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I read the rumors about Buchholz as a trade chip and found it to be a head scratcher as well. The Red Sox need starting pitching, more starting pitching and then maybe relief pitching. Challenge trades involving players at the same position are pretty rare.
I looked around and the Buchholz trade chatter seems to be based in nothing but speculation, and the fact that other teams are "interested", which really doesn't mean anything. So who knows.
Guthrie's option buyout was pretty large. The renegotiation last year looks like it was really just deferring money from 2014 to 2016
Lee's production in Japan is more impressive than it would be in his native Korea. Average R/G in Japan is much less than the ridiculous 5.5 R/G mark in the KBO although Fukuoka's 4.55 R/G led NPB by a fair margin.Good Posting Judge said:
His walk/strikeout rates are pretty good! But his "American retread guy who's hit a similar amount of HR this year" comp is Brandon Laird with 34, Lee had 31.
The Sox got good value out of him. 22.6 WAR over 8 years at a relatively low aggregate cost of around $40M. He never developed much plate discipline and his power fluctuated quite a bit but his ability to stay in the lineup shouldn't be underestimated.
If I had to watch him every day, I'm sure I'd hate Ramirez. Just having him on my fantasy team was no picnic. But taken as a whole, his MLB career has been pretty decent.
He was a good fielder, but his UZR has been declining steadily, which you'd expect of a middle infielder in his 30's.
Yeah, those seemed unnecessary."Good said:
Why? Everyone from last years team was coming back. They were the AL favorites in Vegas IIRC.
He's about to enter his age-32 season, can't play CF, missed two months this summer, and grew up in Royals territory. I don't think the market for him is quite as deep as it seems. Who out there is going to give him $100MM?
He was more valuable to the Royals than he will be anywhere else, but he was absolutely valuable to them. Padres will probably throw their wallet at him, they love declining players of all kinds.
First tough call of many for Moore and company. Gordon is a Midwestern guy who was the face of the franchise before he or the team was any good. Sabean would resign him for that reason alone.
A fourth year will take Zobrist through his age 38 season. I doubt anyone will be calling him underrated then.
You go ahead and find me one site or book that had KC as a morning line favorite when spring training brokeWhy? Everyone from last years team was coming back. They were the AL favorites in Vegas IIRC.Thought it closed after last year, but here we are.
Byrd is no surprise since the Giants benched him in the last week so his option wouldn't automatically vest.
When you subtract his buyout, his 2016 cost would be under $5M which isn't bad even for a fourth OF, especially when your #2 OF is Angel Pagan. Gregor Blanco brings a game that's similar to Aoki which might also factor into this decision.
The Royals need to consider years as much as AAV. Zobrist will get three or four (probably three with a vesting option IMO), Gordon will get five. Any team signing Gordon will have better use for money in 2020 than paying a 36 year old LF.
Red Sox 18:1 are interesting.
It caught me a little by surprise, too. He was a college player who took a while to break out as a pro, so his arc started a couple years later than expected.
