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johnsilver
It’s a 90% safe bet to offer Alvarez a contract/tendered next season. Thinking the figure will be around 17m is what is being thrown around and Boras still hadn’t learned his lesson as of this past off season. Why should anyone expect anything different? Morales, Drew (Stephen), Varitek (2009) are just 3 examples of his policy of NEVER accepting a tendered contract for a single season.
He counts on small market teams to play his games.. Don’t let him and tender him a deal Huntington.
Draven Moss
They are referring to whether or not they should release him after this year (oppose to tendering him a contract) as he is arbitration eligible one more time before free agency. He probably isn’t worth the contract he’d recieve via arbitration so if I were the Pirates, I’d consider trading him before the end of the deadline and seek an upgrade at first, or release him as soon as this year is over.
Matt Galvin
Jay can bring back a SP.
Lanidrac
That would be selling awfully low on a career .290+ hitter and likely wouldn’t get anyone better than they already have with Lyons. It’s better to let him play out the year as a bench player as he strengthens his wrist, and he’s currently on the DL, anyway.
Anyway, before the Holliday injury, the Cardinals were effectively using a 3-man platoon of Jay, Grichuk, and Heyward to cover CF and RF. Heyward’s hot streak over the last month has ended any thoughts of platooning in RF, so it would be simply CF that’s up for grabs as Miklasz notes. However, Jay is still nursing an ailing wrist, and while Bourjos has improved a little offensively and provides strong defensive value, he’s still only sporting a .324 OBP with very little power and an embarassing 5-for-11 in stolen bases for a guy with his speed. Grichuk is the clear-cut starter at least for now.
As for Craig, it wasn’t that Matheny was being overly loyal but that nobody was putting up decent offensive numbers in right field for the Cardinals last year (both Grichuk and the late Taveras struggled in their first looks at MLB pitching, and the rest of the bench options were a complete joke offensively, Bourjos included) while Craig at least had a strong track record.
slider32
The Mets problem is that they want something for nothing, they will have to give up one of their young pitchers to get a good position player. In fact they need more than one hitter to make the playoffs.
rct
In this scenario, Aramis Ramirez is nothing as well. He’s not a good hitter, is below replacement level, and is owed over $7MM more this season.
Chris Vinnit
I don’t understand why the Bucs would even consider non-tendering Pedro. He’s not lived up to expectations but comparing him to Ike or Garrett Jones? When did either of those guys lead the NL in homers? In today’s game with so many offense/power hitter starved teams, I can’t believe a guy with Pedro’s pop would have NO value. Jason Heyward and Yoenis Cespedes had value, I can’t believe the Bucs couldn’t get a Rick Porcello or Shelby Miller type back for him.