Trade Value of Hamels and Lee
As reported this morning by Buster Olney, the Phillies are supposedly shopping Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels. It’s a good idea to know how much each of them is actually worth with their large contracts taken into account. If the Blue Jays wanted to trade for them, what kind of surplus are they looking at getting back? Cole Hamels I will use our model of $7.5M/WAR this year, compounded 9% annually. Hamels is under contract through...
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...
Report: Yankees Closing in on Deal With Ellsbury
According to Jon Heyman, the New York Yankees may be close to signing a deal with top free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury. The deal is reportedly worth $153 million over 7 years, according to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News, good for an AAV of $21 million. Ellsbury, one of the top outfielders in the game, has posted seasons of 5.8, 1.4, and 9.1 (!) fWAR in the past three years, with his 2012 being injury-marred. Ellsbury...
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...
Rumour: Blue Jays in on Brett Anderson
After the Oakland Athletics signed Scott Kazmir, many sources predicted a follow up trade of Brett Anderson. This became even more likely after the frugal A’s acquired $10MM closer Jim Johnson from the O’s. To nobody’s surprise, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweeted the Toronto Blue Jays are one of the teams interested in Anderson. There have been whispers of the Jays being heavily interested in...
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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