Off-season, non-Twins, baseball news and signings 2021-2022

[nicksaviking]

7 minutes ago, Otto von Ballpark said:

I feel like it is working, somewhat. Seems like the better teams are losing players, and the lesser teams are gaining players. Not every team, of course, but the free agent market is a fairly limited supply -- there may not be enough to spread them out even further.

It's definitely a win when the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers are so quite.

Still, there's only one MLB team I actually care about.......

[TheLeviathan]

I would happily have goven Baez that deal.

[tony&rodney]

Tampa Bay trades Wendle to Miami for Misner (somewhat similar to Cavaco).

[nicksaviking]

Mark Melancon = 14M. And to the worst team in the league last year.

At least three heads exploded over at 1 Twins Way.

[Otto von Ballpark]

Chris Taylor back to the Dodgers.

[wsnydes]

Stroman says he's signing with the Cubbies.

 

[big dog]

Crap, I was really hoping for him. Or at least someone like him.

[a-wan]

The Stroman deal really sucks as a wins fan. Not terrible yearly average and only 3 years. His on field talent plus attitude would have been awesome.

[Danchat]

Freddy Galvis is signing with a Japanese team for 2022. He could have gotten a deal to at least be a backup SS, but I suppose there’s an assurance that he’ll get to play next year, unlike MLB,

[ashbury]

54 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Freddy Galvis is signing with a Japanese team for 2022. He could have gotten a deal to at least be a backup SS, but I suppose there’s an assurance that he’ll get to play next year, unlike MLB,

Galvis is no world beater, but ranks as a nearly average MLB shortstop and he would have stood a good chance of having a more productive 2022 than our 2021 SS did.  I have no idea what the FO considers Plan A and perhaps they will pleasantly surprise me, but Plans B and C and C1 and C2 and C2a are disappearing fast.

[whosafraidofluigirussolo]

11 hours ago, Danchat said:

Freddy Galvis is signing with a Japanese team for 2022. He could have gotten a deal to at least be a backup SS, but I suppose there’s an assurance that he’ll get to play next year, unlike MLB,

The Galvis news was surprising and a little weird to me. I'd think that with two of the top tier of shortstops on the free agent market going to one team, the outlook on the market for anyone else who might be a viable starting SS would only be better than it was a week or two ago.

I wonder if non-marquee-tier free agents are more worried about being squeezed in a short negotiating period, after the lockout, than we would imagine from the outside.

[Eris]

Interesting commentary regarding the Orioles decision to move the left field wall back 30 ft and raise the fence height 5 ft. 
 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/orioles-move-the-outfield-wall-back-everyone-else-should-do-the-same?_amp=true

 

 

[RpR]

On 12/4/2021 at 9:31 PM, ashbury said:

Galvis is no world beater, but ranks as a nearly average MLB shortstop and he would have stood a good chance of having a more productive 2022 than our 2021 SS did.

Yeah Galvis would be so good, a life time batting average .246 and minus life time fielding numbers in Rtot and Rtot/y with his 2021 Rtot/y being a -57 now they could play him at second where the same number was a -70, shizzam!

[ashbury]

2 hours ago, RpR said:

Yeah Galvis would be so good, a life time batting average .246 and minus life time fielding numbers in Rtot and Rtot/y with his 2021 Rtot/y being a -57 now they could play him at second where the same number was a -70, shizzam!

Check your numbers again. What you mentioned for his SS defense was across 73 innings in Philly, ignoring 573 innings in Baltimore.  Looking at the best possible sample size is even more key for defense than for offense.   For 2021 as a whole his SS Rtot/y on bb-ref.com is -4, statistically indistinguishable from average.

I'll stand by my previous characterization, which amounts to damning with faint praise.  "Nearly average."  As in, not even. 

Yet better overall than who we ran out there in 2021, and may end up with again.

[RpR]

40 minutes ago, ashbury said:

Check your numbers again. What you mentioned for his SS defense was across 73 innings in Philly, ignoring 573 innings in Baltimore.  Looking at the best possible sample size is even more key for defense than for offense.   For 2021 as a whole his SS Rtot/y on bb-ref.com is -4, statistically indistinguishable from average.-- AND 20 runs sub-Simmons

I'll stand by my previous characterization, which amounts to damning with faint praise.  "Nearly average."  As in, not even. 

Yet better overall than who we ran out there in 2021, and may end up with again.

Twins need a better than average defense, not sub-average.

Those negative numbers in his past Rtots shows he is less than average, reminds me of Polanco at short; the numbers are for the the ten games he played with Philly  but his average for the year with both teams were negative and boy that is what the Twins need , a SS who sub-zero for runs., oh yes his career Rtot numbers are also negative and in the Majors -- almost close, -- is not good enough, while with his bat, he seems to be as good at striking out as Larnach is.

If they would get him, maybe they can bring Shoemaker back also.--  Compared to Simmons Galvis is AAA, Simmons is ranked among the top 100 SS of all time.

 

[whosafraidofluigirussolo]

Reports have the Mets acquiring Chris Bassitt from the As for 2 pitching prospects:
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/03/mets-acquire-chris-bassitt-from-as.html

J.T. Ginn is the Mets' #5 prospect on MLB's list and #6 on Fangraphs' list from the end of 2021. High draft position but was rehabbing an injury when drafted, which must mean they saw real upside in him, but also means he still hasn't pitched above high-A yet. Unless I'm missing something, Adam Oller isn't ranked on either MLB's top 30 or FG's top 29 at all.

Hard to make a precise comparison between the Mets' and Twins' minor leagues, but maybe Ginn's rough equivalent would be SWR or Canterino? If that's not too far off base, I would have been fine with the Twins doing an equivalent trade.

[Vanimal46]

 

[Bradfoot]

It will be weird seeing Freddie Freeman (one of my favorite players) on a different team.  Assuming that this rules out a reunion, I guess it is possible with DH now but probably unlikely.

[big dog]

Wait- it's Monday. No Twins trade yet today??

 

No way Freeman should sign with someone else.

[Vanimal46]

Reds tearing it down. 

[Mike Sixel]

The Reds won 83 games last year....and would have made the playoffs under the new rules. They are gutting their MLB team.....I'm thinking the next CBA won't be done easily either. 

[flpmagikat]

Alex Colome signs with the Rockies for 1 yr/4.1mil

[Squirrel]

Chapman to the Jays

 

 

[wsnydes]

A's and Reds jettisoning talent like crazy.

[whosafraidofluigirussolo]

Schwarber signs with the Phillies and Suzuki signs with the Cubs. The bat-first types are moving. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Bob Nightengale is the king of unintentional comedy. He does this all the time.

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Rockies are such a trash fire of an organization.

 

[Mike Sixel]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

The Rockies are such a trash fire of an organization.

 

This is unbelievable. Like, double what he's worth, at least.

[Otto von Ballpark]

1 hour ago, Mike Sixel said:

This is unbelievable. Like, double what he's worth, at least.

MLBTR had predicted 6/160, and the Fangraphs estimates were around that too.

So I don’t know if the contract is as wild as the destination. Everyone predicted Bryant would go to some kind of contender - San Fran, Seattle, the Mets.

But instead, he is going to the Rockies, who just ate a bunch of salary to ship out Arenado.

[Mike Sixel]

11 minutes ago, Otto von Ballpark said:

MLBTR had predicted 6/160, and the Fangraphs estimates were around that too.

So I don’t know if the contract is as wild as the destination. Everyone predicted Bryant would go to some kind of contender - San Fran, Seattle, the Mets.

But instead, he is going to the Rockies, who just ate a bunch of salary to ship out Arenado.

Really? Wow. Good luck to them!