2019 Offseason

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Ken Rosenthal
@Ken_Rosenthal
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Source confirms: Free-agent reliever Carl Edwards Jr. to #Mariners on one-year, $950K deal. First reported:
@BNightengale

 

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Seems like the prototypical Hazen guy. Plays short, second, and third, runs well, and hes a switch hitter.

 

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Starling Marte Open To Being Traded To Contending Team
With the Pirates coming off a disappointing season and new general manager Ben Cherington now in charge of the organization, there has been wide speculation that a rebuild could be coming in Pittsburgh. This would naturally make Starling Marte into a trade candidate, and the center fielder indicated in a conversation with Hector Gomez of Deportivo Z 101 (Twitter links) that he wants to be play for a winning team in 2020, in Pittsburgh or elsewhere.

The Pirates “have the power to decide about my future,” Marte said. “If it was for me I will leave for a team that is ready to compete right now on a World Series and that’s not our case.” When asked specifically about the Mets, who have a need in center field and have already reportedly shown interest in Marte’s services, Marte said that “it will be an honor to play with them,” since New York is more poised to contend next season.

It should be noted that these comments fall short of any actual trade request; needless to say, virtually every player would prefer to player for a contender, all things considered. Marte doesn’t appear to have any hard feelings about the Pirates or his situation, noting that “if it [a trade] doesn’t happen, I will keep working hard and giving my team all I have.”

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/11/starling-marte-open-to-being-traded-to-contending-team.html

 

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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2019/11/...ort-term-how-mets-can-get-starling-marte.html

The latest: The Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres are favorites to sign Bumgarner, MLB Network insider Jon Hayman reported

Maybe this explains why ARZ is more willing to trade Ray than ever before.

 

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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2019/11/...ort-term-how-mets-can-get-starling-marte.html

The latest: The Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres are favorites to sign Bumgarner, MLB Network insider Jon Hayman reported

Maybe this explains why ARZ is more willing to trade Ray than ever before.

At this point, MadBum is just an older version of Ray, and he's going to the Braves or Yankees, anyway.

 

[BC867]

At this point, MadBum is just an older version of Ray, and he's going to the Braves or Yankees, anyway.

I hope so. It's time to look ahead, not back.

Moving Randy made that clear.

Unfortunately, Robbie was not the answer.

 

[overseascardfan]

At this point, MadBum is just an older version of Ray, and he's going to the Braves or Yankees, anyway.

Yankees are all in for Cole now that the Angels have dropped out of the race. As article mentions, ARZ, ATL & SD are the favorites but if NY misses out on Cole then Bumgardner may pop up on their radar but article mentions he may not want to go to AL.

 

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Yankees are all in for Cole now that the Angels have dropped out of the race. As article mentions, ARZ, ATL & SD are the favorites but if NY misses out on Cole then Bumgardner may pop up on their radar but article mentions he may not want to go to AL.

With his hitting ability, who can blame him, and if that's the case, the Braves are the prohibitive favorite.

 

[WildBB]

With his hitting ability, who can blame him, and if that's the case, the Braves are the prohibitive favorite.

He might prefer to stay in NLWest.

 

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Brewers Willing To Listen On Josh Hader Trade
Brewers’ star reliever Josh Hader is “available” in trade, reports the Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. While Rosenthal indicates that no deal is close, Hader’s inclusion on the trade market could make for one of the more fascinating storylines of the coming months.

The 25-year-old southpaw has emerged as perhaps the best reliever in baseball since making his MLB debut in 2017. For his career, Hader has tossed 204.2 relief innings with a 2.42 ERA and an otherworldly 44.6% strikeout rate. Working without a set role and capable of handling multiple innings in an outing, Hader has exceeded 75 innings each of the last two seasons, all the while recording dominant strikeout numbers.

If there’s a blemish on Hader’s resume, he was a bit home run prone in 2019. He was hardly unique in that regard, of course, but Hader’s 15 home runs allowed pushed his ERA to a career-worst (albeit still stellar) 2.62. That’s not to diminish, though, just how dominant Hader has been. His 47.8% strikeout rate last year was easily the league’s best (minimum 50 innings); the 6.1 percentage point gap between Hader and second-place Nick Anderson equaled the gap between Anderson and fifteenth-place Chris Sale.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/12/brewers-willing-to-listen-on-josh-hader-trade.html

 

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Mark Feinsand
@Feinsand
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The Orioles have agreed to terms with LHP Richard Bleier on a 2020 contract, avoiding arbitration.

 

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Mark Feinsand
@Feinsand
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Bleier gets $915,000 from the Orioles, per source.

 

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Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi)
12/2/19, 9:34 AM
#Indians acquire Sandy León from #RedSox for RHP Adenys Bautista. ⁦‪@MLBNetwork‬⁩⁦‪@MLB‬⁩

 

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