Trade ’em All, Al
Trade ’em all, Alex. You might never get a bigger opportunity. A couple of Winter Meetings leakages have Blue Jays fans acting anxious. Alex Anthopoulos has seemingly indicated that he would trade Aaron Sanchez or Marcus Stroman for a controllable starting pitcher, and the media hive-mind has also somehow become privy to the fact that Colby Rasmus might be getting “dangled” for starting pitching. Dick Griffin and...
Asset Comparison: David Price vs. Edwin Encarnacion
Jonah Keri is one of the most reputable baseball reporter/writer guys in the reporting/writing game. He’s not the type to run with a flimsy rumour, or to hang his hat on breaking news first on Twitter in order to get curious click-throughs on some 200 word “article”. Keri is a thoughtful writer – heck, he writes for Grantland and his average piece there is probably 3000 some odd words. So when Keri published...
Mariners Woo Cano; Yanks Left Holding Their Johnson
In a heavily foreshadowed but still shocking turn of offseason events, the Mariners have reportedly inked Robinson Cano to a ten year, $240 million dollar contract. According to MLB Trade Rumors, the deal was first reported by Enrique Rojas of ESPN Deportes. Cano will supposedly receive a full no trade clause. While the deal is still not official, the Mariners released a statement towards the end of the day that more or less confirmed...
Winter Flurry: Non-Tender Deadline Fallout
Freezing rain is on the forecast here in the remote northern community of Peterborough, but today in baseball was HOT HOT HOT! Ok, that was a terrible line… but still, baseball went nuts today on the transaction front. Here’s what happened and what we think about most of it. The Tigers signed Joe Nathan to a two-year pact in the $20M range. This comes not even 24 hours after the Tigers announced that they successfully...
Nationals Acquire Doug Fister
Um.. what? Chris Cotillo (who is, no jokes, still in high school) just reported that the Tigers have traded Doug Fister to the Nats. Doug Fister should be worth a lot. Maybe A LOT. He is coming off of a very stellar 4.6 fWAR season, he has 15.9 fWAR in the last 4 years, and he’s durable to boot (26+ starts in every year of his career). He’s still arbitration controlled for the next 2 seasons, and he’s only thirty...
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