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7:54
Anything to report on the Correa / Mets front? I’m seeing rumors ALL over the place but I have a hard time trusting them if they aren’t on MLBTR. Give me some hope that this is going to get taken care of?
Mark P
7:55
This is purely my opinion, but I would guess that a deal does get done, with some conditional injury-related clauses that give the Mets a bit of leverage on the back end of the contract
Jim Crane
7:55
Do I name a GM in January? Will I sign or make a trade before I hire someone?
Mark P
7:57
The Astros have already been pretty active this offseason, even without an official GM in place.  My guess is that they might not even make an outside hire, and one of the assistant GMs like Bill Firkus will just get promoted to the top job
Huge fan
7:58
Is there a way to answer the question: Who was the best free agent signing of all time?  Which FA turned his new team around, reaching further into the post-season and kept that team on a strong pace for a number of years?
Mark P
7:59
Off the top of my head....David Ortiz?  In terms of pure "best signings," it would be a situation like Ortiz where a player joined a team for next to nothing, and blossomed into a huge star
Frustrated Giants Fan
8:00
Giants don't have much in the way of trading. There are only a handful of guys that the club will need in the near future (Harrison, Schmitt, Brown, Matos, Luciano) and if they trade them, it puts the Giants in bad position since they cant do much on the FA market. Is it possible to make a significant trade without loosing most of the names mentioned?
Mark P
8:01
I'd made this suggestion before in regards to the Giants' payroll space, but if they're willing to spend, they could help themselves in trades by taking on another team's bad contract.
8:06
Had to pause the chat for a moment to report a trade...Tyler Nevin to the Tigers for cash considerations
Richard P
8:07
Why all the radio silence on the Giants formally announcing Conforto?  It going on a couple of weeks and they have yet to formally recognize his signing.  Something up again with medicals?
Mark P
8:07
I can understand the trepidation amongst Giants fans, though I would suspect that the physical might've just been delayed since it's the holiday season
Giant steps?
8:08
What could the Giants get for Harrison?
Mark P
8:09
As one of the better pitching prospects in the sport, Harrison is a major trade chip.  However, as another commenter noted earlier, trading Harrison might not be the wisest move, since so much of SF's rotation is comprised of veterans on shorter-term contracts
While the Giants might move someone from their upper-ish tier of prospects, I don't see them moving anyone from the very top of that list
darrin
8:11
are these "cash considerations" trades ever anything more than a few hundred thousand dollars?
Mark P
8:12
I like to imagine it's an actual person with the unlikely name of Cash Considerations, forever frustrated at being dealt every couple of weeks
Shortstop madness?
8:13
Padres Kim or CF Trent Grisham for Twins Sonny Gray?  Who says no?
Mark P
8:14
Of those two options, I'd guess Minnesota would prefer Kim since they're already deep in outfielders.
Cubs fan
8:14
What’s gonna happen with Madrigal after the Swanson signing? They even have McKinstry Morel and Mastrobuoni as infield depth
Mark P
8:17
The Cubs are hoping to finally get Madrigal healthy for an extended stretch, but the question of where exactly they'll play him is a valid one.  Perhaps Hoerner could be used in the OF to open up some time at second base, but a trade might also be a possibility, even if the Cubs must feel like they'd be selling low.
It would be pretty amusing if the Cubs just swapped Madrigal back to the White Sox
Perry M
8:18
Is there concern in the platoon issues with the Angels (RH lineup, LH rotation + Ohtani)? Also, can someone please explain the Brandon Marsh trade from the Angels' side?
Mark P
8:20
The Angels needed a catcher of the future and got one in O'Hoppe.  Now, would another option have been to keep Marsh and use him in center field (thus bumping Trout to a corner spot and improving the defense)?  Yes, but it's too early to cast a verdict on this deal so soon, before O'Hoppe has barely ever played and while Marsh hasn't played all that much in Philly
8:21
As for the lineup, LAA would probably ideally like to get another lefty bat for at least some more balance off the bench.  But, it's not the most unbalanced lineup in the sport.
AZ Fans
8:21
Why did Arizona sign Longoria? He’s old and worse than the platoon they had last year. They also have vets on the team too (bum and Ahmed). Especially coming off a thumb injury, isn’t this a super risky move?
Mark P
8:23
Longoria has hit well when healthy, and for $4MM, isn't a bank-breaking addition.  Obviously staying healthy is an issue, but frequent DH at-bats would hopefully help Longoria stay on the field
Zac
8:24
Not that the rockies ever would, but is Marquez tradable without eating any of that extension money? SP are raking it in this offseason.
Mark P
8:25
He's definitely tradable, even coming off a down year in 2022.  Plenty of teams would have interest in seeing what Marquez could do outside of the Coors Field environment.
Ed
8:25
Why would any team trade for Sale with his injury history.  Some fans need to re-think there trade ideas.
Mark P
8:27
I can see why Sale might have some trade value, since if he's healthy, he is still a front-of-the-rotation type who can start a playoff game.  But, the injury risk is such that moving Sale would probably require more of a "bad contract swap" scenario, rather than Boston getting anything major of value back like a top prospect
Panda
8:28
I've seen several fan suggestions that the Orioles should toss Jackson Holliday into a trade, even in this chat tonight. It's understood there's no guarantee any top of the draft selection becomes a star. But how much sense is there to give up a player you just chose over 600+ other players, so soon (even if waiting until June 15th)?  Maybe there's an example of trading away a top pick like that, but I can't recall any examples.
Mark P
8:29
For a pretty recent example, look at Dansby Swanson.  Picked first overall by Arizona in June 2015, dealt to the Braves just six months later.

Now, given how catastrophically that trade worked out for the D'Backs, it perhaps isn't the best example about why the O's could or would move Holliday.  But, Baltimore is uniquely deep enough in young talent that it's at least possible (if unlikely) that they could trade Holliday for more immediate help
AlsoMark
8:29
Hey Mark, if Giants don’t make the playoffs is Zaidi’s job in jeopardy?
Mark P
8:31
2023 is Zaidi's last year under contract, if I'm not mistaken.  I would have to imagine that there's definitely some extra pressure given how this offseason has gone, even if the Correa injury situation has made the Giants' stance on that signing seem more defensible.
Don
8:32
It’s to a lesser degree, but I saw some resemblance between the Crawford-Correa position situation and the Jeter-A-Rod situation back then. We know Zaidi and Cashman made different decisions (had Correa worked out in SF). Do you think Zaidi would have moved Jeter off short in favor of A-Rod?
Mark P
8:33
20 years ago, advanced defensive metrics were much less available to fans and media.  If such a Yankees move happened today, I think there would've been much more of a feeling amongst NYY fans of "A-Rod is the much better defensive player, shouldn't he be the shortstop?"
Marty McFly
8:34
You forgot Jon Lester as one of the best free agent signings ever.  They don't win the WS without him.
Mark P
8:35
I listed Ortiz just because of how little the Red Sox needed to sign him.  Among the best "big-money" free agent deals, Lester certainly deserves mention.  As would Scherzer to Washington, Manny Ramirez to Boston, Greg Maddux to Atlanta back in the day, Harper to the Phillies so far....
rich
8:36
Think we’ll ever see a time in the game when the league puts more weight on the regular season then frames the postseason more as a separate tournament? More and more players (most recently Verlander) seem pretty open about the playoffs essentially being a crapshoot. At what point does “champion” no longer reasonably reflect the actual best team?
Mark P
8:37
The idea of a postseason is too ingrained in North American sports.  In European soccer, for instance, the regular-season champion is regarded as the champion, and the national cup tournament (like England's FA Cup, for instance) is seen as pretty secondary.
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