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Art Deco · 07-26-2023, 07:35 PM

Starting off with the retirements:

Notables: Kevin Gausman, Josh Donaldson, DJ LeMahieu, Salvador Perez, JT Realmuto, Marcus Stroman
Former Rays: Christian Bethancourt, Ji-Man Choi, Joe Ryan, Calvin Faucher

Financial News: Our market size increased to "below average" (from "tiny" I guess) and the payroll allowed by Stu Sternberg is $160M. Here is the salary situation with everyone making above the minimum listed:

Keeping all of this crew adds to $152M but as mentioned in the previous post Jose Siri and Dylan Lee will be non-tendered so that brings it down to $137M. We have an extension offer out to Shane McClanahan that will add about $7M so we'll settling in around $144-145. A Mitchell trade could also clear most of that back however.

Awards Season:

Gold Gloves: None for us, although Brock Jones was jobbed out of the LF award.

Reliever of the Year: Cleveland's Emmanuel Clase (49 saves, 1.41 ERA, 3.5 WAR) was a unanimous winner in the AL with our Garrett Cleavinger finishing fifth. Another veteran took the honors in the NL as Edwin Diaz took all but one first-place vote (mine! for AJ Minter) after a 41-save, 1.36-ERA season.

Silver Sluggers: Wander (2B) and EDLC (3B) took home awards.

Rookie of the Year: LA's Tyree Reed (.266-29-82) won the AL version with Carson Williams finishing fourth and the Giants' Benny Montgomery was a close winner over Washington's Colby Backus after a .262-12-52, 2.0 WAR season.

Cy Young: It was unanimous!

Probably should take Comeback Player of the Year if OOTP awarded it after missing almost all of 2025 with injury. The NL winner was Pittsburgh's Bubba Chandler who had an impressive 8.5 WAR season that should have him high in the MVP race as well. Chandler was 15-7, 2.35 with 329Ks (!) in 218 IP and an 0.935 WHIP. Surprisingly he wasn't unanimous as Atlanta's Spencer Strider took 2 first-place votes.

MVP: Now that they're no longer teammates Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani can win MVPs in the same season and that's what they did this year. Trout took the AL nod with 19 first-place votes and 359 points, beating out our Wander Franco who finished with 6 and 271. Trout was .282-42-104 and led the league in OPS (.972) and WAR (8.0). EDLC was 6th and Mason Auer 7th in the balloting. Ohtani meanwhile was honored for his 2-way work with the Cardinals, hitting .253-40-102 with 3.6 WAR and going 14-11, 3.67 with 211 whiffs and 3.8 WAR as a pitcher. He received 17 first-place votes with Atlanta's Austin Riley finishing second.

Some big extension news:

November 17: Signed SP Shane McClanahan to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $108,800,000.

Probably going to regret this, but this was an owner goal and we have our ace (although some might say it's Taj Bradley now) locked up for 3 additional seasons as he was set to be a free agent next winter.

November 27: We lost our arbitration cases and as a result have $10M to spend on payroll. I've shopped Cal Mitchell but am not thrilled with the offers I'm receiving.

December 1: The Jung brothers are no longer teammates as the Rangers traded Josh to Minnesota.

December 2: Traded 26-year old 1B Ivan Melendez to the Minnesota Twins, getting 22-year old minor league C Andres Suarez in return.

Farewell to the Hispanic Titanic, we hardly knew ye. It turned out Melendez was in fact out of options and thinking it unlikely he makes the team I dealt him to open up a precious 40-man spot as well as acquire a semi-intriguing catcher prospect in Suarez. A 5th-round pick by Minnesota in 2025, Suarez has 65 contact and 50 power potential as well as 50 fielding potential, making him potentially valuable. He hit .263-17-71 in A ball in his first pro season as well.

December 5: Longtime Cardinal Tommy Edman is now a Met, traded for a prospect.

December 8: "The Big Dumper" is on his way to Houston as Seattle traded their catcher of the last several years to the Astros for a pair of prospects.

December 9: 36-year-old Zach Wheeler, whom we rented in 2024 before he signed a big contract with Boston, is now Motown-bound as the Sox shipped him to the Tigers for an OF prospect.

December 10: First big free agent signing of the winter as the Angels ink 2B Andres Gimenez to a massive 5/193 pact. Gimenez has averaged over 6 WAR the last three seasons so he certainly warrants it.

December 14: And in the biggest news of the offseason so far, two-way star and reigning NL MVP Shohei Ohtani, who opted out of his deal with the Cardinals, joins the Washington Nationals on a 5/170 deal.

December 18: After two years in St. Louis former Rays reliever Colin Poche signed a 1/5.3 deal with Texas.

December 20: Reliever Devin "The Airbender" Williams signed a 3/24 contract with Boston.

December 22: Added IF Cooper Kinney, 3B Willy Vasquez, SP Joel Diaz and RP Israel Mateo to the 40-man roster.

Kinney and Diaz were discussed in the previous post, Vasquez is a solid 3B option should anything happen to ELDC (although Masyn Winn would probably get first crack), and Mateo is a reliever with 75 stuff I don't want to lose in the Rule 5 Draft.

December 23: The Rule 5 Draft was kind of a dud with only six players taken, nobody from our organization.

December 28: Wyatt Langford, the #1 overall pick by Pittsburgh in 2023, was unceremoniously dealt to Philly for veteran pitcher Sean Newcomb and a middling prospect. Langford hasn't developed as hoped, now with 50 contact and 55 power potential and has hit 252/315/328 with only 3 homers in 352 AB over parts of the last two years with the big club.

December 29: Freddie Freeman signed a 2/48 extension with the Dodgers.

December 30: Former Ray Pete Fairbanks, who came back from injury and pitched well for Atlanta late last year, agreed to a 2/10 deal with the Phillies. The Phils also signed former Rays pitcher Yonny Chirinos for a year at $1.2M.

We also made an interesting signing:

Hirata was part of the international free agent class that came over last month and looks to be a potentially useful middle infielder with some pop and patience (albeit not much contact). We're kind of set on the infield with Wander/Carson/ELDC but depth is always good.

December 31: Some big signings as the year ends with former Rays Cy Young winner Blake Snell leaving San Diego for a 4/62 deal up the coast with Oakland, the Phillies continued to beef up their bullpen with top closer David Bednar (3/29), and longtime Astros starter Luis Garcia signed with Washington for 4/66 where he joins the other Luis Garcia, the Nats' star 2B.

07-26-2023, 07:35 PM	#68
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,943	2026-27 Offseason: Part 1 Starting off with the retirements: Notables: Kevin Gausman, Josh Donaldson, DJ LeMahieu, Salvador Perez, JT Realmuto, Marcus Stroman Former Rays: Christian Bethancourt, Ji-Man Choi, Joe Ryan, Calvin Faucher Financial News: Our market size increased to "below average" (from "tiny" I guess) and the payroll allowed by Stu Sternberg is $160M. Here is the salary situation with everyone making above the minimum listed: Keeping all of this crew adds to $152M but as mentioned in the previous post Jose Siri and Dylan Lee will be non-tendered so that brings it down to $137M. We have an extension offer out to Shane McClanahan that will add about $7M so we'll settling in around $144-145. A Mitchell trade could also clear most of that back however. Awards Season: Gold Gloves: None for us, although Brock Jones was jobbed out of the LF award. Reliever of the Year: Cleveland's Emmanuel Clase (49 saves, 1.41 ERA, 3.5 WAR) was a unanimous winner in the AL with our Garrett Cleavinger finishing fifth. Another veteran took the honors in the NL as Edwin Diaz took all but one first-place vote (mine! for AJ Minter) after a 41-save, 1.36-ERA season. Silver Sluggers: Wander (2B) and EDLC (3B) took home awards. Rookie of the Year: LA's Tyree Reed (.266-29-82) won the AL version with Carson Williams finishing fourth and the Giants' Benny Montgomery was a close winner over Washington's Colby Backus after a .262-12-52, 2.0 WAR season. Cy Young: It was unanimous! Probably should take Comeback Player of the Year if OOTP awarded it after missing almost all of 2025 with injury. The NL winner was Pittsburgh's Bubba Chandler who had an impressive 8.5 WAR season that should have him high in the MVP race as well. Chandler was 15-7, 2.35 with 329Ks (!) in 218 IP and an 0.935 WHIP. Surprisingly he wasn't unanimous as Atlanta's Spencer Strider took 2 first-place votes. MVP: Now that they're no longer teammates Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani can win MVPs in the same season and that's what they did this year. Trout took the AL nod with 19 first-place votes and 359 points, beating out our Wander Franco who finished with 6 and 271. Trout was .282-42-104 and led the league in OPS (.972) and WAR (8.0). EDLC was 6th and Mason Auer 7th in the balloting. Ohtani meanwhile was honored for his 2-way work with the Cardinals, hitting .253-40-102 with 3.6 WAR and going 14-11, 3.67 with 211 whiffs and 3.8 WAR as a pitcher. He received 17 first-place votes with Atlanta's Austin Riley finishing second. Some big extension news: November 17: Signed SP Shane McClanahan to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $108,800,000. Probably going to regret this, but this was an owner goal and we have our ace (although some might say it's Taj Bradley now) locked up for 3 additional seasons as he was set to be a free agent next winter. November 27: We lost our arbitration cases and as a result have $10M to spend on payroll. I've shopped Cal Mitchell but am not thrilled with the offers I'm receiving. December 1: The Jung brothers are no longer teammates as the Rangers traded Josh to Minnesota. December 2: Traded 26-year old 1B Ivan Melendez to the Minnesota Twins, getting 22-year old minor league C Andres Suarez in return. Farewell to the Hispanic Titanic, we hardly knew ye. It turned out Melendez was in fact out of options and thinking it unlikely he makes the team I dealt him to open up a precious 40-man spot as well as acquire a semi-intriguing catcher prospect in Suarez. A 5th-round pick by Minnesota in 2025, Suarez has 65 contact and 50 power potential as well as 50 fielding potential, making him potentially valuable. He hit .263-17-71 in A ball in his first pro season as well. December 5: Longtime Cardinal Tommy Edman is now a Met, traded for a prospect. December 8: "The Big Dumper" is on his way to Houston as Seattle traded their catcher of the last several years to the Astros for a pair of prospects. December 9: 36-year-old Zach Wheeler, whom we rented in 2024 before he signed a big contract with Boston, is now Motown-bound as the Sox shipped him to the Tigers for an OF prospect. December 10: First big free agent signing of the winter as the Angels ink 2B Andres Gimenez to a massive 5/193 pact. Gimenez has averaged over 6 WAR the last three seasons so he certainly warrants it. December 14: And in the biggest news of the offseason so far, two-way star and reigning NL MVP Shohei Ohtani, who opted out of his deal with the Cardinals, joins the Washington Nationals on a 5/170 deal. December 18: After two years in St. Louis former Rays reliever Colin Poche signed a 1/5.3 deal with Texas. December 20: Reliever Devin "The Airbender" Williams signed a 3/24 contract with Boston. December 22: Added IF Cooper Kinney, 3B Willy Vasquez, SP Joel Diaz and RP Israel Mateo to the 40-man roster. Kinney and Diaz were discussed in the previous post, Vasquez is a solid 3B option should anything happen to ELDC (although Masyn Winn would probably get first crack), and Mateo is a reliever with 75 stuff I don't want to lose in the Rule 5 Draft. December 23: The Rule 5 Draft was kind of a dud with only six players taken, nobody from our organization. December 28: Wyatt Langford, the #1 overall pick by Pittsburgh in 2023, was unceremoniously dealt to Philly for veteran pitcher Sean Newcomb and a middling prospect. Langford hasn't developed as hoped, now with 50 contact and 55 power potential and has hit 252/315/328 with only 3 homers in 352 AB over parts of the last two years with the big club. December 29: Freddie Freeman signed a 2/48 extension with the Dodgers. December 30: Former Ray Pete Fairbanks, who came back from injury and pitched well for Atlanta late last year, agreed to a 2/10 deal with the Phillies. The Phils also signed former Rays pitcher Yonny Chirinos for a year at $1.2M. We also made an interesting signing: Hirata was part of the international free agent class that came over last month and looks to be a potentially useful middle infielder with some pop and patience (albeit not much contact). We're kind of set on the infield with Wander/Carson/ELDC but depth is always good. December 31: Some big signings as the year ends with former Rays Cy Young winner Blake Snell leaving San Diego for a 4/62 deal up the coast with Oakland, the Phillies continued to beef up their bullpen with top closer David Bednar (3/29), and longtime Astros starter Luis Garcia signed with Washington for 4/66 where he joins the other Luis Garcia, the Nats' star 2B.