Lifestyle > Sports & Entertainment

The Official MLB Thread

<< < (53/60) > >>

MistaNova:

--- Quote from: NIKCC on November 14, 2013, 08:15:25 PM ---lol yankees on some hitler shit tho

--- End quote ---

Yep lol. Hence why folks call them the "Evil Empire."

Hot Stove updates:
*Phillies resign Carlos Ruiz to a 3 year $26 million deal

*Giants close to signing Tim Hudson to a 2 year $23 million deal

Regarding the Chooch deal I think it's a good one for the Phillies. Obviously you could make a million jokes about how old they're getting but that's not to say the Ruiz deal is terrible. It's certainly not any worse than the Ryan Howard deal. Ugh.

Regarding the Hudson deal, appearently the Giants wanted a number 4 guy behind Cain, Lincecum and Bumgarner. And a relatively quick signing where negotiations wouldn't take eons to complete. Dan Haren and Bronson Arroyo were also rumored to be other pitchers the Giants' targeted.

Remedy360:

--- Quote from: Iveus on November 13, 2013, 04:14:06 PM ---Brian Wilson will not be coming to the Yankees because he doesn't want to shave his beard.

Seattle is interested in trading for Matt Kemp.

--- End quote ---

Trying to be the anti-Red Sox I suppose. As far as Kemp goes, I love him as a player but dude has been way too injury prone. I don't see them giving him out without a Taijuan walker package and I don't know that I'm in favor of that. It'd be exciting if it went down either way but there's a lot of risk associated with it. The life of a Mariner fan.

MistaNova:
Hot Stove updates:

*The Royals sign Jason Vargas to a 4 year $32 million contract
-Royals rotation improves a little, the team itself still looks mediocre
-The Angels pitching situation got a whole lot worse since they just lost their best pitcher not named Weaver

*The Mets sign Chris Young to a 1 year $7.25 million contract
-As of right now Chris Young will be the second highest paid player for the Mets in 2014 (behind David Wright)
-The Mets' 3 decade long search for stability from their OF continues

Remedy360:
How much do you see Cano getting paid, and where do you say he ends up?

MistaNova:
Dammit Remedy, I was hoping you had reported the Bloomquist signing so I wouldn't have to.

I see Cano getting a 7 year deal that's no where near the $30 milli per year he wants, but loaded with incentives. It's going to be an overpay anyway so I stopped caring about what he might get.
And unfortunately I see him returning to the Yankees. Not too many teams "can afford Cano's services" (which is to say their owners are cheapskates) and even the ones that do would prefer to keep their draft pick rather than give it to the Yankees.

Now onto more important hot-stove news:

*11:59 PM (EST) is the deadline for teams to tender (rehire) players or let them go out into free agency
*Oakland Athletics sign Scott Kazmir to a 2 year $22 million deal
*Toronto Blue Jays sign Dioner Navarro to a 2 year $8 million deal
*New York Yankees have traded Chris Stewart to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later
*Seattle Mariners sign Willie Bloomquist to a 2 year deal in the $5-6 million range

Why are these important?

*A lot of good names could become available if their teams choose to not tender them.

*The Kazmir signing indicates the A's will not resign free agent pitcher Bartolo Colon.

*The Navarro signing indicates that the Blue Jays are willing to (and probably will) trade JP Arencibia (who had a historically bad season, like one of the worst offensive seasons in baseball history in 2013) as they need to keep Josh Thole around to catch knuckle-baller RA Dickey.

*Since the Yankees had signed McCann (a signing I've come around to) they suddenly found themselves with 5 catchers. They've traded away Stewart and the Yankees may trade either (but not both) Cervelli or Romine in the near future and whichever one they keep will be McCann's backup. The last option the Yankees have is NOT Sanchez since he's still a few years away from making his MLB debut, let alone being the backup catcher, but rather J.R. Murphy. Murphy will likely spend some time in AAA and see limited action in the big leagues unless McCann or Cervelli (or both) get injured or until rosters can expand in September.

*The Bloomquist signing is not important.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page