Finally! Official Hot Stove League thread!

[ddraig]

"the #Mariners 40(39) man payroll stands at $117,288,333." What is this? 2006? They still have room for one more player, but I can't imagine it will be anyone who projects to more than 12 HRs a year.

[D-train]

Without Caballero on the team, you may just get your wish.

What's my wish? Maybe you were talking to the guy that tweeted that.

[D-train]

"the #Mariners 40(39) man payroll stands at $117,288,333." What is this? 2006? They still have room for one more player, but I can't imagine it will be anyone who projects to more than 12 HRs a year.

They first went over $100M in 2008. $100M in 2008 = $141M today so we are currently $24M under both 2008 payroll and 2023 Payroll.

[D-train]

Awesome. Still well under budget.

Let's go sign Snell and trade for a masher.

Sarcasm?

[bpj]

Awesome. Still well under budget.

Let's go sign Snell and trade for a masher.

Sarcasm?

I do wonder what type of discount Snell would give. If he'd sign for a Luis Castillo contract they could probably fit a Snell/Harold Ramirez under $145M

[Big_Maple]

I do wonder what type of discount Snell would give. If he'd sign for a Luis Castillo contract they could probably fit a Snell/Harold Ramirez under $145M

Snell wants to pitch for the M's. That's huge.

I don't know if that translates into a discount - business is business. But we do spend a lot of time on this board talking about the intangibles that prevent FA from coming to Seattle. Here an intangible that apparently works in our favor. Why in god's name would we not make a concerted effort to sign him?

[D-train]

My guess is they add another INFer for $5-$7M and say the need the remaining $15-20M for in season flexibility that never gets used. Book it.

[D-train]

I do wonder what type of discount Snell would give. If he'd sign for a Luis Castillo contract they could probably fit a Snell/Harold Ramirez under $145M

Snell wants to pitch for the M's. That's huge.

I don't know if that translates into a discount - business is business. But we do spend a lot of time on this board talking about the intangibles that prevent FA from coming to Seattle. Here an intangible that apparently works in our favor. Why in god's name would we not make a concerted effort to sign him?

Because Snell projects to 3.3 WAR in 174 IPs and even if he accepts Castillo/Ray type deal at $25M a year (doubtful) he will be making over $24M more than Woo. They have Woo at 1.4 WAR but in only 127 IPs. They say there are now innings limitation on him though so if he also goes 174 innings that would be 1.9 WAR. So are they going to pay $24M incremental payroll for 1.4 WAR??? Rhetorical question.

[D-train]

I can't believe people are so dumb.

[D-train]

Now Verlander's brother is getting pissed off at a made up graphic. My God.