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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 24, 2022 16:57:55 GMT -5
The Jays also got Adrian Pinto from COL in the deal. He's an interesting, pint-sized (pun intended) prospect who hit .360 last year in the DSL with a 17.0 BB% to a 8.0 K% and an ISO of .183. No to be confused with Adrian Pimento, who everyone said I looked like during the pandemic when I grew out my hair and beard.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Mar 25, 2022 10:29:38 GMT -5
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Mar 27, 2022 19:31:40 GMT -5
The MFYs are reportedly looking to extend Aaron Judge, with an offer due before Opening Day.
At the risk of invoking the spectre of Covid (and I'm not interested in any sort of debate on it), Mr. Judge has been outspoken in his reluctance to get vaccinated, meaning that he would be ineligible to travel with the team for 10 games in Toronto (perhaps fewer starting next year?) and any playoff games they might end up playing there, if he continues to avoid the jab.
Regardless of what you think of the vaccine or the disease (and seriously, I don't care what you think about them and no one else does either), the fact remains that over the past four seasons, Judge has averaged only 115 games played per 162 (with 2020 prorated), so the ten games he would miss @ TOR would represent a small fraction of the number of games he typically misses. So there's a pretty good chance that he would already be injured during some of those series and if not, giving him those 3-4 games off three times during the season could actually allow him to play in more of their other 152 games -- indeed, he wouldn't have to deal with their astroturf. (Obviously missing playoff games would be much worse but his team hasn't won a best-of-7 series in 13 years, so it probably wouldn't matter anyway....)
I guess my point is that I hope that Judge and the MFYs have a huge falling out over whether or not he gets vaxxed and that he moves on from them in 2023, even though there's an argument to be made that the Canadian restrictions would have a minimal impact on him. Heck, it's so minimal and the schadenfreude would be so dizzying, that I'd welcome him to join the Sox!
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Post by cdj on Mar 27, 2022 23:01:08 GMT -5
I want the Yankees to lock him up long term for big money, I guarantee that contract becomes an albatross
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 28, 2022 12:05:46 GMT -5
Padres traded their 2021 11th round pick who didn't get overslot to skip the waiver line for Matt Beaty.
That feels like a move that Chaim Bloom at least had to mull over
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Post by soxaddict on Mar 28, 2022 19:34:25 GMT -5
per mlbtraderumors.com
The Twins are adding to the rotation via free agency, announcing agreement with Chris Archer on a one-year deal. The VC Sports Group client reportedly receives a $3.5MM guarantee, consisting of a $2.75MM base salary and a $750K buyout on a $10MM mutual option for the 2023 season. Archer’s 2022 salary can max out at $9.5MM based on starts and/or games with at least three innings pitched, presumably to give him credit for “relief” outings following an opener
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 29, 2022 11:53:53 GMT -5
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Post by soxaddict on Mar 30, 2022 0:18:48 GMT -5
Maybe its just me, but I feel like Bobby is going to have an Austin Riley type breakout.
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 30, 2022 11:29:57 GMT -5
blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-positional-power-rankings-shortstop/Shortstop is incredibly loaded. One thing that stood out to me is Willy Adames has a 3.2 WAR projection. The Rays traded him in his last pre-arby season for two relievers that have replacement level projections this year. I know he plays Franco's position, but I'd still be feeling real salty about that trade if I was a Tampa fan.
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Post by incandenza on Mar 30, 2022 11:35:29 GMT -5
Wasn't someone arguing that Correa wasn't a top 10 shortstop...? Anyway, there's a clear top 8, ranging from Correa to Bogaerts, and three of them will probably be free agents next offseason (those two plus Turner).
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Post by manfred on Mar 30, 2022 11:35:58 GMT -5
blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-positional-power-rankings-shortstop/Shortstop is incredibly loaded. One thing that stood out to me is Willy Adames has a 3.2 WAR projection. The Rays traded him in his last pre-arby season for two relievers that have replacement level projections this year. I know he plays Franco's position, but I'd still be feeling real salty about that trade if I was a Tampa fan. But raysprospects.com would be all over you if you were… trust the plan! Who wants to pay that guy when you can get two cost-controlled arms!
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Post by James Dunne on Mar 30, 2022 13:16:56 GMT -5
blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-positional-power-rankings-shortstop/Shortstop is incredibly loaded. One thing that stood out to me is Willy Adames has a 3.2 WAR projection. The Rays traded him in his last pre-arby season for two relievers that have replacement level projections this year. I know he plays Franco's position, but I'd still be feeling real salty about that trade if I was a Tampa fan. There was a real switch in the Nomar/A-Rod/Jeter/Tejada era in how teams think about and develop shortstops. Before then, with few exceptions everyone at shortstop was expected to be a defensive ace, even if they couldn't hit. After that, it became apparent that it was a huge advantage to keep a guy who was just okay at the position (or worse than okay in the case of one prominent five-time gold glover) who can really hit. Guys like Correa and Bogaerts wouldn't have been kept at shortstop in 1988. As far as Adames, he broke out after the Rays traded him. That doesn't usually happen, but I feel like it's more of a case where you have to credit the Brewers than slam the Rays. It's not like they were worried about him because he was getting expensive, he was traded because he'd been pretty mediocre and their best prospect played the same position.
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Post by bosox904 on Mar 30, 2022 14:29:01 GMT -5
blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-positional-power-rankings-shortstop/Shortstop is incredibly loaded. One thing that stood out to me is Willy Adames has a 3.2 WAR projection. The Rays traded him in his last pre-arby season for two relievers that have replacement level projections this year. I know he plays Franco's position, but I'd still be feeling real salty about that trade if I was a Tampa fan. Adames hated hitting at the Trop, even trying to wear glasses to help. And you can see it in his splits while with Tampa. In 2020 he had an OPS of 1.036 on the road compared to .511 at home. In 2019 it was .903 to .557. 2021 wasn't nearly the difference, .690 to .557.
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Post by incandenza on Mar 30, 2022 14:47:53 GMT -5
blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-positional-power-rankings-shortstop/Shortstop is incredibly loaded. One thing that stood out to me is Willy Adames has a 3.2 WAR projection. The Rays traded him in his last pre-arby season for two relievers that have replacement level projections this year. I know he plays Franco's position, but I'd still be feeling real salty about that trade if I was a Tampa fan. There was a real switch in the Nomar/A-Rod/Jeter/Tejada era in how teams think about and develop shortstops. Before then, with few exceptions everyone at shortstop was expected to be a defensive ace, even if they couldn't hit. After that, it became apparent that it was a huge advantage to keep a guy who was just okay at the position (or worse than okay in the case of one prominent five-time gold glover) who can really hit. Guys like Correa and Bogaerts wouldn't have been kept at shortstop in 1988. As far as Adames, he broke out after the Rays traded him. That doesn't usually happen, but I feel like it's more of a case where you have to credit the Brewers than slam the Rays. It's not like they were worried about him because he was getting expensive, he was traded because he'd been pretty mediocre and their best prospect played the same position. I dunno... He was a 3 fWAR/4 bWAR player in 2019 at age 23. Then he was even better in a shortened 2020. Then, after starting off a little slow, he ended up better still in 2021. I think I'd be inclined to slam the Rays on this one.
(But they did get Drew Rasmussen in that trade, who is, contra julyanmorley, better than a replacement level reliever, I think. So it's not a total loss for them.)
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 30, 2022 14:58:08 GMT -5
Oops, I looked at their Fangraphs Depth Charts which has Rasmussen has at 0 WAR in 12 IP as a RP, but now I see they also have him putting up 1.6 WAR as a starter. Good catch
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Post by James Dunne on Mar 30, 2022 15:10:48 GMT -5
I didn't realize how much bWAR liked his bat in 2019, so I guess that's fair. I dunno... I look at his career numbers before the trade, and it seems like he's a solidly slightly-above-average player, not the kind of guy who you never consider trading. I guess my bigger point is that with Adames's production, and Franco arriving, and the team having other needs, it feels more like a baseball trade than a salary dump. And as a baseball trade it was probably not a win but it wasn't like a heinous one either.
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Post by jaffinator on Mar 30, 2022 15:45:53 GMT -5
Tampa Bay always does a lot of trades, they're an active team and one of the least married to their current roster as an organizational philosophy when compared to everyone else. They're going to lose some and some of them are even going to look dumb from the moment they happen.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Mar 30, 2022 21:38:54 GMT -5
Maybe its just me, but I feel like Bobby is going to have an Austin Riley type breakout. Add me to the list. Maybe it's just us...
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Mar 30, 2022 21:41:40 GMT -5
per mlbtraderumors.com The Twins are adding to the rotation via free agency, announcing agreement with Chris Archer on a one-year deal. The VC Sports Group client reportedly receives a $3.5MM guarantee, consisting of a $2.75MM base salary and a $750K buyout on a $10MM mutual option for the 2023 season. Archer’s 2022 salary can max out at $9.5MM based on starts and/or games with at least three innings pitched, presumably to give him credit for “relief” outings following an opener Thank god Chaim didn't go after him. That dude has a special knack for losing.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Mar 30, 2022 21:48:13 GMT -5
per mlbtraderumors.com The Twins are adding to the rotation via free agency, announcing agreement with Chris Archer on a one-year deal. The VC Sports Group client reportedly receives a $3.5MM guarantee, consisting of a $2.75MM base salary and a $750K buyout on a $10MM mutual option for the 2023 season. Archer’s 2022 salary can max out at $9.5MM based on starts and/or games with at least three innings pitched, presumably to give him credit for “relief” outings following an opener Thank god Chaim didn't go after him. That dude has a special knack for losing. Honestly, I like Cueto, although he's probably a shell of his former self. I have always thought he was underrated at times. I love his delivery. Makes me think of Tiant even though nowhere near as extreme. I don't see the Sox picking up Cueto but I wouldn't mind them trying him out.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Mar 30, 2022 22:13:21 GMT -5
Conforto is holding up the draft order from being finalized.
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Post by nomar on Mar 30, 2022 22:46:28 GMT -5
Conforto is holding up the draft order from being finalized. The audacity to even try to get away with that lie is hilarious from Boras
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 30, 2022 23:07:48 GMT -5
So he tore his rotatator cuff and is trying to show that he can wait until November to get the surgery?
He prob needs to sign by this weekend before he starts missing game checks
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Post by pedroelgrande on Mar 31, 2022 0:00:37 GMT -5
At this point I think teams will just wait until after the draft.
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Post by mobaz on Mar 31, 2022 7:15:19 GMT -5
Bad run for a guy who a year ago thought he was set up for a big payday. Turning down the qualifying offer bit him I guess.
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