After the Season News:
Jarred Perry is having issues during his rehab, and it looks like he will not be able to pick up a baseball for 3 more weeks. The Clippers expect Perry to be healthy for next season. Perry was 6-0 in 9 games before his injury this year and is 119-66 3.02 in 255 career games. It will be interesting to see how Perry bounces back from this injury.
Firings:
GM Adriao Lcarrillo fired by Georgetown, after 3 unsuccessful seasons.
GM Andrew Copeland fired by Seaford, after one season. He won the innagural Champtionship with the Senators in 2013
MGR Jorge Gonzalez was let go by the Wilmington Iron Pigs, after 2 seasons.
MGR Juan Aguiliar was fired by the Christiania Blue Hens. Aguilar was 246-414 during his time in Christiana (4+ seasons)
MGR Guilherme Guardio was let go by the Blue Crabs. Guidario lead the Blue Crabs to 4 straight 4th place finishes.
MGR Admirals fire Francisco Otero after 2 years, and 2 3rd place finishes. Otero was the BC for the Admirals for the 3 years prior.
GM Jose Juarez was let go by the Washington Senators, after not being to get them out of 4th place in his 2 years.
MGR Jacob Waddell was let go by the Senators as well. Waddell was with the Senators for 2 years.
GM Pedro Vasquez was fired by the Richmond Cardinals, after 4 long years with the team.
MGR Billy Albright was also let go by the Cardinals. Albright was with the Cardinals for 2 seasons.
MGR Eduardo Diaz was let go by the Salisbury Ports after 5 years with the organization, 2 as BC adn 3 as MGR.
Cavaliers News:
Norfolk Cavaliers SP prospect Paul Brown won his 2nd straight AAA Golden Arm award. Brown went 18-3 2.77 with 296 K's in 195 innings. Brown will be in the rotation next year, at least all signs are pointing that way.
Tom Dundee, a out-field prospect, walked away with the AAA Silver Slugger award. Dundee wasn't on the Cav's list of potential players, but after a .319-42-124 season he became noticed. Dundee may be the future RF for the Cav's.
Our AAA Organization Yokohama Baystarts walked away with their first title. Winning 99 game this season and then sweeping the Dublin Black Sox in the Conf championships and then beating the St. Johns Norse 4-1 in the Championship round.
Miguel Contreras vesting option kicks in. He will be in Cavaliers orange and yellow at least one more year.
The oft-injuried Mauro Candelaria executed his option, and will make $6,500,000 next year. A lot of money for a guy who has played one full season in 3 of the last 4 seasons.
Our new budget is $138,000,000, our current salary obligatins for 2022 are 98.5, so we should have some money to make this team better.
With one season remaining on his contract, we have decided not to fire Alastair Turcotte. He has been the manager since taking over in 2014.
Arbitration:
We have 9 players hitting arbitration this season.
Vaughan Griffith ($490,000 >> $2,400,000)
Dan Nelson ($490,000 >> $1,800,000)
Rafael Rodriquez ($900,000 >> $1,000,000)
Derek Carter ($2,500,000 >> $2,730,000)
John Phillips ($490,000 >> Not offered)
Denny Dooley ($490,000 >> $750,000)
Tom Anderson ($490,000 >> $6,325,000)
Joe Chambers ($490,000 >> $1,000,000)
Javier Janchez ($2,508,000 >> $4,200,000)
Free-Agency Eligible Players
Will Rose will - not offer
Julio Saldana - will offer
I will have some decisions to make trying to make this team better. Vaughan has earned his keep, but Tom Anderson making 6.3? Or Janchez at 4.2? Maybe some trade bait down the road, but I am not sure. This is going to be an interesting off-season to say the least. I need to make something happen with this team offensively, so I will need to look around and see what is out there.
I did a quick shop around of Matt Hollis and there were 2 players that came back that sparked my interest. Francisco Reyes, which we all know what he can do, and Will Riley, who could walk away with the MVP this season after a .355-40-122 campaign. He is a catcher, and very bad defensive catcher, and on a team in our division, makes me not very interested.
On a side note, looking at the Ellicott City Express, where Riley is I noticed that Yann Gosselin put up great numbers this season hitting .303-41-109. I am pretty shocked by that, but I am still going to stick to my guns and say I have a better all around player with Francisco Gallageos... or maybe I am having trouble admitting I made a mistake... 2022 will tell us for sure.
