Free Agent Signings:
Carlos Santana
Mike Minor
Michael Taylor
Ervin Santana
Top 10 Prospects:
1 Bobby Witt Jr., SS
2 Asa Lacy, LHP
3 Daniel Lynch, LHP
4 Jackson Kowar, RHP
5 Erick Pena, OF
6 Nick Loftin, SS
7 Kyle Isbel, OF
8 Khali Lee, OF
9 Jonathan Bowlan, RHP
10 Carlos Hernedez, RHP [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coach:
The most recent highly valuable trade that I can think of under DM was the Greinke trade. That one worked out pretty well.
Moore hasn’t made a trade with a real asset(s) since Manaea for Zobrist. They don’t win the WS without that and Manaea has been solid but frustratingly inconsistent for the A’s, while also having trouble staying healthy.
Before that, it was Myers/Montgomery/Odorizzi for Shields and Davis. [Reply]
I guess you could look at the Cueto trade as involving real assets, but as I said at the time, they were selling high on 3 guys who had major question marks as pros. [Reply]
Manaea has had a very Duffy like career. For being told around the league that we gave up the farm for rentals in 2015, it's amazing that trading away someone who would have given us a Duffy like 6 years was the extent of who we parted with -- and it's made me bullish on always going for it when my team just needs a couple of pieces to get over the top. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
Yeah I was amazed more teams weren't all over Soler. As much as Royals fans had turned on him he's a huge buy low candidate. Who knows if he'll ever hit 48 again but when he's on like right now there are few better power hitters.
He had 3 go ahead homers and was the 6th player to ever do that. He also hit .300. I could see someone giving him a decent contract. He turned the corner to a really nice season after he left. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
World Series MVP Jorge Soler
He had 3 go ahead homers and was the 6th player to ever do that. He also hit .300. I could see someone giving him a decent contract. He turned the corner to a really nice season after he left.
That's what can happen when you have a real hitting coach [Reply]
Originally Posted by :
November 3: The beginning of a five-day period where teams and players must decide whether to exercise or decline contract options and opt-out clauses for the 2022 season. Eligible free agents cannot sign with anyone but their current team for five more days.
November 7, 4:00 pm CST: The deadline for teams to issue qualifying offers (one-year, $18.4MM contracts) to eligible free agents. For a breakdown of the draft choices teams would forfeit by signing a qualified free agent, see here.
November 8: Free agency officially opens.
November 8-11: General managers’ meetings, hosted in Carlsbad, California.
November 17: Deadline for players tagged with a qualifying offer to accept or reject the QO.
November 19: Deadline for teams to add players to the 40-man roster to keep them from selection in the Rule 5 draft.
December 1, 11:59 pm: Expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement. If MLB and the MLBPA do not agree on a new CBA by then, the league may institute a lockout that freezes teams’ ability to make transactions until negotiations are resolved.
December 2: The deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players.
December 6-9: Winter meetings scheduled to take place in Orlando, Florida.
December 8: Rule 5 draft.
December 15: Conclusion of the 2020-21 international amateur signing period. Typically scheduled to run from July through June, the 2020-21 and 2021-22 international signing periods were delayed to run from January through December as part of MLB’s COVID-19 rules changes.
January 14, 2022: Date for teams and arbitration-eligible players to exchange filing figures. Teams and players are still free to settle and avoid arbitration after this date, although many clubs elect to proceed with a “file-and-trial” strategy — essentially deciding to proceed to a hearing with any players with whom a settlement is not reached by then.
January 15, 2022: The scheduled start of the 2021-22 international amateur signing period. The 2021-22 period is scheduled to run through December 15, 2022.
February 26, 2022: First games of Spring Training.
It will be interesting to see what players they put on the 40 to protect from the rule 5 draft. If there is room I’d take a flier on Duffy in the pen (arm barn). Maybe he needs surgery and we are looking at a deal similar to when we signed Minor the first time. I’m guessing he would be signed after the rule 5 draft takes place, if he is.
Anyone read the athletic? DM and Picollo interviews are in article by Alec Lewis but I don’t get it. [Reply]