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Art Deco · 02-03-2025, 02:01 PM

Retirements:

Notables: Tarik Skubal, Paul Goldschmidt, Jose Berrios, Justin Steele, Pete Alonso, Cal Raleigh, Pablo Lopez, Casey Mize, Matt Chapman, Mookie Betts, Luis Robert, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Correa.

Former Rays: Josh Fleming, Yoniel Curet, Luke Raley, Yu Chang, Nathaniel Lowe.

Awards Season:

Gold Gloves: No Rays winners.

Reliever of the Year: A surprise AL winner:

In an incredibly close 3-way vote Porter came out on top (I voted him 3rd behind Kinney). Considering extending him but he's going to want $12-13M/year. The NL winner was Philly's Jhoan Duran, off a 40-save, 2.39 ERA, 95 whiffs in 60 IP season.

Silver Slugger: Our Fernando Tatis Jr won the AL award at 3B.

Rookie of the Year: Texas LF Rodolfo Villalobos won after a .279-20-71 season, taking 22 first-place votes while in the NL 27-year-old Cuban import Alejandro Carrillo of Atlanta took all but one first-place vote thanks to a .243-39-112 year that was good for 4.7 WAR.

Cy Young: No suspense in either league. Cleveland's Prince Lovette was a unanimous winner after a season that might see him win MVP as his 8.8 WAR led the AL. That was due to a 16-8, 2.56, 279-strikeout season. Also as impressive if not even more so was San Diego's Nelson Chaverria, who somehow wasn't unanimous (29 of 30) in the NL, who broke Nolan Ryan's modern (after 1900) single-season strikeout record with 387 (in 202 IP, that's 17.2 K/9!) and also earned 8.8 WAR, going 18-8, 2.80.

MVP:

Tatis becomes one of a handful of back-to-back MVPs and was a surprise unanimous pick as he actually had slightly less WAR than J-Rod (7.5 to 7.6) and 1.3 less than Prince Lovette, who finished 5th here behind our Subaru.

The NL winner was also a back-to-backer as Colorado's Jack Ruckert surprisingly won for the third time in four seasons. I say surprisingly because teammate Joey Wika out-WAR'd him 8.0-7.5 and Wika nearly became the first player since 1941 Ted Williams to hit .400 (going 1-9 over the final two days to drop below that mark). It was a very close vote with Ruckert winning 16-14 and 349-337. Ruckert hit .318-41-144 while Wika was .395-9-84 so I guess the power numbers were shinier for the voters.

November 28: The arbitration hearings were held, and the only player we didn't sign beforehand was 1B Mike Brown, who won his case getting $5.5M to the $5.1M we offered. C Zion Rose and P Jose Garces were non-tendered as we couldn't get anything in trade for either. We only saved $2.2M with Rose but the deal for Contreras gave us our backup C. Also SP Carlos Duran declined our $25M qualifying offer, so we'll get a comp pick when he signs.

December 3: Interesting deal as the Yankees sent CF Jasson Dominguez to the rarefied air of Coors Field in exchange for a prospect. Dominguez was making $29M so this seems to be a salary dump.

December 5: Time for a trade to help the rotation:

Not exactly a youth play here as Whitlock is 37, but he's a solid starter only two years removed from a 5.8 WAR season (he had 2.2 last year) and is rated 50/60/70. His 2034 contract vests if he reaches 180 IP. Slotter is a potential 5th starter and Truesdon can't really play 3B but could be a second division guy at 1B; the others are filler to get KC to eat more of Whitlock's salary. We still need a couple of more starters but this is a beginning.

December 8: The first big free agent signed as Oneil Cruz joined Houston on a 4/118 deal after 11 years and 259 homers with Pittsburgh.

December 10: 40-year-old Aaron Judge was traded back to Oakland by the Mets after an injury-riddled year returning to the Big Apple. After a 4.7 WAR season in 2031 Judge was terrible in New York, hitting 11 HR in 82 games, batting .177 and "earning" -0.1 WAR.

December 13: After a decade in Baltimore SS Gunnar Henderson is Texas-bound, inking a 4/141 deal with the Rangers.

December 14: The Giants bought themselves a Ford as catcher Harry signed a massive 7/222 deal to bring one of the game's better catchers to the bay area.

December 15: After some 15+ years with the Angels Mike Trout has become a vagabond, playing with Mets and Padres the last two seasons and will now wander the desert with the Diamondbacks, who signed the 41-year-old to a one-year, $22.2M deal. He's still been a solid 3-3.5 WAR player of late and hit 32 homers for San Diego last year but missed their WS run with a torn meniscus suffered in late September.

Also former Rays 1B Bobby Marsh is back in the AL East, taking a 2/39 offer from the Yankees after a 28-homer season with Texas.

December 16: The first of our free agents signs elsewhere as lefty Aaron Ashby joins the Phillies on a 2/22 deal. He was great for us last year at 10-5, 2.58 but is stamina and health-challenged.

December 17: The draft lottery results are in and nothing dramatic as Kansas City moves up from 3 to 1

December 18: And there goes Carlos Duran, signed by the Cubs for 6/145 which is more than I wanted to give a 31-year-old coming off a career year but he'll be missed. We do get a supplemental 1st rounder for him.

Meanwhile one of the game's top power hitters Ryan Clifford inked a 6/137 deal with Boston after hitting 230 homers in the past 6 seasons and change with Arizona.

December 19: Time for another big trade:

This doesn't help our starting pitching quest, but we get a big upgrade at 1B (for a year) with Anderson, a proven .290-30-100 guy good for a consistent 3 WAR. We had high hopes for Brown but he's kind of stuck in the .260-20-90 mode, which while decent isn't terribly exciting for the position. And we do send another 1B prospect in Griggs, but we have Geronimo Satiro, our current DH, who can play 1B as well and can take over in 2034. With the salary retention this swap only costs us about $2M in salary.

December 21: We made a free agent signing:

Not to be confused with the OF Brock Jones, who was our 2nd-round pick in 2022 and played briefly with the team. This Brock Jones has been a solid lefty reliever with the Cubs but we see starting potential with him as he has 3 plus pitches and can be a 5-6 inning guy with 40 stamina rated 60/55/50. The price was right too as we got him for 2 years at just a little over $2M per. Technically we now have 5 starters with Teodo, Lambert, Whitlock, Kim and Jones but I really don't want Kim in the rotation.

December 22: Added OFs Chris Crisp and Cody Ridell and 2B Jorge Zeledon to the 40-man roster.

Crisp is MLB-ready and had a great season at Durham but our OF is crowded at the moment, while Ridell is a CF with some skills who might ready sooner than later. Zeledon is kind of a freak player who has 75(!) MLB contact, but no power, doesn't draw walks, and is terrible defensively. We still have open slots on the 40-man so if someone intrigues us in the Rule 5 draft we can take a flyer (especially a pitcher)

December 23: The Rule 5 draft was a bust in terms of who was available as we neither picked anyone nor lost anyone.

December 30: We signed an interesting player from indie ball, 2B/SS Steve Kidder. The 24-year-old can also play 3B and has 55 MLB power with 60 potential, although he's doomed to 40 contact. He could make a really useful utility infielder someday soon.

December 31: And we close out 2032 with another free agent signing as we bring back Jose Garces to fill in our rotation. Garces was a 3.7-WAR starter for Pittsburgh in 2030 before injuries hit in 2031 and we grabbed him on waivers last year where he pitched for a while out of our bullpen before spraining an ankle in September and ending his season. He's rated 55/50/65 as a starter with the potential for the movement to tick up to 55.

02-03-2025, 02:01 PM	#234
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,376	2032-33 Offseason: Part 1 Retirements: Notables: Tarik Skubal, Paul Goldschmidt, Jose Berrios, Justin Steele, Pete Alonso, Cal Raleigh, Pablo Lopez, Casey Mize, Matt Chapman, Mookie Betts, Luis Robert, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Correa. Former Rays: Josh Fleming, Yoniel Curet, Luke Raley, Yu Chang, Nathaniel Lowe. Awards Season: Gold Gloves: No Rays winners. Reliever of the Year: A surprise AL winner: In an incredibly close 3-way vote Porter came out on top (I voted him 3rd behind Kinney). Considering extending him but he's going to want $12-13M/year. The NL winner was Philly's Jhoan Duran, off a 40-save, 2.39 ERA, 95 whiffs in 60 IP season. Silver Slugger: Our Fernando Tatis Jr won the AL award at 3B. Rookie of the Year: Texas LF Rodolfo Villalobos won after a .279-20-71 season, taking 22 first-place votes while in the NL 27-year-old Cuban import Alejandro Carrillo of Atlanta took all but one first-place vote thanks to a .243-39-112 year that was good for 4.7 WAR. Cy Young: No suspense in either league. Cleveland's Prince Lovette was a unanimous winner after a season that might see him win MVP as his 8.8 WAR led the AL. That was due to a 16-8, 2.56, 279-strikeout season. Also as impressive if not even more so was San Diego's Nelson Chaverria, who somehow wasn't unanimous (29 of 30) in the NL, who broke Nolan Ryan's modern (after 1900) single-season strikeout record with 387 (in 202 IP, that's 17.2 K/9!) and also earned 8.8 WAR, going 18-8, 2.80. MVP: Tatis becomes one of a handful of back-to-back MVPs and was a surprise unanimous pick as he actually had slightly less WAR than J-Rod (7.5 to 7.6) and 1.3 less than Prince Lovette, who finished 5th here behind our Subaru. The NL winner was also a back-to-backer as Colorado's Jack Ruckert surprisingly won for the third time in four seasons. I say surprisingly because teammate Joey Wika out-WAR'd him 8.0-7.5 and Wika nearly became the first player since 1941 Ted Williams to hit .400 (going 1-9 over the final two days to drop below that mark). It was a very close vote with Ruckert winning 16-14 and 349-337. Ruckert hit .318-41-144 while Wika was .395-9-84 so I guess the power numbers were shinier for the voters. November 28: The arbitration hearings were held, and the only player we didn't sign beforehand was 1B Mike Brown, who won his case getting $5.5M to the $5.1M we offered. C Zion Rose and P Jose Garces were non-tendered as we couldn't get anything in trade for either. We only saved $2.2M with Rose but the deal for Contreras gave us our backup C. Also SP Carlos Duran declined our $25M qualifying offer, so we'll get a comp pick when he signs. December 3: Interesting deal as the Yankees sent CF Jasson Dominguez to the rarefied air of Coors Field in exchange for a prospect. Dominguez was making $29M so this seems to be a salary dump. December 5: Time for a trade to help the rotation: Not exactly a youth play here as Whitlock is 37, but he's a solid starter only two years removed from a 5.8 WAR season (he had 2.2 last year) and is rated 50/60/70. His 2034 contract vests if he reaches 180 IP. Slotter is a potential 5th starter and Truesdon can't really play 3B but could be a second division guy at 1B; the others are filler to get KC to eat more of Whitlock's salary. We still need a couple of more starters but this is a beginning. December 8: The first big free agent signed as Oneil Cruz joined Houston on a 4/118 deal after 11 years and 259 homers with Pittsburgh. December 10: 40-year-old Aaron Judge was traded back to Oakland by the Mets after an injury-riddled year returning to the Big Apple. After a 4.7 WAR season in 2031 Judge was terrible in New York, hitting 11 HR in 82 games, batting .177 and "earning" -0.1 WAR. December 13: After a decade in Baltimore SS Gunnar Henderson is Texas-bound, inking a 4/141 deal with the Rangers. December 14: The Giants bought themselves a Ford as catcher Harry signed a massive 7/222 deal to bring one of the game's better catchers to the bay area. December 15: After some 15+ years with the Angels Mike Trout has become a vagabond, playing with Mets and Padres the last two seasons and will now wander the desert with the Diamondbacks, who signed the 41-year-old to a one-year, $22.2M deal. He's still been a solid 3-3.5 WAR player of late and hit 32 homers for San Diego last year but missed their WS run with a torn meniscus suffered in late September. Also former Rays 1B Bobby Marsh is back in the AL East, taking a 2/39 offer from the Yankees after a 28-homer season with Texas. December 16: The first of our free agents signs elsewhere as lefty Aaron Ashby joins the Phillies on a 2/22 deal. He was great for us last year at 10-5, 2.58 but is stamina and health-challenged. December 17: The draft lottery results are in and nothing dramatic as Kansas City moves up from 3 to 1 December 18: And there goes Carlos Duran, signed by the Cubs for 6/145 which is more than I wanted to give a 31-year-old coming off a career year but he'll be missed. We do get a supplemental 1st rounder for him. Meanwhile one of the game's top power hitters Ryan Clifford inked a 6/137 deal with Boston after hitting 230 homers in the past 6 seasons and change with Arizona. December 19: Time for another big trade: This doesn't help our starting pitching quest, but we get a big upgrade at 1B (for a year) with Anderson, a proven .290-30-100 guy good for a consistent 3 WAR. We had high hopes for Brown but he's kind of stuck in the .260-20-90 mode, which while decent isn't terribly exciting for the position. And we do send another 1B prospect in Griggs, but we have Geronimo Satiro, our current DH, who can play 1B as well and can take over in 2034. With the salary retention this swap only costs us about $2M in salary. December 21: We made a free agent signing: Not to be confused with the OF Brock Jones, who was our 2nd-round pick in 2022 and played briefly with the team. This Brock Jones has been a solid lefty reliever with the Cubs but we see starting potential with him as he has 3 plus pitches and can be a 5-6 inning guy with 40 stamina rated 60/55/50. The price was right too as we got him for 2 years at just a little over $2M per. Technically we now have 5 starters with Teodo, Lambert, Whitlock, Kim and Jones but I really don't want Kim in the rotation. December 22: Added OFs Chris Crisp and Cody Ridell and 2B Jorge Zeledon to the 40-man roster. Crisp is MLB-ready and had a great season at Durham but our OF is crowded at the moment, while Ridell is a CF with some skills who might ready sooner than later. Zeledon is kind of a freak player who has 75(!) MLB contact, but no power, doesn't draw walks, and is terrible defensively. We still have open slots on the 40-man so if someone intrigues us in the Rule 5 draft we can take a flyer (especially a pitcher) December 23: The Rule 5 draft was a bust in terms of who was available as we neither picked anyone nor lost anyone. December 30: We signed an interesting player from indie ball, 2B/SS Steve Kidder. The 24-year-old can also play 3B and has 55 MLB power with 60 potential, although he's doomed to 40 contact. He could make a really useful utility infielder someday soon. December 31: And we close out 2032 with another free agent signing as we bring back Jose Garces to fill in our rotation. Garces was a 3.7-WAR starter for Pittsburgh in 2030 before injuries hit in 2031 and we grabbed him on waivers last year where he pitched for a while out of our bullpen before spraining an ankle in September and ending his season. He's rated 55/50/65 as a starter with the potential for the movement to tick up to 55.