Sounds like Imai could sign as early as today or tomorrow. He has until Friday at 5pm to finalize his contract. So signing today or tomorrow allows time to have his physical completed and contract signed.
On MLBNetwork today they were talking about teams having concerns about his fastball playing in MLB and that some teams think he may be a bullpen arm. Take that for what its worth. $150-175m is a pretty expensive bullpen piece lol
With the possible lock out in 27 it’d make sense to work on an extension this spring/season. If he doesn’t agree then an Acuna trade could almost skip the hard part of a rebuild
I wonder if adding deGrom to the deal would increase the required return or deminish it . We were in on him a few years ago.
But this would be insane (for you enscheff)
Sale
deGrom
Schwelly
Strider
Lopez/Waldrep
Acuna
Seager
Riley
Olson
Baldwin/Murphy
Albies
Yaz
Profar
Harris
Take this with a grain of salt, but Steve Phillips is on MLB network talking about how bad the Mets clubhouse was last season. Says Soto and Lindor were not talking. Rumor is the Mets and Padres were talking about a Lindor trade at the winter meetings.
Jorge Polanco seems like a decent pick up for SS. Probably not great on defense, but the bat plays, and we can use Dubon for late inning defensive replacement. Had no QO attached and will probably command around $17-18m/year over 3 years