suggested they'd move Vientos to first and try a combination of Baty, Acuna, and Mauricio at third. That's two guys who I'm not sure have ever played the position, and a third who made his biggest contribution to last year's team by taking a one-way trip to Syracuse. Do they think the Wilpons still run the team? I'm working under the assumption that Stearns has a contingency.
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I feel like every pitcher is getting overpaid this winter, but I'd rather have a solid pen than a crummy one.
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Basically I don't see how any team (especially one that's not from New York or Los Angeles) would take on $11M of the contract of somebody who spent nearly all of last season in AAA (and did poorly) just to get pool money, unless that pool money is enough to lock up somebody they think is special. Or to put it another way, this will look really, really bad if they don't lock up Sasaki.
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An interesting move: the Bjue Jays acquired Myles Straw from the Guardians -- along with taking on $11M of the money that Straw, essentially a minor leaguer at this point, is still owed -- to also get $2M of international pool money in exchange for a PTBNL or more cash. You have to think there's no way this deal gets made if they don't have the upper hand on getting Sasaki.
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I remember liking it, but it's been a while.
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Not surprised given his October, and not disappointed for the same reason.
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Are we talking about Vlad Guerrero Jr.?
smg58 replied to Bob Alpacadaca's topic in New York Mets Talk
I do think you at least need to give the impression of having a plan B, although I'm inclined to think the Jays are planning to contend this year. -
Amed Rosario got a year and $2M a couple of days ago, and Donovan Solano just got a year and $3.5M. It is definitely a buyers' market for righthanded utility types. A year and $5M might be generous in the infielders market, but I wouldn't hesitate to bring Iglesias back for that.
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It would be criminally unfair if the financial playing field is basically level and he still chooses the Dodgers. But I suppose that would also be true if he had come here.
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He needs Chili Davis to work with him. Nobody else could get anything out of him.
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Rosario got a year and $2M. If you're shopping for a 2B to platoon with McNeil, the market is low.
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Edgy MD wrote: Didn't he sort of demand a trade? I know Scherzer definitely did. If Verlander did as well, I had forgotten it.
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I wasn't sure at the time if trading Verlander was as necessary as trading Scherzer, but we didn't miss what we gave up and there is a ton of upside still on our end.
