Official official offseason thread

msstate7 said:
Nfl is so much better at marketing their sport. The draft, FA signings, and schedule release are all getting a crap load of people following. Mlb slow plays everything
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I'm not a salary cap guy.

This is one area where I do think the cap helps. There is only so much you can spend. Sometimes there is a max you can spend. So it's easier to come to an agreement. MLB there are almost infinity options for total value, Annual value, etc.

I do wish they'd put some tighter parameters on signing to get things going.
 
Russ2dollas said:
I'm not a salary cap guy.

This is one area where I do think the cap helps. There is only so much you can spend. Sometimes there is a max you can spend. So it's easier to come to an agreement. MLB there are almost infinity options for total value, Annual value, etc.

I do wish they'd put some tighter parameters on signing to get things going.
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Yep. The waiting game on the MLB offseason goes so slow and is so boring.
 
msstate7 said:
Nfl is so much better at marketing their sport. The draft, FA signings, and schedule release are all getting a crap load of people following. Mlb slow plays everything
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MLB is very good at one thing: hyping their product as little as possible.

Everything in the NFL is an event, right down to every single game. Even halftime is an event.

Everything in MLB seems designed to induce a yawn, right down to taking 30 seconds between pitches.
 
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Joe Doyle from Prospects Live:

Source: The #Braves and #Twins are two more teams who have shown interest in OF Mitch Haniger. Haniger has a reasonably robust market.

Doyle has broken mostly draft related news, so not saying he’s a super trusted source or anything. But still interesting.
 
Judge seen in SF. Has a meeting with the Giants tomorrow. If any team prys him away from the Yankees it’ll be SF.
 
Hudson2 said:
Yep. The waiting game on the MLB offseason goes so slow and is so boring.
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Will say the offseason is longer in baseball. Where as the NBA and NFL have shorter offseasons. Spring training isnt until, what like February? But it's still stupid how players take so damn long to sign. I think around the Winter Meetings, we'll start to see some more action around baseball.
 
It seems the last couple years it's been a flurry of activity until the Winter Meetings, and then NOTHING until February until the rest of the players start signing. Before this, it seemed most of the good FA's were signed before Christmas.
 
Nerfherders said:
It seems the last couple years it's been a flurry of activity until the Winter Meetings, and then NOTHING until February until the rest of the players start signing. Before this, it seemed most of the good FA's were signed before Christmas.
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I think the dominoes will fall once Judge, Correa, and Turner are off the board on the bat side and Verlander and deGrom on the pitching side. Once the big guys both set the salary ceiling and narrow the market, things tend to move fast.
 
Bryce Harper had Tommy John today. Expected to return in May.

The Phillies announced the surgery and provided this update about his timeline: “The prognosis is for Bryce to be returning as the designated hitter by the All-Star break of 2023 with a possible return to play right field towards the end of the regular season.”
 
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bravesfanforlife88 said:
Bryce Harper had Tommy John today. Expected to return in May.

The Phillies announced the surgery and provided this update about his timeline: “The prognosis is for Bryce to be returning as the designated hitter by the All-Star break of 2023 with a possible return to play right field towards the end of the regular season.”
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That’ll probably put some pressure on them to sign a big bat.
 
I don’t care if Swanson is cheaper than Turner or not. I want the best player I can get going forward and that’s Turner over Swanson imo.
 
Some tidbits from Rosenthal's latest piece. Nothing exciting at all, god MLB Free agency is so ****ing slow lol.

- As always, the market for free agents is difficult to read. But to this point, the Rangers seem more confident of landing left-hander Carlos Rodón and possibly Japanese righty Kodai Senga than they do of signing the best available starting pitcher, Jacob deGrom, or most accomplished, Justin Verlander.

- The Mets have shown interest in Senga and Verlander, but deGrom appears to be their focus. It’s tempting to ask, “If not the Mets for deGrom, then who?” The Braves, for example, are only about $5 million shy of the initial $233 million luxury-tax threshold. Maybe they would approach the second, $253 million level to re-sign free-agent shortstop Dansby Swanson. But would they flirt with the third, $273 million threshold for deGrom? (Only real Braves related thing, as we know, nothing leaks so who knows what AA is even doing lol)

- Agent Scott Boras put on a show at the last winter meetings in 2019, securing nearly $800 million combined for Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon. An encore at this year’s meetings, starting next week, hardly is out of the question. Boras has so many free-agent clients, he probably will want to start taking some off the board.

- José Abreu remains a target of the Astros, Padres and other clubs, but one executive with a pulse on the market senses that the free-agent first baseman is intrigued by the possibility of playing for one of the two Florida teams.
 
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