now they need Mike Leake and pitching will be set.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 December 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
The dominoes are starting to fall quick. Got to figure the Giants would like to resign Leake.
I wonder if the long term deal isn't out there for Cueto if he takes a single year max style deal to try to prove value and try to go long term deal in another season.
― earlnash, Saturday, 5 December 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
5 yrs, 90 million for samardzija.
let's take a moment to appreciate the greatness of Kluber's contract. 5 years / 38,5 m.― Van Horn Street, Saturday, December 5, 2015 2:07 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― nomar, Saturday, 5 December 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
samardzija career ERA+: 96
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
Samardzija’s contract breakdown is provided by Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle. The righty will receive a $9MM salary in 2016 then $18MM in each of the next four years. Samardzija gets a $3MM bonus immediately and then another $6MM in signing bonus money will be spread out over the last four years in equal $1.5MM installments.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
lol
― qualx, Saturday, 5 December 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
I think y'all done fucked up SF
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 5 December 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
Conceding the money out there's insane, always worth looking back:
http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/sandy-koufax-don-drysdale-gambit/
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 December 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
@keithlaw I hear fans complaining about "insane" salaries, but never about owner profits.
@MarketplaceIn the last 12 years, baseball salaries have inflated 60 percent, but team revenues have gone up 120 percent.
http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/02/business/david-price-and-economics-baseball-inflation
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 December 2015 02:36 (eight years ago) link
can't we complain about both
― qualx, Sunday, 6 December 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
The Dodgers have agreed to a one-year deal with second baseman Chase Utley.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 December 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for Mets vs Dodgers.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/comeback-complete--ryan-madson-gets--22m-in-three-year-deal-with-a-s-161318249.html
Three year deal for Madson at 35? Only thing that I could figure is that the A's are signing him to hope to flip him at a trade deadline.
― earlnash, Sunday, 6 December 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
Saltalabiancalana to DET
― Andy K, Monday, 7 December 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Maybe the A's have calculated that Madson's arm is only 32 because he didn't pitch for three years?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 7 December 2015 09:29 (eight years ago) link
Mark Lowe to DET as well (2/?M).
― Andy K, Monday, 7 December 2015 12:39 (eight years ago) link
aroldis to doyers
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
August Fagerstrom @AugustFG_The top free agent reliever on the FanGraphs depth charts is now Joe Blanton
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
somehow i missed the the doyers have also added hisashi iwakuma at 3 years/$45 million
― Karl Malone, Monday, 7 December 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVokpDNWcAAC5H2.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
hope morbs is there
― k3vin k., Monday, 7 December 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Mets may bring Murphy back if they fail to get Zobrist (groan)
also Bartolo in the pen?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 December 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
are they ever going to announce which prospects the Reds got? All the articles I've read just mention "prospects".
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
reds beat writer said the team wants to make sure everyone passes all the physicals before announcing things -- maybe a result of the wilmer flores fiasco
anyway it is supposedly *not* seager/urias/de leon. maybe holmes
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
really not sure what the sox want from the mariners in return for miley (potentially); to be clear i'm totally fine with moving made wiley
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Monday, 7 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
carson smith or charlie furbush, maybe
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Monday, 7 December 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
aaaand the former is exactly what happened, except with roenis elias included, for no great loss, thank u based dombpoutski
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
kris bryant and maikel franco have filed a grievance alleging 'service time manipulation'
@JeffPassanKris Bryant finished his rookie season with 171 days of service time. Maikel Franco finished his with 170 days. A full season is 172 days.
DON: Well, yeah.
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 December 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
i missed this on Friday
The New York Mets say general manager Sandy Alderson has cancer and will begin chemotherapy this week.
Chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon said in a statement Friday the cancer is "very treatable" and doctors are "optimistic about his full recovery." The team did not say what kind of cancer he has.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/mets-gm-sandy-alderson-treatable-cancer-35591480
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 December 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
@JonHeymanCBSSoria will have IP and GS in 25M, 3-yr royals deal. Hasn't started since 2006, but may like to try again
― Andy K, Monday, 7 December 2015 22:52 (eight years ago) link
So all the big free agent pitchers (even relievers) have been signed within a week (except Cueto) and every big position player (Gordon, Upton, Heyward, etc.) is still unsigned.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 7 December 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link
I guess that teams are too busy tracking the pitching dominoes as they fall and are ignoring the position players. For now.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 7 December 2015 23:21 (eight years ago) link
supposedly everyone's waiting for zobrist?
i dunno -- he's good, and versatile, but he turns 35 in may and is thus only two years and five months younger than chase utley
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:53 (eight years ago) link
if that's the case then 30 clubs are stupid?
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
AL AVILA SAYS NO, CHRIST -- DESPITE REPORTS, THE TIGERS ARE NOT KICKING THE PROVERBIAL TIRES ON YOENIS CESPEDES OR ALEX GORDON WTF SMDH, though it's possible they will look into acquiring a bat, or another arm, or "a guy that maybe can play a little infield, a little outfield, give us that combination, and that can provide some offense."
― Andy K, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
Just looking for someone who can come to the park every day, be ready to put the ball into play, maybe catch it from time to time, be a speed guy when called upon, idk.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:21 (eight years ago) link
@scottmerkin 4 hours agoHahn: "We continue to explore just about every avenue available to us to improve this club."
can al avila say that, i ask u
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:36 (eight years ago) link
"Our scouts and analytics team are proactively looking into parkways and cul-de-sacs for all manner of pieces, gets, and so forth." -- Al Avila
― Andy K, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:49 (eight years ago) link
rockies signing old relievers to two-year deals
cards supposedly on the verge of acquiring west by god virginia's own jedd gyorko
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
indeed: gyorko to cardinals, jon jay to padres
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
i like that move
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
although i fear it means either wong or peralta is going to be traded now.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
gyorko doesn't get expensive for a couple more years (at which point it probably won't be 'expensive' any more) so i think he'll be a bench guy? i don't see how he supplants wong or peralta given his last two seasons and i'm not sure he can really play short anyway
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah, gyorko on the bench as a massive upgrade to pete kozma was my first thought, and hopefully it turns out that way. i don't know too much about him, but based on his minor league numbers it seems like he has a higher upside than what he's shown so far.
my fear, as usual, is the matheny factor. if gyorko has a good spring and then hits a couple home runs in april while wong slumps, that could be the end of wong.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
cameron thinks there's more to it http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/padres-reportedly-shipping-jedd-gyorko-to-st-louis/
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
@JimBowden_ESPNCardinals GM John Mozeliak told me that Jedd Gyrko role will be as a super utility player. Padres sending significant cash to Cards in deal.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
salary dump also makes sense
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
love when Mo takes away Matheny's underperforming toys
― bnw, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
^^
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
padres are sending 'about $17m' of the $32m left on gyorko's contract lolol
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link