Obligatory DFA/Interest Thread: Bird & Cortes, Jr.

[Guest]

I've been intrigued by Cotton. IIRC, I believe Gagnon is close to signing with a Korean team.

[joelala]

19 hours ago, MurphDogg said:

I am interested in giving Jharel Cotton a look, Tommy John recovery takes time, I am willing to throw out last year and add him to the Spring Training mix.

Agreed 

[HowAboutThat]

@Luke-OH Luke is your day job in baseball?

if not you should sign on with someone. 

The first job of an effective teacher is to diagnose the cause of a problem, and the second job or teacher is to find a solution. The third job is to effectively convey the solution to the player. You’ve just done all three.

The fourth job of a teacher is to evaluate progress, but I don’t think that would be a problem with you.

[sportsfan8703]

12 hours ago, IronMan6981 said:

I've been intrigued by Cotton. IIRC, I believe Gagnon is close to signing with a Korean team.

I think there's plenty of players like Cotton available on milb deals.  

[Luke-OH]

10 hours ago, Philip said:

@Luke-OH Luke is your day job in baseball?

if not you should sign on with someone. 

The first job of an effective teacher is to diagnose the cause of a problem, and the second job or teacher is to find a solution. The third job is to effectively convey the solution to the player. You’ve just done all three.

The fourth job of a teacher is to evaluate progress, but I don’t think that would be a problem with you.

It’s not in baseball. 

[Can_of_corn]

10 hours ago, Philip said:

@Luke-OH Luke is your day job in baseball?

if not you should sign on with someone. 

The first job of an effective teacher is to diagnose the cause of a problem, and the second job or teacher is to find a solution. The third job is to effectively convey the solution to the player. You’ve just done all three.

The fourth job of a teacher is to evaluate progress, but I don’t think that would be a problem with you.

Unless you are close to the top baseball doesn't pay well.

 

[Camden_yardbird]

Cotton should be of interest.

I know the Orioles have a lot of corner guys but at the end of 2018 Palka was legitimately the best power hitter in baseball by a lot of metrics.

[7Mo]

Jharel Cotton is off the board:

The Athletics have traded right-handed pitcher Jharel Cotton to the Cubs in exchange for cash considerations, according to an official announcement from the A’s (Twitter link). Cotton was designated for assignment on Wednesday. Acquiring Cotton leaves three open spots on the Cubs’ 40-man roster.

[Camden_yardbird]

2 hours ago, 7Mo said:

Jharel Cotton is off the board:

The Athletics have traded right-handed pitcher Jharel Cotton to the Cubs in exchange for cash considerations, according to an official announcement from the A’s (Twitter link). Cotton was designated for assignment on Wednesday. Acquiring Cotton leaves three open spots on the Cubs’ 40-man roster.

That's a good move by the cubs and indicative of the quality of Cotton that someone thought that they should give up something, anything for him.

[bobmc]

On 11/21/2019 at 10:05 AM, ShaneDawg85 said:

It's become a right of passage to post about some other team's castoffs and whether we could or should be interested, so here's another one: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28125662/yankees-release-jacoby-ellsbury-dfa-greg-bird

Cortes is still only 25 but consistently inconsistent, Bird is 27 but constantly injured and never come close to matching his gangbusters debut four years ago.  Minor league deals, spring invites if anything, maybe?

Cortes, Jr. to the M's, where all good and bad ex-Yanks go!  As Larry David takes a beating over Jay Buehner.

 

[sportsfan8703]

Two potential DFA's could be useful parts,

Richard Urena IF Tor 23

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=urena-000ric

Eric Haase C Clev 27

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=haase-000eri

He'd be a direct replacement for Wynns.  28 Homers in AAA last year.  

 

[7Mo]

1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:

 

Richard Urena IF Tor 23

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=urena-000ric

with his strong range and plus bat, scouts are high on Urena. He was ranked ninth in Baseball America’s organizational rankings in December of 2017, and Jonathan Mayo of MLB Pipeline ranked Urena 94th in all of baseball in his pre-2017 rankings.

https://jaysjournal.com/2018/02/03/toronto-blue-jays-top-prospects-11-richard-urena/

Eric Haase C Clev 27

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=haase-000eri

He'd be a direct replacement for Wynns.  28 Homers in AAA last year.  

Haase’s offensive profile hasn’t changed substantially on the surface: he’s a power-based hitter, but there have been some subtle changes over the years as he’s shown a stronger tendency to hit for power to all fields rather than just pull the ball. The charts show this and Baseball America picked up on it a couple of months ago,

“He’s worked really hard the last few years with his catching as well as his hitting,” Akron manager Mark Budzinski told Ohio.com earlier this year. “He really bought into what (hitting coach) Johnny Narron and (bench coach) Omir Santos taught about being ready for the fastball and adjusting to everything else and taking it through the middle of the field. It’s paid off for him.”

There has also been slow but steady improvement on defense, with substantial reduction in his passed ball and error rates as he’s cleaned up his footwork and reactions over the last two seasons. He’s got a good arm too and caught 37% of runners last year.

https://www.minorleagueball.com/2018/1/5/16851136/indians-prospect-eric-haase-sleeper-for-2018

 

Both seem interesting.

[weams]

1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Two potential DFA's could be useful parts,

Richard Urena IF Tor 23

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=urena-000ric

Eric Haase C Clev 27

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=haase-000eri

He'd be a direct replacement for Wynns.  28 Homers in AAA last year.  

 

I'd be happy with both. I would not want to trade for either of them though. 

[BohKnowsBmore]

Mike Foltynewicz Has been DFA’d by Braves per MLBN

why shouldn’t the O’s make a claim? Does He have to go through NL first?

[rudyrooster]

1 hour ago, BohKnowsBmore said:

Mike Foltynewicz Has been DFA’d by Braves per MLBN

why shouldn’t the O’s make a claim? Does He have to go through NL first?

Too many red flags surrounding the guy.  Pass.