FA starting pitchers remaining as of 12/7

[Frobby]

24 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

There are 5 guys on the list I don’t want at all.

Senga isn’t interested in coming here.

Basically you have Bassitt, Rodon, Eovaldi and Quintana although I’m not sure how much I really would want Quintana.

Quintana does feel like the guy they end up with though.

 

I’ve always liked Quintana.   I wouldn’t be thrilled if he were our biggest pitching acquisition of the offseason, but it wouldn’t shock me if he worked out, either.  

[RVAOsFan]

15 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

1. Rodon

2. Bassitt

3. Senga

4. Cueto

5. Eovaldi 

6.  The rest

This is a great post, I like this list if we are going the FA route.

[btdart20]

9 minutes ago, Just Regular said:

I believe Senga's whole thing was that he's wanted to come to MLB awhile, but his Club never posted him (in essence they didn't trade Manny Machado).     Now he's unemployed and I think same as Rodon, Correa, Bassitt, etc. today.

The left-handed bat who seems good has those NPB-MLB mechanics to step through.

Thanks.

[jamalshw]

11 minutes ago, RVAOsFan said:

Does the Mets Quintana signing take them off the board for Rodon? Yankees are probably off the board after signing Judge.  If we are in on Rodon who is our main competition?

It's hard to know what the Mets will do. They lost deGrom, Walker and Bassitt to free agency and have now added Verlander and Quintana. Do they add one more? Or go with Peterson or Megill in the 5-spot? I would imagine they're probably out on Rodon, but wouldn't be surprised if they brought back Bassitt or another SP. 

I also wouldn't completely rule out the Yankees. They do still need to add a starter. After Judge, it's probably more in the Kluber/Cueto area, but who knows. 

San Francisco clearly has money and could bring him back. The Jays are still looking for one more starter. As are the Dodgers. 

[Tryptamine]

The Mets are still supposedly in on Senga after the Quintana signing

[Aristotelian]

21 minutes ago, bpilktree said:

I like any of the lefties in there. Bassitt, Rondon (price maybe to high for me though). Quintana or Mannea.  If I had to pick Bassitt number 1 the Mannea 2.   I think Mannea is a sleeper his numbers overall we’re not great but he gets out lefties and really struggled vs righties last year.  With the new LF wall teams will want to use more left handers in general in Baltimore because of the dimensions imo.  That means you either have to play lefty on lefty or use right hand hitter and deal with the wall.  

Bassit is a righty.

[dzorange]

31 minutes ago, jamalshw said:

Quintana is now off the board: 2/$26M to the Mets. 

Not a bad contract. The Orioles should have the opportunity to get one of these guys at a reasonable rate.

Edited December 7, 2022 by dzorange

[bpilktree]

15 minutes ago, jamalshw said:

It's hard to know what the Mets will do. They lost deGrom, Walker and Bassitt to free agency and have now added Verlander and Quintana. Do they add one more? Or go with Peterson or Megill in the 5-spot? I would imagine they're probably out on Rodon, but wouldn't be surprised if they brought back Bassitt or another SP. 

I also wouldn't completely rule out the Yankees. They do still need to add a starter. After Judge, it's probably more in the Kluber/Cueto area, but who knows. 

San Francisco clearly has money and could bring him back. The Jays are still looking for one more starter. As are the Dodgers. 

With some of these teams stocking up on pitching it makes me think trading might be a better option.  If the Mets Senga as you say then Peterson doesn’t have a place in rotation.  The Mets still seem a bit week in the outfield.  It would make sense for us to to fill a hole in rotation with our outfield depth.  Peterson for Hays would seem to be a good move for both teams or maybe Santander for Peterson plus Vientos?

[Going Underground]

22 minutes ago, jamalshw said:

It's hard to know what the Mets will do. They lost deGrom, Walker and Bassitt to free agency and have now added Verlander and Quintana. Do they add one more? Or go with Peterson or Megill in the 5-spot? I would imagine they're probably out on Rodon, but wouldn't be surprised if they brought back Bassitt or another SP. 

I also wouldn't completely rule out the Yankees. They do still need to add a starter. After Judge, it's probably more in the Kluber/Cueto area, but who knows. 

San Francisco clearly has money and could bring him back. The Jays are still looking for one more starter. As are the Dodgers. 

Many teams are looking for starting pitching besides those listed.Twins and Red Sox maybe the Padres. In the lower priced free agents ,supposedly Pirates, Tigers and Nationals. The Nationals supposedly made an offer to Lyles. Astros and Mariners also around.

[tabletop]

Maybe there are stuff in the statcast data that are red flags that I didn't see but to me a guy that had a 2.93era last year with a 2.99 FIP over 165 innings only getting 2/26 seems like exactly the type of pitcher the O's should have been overpaying on a 2 year deal to get. I'm not sure how they can think Gibson at 10 mil is a good deal but Quintana isn't.

[RVAOsFan]

1 minute ago, tabletop said:

Maybe there are stuff in the statcast data that are red flags that I didn't see but to me a guy that had a 2.93era last year with a 2.99 FIP over 165 innings only getting 2/26 seems like exactly the type of pitcher the O's should have been overpaying on a 2 year deal to get. I'm not sure how they can think Gibson at 10 mil is a good deal but Quintana isn't.

Obviously there is more to the decision than money and who knows if Elias likes Quintana but comparing the Gibson to Quintana deals I would have preferred Quintana.

[Moose Milligan]

Mets are spending a ton, they're not stopping either.  Their owner doesn't clearly doesn't care about a luxury tax.

 

[sportsfan8703]

Why have the Mets let Bassitt go so far?  I worry we’d have to go to 4 years to sign him and lose a draft pick. 

[interloper]

5 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Mets are spending a ton, they're not stopping either.  Their owner doesn't clearly doesn't care about a luxury tax.

 

Yeah I'll believe the Mets are out on Rodon when I see it. 

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, interloper said:

Yeah I'll believe the Mets are out on Rodon when I see it. 

I think I saw someone say they're in on Senga, too.

We're about to see if you can spend your way to a World Series.