The Los Angeles police and fire departments cost about two million dollars to work at the Dodgers victory parade. The Dodgers will reimburse the city for that.
Erstwhile free agent Griffin Canning has agreed with the Mets to a one year deal worth $4.25 Million and possible bonuses. Alex Cobb was considering retirement when the Tigers offered him $15 Million.
Nolan Arenado used his no-trade clause to block a trade to the Astros.
What could go wrong? Cody Bellinger’s wife used to date Giancarlo Stanton. Will it end up like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig not being on speaking terms for all those years?
Left-hander Zach Logue has a deal with the Doosan Bears of the KBO for $800,000 plus a $100,000 signing bonus. Joey Gerber got a minor league deal with the Rays. Andre Lipcius got his minor league deal with the White Sox while Ryan Miller got his with the Detroit Tigers. The Mets have a minor league deal with catcher Chris Williams.
Photo credit: Rex Fregosi
Angels have their own ‘Iron Man’ in press box
https://www.mlb.com/news/meet-kurt-loe-longtime-angels-reporter-at-angel-stadium
What an inspirational story, thank you for the find and sharing it Twebur, wonderful read.
Roansy off the board $#$#*&^!!!!
We live in a world where Mike Soroka got 1/9M.
We gotta trade Anderson.
We live in a world where Max Kepler’s .682 OPS just got him $10mil/1 yr with the Phillies
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6005172/2024/12/19/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons/
Just a reminder that maybe it does get worse than Arte. Apparently the Jets owner has influenced multiple personnel decisions based on players’ madden ratings.
That is a fun headline but in reality I don’t think it A.) was the actual deciding analysis and B.) seems like a pretty normal/expected thing for an owners sons to point out?
I imagine it was just a talking point in a conversation. “We shouldn’t be excited about a guy with a mediocre rating in Madden” – Jerry Jeudy’s career in Denver was mediocre to the eyeball test too, the Madden rating was just a publicly known distillation of that.
I don’t know. Jets sound like a huge mess but articles like this are always sourced by people who just got fired. In this case its kind of obvious their fired, failed GM is throwing dirt on the team to make himself appear still-employable.
Bad pro sports team ownership is real, just like in any other business. There are legitimate reason why the Jets and Angel franchises suck.
You can’t overcome bad ownership with anything but being lucky. And it won’t last long.
I think the good ones know how to get out if the way. They are smart enough to build solid Orgs and let people who know baseball/football/basketball/ soccer/ etc. make the personnel decisions.
Arte dont have any teenagers so I doubt we will have those issues. But maybe Trump will give Arte an ambassadorship to Zimbabwe so we can finally get the ship headed in the right direction.
Okay Arte (I know he ghosts this site) make a lowball offer to the Cards for Arenado, which could accomplish two things:
Guys. WTF? You want to pay Arenado, who I love but is clearly falling off, to come play 3B and likely fall off even more. You want this WHILE we pay Rendon to do what? Sit there and think about how angry you are with him getting hurt?
IF Rendon had played as many ABs as Nolan last year, even with his pathetic OPS, he was on a pace for 1.8 WAR. That’s IF HE NEVER GOT HIS BAT TOGETHER. Nolan had 2.5 WAR last year.
So, basically, you want to trade prospects and use up two roster spots and pay a Soto level amount of money on third base because your Rendon Derangement Syndrome is that strong? To replace a guy that, though we seem to have decided is a “cancer” the team seems to like a lot? Which would likely cause…. a cancer? Just because Rendon’s constant injuries have made your asshole pucker and you’ve decided “this must be a bad guy”? To gain what? 0.7 WAR? Plus Rendon gets “made to see how unsmile he made you”? Arte is punished? WTF is the point?
Even if Nolan has a hometown resurgence and his OPS gets above .800 this is a bad idea. But Arte is the stupid one around here?
Is the reason the baseball gods hate this team and no one wants to come here starting to be a little clearer now fellas?
watching arenado, rendon and trout fall off the same cliff at the same time would be kinda entertaining
id rather take a flier on a 26 year old unhyphened Kim
Same.
How about a three-way trade where Arenado goes to LAD with Rengifo, and Muncy and Helsley come to the Angels with a Cards prospect? Cards get massive payroll relief and Angels prospects of the Koch/Bachman/Silseth or Rada variety.
Muncy doesn’t have a clear fit at 3B or 1B if Arenado goes to the Dodgers, and Dodgers have coveted Rengifo in the past. We know Muncy can play 3B adequately, he’s a lefty, and is much cheaper than Nolan.
Not sure this would be considered a rebuild trade since we are trading 2 yutes ( Rada & Silent C) for 1 yute (McGreevy) but I really like the trade in terms addressing some real needs in the starting pitching staff.
Of course the only problem is what would we do with Kyle Hendricks?
McGreevy still has an option, so he’s stow-able. He seems more sustainable as a backend starter than Koch.
I was just trying to check the remaining boxes the FO has highlighted, and bring back one cheap, controllable arm. (Hjerpe, Liberatore or Robberse are possible substitutes, but McGreevy has a solid floor.)
I personally don’t have any problems with just sticking Rengifo at 3B, and extending him in summer if the project works out. But I don’t get the sense that the team is as bullish on him full-time at third.
Meanwhile, Muncy has plenty of experience there, is affordable, and seems like a name that would pass muster with Moreno. And Helsley is a legit late innings stopper.
Given arbitration estimates, it only adds about $12M this year to payroll.
Dude. I would dig that trade. I like Muncy, pen gets better AND we get McGravy…. CHOES IN THE SHOWS!
That does a nice job of straddling the line of “compete” and “rebuild.”
Spot on!
You missed, “…lowball offer” in my proposal, that would require the Cards to shell out a lot for his salary.
Who said anything about trading prospects?
They aren’t just giving him to us. It’s not like he’s Rendon and there GM is CtPG Guy
Play Rengifo at 3rd until he’s a FA.
He’ll probably start at SS if Zach isn’t ready and at 2B if Zach is.
Here is your chance to go work for cheap Arte. https://bsky.app/profile/fangraphs.com/post/3ldnwjsdkwu2f
This has to be a hoax. Everyone knows that Arte is smarter than any data and analytics in existence. 😀
A.I. meet A.R.T.
Not sure I’d be worried about A.R.T. taking over the world .
Take a cut in pay, have to work night and day? I say “no way”.
…plus doing his laundry and yard work
…and shooing away homeless..er…..I mean displaced people down in the wash by the Big A.
Arte wants a lackey not named John
But can he pitch?
Anyone think Lipcius would be a good pick-up? IDK if he has optiond though.
he already signed a deal
That was fast.
So… does that mean that for $2 Million I can have my own parade?
The $2M means that you can have the PD and FD watch you parade….
You probably also have to submit a fee with your parade application.
There’s a Test?!
Sort of. They just want to make sure nobody schedules a Klan march at the same place and time as an MLK day parade.
Add in a Cesar Chavez celebration and we have a party.
I had to pay and apply to get Parade magazine?
I’ll throw you a parade for the paltry sum of $1M, just drop off the cash in a duffle bag at a disclosed location and let me know the time and date that you want.
Sounds like I should shop around a little more, now that I have another offer.
Well, that is so Arenado of you Mike.
Hey, those official MLB hats are so expensive.
For teams in search of an outfield bat, the Mets’ Starling Marte, Cleveland’s Lane Thomas, San Francisco’s Mike Yastrzemski and the Los Angeles Angels’ Taylor Ward are there to be had. Other options include Guardians first baseman Josh Naylor — whose availability, along with that of San Francisco’s LaMonte Wade Jr. and Texas’ Nathaniel Lowe, further muddies a crowded first-base free agent market — Angels utilityman Luis Rengifo and Minnesota catcher Christian Vazquez.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/43042910/mlb-offseason-2024-25-free-agency-trade-rumors-update-passan-arenado-bregman-burnes-alonso
You DO NOT trade guys like Ward and Rengifo when you are on the cusp of the edge of the fringe of someday competing. Otherwise I have to watch a bunch of guys who may not be good and that makes me sad. Plus, I have to look up who these guys are and all their stats are from weird teams in weirs towns. It makes me head hurt. I need assurances before I commit to complaining about a bad team all year.
If you DO trade them it needs to be for some of those prospects that are 100% guaranteed not to bust.
Now that you mention it, we could use a young Trout in our lineup. Why didn’t Arte think of that?
Is ‘erstwhile’ French for:
”gives up too many HRs and can’t put hitters away” ?
erstwhile, adverberst·while ˈərst-ˌ(h)wī(-ə)l
: was thought to be good enough to be a high draft choice.
erstwhile, adjective
: was overpaid relative to results and talent
Erstwhile also refers to the passage of time watching a kid from the Univ of Nebraska play baseball and make the final catch of the 2002 World Series.
Erstwhile is also a meat processing company in Wisconsin.
Erstwhile Liverwurst is the best. They also have a great line of jerky, Spicy Yak is my favorite.
Oh to long for the days of yore when both our team and conversations were relevant.
Are you implying our conversations aren’t relevant?
Recently a latrine fan told me Angel fans are dumb as a bag of rocks.
I agree if they are giving Arte any money.
I disagree based on some of the analysis on this site which is actually quite smart.
Cy Canning coming next year!!