Eovaldi signed with Rangers per Moose

[eddie83]

2 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

An extension? 

Can only hope.
 

Not getting any hopes up. 

[Just Regular]

Passan report also says it has some escalators.    They went pretty wild with those on Heaney, so a mid-case outcome might be a fair bit past the guaranteed base.

[Can_of_corn]

8 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

They keep running that stupid quote on WBAL promoting the Orioles where Elias says " the wall will help us get more free agent pitchers to come here".

Folks disagreed when I said it would be at most a tertiary concern. 

Of course the first step to signing any free agent pitcher is to actually make an offer.

[eddie83]

 

[waroriole]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Folks disagreed when I said it would be at most a tertiary concern. 

Of course the first step to signing any free agent pitcher is to actually make an offer.

They probably just thought it was pretentious when you said tertiary. 

[eddie83]

If Hill gets $8M and Eovaldi 2/34 what does Wacha get?

[eddie83]

3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Folks disagreed when I said it would be at most a tertiary concern. 

Of course the first step to signing any free agent pitcher is to actually make an offer.

Don’t recall specifics but Elias did say I think this off-season about being a better place for a 1 year deal. 

[Going Underground]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

Folks disagreed when I said it would be at most a tertiary concern. 

Of course the first step to signing any free agent pitcher is to actually make an offer.

Money,money ,money.

Ter Tiary might be one of the last  free agent pitchers. I like the way the ball comes out of his hand. Of course if it came out of another part  of his body might be good for their low attendance. 

[RZNJ]

2 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

If Hill gets $8M and Eovaldi 2/34 what does Wacha get?

I would guess nothing better than the 1/10 that Gibson got.   Or less.

[Emory Eagle]

Just move the walls back a bit further and put the ball on a tee at the plate.  

[eddie83]

This is the classic case of making yourself look bad. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.

Now is it possible a Wacha or someone else pitches like a 3? Sure. 

[Going Underground]

3 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

I would guess nothing better than the 1/10 that Gibson got.   Or less.

The lower priced free agent pitchers also brings in the lower payroll clubs. I still think Boston might sign a cheaper free agent.

[RZNJ]

1 minute ago, eddie83 said:

This is the classic case of making yourself look bad. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.

Now is it possible a Wacha or someone else pitches like a 3? Sure. 

Do you know that a better pitcher than Eovaldi won't come in a trade?

[Going Underground]

4 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

This is the classic case of making yourself look bad. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.

Now is it possible a Wacha or someone else pitches like a 3? Sure. 

Happened to me at the holidays. Told my girlfriend I was getting her a gift certificate to a nice restaurant.  She thought Ruth Chris but I thought McDonald's. 

Edited December 28, 2022 by Going Underground

[RZNJ]

This is what Elias said in October according to The Athletic.

“We’re not going to force it, but we feel that the time is right from a strategic standpoint. In fact, the time is pressing to do that now that we have the foundation of the top farm system in baseball and a major-league team that is young and talented and now with a .500-plus record,” Elias said. “This is the time to start to make more significant investments in the major-league payroll whether that comes in the form of free agents or kind of buy-side trades, I don’t know yet, but I would expect one, if not both of those types of those activities from us.”

This is where the cynic in all of us says, “We’ll believe it when we see it.”