2020-2021 Hot Stove Thread

[Sexymarinersfan]

Letting Soria and Colome get away for peanuts. Ok now I'm officially pissed and firmly believe they have zero intention of going for it this season. God fucking dammit!! You cheap fucks!!

[D-train]

Letting Soria and Colome get away for peanuts. Ok now I'm officially pissed and firmly believe they have zero intention of going for it this season. God fucking dammit!! You cheap fucks!!

Yeah, who exactly would they have blocked????

[Donn Beach]

$6mil on a closer and they would have had to sweeten the deal?

[bpj]

$6mil on a closer and they would have had to sweeten the deal?

That's about what they paid their fake closer Zipchinski.

Can't shell it out now for a player that has actually earned it?
I'm not a fan of $7M long relievers, but when the actual closers with success are signing for that, I'd be making an effort to solidify the pen personally.

[Donn Beach]

Not that he isn't worth it but that the Ms would shell out that kind of dough this season for one. Montero is the closer isn't he? Didn't they check that box?

[D-train]

Not that he isn't worth it but that the Ms would shell out that kind of dough this season for one. Montero is the closer isn't he? Didn't they check that box?

Yeah they checked it with a 0.0 bWAR "closer" just like they checked it with Hirano and Shaw last season and missed the playoffs by two games. One of which was due to blowing a 4 run lead with 2 outs and nobody on in the bottom of the 9th. If you scroll down to the win probability graph we had a 100% chance to win that game just before Williams hit Hedges.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxe ... 8271.shtml

[Donn Beach]

I am mot defending it, but yeah they seemed to have checked it. Can't imagine them dropping $6 mil on another closer.

[D-train]

I am mot defending it, but yeah they seemed to have checked it. Can't imagine them dropping $6 mil on another closer.

Montero would just move to high leverage set up man and the entire pen gets better but they obviously aren't interested in getting better. Is what it is.

[Donn Beach]

Sure, they are going to add some pieces one would imagine, $6 mil on a closer?...maybe $6 mil on a corner outfielder

[D-train]

Sure, they are going to add some pieces one would imagine, $6 mil on a closer?...maybe $6 mil on a corner outfielder

You think $6M is a lot for a closer? We wasted almost $10M a year on that clown Nicasio to be a set up man.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/rankings/salary/closer/