2019 MLB off-season news & notes discussion thread

[Marc the Habs Fan]

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

Should have never gotten the job in the 1st place.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Should have never gotten the job in the 1st place.

Maddon is available so I’m sure along with the Padres they’ll be going after him hard

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Maddon was also a former Angels coach, so there is a connection.

I'd go to SD if I were him.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Maddon was also a former Angels coach, so there is a connection.

I'd go to SD if I were him.

Absolutely. You get SoCal either way but would rather be on a team with less scrutiny on the way up rather than the Angels who need a serious re-tool to say the least and won’t be good for at least a few years

 

[Say Hey Kid]

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[JWK]

Find me a worse GM in the league, you can’t.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Find me a worse GM in the league, you can’t.

 

[Terry Yake]

speaking of terrible GMs, hawk harrelson was actually the white sox GM for a few years in the 80s

he made a couple key moves. traded away a young bobby bonilla and also fired the team's manager and asisstant GM. two guys i think we all know: tony la russa and dave dombrowski

 

[robert terwilliger]

yeah dombrowski knows a thing or two about making bad moves himself.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Saw this at the Padres game on Thursday

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

speaking of terrible GMs, hawk harrelson was actually the white sox GM for a few years in the 80s

he made a couple key moves. traded away a young bobby bonilla and also fired the team's manager and asisstant GM. two guys i think we all know: tony la russa and dave dombrowski

He was GM for 1 year

And it was a disaster but he was humble about admitting his mistakes thru years

He did make one pretty good trade in acquiring Ivan Calderon from Mariners for Scott Bradly and the failure that was 1986 White Sox did lead to hiring of Larry Himes and drafting of Jack McDowell which was a major turning point for franchise

Black Jack was key part of turnaround of franchise and Sox would being so bad in 1986 secured #5th overall pick

 

[Preds Partisan]

The Reds hired Kyle Boddy founder of Driveline Baseball as director of pitching. He's exclusive to the Reds, but his company can work with other teams and players.

Reds are all in on analytics and data driven player development. All the old school dinosaurs were cut loose this week.

 

[Benneguin]

The Reds hired Kyle Boddy founder of Driveline Baseball as director of pitching. He's exclusive to the Reds, but his company can work with other teams and players.

Reds are all in on analytics and data driven player development. All the old school dinosaurs were cut loose this week.

Wouldn't they require him to leave the company? Seems like a conflict of interest.

 

[Preds Partisan]

Wouldn't they require him to leave the company? Seems like a conflict of interest.

I guess that's been worked out over the months he and the Reds were negotiating. He had other offers, including the Cubs, reports say, so I don't think his company relationship is an issue.

But yeah, kind of a weird situation that his day job is the Reds and yet he is still running the company. Or something like that.

Very nontraditional move by the Reds which is why I posted this.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Find me a worse GM in the league, you can’t.

Do you think Arenado would opt out of this contract though?

He'd have 5 years and a whopping 164 M left after the 2021 season (3x35 M, 32 M, 27 M).

He'd be going into his age 31 season in 2022. Teams are staying away from massive deals for guys in their 30's in this sport.

 

[Voight]

Do you think Arenado would opt out of this contract though?

He'd have 5 years and a whopping 164 M left after the 2021 season (3x35 M, 32 M, 27 M).

He'd be going into his age 31 season in 2022. Teams are staying away from massive deals for guys in their 30's in this sport.

Eh, maybe not for a player of his caliber. Its not likely he will opt out but you never know.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Eh, maybe not for a player of his caliber. Its not likely he will opt out but you never know.

Would he be willing to take a 20% discount since his stats will decrease that much leaving Denver?

 

[JWK]

Do you think Arenado would opt out of this contract though?

He'd have 5 years and a whopping 164 M left after the 2021 season (3x35 M, 32 M, 27 M).

He'd be going into his age 31 season in 2022. Teams are staying away from massive deals for guys in their 30's in this sport.

Short answer, yes

Would he be willing to take a 20% discount since his stats will decrease that much leaving Denver?

Lmao

 

[Voight]

Looks like Harper was the problem

The Harper curse.....

 

[MMC]

 

[Terry Yake]

damn throwback thursday

 

[kingsholygrail]

Roberts to return; Prior likely new pitching coach
Friedman extended. Roberts stays. Honeycutt demoted to special assistant and Prior promoted to pitching coach.

 

[EpochLink]

Reds are all in on analytics and data driven player development. All the old school dinosaurs were cut loose this week.

Reminds me the scene in Moneyball where all those 'old school scouts' were judging players by how their ugly their girlfriends are, ugly girlfriends = no confidence ..