AL Notes: Lindor, Wheeler, Yanks, Twins Let’s take a quick look around the American League… Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor is a prominent trade candidate, at least speculatively. However, as you’d expect, it’s going to be extremely difficult to pry the superstar out of Cleveland. The Indians would have to be “overwhelmed” by an offer in…
DetailsSorting The Skills Of The Non-Tendered Pitchers A smorgasbord of new players reached the open market Monday, the deadline for teams to tender contracts to their arbitration-eligible guys. But did anyone particularly interesting join the class of available players? Let’s start on the pitching side and use several different key statistics from 2019 to determine…
DetailsYankees can’t use money excuse with Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg “I certainly didn’t come all this way to suck.” — Matt Damon, “Saturday Night Live” The Red Sox fan made that declaration after traveling from Southern California to the Big Apple so he could host the final “SNL” of 2018. Surely Brian Cashman, crossing the…
DetailsBlue Jays Interested In Josh Lindblom The Blue Jays have already added one starting pitcher this offseason in ex-Brewer Chase Anderson, but he probably won’t be the last new member of their rotation in 2020. They’ve since been connected to a variety of free-agent starters, and you can add right-hander Josh Lindblom to the group.…
DetailsLatest On Cubs’ Offseason Plans The Cubs, just a couple months from the end of a bitterly disappointing campaign, may be on their way to an offseason shakeup. The club has been “aggressive,” “manic,” “motivated” and “obvious” in its effort to trade someone, executives have told Jeff Passan of ESPN.com. The possibility of a trade…
DetailsDodgers Recently Met With Stephen Strasburg, Anthony Rendon 8:48pm: In addition to Rendon, the Dodgers have met with free-agent right-hander Stephen Strasburg, Jorge Castillo of the L.A. Times reports. The Dodgers are currently set to lose Hyun-Jin Ryu and Rich Hill to free agency, and while they have internal options to replace them, adding Strasburg…
DetailsRed Sox, Marco Hernandez Agree To New Deal The Red Sox and infielder Marco Hernandez are in agreement on a new contract, Robert Murray reports (via Twitter). Boston non-tendered the 27-year-old yesterday. Presumably, the two sides have struck up a minor league pact and an invite to Spring Training, as Hernandez was only projected to…
DetailsGiants Sign Tyler Anderson The Giants have signed lefty Tyler Anderson to a one-year, Major League contract, the team announced Tuesday evening. Anderson, who was claimed off waivers out of the Rockies organization, had been non-tendered yesterday. Terms of the contract weren’t disclosed, but it’s safe to assume that the GSE Worldwide client will take…
DetailsPadres Re-Sign Miguel Diaz, Pedro Avila The Padres announced that they’ve re-signed righties Miguel Diaz and Pedro Avila to minor league contracts and assigned both to Triple-A El Paso. Both right-handers were non-tendered yesterday and will quickly return to the organization without occupying a 40-man roster spot. Diaz, 25, has the most big league experience…
DetailsAstros cheating scandal a ‘tricky thing’ for CC Sabathia Even if the Astros are severely disciplined by MLB for using technology to relay signs to their hitters at Minute Maid Park, it will never be proven those acts cost the Yankees trips to the World Series in 2017, when they lost in seven games in…
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