MLB Offseason 2020-21: I'm a Hall of Famer baseball person
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I think the question is how is a 76 year old man, who is obviously set in his ways, going to relate to a clubhouse full of twenty something players?
Poorly?
Looks like the Tigers got him instead.
What are these teams doing? La Russa gets hired this week and then today Hinch gets hired and it sounds like Cora might be going to Boston. Is there anyone a team can take a chance on that is a young up and comer who has earned a spot? I mean I didn't know about La Russa's racism, but my first thought on the hire was, he's 76 years old. I thought Baseball was going towards this progressive analytical bent. As for Hinch and Cora, they got a season that was cut short off and now they are back on the job. For once can these people actually take some freaking accountability for their actions? I still love the Giants and watch the A's, but this week is hard to be a baseball fan and not feel a slight embarrassed.
This is a sport whose teams are owned by old white guys, and whose front offices are run by generally old white guys. What does your heart tell you?
My heart (in the context of baseball) makes me feel ill.
"History does not repeat, but it sure as Hell Rhymes."
K-rap, have I used that one before?
Mets place qualifying offer on Marcus Stroman. He should immediately sign that $18.9 million dollar offer.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/10/mets-to-extend-qualifying-offer-to-marcus-stroman.html
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/10/mets-to-extend-qualifying-offer-to-marcus-stroman.html
Yeah, there's no way he gets nearly $20 million on the open market, not after sitting out for a year and with how rough everything is looking at the moment.
I think they already declined Lester’s option.
They declined Lester's option but fed a piece into the Chicago Tribune saying they'd "talk" about a possible new deal. The reality is that Lester's cooked, he's a #3 starter at best and he wants to live closer to his Atlanta home (and he'd square in pretty well at the back end of the Braves' rotation). The Cubs will say they gave him a $12 million "we tried" offer, let him go and then trot out a rotation of ... shit, Hendricks / Darvish / Mills / Adzolay / some shitty FA pickup like Gio Gonzalez.
Agreed that Lester is beyond help. If Lester refuses to adjust his game (the way Darvish did) and refuses to go to the bullpen (if that's an option), he should be allowed to move on if another team wants that kind of inconsistency.
Cubs need to sign Bauer if he'll have them, plus another FA starter or two. We can't rely on both Alzolay and Mills just yet.
Though you're probably right on here. They like the cheap alternatives they think they can rehab.
Lester would be a legitimately great back-of-the-pen reliever. He can go for two innings and still has a few pitches that can fool batters. I think he's going to insist on starter money, though, and I think he's probably gone from Chicago.
And as bad as the Cubs seem to be overall, not necessarily a bad thing. He helped us win the WS, but that doesn't give anyone a pass forever.
Hell, maybe Rea can start as well. He was a starter before the injury and 2+ years off and he looked good in relief. Q could come back as a decent #5. Bullpen is as bad as anything.
In retrospect, that was a pretty rough trade for both sides.
I'm currently terrified that Theo Epstein is going to get cute and bring Archer home, and we'll get to see him put up a 4.50 ERA season with a 3.00 FIP like he does every year, while giving up somewhere between "a ton of" and "all of the" home runs in the process. Then Cubs pundits will spend the whole season talking about how the peripherals say he's just unlucky, while casually ignoring that he's wildly underperformed his peripherals literally his entire career.
Either that, or Archer's going to go to Milwaukee, pitch in relief, and throw like 70 innings with a 1.12 ERA and I will sob into my pillows because God hates me.
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