A baffling off season plan

[Donn Beach]

Ha! You overpaid for Moncada. This guy has him projected for $1.5 mil. The guy has made $100 mil and he's going to sign for that. For the love of the game I guess. Anyway, it's kind of an interesting collection of buy low candidates. How about Josh Bell, he put pretty good numbers after the deadline trade last season. You guys like the receny stuff


https://bleacherreport.com/articles/101 ... low-upside

[GL_Storm]

Ha! You overpaid for Moncada. This guy has him projected for $1.5 mil. The guy has made $100 mil and he's going to sign for that. For the love of the game I guess. Anyway, it's kind of an interesting collection of buy low candidates. How about Josh Bell, he put pretty good numbers after the deadline trade last season. You guys like the receny stuff


https://bleacherreport.com/articles/101 ... low-upside

Moncada will be a great low-risk, high-upside player for a mid-tier team that would like to win, but isn't necessarily counting on it, like Seattle. The problem with Seattle though is that the ballpark is basically poison for a player in this situation looking to restart his career.

[Seattle or Bust]

Ha! You overpaid for Moncada. This guy has him projected for $1.5 mil. The guy has made $100 mil and he's going to sign for that. For the love of the game I guess. Anyway, it's kind of an interesting collection of buy low candidates. How about Josh Bell, he put pretty good numbers after the deadline trade last season. You guys like the receny stuff


https://bleacherreport.com/articles/101 ... low-upside

Moncada will be a great low-risk, high-upside player for a mid-tier team that would like to win, but isn't necessarily counting on it, like Seattle. The problem with Seattle though is that the ballpark is basically poison for a player in this situation looking to restart his career.

Victor Robles says hello.

[GL_Storm]

Ha! You overpaid for Moncada. This guy has him projected for $1.5 mil. The guy has made $100 mil and he's going to sign for that. For the love of the game I guess. Anyway, it's kind of an interesting collection of buy low candidates. How about Josh Bell, he put pretty good numbers after the deadline trade last season. You guys like the receny stuff


https://bleacherreport.com/articles/101 ... low-upside

Moncada will be a great low-risk, high-upside player for a mid-tier team that would like to win, but isn't necessarily counting on it, like Seattle. The problem with Seattle though is that the ballpark is basically poison for a player in this situation looking to restart his career.

Victor Robles says hello.

Yeah, but they got Robles on waivers, didn't they? At any rate, I don't think many players would actively choose to come to Seattle to rehab their career when there are more accommodative ballparks they can choose from.

[Seattle or Bust]

Moncada will be a great low-risk, high-upside player for a mid-tier team that would like to win, but isn't necessarily counting on it, like Seattle. The problem with Seattle though is that the ballpark is basically poison for a player in this situation looking to restart his career.

Victor Robles says hello.

Yeah, but they got Robles on waivers, didn't they? At any rate, I don't think many players would actively choose to come to Seattle to rehab their career when there are more accommodative ballparks they can choose from.

I mean, how many players have signed with the Mariners who wanted to revitalize their careers in the SafeCo/T-Mobile era?

Bret Boone?

John Olerud, Jack Cust, Milton Bradley, Carl Everett, Corey Hart, Robinson Cano, Adam Lind, Nori Aoki, Denard Span were all established players coming off good/great years... Bradley and Everett fell off due to being psychologically unstable. Olerud and Cano were quite successful.

Mike Sweeney and Adam Kennedy were over the hill and signed to a minor league contracts... Sweeney had a .777 OPS and then an .802 OPS before being traded.

Nelson Cruz wasn't a reclamation project... but he was a hell of a lot better in a Seattle uni than he was the prior 4-5 years before joining the M's.

Maybe Endy Chavez? Who was mediocre to begin with? Same with Leonys Martin who at least had a much better year w. the M's than he did a year prior... How about Chris Ianetta? Yeah... I guess he was coming off a bad year and then did better outside of Seattle. Maybe Tommy La Stella? But he was 34 and they cut him loose after very limited play in just 21 games.

Bottom line is the M's really have signed many "reclamation projects" over the last 24 years. They've signed a lot of mid-tier free agents coming off solid years who bombed out. Is that a sign that reclamation projects would fail here? No...

The only true ones I can think of are Bret Boone and Chris Ianetta... Boone was fantastic. Ianetta wasn't. And as I mentioned, Victor Robles had a ball hitting in T-Mobile... .983 OPS.

[Donn Beach]

Nailed Moncada

The Los Angeles Angels agreed to a one-year, $5 million contract with free agent third baseman Yoan Moncada, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday