D-train wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:41 pm
Donn Beach wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:39 pm
Wander Franco on the run
The Santo Domingo Prosecutor's Office for Children and Adolescents conducted two home raids in search of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco on Tuesday, but he was not found, according to a report from Listin Diario.
Per the report, police showed up at Franco's mother's house in the afternoon before heading to his own property in Villa Real. The 22-year-old ballplayer was not at either residence.
So he could have had 100 hot 18 year old GFs but decided to flush his entire life because he wanted one that was under age. Beyond belief.
When I travel I tend to play it safe. But, I did talk to some dudes that went out for the night clubbing. One of the things they communicated to me was that they didn't really care about age. And I also read in the comments section when this story was breaking out that some of the folks were from the D.R. and they have seen this before. I could not tell you if they knew about mothers using daughters who developed early (precocious puberty), to snare older dudes for bribery, or what. But, I don't think the baseball player was posing as a teacher to gain access to minors. I think he was at a local bar and he was probably set-up and he allowed himself to be tricked into this.
What a shame, I wonder if this has an impact on the rumored talks between Seattle and TB about: Randy A., Harold R., Yandy D., Isaac P., etc, etc
You know there is a window here for a block-buster scenario for a TB match-up.
I was looking at Randy A. at 33M in value and Harold R@ 1.5M trade calc.
Harold R (DH, OF, 1B) over the last 2 years has had a mini breakout .306 .348 .432 .780 121 OPS+(High average but low ISO and walk rate) but is only estimated at 4.4M in his 2nd to last Arbitration year.
Randy A. had 3.5 WAR and a 120 OPS+ last year. He has trended down with the bat for 3 years in a row. But he has a track record of being a good but not great player. He has 3 years remaining of arbitration and is earning 9M for 2024
Luke Raley (1B, OF) This may be why a guy like Harold, or Randy or Yandy, or Paredes is available is because you have good young cheap options and the Rays have been cheap for years. At age 28 he busted out for a 249 .333 .490 .824 126 OPS+ line in 118 games after smoking the minors for years. (MLB trade calc. 10M)
Paredes: 131 OPS+, He only has an 18% career K-rate and is entering his age 25 season. 60M trade calc
I could see a Randy and Harold deal coming together for Woo, Gabe G., and 2 or 3 Lotto tickets form the top 15-30 ranked prospects in out system. I feel pretty good about our top 5(JP, Julio, Garver, Cal, France) This trade would cut the question marks in 1/2. And Picking 2 of (Rojas, Moore, Haggerty, Urias, Marlow, TT, Jose C., or Canzone to fill the last 2 would be ok by me.
Randy A., and Harold R. would add about 13.4M for 2024, and with good performance about 22-25M for 2025. I saw that someone though with all the moves they had something like 30-35M before Garver to spend. This puts us at 25.4M and leaves 5-10M on the table. I's be pretty happy with adding one of the guys like (Paxton, Ryu, maybe Montas on a make-good).
Just some idle ramblings.
