MLB Off-Season News & Notes Thread: Things Be Boring

[Big McLargehuge]

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

And...here...we...go. Kind of surprising with Jansen in place:

 

[Virtanen18]

Trading for a closer when you already have one.....

 

[hockeykicker]

And...here...we...go. Kind of surprising with Jansen in place:

that all basically points to papelbon or storen to cubs as they looking for a closer too

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

And...here...we...go. Kind of surprising with Jansen in place:

That would be pretty damn expensive, but not as expensive as Kimbrel (I would hope).

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Dodgers throwing money at anything with a pulse...shocking.

 

[TootooTrain]

Trading for a closer when you already have one.....

But what if you had a closer for every inning! They'll have all the closeryness in the league.

 

[hockeykicker]

Trading for a closer when you already have one.....

well thats what the nats were trying to do except they wanted to put him in the 8th inning at the deadline last year

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

But what if you had a closer for every inning! They'll have all the closeryness in the league.

Having too many elite relievers the past couple seasons sure hurt the Royals.

 

[Voight]

And...here...we...go. Kind of surprising with Jansen in place:

Not really.

Royals have been ok with Holland-Davis-Herrera the past two seasons, Chapman-Jensen-Powell should be fine.

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

 

[Virtanen18]

But what if you had a closer for every inning! They'll have all the closeryness in the league.

But Matt Williams said closers can only pitch the 9th. Will they just split that duty?

Having elite relievers worked out for the Royals. But they did not trade for a closer when they already had one. Doing that did not work out for the Nationals.

 

[TootooTrain]

Having too many elite relievers the past couple seasons sure hurt the Royals.

You're actually arguing my point.

Why pay assets for a 1 yr elite reliever with closer status and name value, when you can likely sign/trade for 2-3 quality arms at the same cost?

 

[Tecumseh]

Dodgers throwing money at anything with a pulse...shocking.

Surprising enough, the most money that Friedman and co. have thrown at a free agent is Brandon McCarthy, for some reason.

 

[Fish on The Sand]

Surprising enough, the most money that Friedman and co. have thrown at a free agent is Brandon McCarthy, for some reason.

I'm surprised that they haven't already sent a dump truck full of money to Cueto.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[TootooTrain]

Who could they flip him to for a starter? Subsequently, who in their right mind would do that unless it's for an expiring deal aswell.

 

[DougieSmash]

Dodgers model is pretty wrong.

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

Dodgers model is pretty wrong.

Good call. We know exactly what their team will look on Opening Day 2016 as of December 6, 2015.

 

[Voight]

Surprising enough, the most money that Friedman and co. have thrown at a free agent is Brandon McCarthy, for some reason.

Well he was great in the second half of 2014, and Friedman/Zahdi are very good at finding talent, so I would trust them. Just unfortunate that McCarthy was out this year and a bit of next.

I'm surprised that they haven't already sent a dump truck full of money to Cueto.

LA to the Dominican is a far drive

 

[Voight]

Dodgers model is pretty wrong.

Friedman brought the freaking Rays to the World Series in four years. I would say he knows how to build a winner.

 

[Static]

Dodgers wouldn't be so thin at SP if they didn't flip Heaney for Kendrick last year. Thought that was a pretty questionable move at the time that looks downright bad right now.

 

[hockeykicker]