Trade Deadline 2023 General Thread
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I think they’re going to go hard after both Ohtani and Yamamoto.
Ohtani
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Amazing if they can pull it off.
Yeah, if they traded Verlander and Scherzer, I think it's safe to say they are going to listen on Tommy Pham.
Probably more. But do players ever ask, "The money's great, but how'd that work out for you in 2023?"
(Hahahaha. Yeah right)
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OK Mets are paying down a significant amount, although the math in this tweet is wrong
View: https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1686464187076313088?s=61&t=lhIY40ztlJHFYIEmq9ss1A
View: https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1686464187076313088?s=61&t=lhIY40ztlJHFYIEmq9ss1A
So add "problems with subtraction" to Bob's twitter escapades. Assuming that $54m figure is correct, they'd owe him $39m. Pretty sweet deal if you can get it, assuming he's still got a solid year and a half in him.
Seems like Houston would still have two of their top prospects if they had just re-signed Verlander last offseason.
I truly don't think he signs in NY/PHL/BOS simply because climate and distance.
If so they better be sending a pitcher back our way, or else we're going to have a lot of bullpen arms falling off soon.
Don't see Ohtani going for the Mets just because they offer him the most money. That doesn't seem to be his main motivation. He's indicated again and again he doesn't want to leave the Angels but wants to win and he's apparently quite comfortable in southern Cal. Seems like the Dodgers will be given every chance of signing him unless the Angels can somehow make a run in the playoffs. A Mets team that didn't even make the playoffs wouldn't seem attractive - even if they do offer him the most money. He's also said in the past that playing with other Japanese players isn't a priority..
Traded Garrett Cooper to San Diego for Ryan Weathers and traded Jean Segura to Cleveland for Josh Bell:
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/marlins-to-acquire-josh-bell-guardians-receive-jean-segura-kahlil-watson.html
There was a lot of hype around Watson when he was drafted (same year as Mayer, I believe), surprising to see him now as an afterthought in a weird trade
View: https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1686501338509680640
The Dodgers have acquired Ryan Yarbrough from the Royals, sources tell me and
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The Dodgers have acquired Ryan Yarbrough from the Royals, sources tell me and
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He's struggled, but I don't think he was an afterthought at all. Cleveland has two motivations here and #1 is buying Watson. The other is that Bell's a disappointment with a player option. As I posited last night, they were motivated to move him so that he can't block Kyle Manzardo's progress next year. Unfortunately, they had to take on Jean Segura's contract and he doesn't fit their roster at all. They'll find some at-bats for him the rest of the year and then trade or release him in the off-season.
Well the Guardians just released Segura, so you're absolutely right, it was all about Watson and moving Bell
I just don't get the White Sox. I guess last year wasn't all on LaRussa after all.
Also, Mets have called up the entire city of Syracuse (AAA).
I wonder if baseball-ref will give him a Cleveland hat like they did for Pablo Sandoval. This also explains why Segura was shown just hanging around the field after he was traded, chatting up his old Phillies teammates.
Except for Ronnie Mauricio, who apparently kicked Buck Showalter's dog or something.
Of course they know this too, but Verlander got A LOT more money from the Mets than the Astros are now paying. 29M for 2.3 years of Verlander is absurdly subsidized.
I get the Mets strategy of moving off these recent FA "assets" and turning the $ into prospects, but the prices they are paying for these prospects seems very high to me. They are getting good prospects but not exactly no-doubt studs.
Cohen probably doesn't care but other owners are really taking advantage of that. Sort of like reverse free agency, instead of players taking advantage of an owner with deep pockets, other owners are taking advantage of him instead. Assuming Verlander is worth something remotely close to his contract, paying 54M for those 2 prospects is pretty steep.
So the stories saying that the Mets have added a Trading Deadline championship to their Winning the Off-season title are wrong?
I bet a lot of other teams are kicking themselves for not going harder after Verlander after seeing that massive subsidy