Update: O's sign Trumbo to 3yr/$37 mil deal

[weams]

I was still wrong. I had it by last Sunday. 

[jabba72]

1 minute ago, MurphDogg said:

I like this deal as long as Trumbo is primarily a DH/1B and plays fewer than 30 games a year in the outfield.

Except that its severely overpaying for a DH who doesn't really get on base. Might as well let Trumbo play RF, if you're paying him $13M per year. 

[Diehard_O's_Fan]

40 million or less for Mark Trumbo is a hell of a deal. He would have received a lot bigger contract in year's past. A three year contract is also not going to hurt the Orioles. The Orioles are not going to resign Manny and they probably also won't resign Zach Britton. They had some money they could spend. 40 million dollars in MLB is like a dollar to an ordinary person. Very cheap deal. Give me a Trumbomb baby!

[weams]

https://twitter.com/ChrisCotillo/status/822213253384310786

 

[oriolediehard]

Peter Angelos is the reason Trumbo is coming back.

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2017/01/orioles-nearing-deal-with-trumbo.html

[MDtransplant757]

Just now, oriolediehard said:

Peter Angelos is the reason Trumbo is coming back.

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2017/01/orioles-nearing-deal-with-trumbo.html

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SIGN PAGAN!!!!

[pcbothwel]

I know some people will question the fit along with the loss of a pick, but if its really 13M per then he immediately becomes a positive asset moving foward

[MDtransplant757]

Well, at least we can deal Mancini, or at least try to. Let's see what we can get, shall we?

[weams]

86 year old men don't love draft picks. 

[MurphDogg]

1 minute ago, jabba72 said:

Except that its severely overpaying for a DH who doesn't really get on base. Might as well let Trumbo play RF, if you're paying him $13M per year. 

Severely overpaying?

They are paying him to be worth about 1.5 WAR per season over the next three years. I don't think that is an unrealistic target for him to hit. 

[weams]

Just now, MurphDogg said:

Severely overpaying?

They are paying him to be worth about 1.5 WAR per season over the next three years. I don't think that is an unrealistic target for him to hit. 

I don't either.  I also do not expect him to be as good as last year at the plate. 

[weams]

 

[notfast]

I feel like $10-12m is basically "throw away" money for a player in the MLB in 2017.

 

If they work out, Great. If they don't (Gallardo) you cut your losses, hope to get something and move on.

[MurphDogg]

1 minute ago, weams said:

I don't either.  I also do not expect him to be as good as last year at the plate. 

Sure, but he doesn't have to be that good and be just as valuable if they can find a way to limit his time in the outfield.

[Spy Fox]

3 minutes ago, MDtransplant757 said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SIGN PAGAN!!!!

They still could. The Roch article says "Duquette indicated that he’d like to add another left-handed hitting outfielder with plus defensive skills." Now that could mean a different and cheaper guy than Pagan, but Pagan is close enough to that profile that we might still target him.

I wasn't advocating for bringing Trumbo back but 3 years and less than $40M isn't really an overpay on its own. It's just less bang for the buck than I think whoever signs Alvarez and Carter are likely to get.