2020-2021 Hot Stove Thread

[Petert]

Yeah it seems like it but then the Charlie Morton signing flies in the face of that. $15M for a 37 yo with a 4.74 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP last season.

The Morton signing struck me as pretty odd, like an act d desperation, or to prevent him from going to a divisional rival, neither of which I can prove.

[D-train]

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[Petert]

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You’ll notice Piniella is 10th in AL hitting ? Best bad ball hitter I’ve ever seen. Even better than Sojo.

[Coeurd’Alene J]

Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration with a 3.01M deal

Hope he stays healthy and excels

[Petert]

Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration with a 3.01M deal

Hope he stays healthy and excels

Hear, hear. I’m really looking forward to a full, healthy season of this guy again.

[harmony]

Ryon Healy has signed with the Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization:

https://twitter.com/Jeeho_1/status/1335393778106998787

I guess that means he's not coming back to Seattle.

[Petert]

He’ll probably be back in the sights of some ML GMs looking for a bargain in 2023 after crushing KBO pitching for 45 HRs a year.

[bpj]

Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration with a 3.01M deal

Hope he stays healthy and excels

Hear, hear. I’m really looking forward to a full, healthy season of this guy again.

It's hard to imagine given how much time he had off and what a longshot he was to begin with that Haniger will be the player he was at his peak.

It's easy to imagine him being an .820 OPS bat and leading us to the Wild Card on the other hand.

Unless they add significant players, the Mariners season will likely go as Hanigers goes.

[Petert]

Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration with a 3.01M deal

Hope he stays healthy and excels

Hear, hear. I’m really looking forward to a full, healthy season of this guy again.

It's hard to imagine given how much time he had off and what a longshot he was to begin with that Haniger will be the player he was at his peak.

It's easy to imagine him being an .820 OPS bat and leading us to the Wild Card on the other hand.

Unless they add significant players, the Mariners season will likely go as Hanigers goes.

Mitch Haniger avoids arbitration with a 3.01M deal

Hope he stays healthy and excels

Hear, hear. I’m really looking forward to a full, healthy season of this guy again.

It's hard to imagine given how much time he had off and what a longshot he was to begin with that Haniger will be the player he was at his peak.

It's easy to imagine him being an .820 OPS bat and leading us to the Wild Card on the other hand.

Unless they add significant players, the Mariners season will likely go as Hanigers goes.

I’m laughing at this, because it’s absolutely true.

It just reveals the unabashedly romantic quality I will always associate with the sport, and with the efforts of good players who may have been dealt a bad hand or two, but try to come back to reclaim their former selves.

(It’s why I still watch ‘The Natural’ with the same vacant rapture that families 50 years ago must have watched ‘King of Kings’, ‘The Ten Commandments’, or ‘Bernadette of Lourdes’ on the weekly NBC Saturday Night flick.)

Yes, we need more than Haniger for any serious run at contention. I totally agree with that. But I’m going to cheer him each time he steps to the plate, simply because I want to see him fulfill some of the destiny here that he was acquired for.

[bpj]

Which begs the question if you could keep White or Haniger on Whites current contract, who'dyarather?

I'd choose Haniger.