Click’s comments yesterday combined with previous rumors makes me think they feel very confident on Verlander and that after signing him they are going to be opportunistic on adding pitching and that if they do it’ll be a swap of an existing guy like Odo Urquidy or Javier for an upgrade.
Quite the opposite. Seems to me they are hyping Verlander up so he goes elsewhere and we get that compensation pick
There’s no logical scenario in which a team offers a player a QO and doesn’t want him. Any team that extends a QO hopes he accepts it and obviously thinks the player is worth more than the QO amount.
Verlander likely will go to the highest bidder (or reasonably close to it). To me the language from Click and Crane this week indicates that Houston expects to be that team.
I agree that they think they are definitely in the mix based off of the way Click spoke. I also took Crane’s comments about verlanders “golf swing” to be quite interesting. Crane and Click at least appear to be somewhat confident that JV is coming back.
Luhnow did not offer Rasmus the QO in some odd hope that he’d reject it. They thought he was worth it (they were wrong).
They thought he would reject it like almost every (if not every) free agent before him. Granted, my mind reading is as poor as yours, but these are the things I heard around the time he signed.
They definitely didn't think he was worth $18M...they banked on him declining because he was older and they thought he would try getting a 3 or 4 year deal (like 4/$50) with someone while he still could.
I saw the rumors on here at the time too, but I can’t believe y’all actually believe that. Jeff Luhnow extending an offer thinking “gosh, I hope he rejects this! He’s definitely not worth this price.” That’s ridiculous.
I worry about Verlander coming back. He seemed to have a resurgence when he came to Houston and I don't know how much of that was sticky substance related. He is also coming back from a major injury.
Wendle makes more sense as another backup option in case Pena can’t hack it or in case they want to play Diaz as the everyday SS. But he’s a very solid versatile player who could help raise the floor.
The next cost-cutting Cincinnati Reds domino to fall As the Reds continue in their epic quest to ‘align their payroll to their resources,’ it’s clear that carving off pieces of this once-promising roster just two years after a five-year run of the roster being a complete disaster is the priority for this ownership group. Not winning, not living up to the legacy of the previous hundred years of sport, but trying to make the most ******* money they possibly can at the expense of winning, at the expense of their fans. More is coming. You just know it. The other teams certainly know it. They’re circling like vultures already, and as Jon Morosi of MLB Network reported on Wednesday morning, wheeler-dealer extraordinaire Jerry Dipoto is the latest, with the Seattle Mariners having interest in Reds ace Luis Castillo - a player who has been good enough for long enough to actually be owed around $7.5 million for the upcoming season. https://www.redreporter.com/2021/11...ti-reds-rumors-luis-castillo-seattle-mariners
It does not speak well of this organization if it even momentarily considers playing Diaz everyday at SS.
