2016-2017 Hot Stove

$48 million! good for him, that's a great story. i was a bit worried he'd be the reason the cubs would fail in the NLCS if it went to game 7 but i was happy for him. through this season he'd made like $3 million over his entire career.

that's more or less what EW Podcast thought he would get, right?

All great deals imo (Melancon and Hill and Beltran)

Also Steve Pearce to the Jays. 2 years, 12.5 m$

one team away from the full AL East experience

Rich Hill's deal is good for him, but 3 years for a guy at age 37 with his injury track record even for well as he pitched last year seems a huge stretch to me. But hey it's the Dodgers, they have blown far more money than that on players in the past few years and anything that might lead to them losing is not a bad thing.

supposedly the dodgers think they can get 120 innings per year out of him -- something he's only accomplished once, in 2007

someone pointed out that hill is both older than and has fewer career strikeouts than . . . mark prior

it's weird that everyone talks about him assuming he'll throw like an ace when he's healthy. even great pitchers with great age-36 seasons are expected to drop off at any moment

his injuries mask his age. or maybe he should've been the best pitcher of all time

otoh he's been really good his 35 and 36 year old seasons, his injury this year was a blister, and there are limited good pitching options right now

tyler thornburg to the red sox

chris sale to the red sox

for moncada/kopech/two other (pitching?) prospects

http://i.imgur.com/nLdRZCM.jpg

uniform designer in boston just got a little more nervous than usual

@jjcoop36
If this trade goes through, Dombrowski has traded 4 of top 5 prospects in Red Sox system who were there when he arrived.

price, sale, porcello is a nice 1-2-3, for one year at least.

v. lefty-heavy rotation at the moment

very money themed too... price, sale, sounds-like-buck-holds

should have signed rich hill

this is better for the white sox than that proposed deal with the nats

dombrowski has now traded both basabe twins (luis alexander and luis alejandro) in a five-month span

babsabe has ben berry berry good to dombrowski

Moncada/T. Anderson pretty good block to build around.

mitch moreland to the red sox

i like it! (as a Jays fan)

Cubs working on a Wade Davis deal

Wilson Ramos inked a two-year deal with the Rays

the jeff locke era has begun in miami

ian desmond to colorado, where he will play outfield and first base (?)

also colorado loses the 11th overall pick in the draft

apparently soler is who the cubs might trade for davis. i'd be ok with losing soler

ian desmond seems like a poor choice to cost you the 11th overall pick.

the rockies don't seem to make good decisions

think we have a 2017 thread title there.

i wish they'd sign chris carter for first. that'd be funnnnnnn for fantasy baseball

so i guess the rockies are in Win Now mode

lol

imo they're in one of the better spots to make the jump

@keithlaw
New post for Insiders - Stop giving up draft picks to sign Ian Desmond:

qualx why do you say that? i don't follow them closely or anything, but from an outsider's perspective it looks like:

they don't have a catcher
they just gave up $70 million and the 11th pick in the draft for someone who doesn't play 1B and is projected to slug .414 with a 92 wRC+ in 2017
their rotation is middle of the pack (looking at their stats and peripherals for away games only)
they won 75 games in 2016, and with desmond are projected to win 77 in 2017, tied with the diamondbacks and 12 behind giants, 15 behind dodgers

i dunno, i guess they could try to flip cargo or blackmon to strengthen the starting rotation, but it doesn't seem like the time to go for broke

i think tom murphy can actually catch for them, if they let him

here's a rosier rocky scenario, involving the addition of abreu or encarnacion as well: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lets-get-weird-ian-desmond-is-a-rockie/

maybe they liked his .379/.406/.611/1.016 career line at Coors Field, that's pretty damn good, they're probably hoping he'll be on the level of a jeffrey hammonds or jay payton.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/orioles-gm-jose-bautistas-agent-fans-dont-like-player/

lol

sounds like adam eaton is headed to washington

BE GONE

for giolito, even

dang white sox getting all the prospects

rick hahn is killin it

for giolito, even

and Reynaldo Lopez!

i like them betting on don cooper being able to fix up these young pitchers with raw talent

They can still make a killing with Quintana.