Offseason Hot Stove 2024-25 Thread

Still a lot of innings-eater SPs out there. Pivetta, Heaney, Quintana, Gibson as FAs. . . and Stroman, Montgomery, Fedde, Matz as guys who seem to be available in a trade. It's an uninspiring list, but they all probably clear the low bar of being better than Ian Anderson. If we're after a guy like this, I'd just as soon continue to wait out the market to see who loses the game of musical chairs.

Personally, I'd prefer to spend the money on a pitcher or two who I'd actually want to throw an inning in a playoff game. For me that list is currently Jansen, Robertson, and Junis.
 
Hudson2 said:
Boras strikes again. He costs a lot of his clients money and years. I don't care how good he is, if I was a player I wouldn't hire him.
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Boras is really good for the top tier guys. I think the problem is maybe some of these players overrate themselves.
 
50PoundHead said:
I find it hard to believe Alonso didn't take that deal. 30-year-old one-dimension guy. Maybe he ages well, but the odds are against it.
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I think someone mentioned it had a lot of deferred money, which he had no interest in. Still a mistake on his end if a that sort of contract was offered. Even if it was 5/100 with 60 million deferred over the next 10 years, he wasn't gonna see any better than that.
 
I'm curious what Bregman ends up getting. Boras seems to screw 1 guy over a year and he is the last man standing
 
thewupk said:
Boras is really good for the top tier guys. I think the problem is maybe some of these players overrate themselves.
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Boras has many high end clients, so he can play the risky game of chicken with all of them and be fine overall because the game of chicken usually pays off.

Each individual player pays the price of that risk. If they lose that game of chicken it hurts...while Boras just pockets the cash from his other clients.
 
Only 2 teams outside of the top 10 markets has won a world series. According to Manfred that is the system working as intended. Because being a west coast team with the second largest market was all skill and the other teams just werent smart enough. We are technically a top 10 market but we are like the red headed step child on that list. I wonder where the Dodgers would be right now if MLB didnt veto their TV deal years ago. You would think a team Manfred claims is so smart wouldnt need MLB to interfere in their TV deal. Meanwhile MLB rubber stamped TimeWarner selling 30 years of our TV rights for less than 25% of the Dodgers deal that MLB veto'd. Why was the Dodgers TV deal bad for baseball but ours was not? Rigged ass game.
 
cajunrevenge said:
There isnt enough money to make up for 57 months in prison. Maybe if it was someone who already spent a lot of time in prison but no person who hasnt been to prison would accept that.
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I'm sure any prison really sucks, but Federal prison supposedly isn't as rough as state prison. At least it wasn't years ago (1970s) when an acquaintence of mine was sentenced to two years for mail fraud. He told me it was very oppressive (they checked all your incoming mail and prisoners were on a schedule), but the other inmates were for the most part in there for white-collar crimes so the chances of getting shanked or raped was extremely low. Maybe it's different now depending on where the courts send drug offenders.
 
cajunrevenge said:
Only 2 teams outside of the top 10 markets has won a world series. According to Manfred that is the system working as intended. Because being a west coast team with the second largest market was all skill and the other teams just werent smart enough. We are technically a top 10 market but we are like the red headed step child on that list. I wonder where the Dodgers would be right now if MLB didnt veto their TV deal years ago. You would think a team Manfred claims is so smart wouldnt need MLB to interfere in their TV deal. Meanwhile MLB rubber stamped TimeWarner selling 30 years of our TV rights for less than 25% of the Dodgers deal that MLB veto'd. Why was the Dodgers TV deal bad for baseball but ours was not? Rigged ass game.
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I'm not a conspiracy buff, but part of me has thought that MLB and the other owners really didn't like Ted Turner and were more than happy to screw him--and by extension the Braves--over.
 
cajunrevenge said:
There isnt enough money to make up for 57 months in prison. Maybe if it was someone who already spent a lot of time in prison but no person who hasnt been to prison would accept that.
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It probably sounded a like better than ramming a sword into his guts
 
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