longoria traded to the giants
longoria traded to the giants
Ehh, not as good of a trade as I hoped. We gave up Christian Arroyo, our #1 prospect (even though he was cock blocked behind Brandon Crawford) to essentially get a hitter who appears to be on the decline to play third, and to get rid of Denard Span.
And fuck, I just realized Longoria still has 5 years left on his 100 million 6 year contract. Wonder how much cash Tampa kicked us as well for Arroyo and two low level pitching prospects.
Britton exploded his Achilles, will be out 6 months.
Man the Longoria trade seems like an L for both sides. By the tail end of his contract the Giants will probably be pretty heavily overpaying, meanwhile seems like most Tampa Bay fans are contemplating suicide.
JD Martinez has a five year offer from the Red Sox.
Arbitration time. Some have already settled. Here are a few highlights
Josh Donaldson: 1 year, 23 million. I'm sure Machado is sending him a Thank you card in preparation for his contract negotiation next winter.
Charlie Blackmon: 1 year, 14 million.
Patrick Corbin: 1 year, 7.5 million.
Also Mets signed Jay Bruce for 3 year, 39 million. Rumor also of Gerrit Cole being traded to Houston
Machado settles for 16 million, 1 year.
Kris Bryant sets a record for first year arbitration eligible for 10.85 million.
Giants traded for McCutchen. No clue what we have up but if we sign him to an extension, I’ll be pissed. We just traded the third worst center fielder last year based on DRS for one who was tied for worst at -50.....
Granderson to the Jays for 1 year, 5 million.
McCluthen fell off that hard?
Defensively in center field, yes. Hopefully the Giants will be smart, stick him in a corner and get someone under 28 to patrol center field. Offensively last year was a bounceback year. 2016 he crashed hard and everyone pretty much felt his best days were behind him. If we get 270+ BA, 15-25 home runs, 80ish runs scored, i'll be happy. I'll settle right now for a batting order of Belt, Panik, McCutchen, Posey, Crawford, Pence, 3B, OF, Pitcher
And I just forgot we picked up a third baseman from the Rays. So have him lead off and move belt down, but yeah that's pretty much the giants starting line up.
McCutchen was never a great defensive player. But he refused to move to a corner slot.
Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, and Jim Thome elected to the hall of fame.
Vladimir the third Dominican ever to be elected to the HOF.
Brewers got Christian Yelich from the Miami Firesale for Lewis Brinson, Monte Harrison, Isan Diaz, and Jordan Yamamoto.