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Offseason Center
12/1/24: San Diego Brigadiers trade 10x AS and 38 year old closer Jeremy Argento to the Portland Pioneers for 3 prospects. Argento has 480 career saves and spent 3 years with the Commodores in 2016-2018.
12/7/24: San Francisco Dukes trade 3x AS and 36 year old 2B Eric Hopewell to the Chicago Sentinels for 5 prospects just one offseason after signing him to a 34 year contract.
12/16/24: Oakland Commodores sign LHP Nick Bakken to a 2 year, $12 million deal. The second year is a team option with a $600,000 buyout.
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As a rather quiet offseason heads to the winter meetings, I continue to look for deals for the overpaid Hatton and another reliever. Nobody seems to be wanting to take Hatton’s $7.1 million over the next two seasons and I don’t blame them. We might be stuck with him for this upcoming season, which as a backup he’s not terrible, just overpaid.
The signing of Bakken fills one of the left handed relievers I’ve been looking for. His splits heavily favor lefties but he’s competent versus righties as well. The options on the open market aren’t great aside from the aforementioned Andy Carter, but his price point is too high for me. The rule 5 draft might be the best place for me to find and answer, but I’ll also be talking to all the GM’s here at the meetings and seeing what’s out there.
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