This list doesn’t even include Turner or Robles.

NLE is shaping up to be pretty exciting and the teams seem far from being done too.

I’ll be taking the under on the Marlins... pretty much whatever it is.

Meant to include Turner in that, missed him for whatever reason.

Just looked up the deferred salary that the nats have and it's pretty wild.

Scherzer's $35MM salary in 19-21 ($105MM) is completely deferred until every July 1 from 22-28, at which point he'll be paid $15MM each year. The signing bonus for the contract acts as his salary for these three seasons, getting 7.5MM April 1 and Sept. 1.

Strasburg signed his contract two years ago, and is getting his $10MM signing bonus this year too, in July, $10MM. $30MM of his $35MM is getting deferred along with 10MM next year and 30MM in 2023. Those are to be paid as $10MM instalments July 1 2024-2030.

Corbin apparently has some $ deferred.

Zimmerman is $2MM/yr for 5 years once he retires.

Dbacks just gifted Goldy to St. Louis. Enjoy him St. Louis he’s special on and off the field

D'backs!

Based on durangos optimism for the Shelby Miller trade, I like the Dbacks side.



Luke Weaver could be a future ace.
Don't know anything about Carson Kelly but he has been a top 50/60 prospect last few years, so could be a longterm feature at Catcher.
Andrew Young appears to be a complete unknown.

This is for a player we aren't resigning who will be gone after next year.

And of course every casual fan on Twitter is saying the Dbacks got fleeced. lol

Wow. Only had to give up Carson Kelly and Luke Weaver plus s throw in 25 yr old AAA 2B and a draft pick.

Kelly will be good defensively, but I doubt hr hits much at major league level. Weaver forgot how throw strikes after a solid rookie season.

Love the trade from cards side

Holy **** the dbacks are run by ****ing clowns

Charlie Morton turned into an ace so I can’t say Luke Weaver can’t

Still, Luke Weaver is very much not an ace

Haha at that tweet, oh by the way we got them for our best and most notable player

The other options are:
-Keep him this year and not resign him and get a similar competitive balance pick when he leaves.
-Keep him this year and vastly overpay for his decline years.
-Try to trade him closer to the deadline hoping somebody needs a 1B and can get a similar return.

getting rid of guys over 30 a year before free agency is generally a pretty good thing to do

no way they wanted to pay him some 6/180 deal

Yeah the deal is fine it's just a funny way to announce your best player is leaving. I guess it did just happen so I assume the farewell etc. tweets are incoming, ignore me

I guess the Astros are holding out for Realmuto or a big SP. Although, they just signed Chirinos. Maybe they are just holding out for a trade deadline fire sale from the Mets, Nats, Cubs?

Here is a name of two players who are only 1 year older and have slightly more career b-war than Goldschmidt:
Buster Posey
Andrew McCutchen

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating keeping him longterm. It’s the same reason I sincerely hope madbum is dealt. But when the prize of the deal for a still hyperelite hitter with +defense is Luke Weaver you don’t get to celebrate

looks like Nasty Nate is heading back to Boston to son Bregman again

Was that English?

move probably means gyorko gets dealt I would assume. Jose Martinez probably out the door as well. Going to be a very interesting offseason in STL. Can't wait until they sign Harper!

Prizm,

A middling, injury riddled pitcher, isn't "sonning" a top 3 3rd baseman.

Lol SRM as per usual. Dave Stewart and TLR are gone, and Mike Hazen is a top 10 GM.

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/card...schmidt-trade/

the 101 mph heater that Bregman flailed at says otherwise

lol dbacks

****ing hell it had to benefit the cardinals

Considering closers for literal half season rentals get more than that trade did I don't see how anyone can like it for zona.

How the hell did half a season of Jonathan Schoup go for a similar price than a full season of Paul Goldschmit.

It seems like the best possible thing you can do for your team in the offseason is engage in trade talks with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

weaver's a bust, the other guys STL had to give up are w/e

if goldy doesn't forget how to hit over the winter it seems like an OK trade for the cards.

i'm a little unclear how matt carpenter is going to fit into all of this

Carp was neutral to slightly above average defense at 3rd last year in over 600 innings. Hope they trade Gyorko and Jose Martinez for bullpen help and make a strong push for Harper or Brantley.