I think a lot of GMs and owners are going to look really bad when their rebuilding don't yield a Bryant or a Correa. There is only so much of these really good prospects to go around, especially considering some of them are already snatched by the contending teams. The Church of the Young Player, as Brisbee baptized, is not going to work for everybody like it did for the Cubs and Astros.
I keep thinking of the White Sox who had 3 players that are good enough to build around: Sale, Quintana and Eaton. They got really good returns for trading these. + they have Abreu that they might ship at any moment. We all love Moncada and Jimenez but still what are the odds they produce has many wins in their first 5 seasons as Sale and Quintana did? Tim Anderson was a top 20 prospect if I recall? He projects 82 wrc+ at age 25. I understand that Anderson is a draft pick, not a trade, but my larger point is that some GM gave an incentive to known asshole owners like Reinsdorf to rip their rosters for profit. And that perhaps the next competitive advantage is what the Giants have been doing, getting 3-war caliber veterans players for prospect they see no value for.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 19 January 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
randal grichuk to blue jays for dominic leone and conner greene
jays fans, i hope you really enjoy watching people swing at offspeed pitches in the dirt
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
on the plus side, grichuk is good for 25+HR and it's really fun to say "randal!" in the most ridiculously exaggerated texan accent as possible when he does good
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
also he's the kind of player who has a chance of turning in a 2013 colby rasmus kind of season, but just as equally could be a perma-4th OF the rest of his career
― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
whoa Colby Rasmus has accumulated 20 WAR through his career, which is about twice as much as i would have thought.
― omar little, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
I don't know about Grichuk--that lifetime OBP looks scary.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
How hot is Dominic Leone in person?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
obv not Grichuk hot
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/92/02/369202cf55804cad8900f1413c5e10c4.jpg
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Cardinals seem to have a new pro outfielder prospect every two years, so I figure they got someone that can do what Grichuk does and maybe more probably ready to go.
― earlnash, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
dominic leone
congrats to ilxor and musician dominique leone, glad she finally realized her dreams of becoming a professional baseball player
― k3vin k., Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
xpostthey do - among others, tyler o'neill is another grichuk - lots of strikeouts, big biceps, lots of home runs. they also have a couple another randy (Arozarena) who could be really good
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
sorry, just one other randy (arozarena), not "a couple another"
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
that's when dillon geetakes a one-year deal with chunichion an island he didn't live in
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:03 (six years ago) link
Dillon Gee on MLB Network: "I appreciate you having me on, but I think it sums up the Hot Stove season that you have me on".— Ben Yoel (@Ben_Yoel) January 22, 2018
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
the Darvish derby
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-hot-stove-rumors-brewers-make-offer-to-star-pitcher-yu-darvish/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
pandering move to toronto's large ukrainian-canadian community
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 22 January 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
If he doubles his walk rate, he could be more than top-shelf eye candy.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/andrew-mccutchen-thank-you-pittsburgh/
― timellison, Monday, 22 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
;_;
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
cubs signed catcher chris giminez to a minor league deal, which is interesting only in that he has caught both yu darvish and alex cobb before
― na (NA), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
just to pass the time, my all time favorite grichuk and matheny moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeNWn6IkYc
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
Jeff Sullivan polled fans on their team's owners, and you should probably be able to guess the bottom two.
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/here-are-the-complete-team-ownership-ratings/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
BREAKING
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/breaking-royals-sign-ryan-goins-to-minor-league-deal/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
METS sign . . . jose reyes
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
xxp how could a Marlins fan possibly vote anything higher than a 1. is Jeets paying people off or what
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
#Mets in agreement with Jose Reyes on one-year contract, pending physical, sources tell The Athletic. Reyes returning with understanding he will fill utility role. Mets still looking for regular second baseman.— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 25, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7yePNyz-nc
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
yelich traded to the brewers
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
awesome. I assume we gave up Brinson, or is that not really clear yet?
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
There are some Reds fans going to have a conniption on that news as it seems on a couple sites that's the only player between them and the rebirth of the Big Red Machine, even though the team ERA was like 5 last year.
― earlnash, Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
or is that not really clear yet?
it's not clear but that's the impression that i get /bosstones
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
if the marlins traded w/ that front office they definitely got fleeced
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
Marlins get Brinson and Diaz
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
Is that a good return?
― earlnash, Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
The #Brewers have acquired OF Christian Yelich from Miami in exchange for OF Lewis Brinson, OF Monte Harrison, INF Isan Diaz and RHP Jordan Yamamoto.
prospects #1, #6, and #14 according to mlb.com (yamamoto not listed)
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
harrison is keith law's #85 overall prospect
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 January 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
cain to the brewers
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
5-year, $80M, physical pending
uh whooooa
sheesh. their outfield just got a lot better
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
Brewers goin SuperTeam
well maybe not
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
before today's moves, fangraphs projected them at 75 wins for 2018, which did admittedly seem a little low.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
lol the marlins got more for yelich than they did for stanton
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 January 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link
So is moving Braun the next step for the Brewers? Seems kinda odd signing Cain for 5 years right after getting Yelich and considering they got that guy Domingo Santana.
Their starting rotation is still pretty funky and not that scary.
― earlnash, Friday, 26 January 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
once they get Yu Darvish though
― frogbs, Friday, 26 January 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
Jeff Sullivan:
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-brewers-are-here/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
brewers look pretty scary to me now as a cubs fan, they were already first in the nl central for half of last season and were in contention until right near the end. meanwhile the cubs haven't done much to improve yet this offseason.
― na (NA), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
and i was impressed by their young rotation
― na (NA), Friday, 26 January 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
these are the steps the pirates refused to take. may or may not work out, but at least the brewers are going for it. totally rooting for them
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
this is kinda crazy: free-agent camp
Players believe the value dispute between the sides will last long enough that a number have discussed the possibility of staging a free agent training camp to mimic their typical spring work, according to sources.
https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-players-teams-digging-protracted-standoff-despite-lorenzo-cains-80-million-deal-060605804.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
that is insane, never will happen
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Nelson/Davies/Anderson gives the Brewers three solid cheap starters, they obviously need to make a move or two yet. Guessing they'll flip Santana, but hold on to Phillips, then hopefully make one more big FA signing (Darvish!?!?)
― frogbs, Friday, 26 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link