Steve Adams
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Guarded Indian
- Is Fairchild Cleveland's answer for the RH hitting OF help or do they actually spend on someone else? If Clase and Ortiz come off the payroll could they afford Bader? I don't want Hays (injured) or Andujar (not great one defense).
Steve Adams
- He's just a minor league depth add -- not any kind of answer. Fairchild is only a slightly above-average hitter in his career versus LHP.Hays, Andujar, Randal Grichuk and Rob Refsnyder are all out there as RHH outfielders to join the outfield mix there. I think any of the bunch make sense as a reasonable addition. None will cost too much
Ross the Boss
- What could I get back for Berrios if I toss in $36mil in cash in a trade? He had a down year, but a innings eating #4/5 at $10mil/season is still a very valuable commodity. Ponce is now my #5, it would be essentially no more money for ownership, and I could recoup something of value for Jose.
Steve Adams
- It might be reasonable to think Berrios is worth $10MM annually, but I doubt he'd get that over three years in free agency this winter. Most teams would be looking at him for one or two years. I don't think paying him down to 3/30 is enough to get anything of value.Three of four seasons with a sub-20 K%. Walk rate jumped to 8% this past year (still solid but much higher than his 6.3% over the four preceding seasons). Career-low four-seam and sinker velos. Tons of home runs. Poor finish from July onward.I think you're overvaluing Berrios.
Anthony
- which under the radar FA Pitcher is the best buy low high rewards candidate? 1year / $5 - 10million.
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Jays seem to be waiting on Bichette and Tucker to make a decision. As we near the new year, what are the reasons for why this seems to be dragging out?
Have you heard? There are other teams in the league.
This is about business, not satisfying fans’ impatience…
A real answer might be that the market isn’t what players and agents had hoped for. If Tucker had several $400 million offers, he would simply choose one. They are waiting for teams to get worried and up their current offers.
It doesn’t work like that. You need to understand business psychology. Owners have the money. The players want a chunk of that money. Owners don’t “worry” that their offers aren’t being accepted. They can wait until he’ll freezes over. It’s the players who get to worry. You see, many are making three or four mortgage payments, six to ten car payments, alimonies,and child support. If you don’t believe me do a quick bit of research on maybe twenty pro athletes who you think made a fortune in their careers. But limit your research to guys who have been retired for twenty years (although usually five to ten years is sufficient). It’s a very sad but enlightening lesson on money management and lifestyle choices.
You didn’t understand my comment. There is no $400 offers on the table for Tucker. His agent is hoping that as more FAs comes off the board, some team will panic and overpay for Tucker. I agree with you that the teams are feeling it right now and players are not in an advantageous situation. Obviously, some team panics every year, which is why MLB is full of bad contracts. The Yankees owe $43 million to Hicks, DJLM, and Stroman this year. Yep, known of them are on the roster. Somebody did not wait until hell froze over to pay Aaron Hicks.
This stuff is not needed here. This is a baseball website, not a Donald Trump word site.
What are you talking about? Did Trump just buy a team, become a GM, or become the new MLB commissioner?
Someone put something political, seems like it’s gone.
Bichette may be waiting for his market to really develop. Reading the tea leaves, it seems to me that teams are hesitant in Tucker being worth $400 million, and the Jays are probably waiting for that to fully come into focus which holds up Bo’s market even tho they play two different positions. You also have the Yankees seemingly balking at anything other than C-level signings, the Mets are… I don’t know what the heck the Mets are doing.
All this combined with a looming lockout after next season and there may be a gap between what those players want and what they are seeing teams willing to spend.
All that is just speculation tho.
I might be proven to be totally wrong on what I am about to say. As the guys on this website are fond of saying, ‘it only takes one owner’ (read that as one fool). But this story about Tucker being worth $400 million got started by a couple of baseball writers who “figured” that because of Soto’s contract and a couple of Japanese pitchers contracts that Tucker’s worth suddenly ballooned skywards. Tucker is a very, very good ballplayer. A star. But he’s not a superstar. People don’t go to the ballpark or tune in to watch him play. He’s not one of the ten best players in the game. Probably not even in the top twenty. So my question, my point is why would any owner commit $400,000,000 to sign him? How could an owner hope to turn a profit on a deal like that? He’ll take his half billion dollar contract on Christmas morning.😉
Are there no more chats for the normal users? Man I need to consider the subscription even more.
Yes you should. You get what you pay for and $35 a year is extra good value. These guys are full time employees, nice to help them survive.
I could be wrong but my guess is Castellanos is not respected by his teammates. Harper, Schwarber and Realmuto are no nonsense guys, two of whom want their first championships badly. If they feel Castellanos’ attitude hurts the team they may have voiced that privately.
I would think you’re right.