Hot Stove 2023-2024

I’d be surprised if Hicks stayed a starter. Everyone talks about how hard he can throw, but even as a reliever he was still hitable

xp thanks for the info, it’s an interesting signing but I guess they can flip him at the deadline if the rotation doesn’t work out & get a haul for him, cos they already have Doval to close. I think he’s maybe the third reliever I’ve read about starting in the past few weeks. Realistically they don’t need him to be anything besides an adequate innings eater because that rotation is basically Webb, Stripling (ugh), injured Robbie Ray, Kyle Harrison, injured Alex Cobb, ???. Harrison is really good but had a rough debut last year but the upside is huge, so I guess they think they can take Bailey’s process and get something out of Hicks to fill some innings.

Thanks for the scouting report on Hicks everyone has I have no idea what to think of this signing

Has should be as

I will be with gyac here and be positive about all of this. Giants need another starter tho

I had to look up Imanaga's reference. When the Cubs sign me, I'm opening up my first press conference with "Let's play two!"

an introductory press conference is the perfect time to introduce your own new salsa brand

https://i.imgur.com/8GJWwuV.png

I will be with gyac here and be positive about all of this. Giants need another starter tho

Jung Hoo Lee asked if he looked handsome 😂 pic.twitter.com/1mkKrQrCup

— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) December 15, 2023

Cute story re Imanaga in Chicago

Shota Imanaga listened to the roar of the crowd during the national anthem, taking in the scene before one of Connor Bedard’s first home games with the Chicago Blackhawks. Imanaga later returned to the United Center to buy a Michael Jordan jersey and take a picture next to the iconic statue.

This was early November, a few weeks before Imanaga entered the posting system created by Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball. Imanaga, a fixture with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars and the winning pitcher in Japan’s victory over Team USA in last year’s World Baseball Classic championship game, wanted a new challenge.
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Imanaga and his associates posted up at a suburban hotel, getting comfort food at Mitsuwa Marketplace, a Japanese grocery store in Arlington Heights. Imanaga worked out at Bo Jackson’s indoor facility near O’Hare International Airport. Imanaga’s group now has a collection of tourist photos around Chicago that could best be described as “Where’s Shota?”

Imanaga felt so comfortable that he wanted to stay. He just wasn’t sure that the interest was mutual.

“Each team is different and it’s a long process,” Imanaga told The Athletic on Thursday through an interpreter. “One time I mentioned, ‘I hope the Cubs offer me.’ I was kind of joking just because at that time the Cubs were out of the picture.”

I forgot about Matt Carpenters salsa!!! Greatest mlb storyline of 2018.

Imanaga seems like a lot of fun. Love to have a guy playing for your team like that

I should just give in and become a Dodgers fan. I have only been back to Orange County since '03, so only one Giants World Series Championship since then. But there is only one Madison Bumgarner.

The baseball is a lot of fun to watch

xp I assume you mean since ‘13

Yeah, lol. I saw two white living in the Mission district in San Francisco.

White = while. What an incredible typo

Not really, I did move in 2003. Funny how I'm miss remembering. Old.

Actually it because I'm drinking and should not be posting, nite

Yeah you’ve made a post you’ll regret in the morning itt, night friend 👋🏻

BREAKING: Star closer Josh Hader and the Houston Astros are in agreement on a five-year, $95 million contract, a source tells ESPN.

The deal contains no deferrals. It is the largest present-day value contract for a relief pitcher in baseball history.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 19, 2024

that’s about $317,000 per inning if all goes well

Did not expect him to sign for so much

uh, the cardinals just signed matt carpenter, 1 year, league minimum salary since he was released from the barves last month

i feel like carpenter's going to do his salsa moves after hitting a double, and nootbaar is going to do his pepper grinder after he gets on, and it's just going to spiral from there

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/01/each-teams-local-broadcasting-arrangement.html#google_vignette

1 Dodgers 196 million
2 Yankees 143 million
3 Phillies 125 million
4 Angeles 125 million
5 Rangers 111 million but dropped
6 Braves 100 million
7 Mariners 100 million
8 Cubs 99 million
9 Red Sox 97 million
10 Giants 93 million
11 Mets 88 million

A's @ 67 million, wow

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lol the a's current MLB payroll obligation for 2024 is $45m

cannot believe las vegas fell for this shit

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Surprised the Mets are that low and the Mariners that high. Good for them. The Dodgers doubling the Cubs is astonishing, all on Spectrum.

And the Blue Jays: unreported.
Ok then.

Wilpons still own SNY aiui

Ok

SIGNED: #Pirates and LHP Aroldis Chapman have agreed to a contract, pending a physical.

— MLB Transaction Tracker (@MLBMovesTracker) January 23, 2024

Lotta money for 2024 Chapman. I might just not get the pirates, but this doesn’t seem like the best thing they could do with $10.5mil?

pirates have recently been seen complaining that they can't get/have to pay extra for free agents because they're perceived as losers

which i'm sure is true, but whose fault is that? this season will be the fifth with ben cherington as GM

anyway, yes, bizarre signing on a lot of levels. i guess they can point at signing a 36yo 'name' reliever as 'look, we did something!'

feel a little bad for bryan reynolds, but i myself would absolutely take $100m guaranteed to play for a shitty team going nowhere

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MORE DODGER NEWS
JAMES PAXTON SIGNING INCOMING

Safe to say, I like it. Dodgers pitching development magic + Paxton could be something great. Syndergaard was too far gone but Paxton showed last year he still had the trappings of a quality starter. Hope it pans out

‘Member when the pirates were the best team in baseball for like a month to start the season? That was a fun time which I wish went on a little longer.

are you actively trying to make everyone here hate you/the dodgers

Would you prefer I act like the dodgers aren’t the new evil empire?

Silence, sadly, is not an option.

I dunno, I’m just having fun with it all. It’s sport.

actually silence is always an option. or at least shutting the fuck up

nearly everyone here has a fandom that goes back to childhood, or parents, or where they happened to grow up. (i mean who would actively choose to be a pirate fan?)

so it's actually pretty annoying when someone elsewhere -- unless i've missed something -- randomly latches on to the richest team in the game and constantly crows about it. i mean good for you; you've selected a great team (with fabulous uniforms). maybe try to be less irritating about it

My American family is in LA, it’s where I watched my first mlb and nba teams as a 6yo. Not that anyone needs to justify their fandom. Sorry mate but I’m not going to change, I’d suggest the killfile instead. I love baseball, I’m very happy my team has had a historic off season, I’ll post about it (but not “only” about it), and you’re entitled to feel the way that you feel 👍🏼

lol why are you such a jackass

Why do you typically stick your head into stuff just to be unpleasant?

<3 Mookieproof

see now you have to come to PNC with us in April so we can hopefully see Chapman get cooked at least once

Feel like Paxton just had TJS so an extremely "on-brand" signing for LA as he will likely get shut down at some point around 150 IP.

Beginning to smell like a glue factory over there in Chavez Ravine.

(STEAMER projects him at 142 IP)

He had Tommy John like, two seasons ago maybe? He was really good when he came back but then he collapsed in the second half due to a knee issue. Wonderful pitcher but he hasn’t pitched a huge amount in the past four years. lol @ glue factory, but I think Tampa takes that prize. Anyway he’s really good but he seems like a question mark in a rotation full of them.

actually silence is always an option. or at least shutting the fuck up

^^^
Ha, ha, ha, look at me not reading the room! Look!

PBKR it is now just five (5) months till I see your Mets!

Very excited for you! Is that in PIT as well?

Hope you get some wonderful baseball weather. There is just something about seeing a game on a warm sunny day/evening with the attendant sights and smells. /fieldofdreams

No it’s in London, I’ll post about it on my thread.

Steve Shasta, here’s an addition for your notebook! I’m not sure if you keep up with baseball discussion on Twitter, (I don’t blame you if you don’t, cesspool that it is), but the term used for oft-injured pitchers by the young nowadays seems to be pulled pork, example:

That arm is pulled pork, it’s time to be a family man. https://t.co/ftdgjrEVmY

— slim (shay)dy. 🍫 (@himynameis_shay) April 5, 2023

I mean you had to retire at the age of 28 because your arm was pulled pork due to your workload so I don't think you are the one to be talking down on him like that https://t.co/6j1TBBs6XY

— AdamThaSportFan (50-112) (8-9) (23-59) (@AdamThaSportFan) September 9, 2023