Steve Adams
- Final Front Office chat of 2025! Hope the holiday season has been treating everyone well. As always, feel free to ask a question about any of the remaining free agents, possible trade scenarios, team outlooks and whatever other Hot Stove-related topics (or, frankly, other topics!) are on your mind!I'll get going at about 1:30pm CT. Looking forward to i!
- Let's get underway!
Drake
- What are your thoughts on the Soderstrom extension? I like it overall and hopeful the A’s can get at least one more of their core locked up too
Steve Adams
- I'm a big Soderstrom backer, so for me, getting the deal done and buying out at least three free agent years for a sub-100 guarantee is a move well worth making. That's not to say Soderstrom sold himself short. A year ago, he looked like a fringe contributor, and now he's signed the eighth-largest extension of any player ever for his service class. Most of the guys ahead of him (Tatis, Witt, Posey, Trout, Yordan, Bregman) were already superstars when they put pen to paper.It's a good move all around. Soderstrom is definitely a guy I'd look to build around, particularly with how well he took to LF.
jrizz1e
- biggest player traded between now and start of spring training?
Steve Adams
- I don't know if Brendan Donovan counts as a "big-name" player among most MLB fans, but he's a big name for front offices and I think it's far likelier than not that he ends up traded.
Ben Cherrington
- Can either ROH or Horowitz play 3B ? Meintakwicz(sp?) did this on the steel city a few years back.
Steve Adams
- Doug Mientkiewicz played 33 games (30 starts) at 3B for the Pirates in the late 2000s and, as one would expect for a 34-year-old first baseman making that move for the first time, graded out terribly.
- The Jays gave Horwitz 250ish innings at 2B, and he didn't fare all that well there. O'Hearn isn't playing 3B.
- I think you'll just see the two split time at DH and 1B. O'Hearn could see some OF time, depending on injuries elsewhere on the roster.
JL
- If the Os are serious about a TOR arm, is Eflin taking Kremers place in the rotation? What is Dean Kremers trade value?
Steve Adams
- They wouldn't move on from Kremer even if they add an Imai, Valdez, Suarez, etc.Kyle Bradish only pitched 54 innings between the minors and MLB last year. Eflin himself was under 90 IP. Injuries are an inevitability. We don't even firmly know when Eflin will be healthy enough to take the mound in a big league game.Bringing him back at $10MM was a relatively reasonably priced depth move with a decent bit of upside. Any big league team is going to need far more than five starters to get through a season. The O's will probably have 7-8 guys start 10+ games next season. The rotation will sort itself out.
Foley
- As good as Logan Gilbert is the Mariners should consider trading him, realistically they won’t have the money to sign him and with two years of control they should get a haul that could help now and later
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Which front line pitcher do you think the Orioles will sign? Valdez? Suarez? Other?
Gary i do not think the O’s make any TOR additions, i can see them still doing O’s things like another rec project to eat innings!!! (at least i hope so an O’s team with good pitching could be scary)
What are the chances Okamoto gets signed by the Pirates??
wrong place to ask questions my friend
Yeah I realized that after I posted the question. Thanks though.
Why??? lots of people come on the comment section, Steve’s opinion is not the only one folks look for!!!
Great point thanks for commenting I appreciate it!!
fair enough 🙂 these posts dont usually garner many comments tho
12 so far Choof, maybe if it happened more this could be a fun spot to spend time prior to the chat
I agree! I love the site and always enjoy checking the comments so more is best
Plus you might get answers to your question….haha
I do not believe the O’s add a front line pitcher and i also feel Okamoto would be a good fit for the Bucs!!!
Yeah I really hope the Pirates sign Okamoto, I think he would be a great fit with the Lowe and O’Hearn additions already.
I hope they do too, even though it will make the reds season even harder.
Since you’re a Jays fan I believe your reply was meant to say ” I hope the Os don’t sign a TOR starter.” That would be more accurate. Lol.
I would say pretty high.
Eric, this is what i mean, some dialogue on a question that may not be answered in the chat, i see nothing wrong with this!!! Would love to see the Bucs make another addition from the top tiers!!!
Absolutely like it thanks again for answering, how do you like the third baseman we traded to the Reds at the trade deadline?? One of Ben’s best deals whatever the return was.
I will have to check Eric as i do not follow the Reds closely.
Charlie Hayes.
Ke’Bryan Hayes. 🙂
A glove-only player with no bat what so ever. I have no idea what the Reds were thinking.
Oops I’m sorry Jaysfan .that was meant for the Reds fan.
Would a trade of Saeger and Burger for Story, Casas and an prospect (no money changing hands) work out for both sides?
Texas – why would you want to trade Seager? Seager is one of the best SSs in the game. He had 6.2 war last year and is on the Hall of Fame track. I know you would be saving a lot of money, but it makes no sense to trade your super star, who honestly is paid at a fair price.
Agreed. Just trying to think outside the box and shake it up.
Sounds good, brother.🤙
Do you see the giants making anymore moves? The trade market doesn’t seem to be in the giants favor. I know its basically baseball vacation yet other teams aren’t taking time off. Im really disappointed at the moment.
deb – I could see them making a move for Donavan. He would be a good fit for the Giants. Honestly, he would be a good fit on most teams, though.
But would prefer Hoerner or (in the best case) Marte, but D-Backs won’t trade Ketel within the division.
I see a Verlander reunion
7 of the top 10 free agents are still available. The Yankees figure to pick up one, maybe two, of them. Until we see who they are, we have no real idea of where they stand.
Cashman needs to make a commitment. Damn Yankees are holding up the off-season! 😁
It seems like free agent prices have increased. Any correlation to the expiration of the CBA? If not, is it just the price of doing business?
I think it’s the Ivy League and the owner’s realization that they can pass the cost onto a passive public just like they have been doing for the last 20 years…baseball, mom and apple pie.
Do you realize guys my age were brainwashed by Hollywood that there are situations in which we might actually get shot if we don’t know who won the most recent World Series?
Baseball, it’s more than just a monopoly.
Diddier Fuentes from the Braves was up last season as a 19 year old. Didn’t go well, but it still counts. 🙂
What would it take if the Mariners traded for Burleson and Donovan and got Arenado as a throw in. Does Arenado have a decent year left in him?