Finally! Official Hot Stove League thread!

[tehmc]

It is consistent, at least, with Jerry’s bargain basement, dumpster diving offseason philosophy.

It would not surprise me if we wound up with either - or both - of these has beens.

How absolutely bizarre was Carpenter's run with the Yankees. Don't think I have ever seen that in my life. Went from Suck to Amazing right back to suck.

Hey for the league minimum I'll DH for the M's and on the plus side I'll make Ty France look like a HOF'er

[desbcoach]

Prime Video jumping in on Diamond sports Bankruptcy to be able to show more baseball could be good news for Roots if they can land another place to put business streaming and good new for us viewer, who doesn’t have prime video I would pay an extra 10-20 bucks to stream

[harmony]

Just Baseball podcasters play GM for the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVzte-pEr4

They discuss the Mariners starting at 18:00.

[harmony]

Julio Rodriguez reportedly earns a bonus:

https://apnews.com/article/baseball-arb ... b1a9ac783f

[Pharmabro]

Strange!
Pirates sign former Ranger Martin Perez to a 1year 8M dollar deal and he is coming off a 32 start 2.89 ERA
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/ ... -deal.html

I would not have minded signing him to trade pitching for hitting.

Oh, my bad that was his career year back in 22' last year he was just a 100 ERA+ guy.

[harmony]

Mike Sauk and Brock Huard at Seattle Sports discuss the Mariners' RSN situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djJ92k9z8yo

[harmony]

Tom Murphy reportedly signs a multiyear contract with the San Francisco Giants:

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/statu ... 7619420170

[harmony]

Locked on MLB Prospects discusses where Seattle infield prospects will play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjn4kxQeag

[D-train]

Not clear if it is 2 x $8M or $8M total?

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/statu ... 8199438421 [/tweet]

[ddraig]

After raking in millions over the past three years, now the M's plead poverty. GFY mariners! I'll be following the Giants this next season you worthless pieces of Shizzle!