Finally! Official Hot Stove League Thread

[desbcoach]

Listed as 5'9" and 180 pounds.

Carried by OBP and coming off the lowest SLG of his career. We need guys who can clear the bases, not just get on.

Glad we missed out on this one.

Totally agree he isn't exciting but he is Babe Ruth relative to JK.

He definitely is.

Problem is he's not even the best available option left this offseason, he certainly won't be the best we can get out there over the next 4 years, but we'd be stuck with him.

If we end up with Kelenic in LF, Dipoto should be fired anyways. He's not even the best option we have now.

I'm not convinced Haggerty/Trammell isn't better than Benintendi.

MLB had an article,that stated dodger,were,looking to trade for a CF and had talked with. Rainer’s about Kelenic

[D-train]

He definitely is.

Problem is he's not even the best available option left this offseason, he certainly won't be the best we can get out there over the next 4 years, but we'd be stuck with him.

If we end up with Kelenic in LF, Dipoto should be fired anyways. He's not even the best option we have now.

I'm not convinced Haggerty/Trammell isn't better than Benintendi.

Who is your LF RH choice right now?

Bryan Reynolds is the best available so if we can get him for pitching depth I'd be in.

Beyond that it's short term options. Wil Myers and Michael Brantley are the best guys that may come on one year deals.

Reynolds would fill the holes for 3 seasons, and he's actually good, so he's Option A.

I don't see any upgrades that would be worth committing to for more than a year- maybe two- when Trammell/Haggerty gave us a platoon of .775 vs RHP and 1.100 vs. LHP.

If one of them don't work out, that's when it would be time to bring Kelenic up and give him anothet shot.


At this point, imo, if it's not:

Reynolds
Brantley
Martinez
Myers

that we're adding on 1-2 year deals, then it's probably not worth doing.

There are probably some trades that we don't know are available.

That's close to what I have but I don't see Brantley because he is LF. Idiotic but is what it is.

Also I have Myers over JD because of age and the fact JD OPSed about .700 since June 1st and Myers OPSd .831 since he returned from injury on August 1st.

[bpj]

Who is your LF RH choice right now?

Bryan Reynolds is the best available so if we can get him for pitching depth I'd be in.

Beyond that it's short term options. Wil Myers and Michael Brantley are the best guys that may come on one year deals.

Reynolds would fill the holes for 3 seasons, and he's actually good, so he's Option A.

I don't see any upgrades that would be worth committing to for more than a year- maybe two- when Trammell/Haggerty gave us a platoon of .775 vs RHP and 1.100 vs. LHP.

If one of them don't work out, that's when it would be time to bring Kelenic up and give him anothet shot.


At this point, imo, if it's not:

Reynolds
Brantley
Martinez
Myers

that we're adding on 1-2 year deals, then it's probably not worth doing.

There are probably some trades that we don't know are available.

That's close to what I have but I don't see Brantley because he is LF. Idiotic but is what it is.

Also I have Myers over JD because of age and the fact JD OPSed about .700 since June 1st and Myers OPSd .831 since he returned from injury on August 1st.

Yeah, just meant only guys left on market worth signing still. Only options for LF that represent an upgrade are Myers and Conforto imo.

Martinez and Brantley are the two DH options that make sense.

Other than that, they're left with making trades or going in-house.

[Big_Maple]

Dansby Swanson is off the board. Seven years, $177M to the Cubs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kileymcd/sta ... mxrsMsAAAA

[D-train]

Dansby Swanson is off the board. Seven years, $177M to the Cubs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kileymcd/sta ... mxrsMsAAAA

I guess none of them wanted to play 2B.

[Big_Maple]

And….. JD Martinez is off the board. One year, $10M to the Dodgers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffPassan/s ... 6YvcMsAAAA

[bpj]

And….. JD Martinez is off the board. One year, $10M to the Dodgers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffPassan/s ... 6YvcMsAAAA

That one stings since we're still two bats short of having enough bats deserving of a rotating DH.

[Donn Beach]

Dansby Swanson is off the board. Seven years, $177M to the Cubs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kileymcd/sta ... mxrsMsAAAA

I guess none of them wanted to play 2B.

Nico Hoermer is gonna be,


Interesting
https://twitter.com/brendan_cubs/status ... gr%5Etweet

[D-train]

Here is what all the "smart" teams are left with:

[D-train]

Lux: 2.5 WAR 105 OPS
Farmer: 1.0 WAR 90 OPS
Grissom: 0.8 WAR 121 OPS
Story: 2.5 WAR 102 OPS