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Quick Hits: Musgrove, Alford, Kreidler, Arenado

By TC Zencka | April 30, 2022 at 10:43am CDT

The Padres and Joe Musgrove remain far apart in their potential extension talks. The latest offer from San Diego was reportedly in the ballpark of an eight-year deal with an $11MM AAV, per The Athletic’s Dennis Lin and Ken Rosenthal. The length of the deal is somewhat surprising for the 29-year-old Musgrove, though the overall value is probably south of what the righty is seeking. Musgrove was arguably the Friars’ most reliable starter last season, tossing 181 1/3 innings with a 3.18 ERA/3.70 FIP, 27.1% strikeout rate, 7.2% walk rate, and 43.5% groundball rate. He is a free agent at the end of the year.

  • Outfielder Anthony Alford has cleared waivers and joined the Pirates Triple-A affiliate in Indianapolis, per Jason Mackey of PG Sports Now (via Twitter). Alford has appeared in the Majors in each season going back to 2017, including this one. The 27-year-old went 1-4 in two games. He made 148 plate appearances last season, a career high, slashing .233/.311/.406, good for a 93 wRC+. Alford’s ability to man all three outfield spots could be a factor in finding his way back to the bigs, either for the Pirates or elsewhere later in the season.
  • Tigers prospect Ryan Kreidler suffered a right hand fracture that will knock the Triple-A infielder out indefinitely, per Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press. The 24-year-old had yet to make his Major League debut, though with a .246/.346/.462 line through 78 plate appearances in Triple-A, he was on his way.
  • Nolan Arenado was able to cut his suspension from two games down to one, per The Athletic’s Katie Woo (via Twitter). He will serve the suspension today, per MLB.com’s John Denton (via Twitter). The Cardinals third baseman was suspended for his part in a bench-clearing brawl with the Mets. The tiff was sparked by a high-and-tight fastball on Arenado from Yoan Lopez.

 

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  1. Brew88

    4 weeks ago

    Clearly the Pads want to keep their hometown boy around until he retires, hopefully Joe gets paid and stays

    Reply
  2. geg42

    4 weeks ago

    8 years is a bad length for a pitchers contract. Apart from Max Scherzer, a sure fire hall of fame player, these usually don’t work out.

    Reply
    • Brew88

      4 weeks ago

      Scherzer’s contract with Nats was 7 years, not 8

      Reply
    • tstats

      4 weeks ago

      Scherzers Nats contract might be the single best one in the free agency era

      Reply
  3. Fred

    4 weeks ago

    8 years with an AAV of $11 million is laughable

    Reply
  4. mikefetters

    4 weeks ago

    Why would a team make such a disrespectful contract offer to one of their own players? They could just do nothing and it would be better than risking creating friction. Even at 8 years, the opening offer has to be 15mil aav.

    Reply
    • Brew88

      4 weeks ago

      Agreed. He’s making nearly $9 mil this year, so $11 mil is barely an increase. I have to believe there is an error in the reporting here or there’s more to the offer that isn’t indicated in the article.

      Reply
  5. Cincyfan85

    4 weeks ago

    I think Musgrove could get that on a 5 year deal easily in free agency. I think he easily gets 5 years 90m.

    Reply
  6. 99socalfrc

    4 weeks ago

    God the Padres front office is so dumb. Why would you offer a guy an 8 year deal when no one else is? That pays him through the end of his career, which means he shows up to work the very next day with zero motivation to get better. Give him more AAV and less years, that way he keeps working for his next contract.

    Reply
    • thelegendaryharambe

      4 weeks ago

      The total value of the contract they were offering was less than $100m, which if Musgrove keeps doing what he’s been doing he should have a relatively easy time getting a $100m guarantee.

      Reply
    • gbs42

      4 weeks ago

      You seem to have a low regard for his work ethic if you think he’s going to stop trying once he gets a big contract.

      Reply
  7. wifflemeister

    4 weeks ago

    Arenado Hugely overreacted to that pitch. Yes, it was high and yes it was a bit tight but Many, Many pitches are thrown every single day in MLB with no reaction whatsoever.

    He was looking for a fight.
    It did not help his team

    Reply
    • themed

      4 weeks ago

      Actually his team won the game. Mets bent out of shape over unintentional hit by pitches. If you know the game you know if they were or not.

      Reply
  8. shyzer

    4 weeks ago

    No wonder Musgrove hasn’t signed an extension with that laughable AAV. He could easily get 4/80 from half a dozen teams this winter.

    Reply
  9. The Saber-toothed Superfife

    4 weeks ago

    Now do you guys believe me? It is EXACTLY as I said.
    Chris Illich should hire the Superfife to be Al Avila’s Governor.
    Liaison to the Office of the Owner.

    Support the Superfife.

    My next prediction: After playing the Pirates and Orioles next.month; you guys will be back to pretending the Tigers are WS contenders. Several of you will die from KoolAid inhalation…..

    Look, I was like 7 or 8 years old when I was talking with a very important Tiger guy. He explained to me the Tiger were not going to win that year, the team did not spend.money on top players.
    Like a child, I refused to believe what he said to me….no…the Tigers are going to win……they ended up in last place….

    That was the last time I ever did that. Grow up, Tiger fans. Al Avila DOES NEED A GOVERNOR.

    HEY, I WON THE SUPERFIFE CHALLENGE.
    CHRIS ILLICH WAS WRONG.
    AL AVILA WAS WRONG.
    THE SUPERFIFE WAS RIGHT.

    Reply
    • Brew88

      4 weeks ago

      So that makes you.…. 9?

      Reply
      • The Saber-toothed Superfife

        4 weeks ago

        It makes me having watched for a while….. There seems to a pattern here.

        Reply
    • The Saber-toothed Superfife

      4 weeks ago

      I’ll admit, with a little luck, they could be the best team in mlb. Id like to see it.

      Reply
  10. tominco

    4 weeks ago

    And today was Nolan Arenado Bobble Head Day at the Cards game.

    Reply
  11. tigersgm

    4 weeks ago

    Damn kreidler gets hurt.

    Reply
    • ThonolansGhost

      4 weeks ago

      A real shame.

      Reply

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