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There are no tiers anymore in the new cba. Any player that rejects a QO will cost the signing team their first eligible pick (top 10 overall...
Or you can trade for Gattis from the braves and rotate him between DH, 1st, and backup C. He is in the prime of his career, makes the min salary,...
It would be expensive but I'd like to see them go after 19 year old Cuban Yoan Moncada.http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/yoan-moncada-game-theory/
I don't know. I think a legit option would be to go year to year on fowler by making qualifying offers. Assuming about $7 million/win makes him...
Tonight Appel went 4ip, 0r, 1h, 2bb, 6k in his second arizona fall league start. In his first two games combined he's gone 7ip, 0r, 2h, 3bb, 8k
I think Chase Headley on a one-year pillow contract would makes sense for both sides.
The win also got the team a winning record for August.
I think recent history tells a different story. The 2008 rays went from worst in baseball to the World Series (and a perennial contender) in a...
The Astros have the most runs in the majors since the all-star break. And that's without Springer and fowler (for most of that period). If you...
One more pre-arb year.
No...
A win on the open market is worth about 7-8 million a year. He's projected to be worth about 1.2 wins this year according to fangraphs' steamer...
I don't think you'll see much movement. Maybe someone like Sipp. I don't think anyone signed to a multi-year contract gets moved, although...
Aiken's team would be admitting publicity that the doctors concluded that it would make him more injury prone? Why in the world would they admit...
Hard to say what is directly analogous without knowing the specifics, but, off the top of my head, RA Dickey had his draft bonus offer reduced by...
Here's law on the comp pick situation http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/50726/keith-law-on-mlb-draft. Like you said, none the new draft...
The 2011 baseball america link was from a week after new CBA was announced. Here's a more recent article from Mlb.com which discusses the rule...
The CBA. See http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/news/2012/2612723.html
Not true, top three round picks are protected for 3 years
Why? It would still be protected.