2013 Hot Stove & Capella's Fabulous Cornhole Thread (2 Viewers)

[Eephus]

Upon completion of World Series
Eligible XX(B) players become free agents

Fourth day after completion of World Series
Last date to request waivers on Draft-excluded players until next spring

Fifth day after completion of World Series
Last date to reinstate players from 60-day disabled list
Last date to outright potential Minor League free agent without Major League contract, if permissable
Last date for former club to tender qualifying offer to XX(B) players
Minor League players become free agents at 5 p.m. ET, if applicable

Sixth day after completion of World Series
XX(B) and Minor League free agents may sign with all clubs

12th day after completion of World Series
Last date for XX(B) players to accept qualifying offer from former club

November 10
Outright waivers secured on or after September 1 expire at 5 p.m. ET

November 11
Sporting News Executive of the Year named

November 11
New waiver period begins

November 11-13
GM/Owners Meetings, Orlando, Fla.

November 18
Last date to ask outright waivers on an injured player, if permissable

November 20
Last date to outright an injured player to the Minor Leagues, if permissable
Reserve lists for all Major and Minor League levels filed

December 2
Tender deadline

December 5
Last date to request outright waivers to assign player prior to Rule 5 Draft

December 9
Last date to outright a player prior to Rule 5 Draft

December 9-12
Winter Meetings

December 12
Rule 5 Draft

March 22-23, 2014
Opening Series in Sydney, Australia: Dodgers vs. D-backs

March 30, 2014
Opening Night, Teams TBD

March 31, 2014
Opening Day

 

[Eephus]

Potential Free Agents for 2014

The following players have contracts expiring or should have the six years of service necessary to become free agents after the 2013 season.

(* – player whose current contract includes 2014 option.)

First Basemen

Lance Berkman *

Jason Giambi

Travis Hafner

Eric Hinske

Paul Konerko

Casey Kotchman

Adam Lind *

James Loney

Kendrys Morales

Justin Morneau

Mike Morse

Mike Napoli

Lyle Overbay

Carlos Pena

Mark Reynolds

Juan Rivera

Kevin Youkilis

Second Basemen

Robinson Cano

Alexi Casilla

Mark Ellis *

Mike Fontenot

Omar Infante

Kelly Johnson

Nick Punto

Brian Roberts

Ramon Santiago

Skip Schumaker

Ben Zobrist *

Shortstops

Alfredo Amezaga

Clint Barmes

Willie Bloomquist

Jamey Carroll *

Alexi Casilla *

Stephen Drew

Yunel Escobar *

Rafael Furcal

Alex Gonzalez

Cesar Izturis

Derek Jeter *

John McDonald

Jhonny Peralta

Brendan Ryan

Third Basemen

Wilson Betemit *

Eric Chavez

Mark DeRosa

Mike Fontenot

Jerry Hairston Jr.

Brandon Inge

Placido Polanco

Mark Reynolds

Juan Uribe

Kevin Youkilis

Michael Young

Catchers

Rod Barajas

Henry Blanco

John Buck

Jesus Flores

Ramon Hernandez

Gerald Laird

Brian McCann

Jose Molina

Dioner Navarro

Wil Nieves

Miguel Olivo

Ronny Paulino

Brayan Pena

A.J. Pierzynski

Humberto Quintero

Carlos Ruiz

Jarrod Saltalamacchia

Kelly Shoppach

Chris Snyder

Geovany Soto

Kurt Suzuki *

Yorvit Torrealba

Outfielders

Alfredo Amezaga

Rick Ankiel

Norichika Aoki *

Jeff Baker

Jason Bay

Carlos Beltran

Shin-Soo Choo

Coco Crisp *

Nelson Cruz

Rajai Davis

David DeJesus

Mark DeRosa

Matt Diaz

Jacoby Ellsbury

Jeff Francoeur

Curtis Granderson

Franklin Gutierrez

Tony Gwynn Jr.

Corey Hart

Raul Ibanez

Reed Johnson *

Austin Kearns

Jason Kubel *

Nate McLouth

Nyjer Morgan

Mike Morse

David Murphy

Xavier Nady

Laynce Nix

Juan Rivera

Luke Scott

Ryan Sweeney

Andres Torres

Chris Young *

Delmon Young

Starting Pitchers

Bronson Arroyo

Scott Baker

Erik Bedard

Nick Blackburn *

A.J. Burnett

Chris Capuano *

Chris Carpenter

Bruce Chen

Bartolo Colon

Aaron Cook

Jorge De La Rosa

Scott Feldman

Gavin Floyd

Jeff Francis

Armando Galarraga

Jon Garland

Matt Garza

Roy Halladay *

Jason Hammel

Aaron Harang *

Rich Harden

Dan Haren

Roberto Hernandez

Tim Hudson

Phil Hughes

Ubaldo Jimenez *

Josh Johnson

Jeff Karstens

Hiroki Kuroda

John Lannan

Jon Lester *

Colby Lewis

Ted Lilly

Derek Lowe

Paul Maholm

Shaun Marcum

Jason Marquis

Daisuke Matsuzaka

Brett Myers *

Ricky Nolasco

Mike Pelfrey

Clayton Richard

Wandy Rodriguez *

Jonathan Sanchez

Ervin Santana

Johan Santana *

Joe Saunders *

James Shields *

Tim Stauffer

Jason Vargas

Ryan Vogelsong *

Edinson Volquez

Tsuyoshi Wada *

Chien-Ming Wang

Chris Young

Barry Zito

Relief Pitchers

David Aardsma

Jeremy Accardo

Manny Acosta

Matt Albers

Scott Atchison

Luis Ayala

Grant Balfour

Matt Belisle *

Joaquin Benoit

Rafael Betancourt *

Bill Bray

Craig Breslow

Tim Byrdak

Shawn Camp

Matt Capps

Joba Chamberlain

Jose Contreras

Manny Corpas

Jesse Crain

Joey Devine

Octavio Dotel

Scott Downs

Chad Durbin *

Kyle Farnsworth

Pedro Feliciano

Frank Francisco

Jason Frasor

Chad Gaudin

Mike Gonzalez

Kevin Gregg

Matt Guerrier

Joel Hanrahan

LaTroy Hawkins

Clay Hensley

Rich Hill

J.P. Howell

Casey Janssen *

Jesse Litsch

Matt Lindstrom *

Kameron Loe

Boone Logan

Javier Lopez

Mark Lowe

Brandon Lyon

Ryan Madson

Carlos Marmol

Nick Masset

Kyle McClellan

Peter Moylan

Edward Mujica

Joe Nathan *

Pat Neshek

Eric O’Flaherty

Will Ohman

Hideki Okajima

Darren Oliver

Juan Carlos Oviedo

Vicente Padilla

Manny Parra

Oliver Perez

Rafael Perez

Chad Qualls

Jon Rauch

Fernando Rodney

J.C. Romero

George Sherrill

Joe Smith

Matt Thornton *

Jose Veras *

Jamey Wright

 

[ffldrew]

Seems like a lackluster group there - the ones on the edge of good will probably get overpaid.

 

[Bogart]

Rangers will most likely to offer Nelson Cruz a qualifying offer, but not to Joe Nathan.

 

[Hilts]

Tigers let Veras go.

Oakland is picking up the options of Crisp and Anderson.

Yankees voiding Jeter's previous feal and giving him more $ for a one year deal.

 

[Eephus]

Joe Nathan voids his $9M 2014 option. He forfeits his buyout in doing so.

 

[shadyridr]

Why would the yankees sign jeter to a $12m deal when he had a player option for $9.5m. I understand hes derek jeter but he player 17 games

 

[Eephus]

Why would the yankees sign jeter to a $12m deal when he had a player option for $9.5m. I understand hes derek jeter but he player 17 games

There are supposedly some luxury tax considerations

 

[Balco]

For some reason I thought the Yankees might let Jeter walk so that he could latch on with a contender. Guess not.

 

[shadyridr]

Why would the yankees sign jeter to a $12m deal when he had a player option for $9.5m. I understand hes derek jeter but he player 17 games

There are supposedly some luxury tax considerations

nope, new deal works more towards luxury tax

 

[Hilts]

I believe the new deal means Jeter is a free agent after the year instead of being locked up. Slightly more short term money for greater long term flexibility.

 

[shadyridr]

I believe the new deal means Jeter is a free agent after the year instead of being locked up. Slightly more short term money for greater long term flexibility.

nope he only has one year left anyway

 

[Hilts]

Ah. Well in that case, no idea why the Yankees did this.

 

[Raider Nation]

News & Notes - 11/1

 

[Brady Marino]

Barry Zito bought out for $7 mil.

The End of an Error.

 

[Hilts]

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/why-i-quit-major-league-baseball.html

 

[Good Posting Judge]

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/why-i-quit-major-league-baseball.html

Good for him. I remember him coming over for Blanton, then he got lost in the system obviously and wound up with Chicago (as did Matthew Spencer, who also wound up with the Cubs and who is also now out of baseball). Not the best haul.

MLBTR's Top 50 FA's with team predictions: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/11/2014-top-50-free-agents-with-predictions-1.html

I think Cano re-signing with NY is inevitable, it'll be interesting to see how and if Roc Nation/CAA can gain any leverage whatsoever with the Doyers signing a 2B already. Beltran to NY also makes sense.

Gammons reported earlier in the week about the terrifying possibility of the Dodgers emptying out their minor league cabinet for Price AND bidding a huge amount to get Tanaka. Although the Angels are apparently willing to deal Trumbo for Price.

The A's I'm sure consider Young and Balfour good as gone. I hoped they'd try to find a way to nab Colon again, but with most of their rotation set I'm sure it won't be too difficult to find another reclamation project. I could see Capuano.

The Haren-to-SF idea doesn't really wash me, as Sabean doesn't seem like a guy who is going to look past ERA.

 

[the moops]

Mark Trumbo is a pretty ####ty main piece in a deal for Price. TB can do way,way better

 

[dparker713]

Seems like a lackluster group there - the ones on the edge of good will probably get overpaid.

Baseball revenue was 7.5 billion in 2012 and its only going up. The only people overpaid are the owners.

 

[Wrigley]

Qualifying offers are $14.1M

 

[shadyridr]

Qualifying offers are $14.1M

ANd I doubt anyone accepts one

 

[Good Posting Judge]

The qualifying offer rule is brutal on small-market teams.

 

[Eephus]

The qualifying offer rule is brutal on small-market teams.

...and good to very good free agents

 

[Eephus]

Qualifying offers are $14.1M

ANd I doubt anyone accepts one

Granderson probably should consider it. I don't see anybody else going much above 2/$20M for him, particularly with the compensation pick involved. Outside of 2011, he just hasn't been that productive recently.

1/$14M in a friendly ballpark seems like a decent option. He still has a chance to resurrect his market value and go for one last multi-year deal next winter.

 

[shadyridr]

Qualifying offers are $14.1M

ANd I doubt anyone accepts one

Granderson probably should consider it. I don't see anybody else going much above 2/$20M for him, particularly with the compensation pick involved. Outside of 2011, he just hasn't been that productive recently.

1/$14M in a friendly ballpark seems like a decent option. He still has a chance to resurrect his market value and go for one last multi-year deal next winter.

really? I thought i read chw will offer a big contract to him. I would be surprised if he gets anything less than 3/45

 

[Eephus]

Qualifying offers are $14.1M

ANd I doubt anyone accepts one

Granderson probably should consider it. I don't see anybody else going much above 2/$20M for him, particularly with the compensation pick involved. Outside of 2011, he just hasn't been that productive recently.

1/$14M in a friendly ballpark seems like a decent option. He still has a chance to resurrect his market value and go for one last multi-year deal next winter.

really? I thought i read chw will offer a big contract to him. I would be surprised if he gets anything less than 3/45

You're probably right but I really don't like a big contract and a compensation pick for a declining player.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Granderson's only an injury-plagued (of the non-muscular variety) away from two 40 HR seasons, he can do better than a qualifying offer I think.

No qualifying offer for Peralta. It would be terribly unsurprising if he wound up with the Cards.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Burnett seems like the most likely player to accept one. He's talked about retirement, and $14mm for his production next year is probably about right.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Liriano and Rivera win MLB comeback player of the year for their respective leagues.

D-Backs are hot on the heels of Samardjiza, who is entering his Arb 2 season.

 

[dparker713]

Granderson's only an injury-plagued (of the non-muscular variety) away from two 40 HR seasons, he can do better than a qualifying offer I think.

No qualifying offer for Peralta. It would be terribly unsurprising if he wound up with the Cards.

Problem for Granderson is he'd be worth an offer higher than a qualifying offer if the draft pick compensation isn't attached, but is he worth both the money and the first rounder? He may wind up being in the same boat as Lohse last season.

 

[Eephus]

Burnett seems like the most likely player to accept one. He's talked about retirement, and $14mm for his production next year is probably about right.

except the Pirates didn't offer him one

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Burnett seems like the most likely player to accept one. He's talked about retirement, and $14mm for his production next year is probably about right.

except the Pirates didn't offer him one

Did we hit the deadline already?

 

[Eephus]

Burnett seems like the most likely player to accept one. He's talked about retirement, and $14mm for his production next year is probably about right.

except the Pirates didn't offer him one

Did we hit the deadline already?

Deadline was yesterday. QOs went to:

-Carlos Beltran

-Robinson Cano

-Shin-Soo Choo

-Nelson Cruz

-Stephen Drew

-Jacoby Ellsbury

-Curtis Granderson

-Ubaldo Jimenez

-Hiroki Kuroda

-Brian McCann

-Kendrys Morales

-Mike Napoli

-Ervin Santana

 

[the moops]

Burnett seems like the most likely player to accept one. He's talked about retirement, and $14mm for his production next year is probably about right.

except the Pirates didn't offer him one

Did we hit the deadline already?

Yes. 5 PM yesterday.

Only 13 players received qualifying offers. Ellsbury, Napoli, Drew, Cano, Grandy, Kuroda, Beltran, Choo, Cruz, Jiminez, McCann, Morales, Santana

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Hold on to your hats: Chris Volstad signs with the Salt Lake Bees (Anaheim).

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Great piece. The infusion of TV money should, hypothetically, help the smaller clubs out quite a bit.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-new-national-tv-contracts-and-2014-payrolls/

 

[Hilts]

Great piece. The infusion of TV money should, hypothetically, help the smaller clubs out quite a bit.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-new-national-tv-contracts-and-2014-payrolls/

Houston might break 30 million this year.

 

[Brady Marino]

Hold on to your hats: Chris Volstad signs with the Salt Lake Bees (Anaheim).

Anaheim reviving the Volstad Act.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Cubs hire Rick Renteria as new manager.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9937521/rick-renteria-hired-chicago-cubs-manager

He has no managing experience. As a coach his teams were seventy games below five hundred. As a player, his teams were forty games below five hundred.

So, he should fit right in.

 

[RnR]

Cubs hire Rick Renteria as new manager.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9937521/rick-renteria-hired-chicago-cubs-manager

He has no managing experience. As a coach his teams were seventy games below five hundred. As a player, his teams were forty games below five hundred.

So, he should fit right in.

I read your whole post knowing this punch line was coming and I laughed anyway.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Yankees have it let it be known they're willing to break the posting fee for Tanaka.

Red Sawx interested in Hudson to replace Dempster as their overpaid ####ty fifth starter. Giants like Arroyo.

 

[shadyridr]

Is tanaka any good? Im assuming not as good as darvish

 

[Raider Nation]

Is tanaka any good? Im assuming not as good as darvish

His contract will beg to differ.

If re-signing Robinson Cano is priority No. 1 for the New York Yankees this offseason, securing the rights to Japanese starter Masahiro Tanaka is No. 1a. And they’re willing to spend more money than any team ever has bidding on a Japanese player.Sources with knowledge of the Yankees’ plans said they are “going to be bold” in bidding on the 25-year-old right-hander when the Rakuten Golden Eagles post him, likely later this month. Just how high the Yankees plan on going is unclear, but executives believe the winning bid for the rights to negotiate a contract with Tanaka will top $75 million, nearly a 50 percent premium over the posting fees for Yu Darvish and Daisuke Matsuzaka.

One of the main holdups: Nobody knows what the bidding process even looks like, as Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball continue to hash out the details of the posting system. In the past, teams have placed blind bids on players, with the highest bid winning exclusive negotiating rights and the Japanese team pocketing the entirety of the bid. Proposals for a new system from MLB seek to limit the money going to Japan and have met resistance from teams that use monster posting fees to recapitalize.

Tanaka went 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA this season, losing his first game during a 160-pitch outing in the Japan Series but coming back the next day to throw the final 15 pitches in a championship-clinching Rakuten victory. He especially appeals to the Yankees because the posting fee does not count against teams’ luxury-tax figures, and the Yankees are aiming to dip below a $189 million payroll to reset their tax rate.

Even for AAAA, 24-0 is pretty good.

 

[Brady Marino]

They say he's not quite as talented as Darvish, but has more poise.

 

[Eephus]

Rockies beat writer Troy Renck compared Tanaka to Anibal Sanchez. He quoted a scout that said "Great fastball command, good deception, great strikeout pitches with fastball, forkball and slider. ... Finds extra gear with runners on base."

The NPB posting fee is real money but it doesn't count in luxury tax calculations

 

[guru_007]

I guess I didn't realize Dusty Baker was now managing Rakuten

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I don't think there's any doubt he'll get more than Darvish, but teams are flooded with cash right now. It's a new age. The White Sox are going to seem like geniuses for that Abreu contract when all is said and done.

 

[Raider Nation]

Help me out here, Eephus.

 

[JaxBill]

Not really Hot Stove but this off-season tweet might draw some criticism

Logan Morrison ‏@LoMoMarlins 44m

Like a hot spoon to a junkie! “@justinruggiano: @LoMoMarlins How's Costa Rica treating you?”

 

[Raider Nation]

Not really Hot Stove but this off-season tweet might draw some criticism

Logan Morrison ‏@LoMoMarlins 44m

Like a hot spoon to a junkie! “@justinruggiano: @LoMoMarlins How's Costa Rica treating you?”

Ehhhh. Everyone knows he's a jackass.