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Sanchez would be a 2 year deal since he's headed to surgery and won't pitch in 2020 so I don't think he's a target. Walker should draw a lot of interest from numerous teams. Maybe he likes the open door to starts he'd have here. I think Peraza is a bounce back candidate.

Apparently his role is to be sick of the Marlins, per this headline. https://nypost.com/2019/12/03/subtle-moves-show-derek-jeter-may-be-sick-of-marlins-embarrassment/

I feel terrible for them.

He's talking about if they trade him mid-year, they would only be responsible for a portion of the salary. $10.4M arb projection, but maybe signed at a smaller figure pre-arb.

I don't know if you've read the whole back story but essentially, he's always denied doing anything improper and only pled because he was advised to do so, was told he wouldn't be punished and that the record would be sealed. And all of that was true and accurate until it wasn't. A few years later, it all became public and the kids life is ruined. I have no idea if he's guilty or not and I'm not saying he did or didn't deserve punishment. But it sucks for him that his representatives told him one thing, he relied on it, and then the opposite happened.

No they're not but he was really good coming out of college and hasn't pitched much anywhere for a while. There's plenty of reason to believe that if he gets back into an organization, there's upside there. But I'm not advocating to sign the guy.

Luke Heimlich https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/sports/luke-heimlich-mexican-league.html

I remember when I thought 40 was old. It was a long time ago.

This thread probably will make the difference. Maybe the front office/owners never thought about releasing Davis. This probably does the trick.

I'd be happy with an end result of a very bright front office and organization, comparable to the Rays, yet with a top half of the league budget that allows a team to extend the right guys instead of having to trade for budget reasons. An organization known for player development and smart evaluations. To me, that would be a top 3 in the East team, sometimes winning the division, sometimes finishing third, which would give a chance for a long playoff run sometimes. The Rays with a decent budget. Not a team that signs big name free agents, or a team that winds up with burdensome contracts that don't perform.

Me too. "The power is real, but so are the on-base struggles. Moustakas’s .329 OBP from 2019 was a career high-water mark but barely topped the league average. Over the course of his career, Moustakas has reached base at a marginal .310 clip. Can he sustain and even extend his relatively productive 2019 in the OBP arena? Moustakas did carry a personal-best 9.1% walk rate in 2019, though his swinging-strike rate also crept up to a new high-water mark (11.0%). He has never hit much for average, so continued commitment to drawing free passes may be the ticket." MLBTR

Baseball Reference has pretty good 2020 projections for him, .267 with 19 doubles, 10 HR's, .707 OPS.

Projected arb figure of $5.8M and you get the yips at no charge.

I think that's a good sign for you. Likely means you're a logical thinker.

I think there's a good chance that's right.

Tomorrow afternoon should give us some answers but the whole thing is very confusing given Luke's posts and questions.

So have the O's requested waivers? Is he "on waivers" Has he been on "outright waivers"? And would that mean conditional waivers or irrevocable waivers? Is he on the 40 man now or no?

Exactly. A team can give up 2 DSL players to get him instead of competing in the free agent market where you might have to give him 2/$14 or 2/$15M to get him.

And you seriously overreact yet again.

Well, according to you, they are incompetent, Elias is a buffoon, they're "bigger idiots than you thought", Elias doesn't know how to make a trade, Elias blew it by talking to a reporter, Elias asked for too much in July, Elias should have known his arb figure and somehow known he'd have a big second half, and who knows what other mistakes have been made. So....it's probably that instead of Elias has been talking to GM's almost non-stop since July and there isn't interest in him anywhere near the arb figure.

WAR EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw your tweet. Thanks.

It would be incompetent of Mancini to criticize a teammate with public comments.

Wow, this is interesting. If the reporters have it THIS wrong, I'd think some front office person would make a confidential call to say "you might want to fix your reporting....."

Or 29 GM's.