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Blue Jays going to try to win every game, 13-12.So...From the Toronto side it does.Meanwhile, unless I heard it wrong, Colorado just took on 2/44 worth of Jose Reyes
Donaldson
Joey Bats
Tulo
Encarnacion
Damn
Unless there is
involved, it frees up nothing for Colorado until 2018. And until then, it costs them an extra $2M per, + the $4M buyout
second time hes been traded during this contract
He's also realistically a DH, 2B or LF at this point, which significantly diminishes his value. Devon Travis will be just fine at the top of the order.
Reyes is slightly better at SS than Tulo as far as range, UZR, and def efficiency go. They are both average defensive SS at this point in their careers.
Good thing Tulo gets on base far more than Reyes. And Reyes has been a disaster from the right side this year (64 wRC, .613OPS) .
Reyes hasn't had a positive UZR since 2008 or DRS since 2007. He is a disaster and shouldn't be playing the position.
Saw that one solution would be for them to guarantee his vesting option regardless of his role and see if that works for him, but that seems like a huge price to pay for a bullpen arm.
Right, but I'm kind of coming at all of this with a theory in the back of my mind that is not fully fleshed out that you are just not going to get the right value ever by spending on big ticket free agents. With the way that the salary structure is set up and teams seeing more value in locking up their young guys earlier, I just don't see how teams can really extract good value through high-priced, older free agents.
Brooks is a future middle reliever at best. Manaea, however, has an impressive K rate and could eventually help an MLB team win games. Decent return on an expensive 34-year-old rental.
This is a great point.
I'd be leery of Machado's knees, but I agree in theory. The Cleveland Indians pretty much wrote the book on doing this in the mid-90's when they locked up all their young guys well before free agency. It was a novel concept at the time, and strangely it's one that most other teams didn't really follow until the last five years or so.
The knees are definitely the biggest risk there, but without them you wonder if such a team-friendly deal would be possible, don't you? A guy like Arenado is probably going to either A) command more or B) go to arb (he's really close to Super-2 this year, and it will depend on the cutoff I think) and then go get his huge deal if he can't get enough to justify capping his upside.
Yeah, eventually all agents are going to turn down deals like the ones the Royals inked to lock up Salvador Perez and Yordano Ventura. Going to get even tougher to lock up young talent as more new local TV deals kick in, too.
I guess the counter-weight to that is that guys want to start banking the money that's going to be coming to them earlier, or avoid the chance of losing out on money b/c of injuries.
I wonder where the tipping point is. Clearly, Machado has some incentive to bank his money when he can. On the other hand, a guy like, say, Arenado, doesn't really have the same risks and may be more likely to try and reach free agency even if a "good" extension offer is on the table.
Risk both if the player tanks or plays too well. That next negotiation could get emotional if there's animosity between player and franchise when the team locks the player up to a deal that plays out as too team-friendly. Take Salvy Perez, for example. If he doesn't have agents telling him what evil cheapskates the Royals are for taking advantage of him when he was new to the business, he will by the time his contract is up.
