The Britton injury may just seal the deal on a Machado trade, unless BAL really thinks they can resign him. Also, I agree with sealclubber: it looks like we're just doing our due diligence on Darvish. I think we're just testing the waters to see where his playoff performance leaves his value because why not. Maybe Luhnow sees an opportunity if the price is right. I've always liked Darvish, certainly would not scoff if we signed him, though that would seemingly cement Kuechel's exit. Only way I see us signing Darvish is if its, say, a 1yr rebound contract or something in the 90-100mm range...that said, I highly doubt either of those occur, and I think Yu will end up in the 120-130mm range. Edit: wow, surprised that's all it took to get Longoria. #1 #25 and #29 prospects and offloading contract. Wonder what it would take to land Archer...They're probably insisting on at least 1 of Tucker/Whitley + Martes + Fisher + lotto ticket. Seems to be going rate for a ToR arm.
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Translation: We would rather spend the money on someone else, thanks for the interest Jay and we hope you and your family have a nice holiday season.
think we'd resign correa in 2022? wish machado was a free agent same time as correa.. lol hoping the Yankees don't poach correa in 2022..
Orioles don't want him getting flipped to NY so they need a team that will contend all year. There is no safer place to trade Machado than to Houston.
Would rather trade for a LH hitting LF, a starter with multiple years left on a contract, a backup/Future 2019 starting catcher, elite LH reliever or elite closer rather than another right hand hitting infielder, who at best is a slight upgrade to the best group of infielders in baseball and who will command 150-200 mil from some other team in free agency next winter.
Bregman would be a big upgrade to left and better than any LH LF available besides Yelich (LF isn't what it once was). Yelich would be much more expensive than Machado. If Astros can get Yelich, they should do that. Starter would be much more expensive than Machado. If Astros can do that at a reasonable price, Astros should do that. If there is a catcher available that helps more, Astros should do that. If Orioles are truly interested in trading Machado and Astros can't do the above things, Astros should make a reasonable offer considering he is a one year player. Rental players don't cost what they did back in the day.
Not sure why Orioles are expecting teams to cough over big names for Machado if they don't let teams try and negotiate terms to an extension. Dumb team that blew their load on Chris Davis and now get to watch Machado leave for nothing or pennies on dollar (assuming they maintain position on extension talks). I'd offer them Moran, Fisher, and McHugh.
Orioles know they are trading 1-year of Machado as Machado won't do an extension. No reason to waste everyone's time. No reason for the Orioles to give a team a chance to back out of a deal by giving them a 3 day window that doesn't benefit the Orioles.
How about Gattis and not spending unneccesary amounts of cash trying to improve a lineup that’s already by far the best in baseball and instead saving that money to keep Altuve, Correa, Springer and Bregman around
