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Sal 2
What about Neil Walker? I wouldn’t have assumed he would get one at the beginning of the season, but I think he will receive the QO if he continues to hit HR’s at this rate.
Connor Byrne
I’d have expected him to get one with another quality season, which he’s having. This is seven in a row now.
arc89
Guess Reddick is a sure bet to get a QO even though he has been on the DL.
Connor Byrne
If he’s not traded, yes.
Steve Adams
Agreed with Connor. I think Walker was a pretty obvious call to get one after years of solid production at a premium position. He’s not a star, but he’s a very solid regular that was likely to get one barring a major collapse.
pat09
Couldn’t agree more
bluemamba81
I think best case scenario rich hill gets traded for prospects. I cant imagine the As would be willing to have journey man rich hill for 16 mil.
dlevin11
Red Sox are loaded in farm system. They could give A’s two or three prospects for Hill.
Ravens_Last_Place
He wouldn’t take much to acquire because of his age.
Jorge Soler Powered
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A'sfaninUK
Yeah, 15 starts with a 2.03 ERA and 10.6 K/9 is soooo overrated bro. He doesn’t even play on the Cubs! No one thinks that’s good. Nope, those are horrendous numbers. Totally undeserving.
Ravens_Last_Place
LOL
staypuft
Rekt
noonecarez
Lol Saunders would get an extension, he wants to stay as a jay.
stormie
Sure, just like every player always claims to want to stay with their current team right? Such comments are meaningless. Until he’s extended you can’t assume anything.
bbatardo
Even though Andrew Cashner is having a below average season, part of me thinks the Padres will try to squeeze a draft pick out of him if they can’t trade him by the deadline. Crazy? Maybe, but SP keeps getting more and more expensive and he may turn it down anyways like Ian Kennedy did.
Steve Adams
With a strong finish I can easily see Cashner getting one. He’s been better to this point than Kennedy was in 2015, and Cashner has always been a guy who has teased teams with upside. A few strong months from him, and he’s right back into the QO picture.
BlueSkyLA
In a market where glorified journeyman starting pitchers sign for $15M a year, Cashner probably doesn’t need a big finish on the season to be in the QO zone.
One Fan
Well as Steve says it would have to be a strong finish. Personally I doubt it but the point is valid.
BlueSkyLA
Cashner was pulled from tonight’s start after six pitches, so it looks like his value in trade might become academic.
flyman2
If any of these players get a Qualifying Offer, they will be sitting on Free Agency late into Spring Training/into the Regular Season and there will be more talk about how the system is flawed and needs to be changed.
Steve Adams
I think it’s more likely that some of the fringe guys just accept now that three people have gone ahead and done it. Though for what it’s worth, I don’t think it’d be much of a hindrance to Trumbo, Ramos or Hellickson if they continued at their current output.
Lanidrac
The guys who have had that problem have all been fringe guys who should’ve just accepted the qualifying offer in the first place. The current system is at least a lot more fair than the old Type A/B system.
lonestardodger
Ian Desmond will get a QO. So might Colby Rasmus. Maybe Mike Napoli if he keeps hitting homers. (Napoli is a strech, but so is Steve Pearce, and he made the list.)
Steve Adams
Napoli is much more of a stretch to me than Pearce based on their early production. Both have been solid, but Pearce’s rate stats dwarf those of Napoli (average 90 points higher, OBP 100 points higher). Plus Napoli has whiffed in 36% of his PAs, while Pearce has a 14% K rate (and a higher walk rate).
noonecarez
Saunders wants to stay a jay
YourDaddy
Steve, curious why Moss would be a good fit at $16.5 million or so QO instead of Holliday at $17 million?
Connor Byrne
Moss has significantly outperformed Holliday so far this season and he’s four years younger.
Lanidrac
Well, we’ll see if he can keep it up over the full season. I still have my doubts about Moss, and apparently so does Matheny seeing as both Holliday (still a good player, and he won’t be 37 until next January) and the struggling Grichuk are drawing more playing time than Moss now that Adams has deservedly overtaken him as the primary starting first baseman.
Connor Byrne
After last season, doubts are understandable. To this point, though, Moss has put himself in the running for a QO with his terrific output. He showed over a large sample size from 2012-14 that he’s capable of this type of production, so history says he isn’t a two-month wonder.