The MLB Thread

[Got Haggis?]

Exactly:

Orioles fuck over their cornerstone player.

Shameful

They offered what they thought was fair.  Almost $10M per after he had made $17M per for the last few years.  I'm not sure how that is fucking him over.  He got a better deal and took it.

you don't ask the team leader to take a hometown discount...that ain't right.

exactly!!!! this is fucking shameful

[shemptiness]

I think you're looking at it too subjectively.  Is Nick really an $11M player at this point in his career?  How about 3 or 4 years from now? 

[vansmack]

http://grantland.com/features/2014-mlb-trade-value-rankings-part-1/

Part 2 tomorrow

http://grantland.com/features/2014-mlb-trade-value-rankings-part-2/

I actually would have put Bumgarner at #1 and Trout at #2 because of how team friendly Bumgarner's deal is.  $10.5 million per season (AAVG) over the next 5 means you could afford him and sign some free agents.   

[vansmack]

3 way trade.  Yankees get Didi Gregorious,  Tigers get Shane Greene,  D-Backs get Robbie Ray.

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Yankees get SS Didi Gregorius from Aizona. Tigers get SP Shane Greene from NYY. Arizona gets Robbie Ray and another pitcher from Detroit.

I'm sure Nats fans will want to talk about the Doug Fister trade some more as though it was the baseball equivalent of Herschel Walker to Minnesota, so lets get that out of the way.

EDIT: My editorializing allowed Smackie to beat me by 10 seconds.

[shemptiness]

Andrew Miller to the dreaded Yankees - 4 years $36M

[vansmack]

Cubs (re)sign Jason Hammel, 2 years, $18m.

[vansmack]

This is an amazing article touting the skills of Scott Boras delivering for his clients over the last 10 years.  But not a single one of those deals has been good for the team.

Carlos Beltran (2004, seven years, $119 million)
Barry Zito (2006, seven years, $126 million)
Alex Rodriguez (2007, 10 years, $275 million)
Mark Teixeira (2008, eight years, $180 million)
Matt Holliday (2009, seven years, $120 million)
Jayson Werth (2010, seven years $126 million)
Prince Fielder (2011, nine years, $214 million)
Jacoby Ellsbury (2013, seven years, $153 million)

Buyers beware.

[vansmack]

Oak trades Moss to Indians for a prospect.

[shemptiness]

The Veterans Committee did not elect anyone to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dick Allen and Tony Oliva each received 11 of 16 votes, one shy of induction. Jim Kaat fell two votes short.

[vansmack]

White Sox sign Robertson,  4 yrs,  $40m+

Also close to trading for Smardjzia...

[gaaaaaaaaah]

man i dont get oaklands offseason at all

theyre clearly going for a rebuild, like always, but yet they signed billy butler, a weak hitting dh with zero lineup flexibility, for three years?

beane deserves the benefit of the doubt more than most guys but im not seeing the big picture here

[vansmack]

I questioned the Butler signing before the fire sale,  but I agree,  now it's even more perplexing.  You have to wonder what Butler thinks about all of this.

I saw a list yesterday of A's castaways in the last decade,  and it was an incredible list.  I'll see if I can find it.

[vansmack]

@Joelsherman1 Robertson 14th fr agt to sign for at least $10M total http://nyp.st/1s98c2o 12 have gone to AL teams, none have gone from AL to NL team

[vansmack]

Cubs are about to acquire catcher J Montero from AZ