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Free Agent Notes: Exec Poll, Landmines, Manny

By Tim Dierkes | November 11, 2014 at 11:52am CDT

ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick presents his always-enjoyable annual poll of baseball GMs and other executives today.  Among the leading opinions: Jon Lester provides better value than Max Scherzer, Giancarlo Stanton’s contract situation will remain unresolved, and the Cubs will sign Russell Martin.  Crasnick asks eight questions in all, and some are not clear-cut, such as whether Cole Hamels or Starlin Castro is more likely to be traded.  On top of that, here’s some free agent reading…

  • First, stop what you’re doing and bookmark MLBTR’s free agent tracker and list.
  • Dave Cameron of FanGraphs has his free agent landmines, which is always a good read.  Cameron was spot-on last year.  My slight disagreement would be with Edinson Volquez.  I agree that paying him based on a 3.04 ERA would be folly, but he’s not a bad buy on a two-year deal if his reduced walk rate from 2014 can be sustained.  Marry that with his strikeout rate from 2010-12, his propensity for groundballs, and his solid fastball velocity, and you’ve got an interesting, healthy 31-year-old pitcher.
  • ESPN’s Jim Bowden predicts contracts for his top 50 free agents.  I’ll take the over on Bowden’s predictions for Lester, Hanley Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval, Andrew Miller, Chase Headley, Brandon McCarthy, and Jake Peavy.
  • Manny Ramirez is playing in the Dominican Republic and is “not ready to give up the dream” of returning to MLB, agent Barry Praver tells Joel Sherman of the New York Post.  Ramirez, 42, last appeared in the Majors in 2011 when he had 17 plate appearances with the Rays and chose to semi-retire rather than serve a 100-game PED suspension.  Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports talked to the former slugger in March.  Manny went on to hit .222/.273/.375 in 77 Triple-A plate appearances for the Cubs’ affiliate this year.
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  1. raltongo 2

    9 years ago

    Crasnik’s poll has at least one exec. answering “I dont know” to a few of these simple, opinion-based questions.

    I’d be willing to bet ya that those are Ruben’s answers…

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  2. DippityDoo

    9 years ago

    Kreiky, there is no point to trade Castro when none of the other middle infielders the Cubs have has produced in the bigs, that would be a very poor choice to make, especially when his contract his pretty fair value.

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    • TenFeetTall

      9 years ago

      That depends entirely on what the return is.

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      • DippityDoo

        9 years ago

        Fair enough, but if they want to contend next year like they say they do, they are going to need some known quantities. Trading away one of the few pieces they already know can produce in the majors for more unknowns would be a mistake imo.

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  3. ChiefIlliniwek

    9 years ago

    Manny, it’s time, buddy. Hang ’em up.

    Reply
    • Randy Jay Pena

      9 years ago

      Agreed not sure why he keeps trying knowing that he can’t do it anymore without the juice.

      Reply
  4. Orsulakfan

    9 years ago

    Cameron was “spot on last year”… except for Nelson Cruz, who hit 40 home runs and was the team MVP for the American League East champion. But I suppose he wouldn’t have been so critical if he had known Cruz was going to be had for a cheap 1-year deal.

    Reply
  5. LazerTown

    9 years ago

    Sometimes it feels like Cameron has a portal into my brain.

    Reply
  6. djones83

    9 years ago

    Please, some team jump in and save the Orioles from themselves on Markakis.

    Reply
  7. Out in Left Field

    9 years ago

    I agree about Lester. Hoping to see him in Cubbie blue in 2015 and beyond. I think Puig may be traded as part of a deal for Stanton. Fantastic article from Dave Cameron. Thanks for the link. Once again Bowden proves why no one should pay to be an Insider.

    Reply
  8. DerekJeterDan

    9 years ago

    Manny will always be one of my favorite Ballplayers.

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