It certainly means a draft pick after the second round when he turns it down and if he signs somewhere else
That scares me. He was removed from a game late in the season with forearm tightness. When he came back from the IL his ERA ballooned from 4.13 to 4.59 over his final 5 starts. The Rockies know his medicals better than anyone and weren't willing to give him a qualifying offer? Think I would pass. I also am not sure he is any better than Framber, Garcia, Urquidy, or Javier.
Gray is interesting but I think COL (who may know something we don't) was scared he'd take it, and they'd pay him $18.9M while he's hurt. DeSclafani is more interesting- underwhelming spin but excellent control. Doubt he breaks the bank.
Yuck. This is a guy with a WHIP over 1.33 in each of the last 4 seasons. His best-ever ERA (3.67 five years ago) and best-ever WHIP (1.26 six years ago) are worse than any of our top 4 starters (+ Javier) had this year. Of course he pitches at Coors Field, but his road stats over his career are actually worse than his home stats (ERA and WHIP). And this is in a league without a DH. We'd be paying a bunch of money to bench a starter who's likely better than him.
Carlos Rodon is not on this list. Very interesting. Rodon was on my radar of starting pitchers for the Astros. Perhaps the White Sox know something.
Hard pass on Rodon. His velocity tanked fast in his playoff start against the Astros, and he was outspoken about how much he hates the team. Let someone else deal with his injury concerns, especially with a limited sample size of elite performance.
There was also an Astro fan who DM’d him and told him his wife looks like Owen Wilson. Rodon responded and was really pissed off. The funniest part…. His wife does kinda look like Owen Wilson. I’d be shocked if he came here
https://theathletic.com/2941828/202...corey-seager-reds-wade-miley-mess-more-notes/ ... Yet, while the Rangers almost certainly will show interest in Story, they’re expected to cast the widest of nets. Manager Chris Woodward had Seager and Chris Taylor as a Dodgers coach from 2016 to ’18, and also coached Taylor with the Mariners. The leadership Correa showed with the Astros, meanwhile, might make him a candidate to become the face of the Rangers’ revival, like Alex Rodriguez was supposed to be when the Rangers signed him for $252 million in 2000. Of course, the Rangers will not bid in a vacuum. The Yankees and others will pursue Seager; the Tigers and others will be after Correa. Starting pitching also is a priority for Texas — Dane Dunning is the team’s only returning pitcher who threw more than 100 innings as a starter last season — and other holes exist throughout the roster. The good news is, the Rangers possess the payroll flexibility to at least take a significant step forward. ...
Are the Rangers really in the position to be adding the truly higher priced players from a “ready to compete” standpoint? If they’re trying to follow the Astros model, they would add some veterans (Astros added Lowrie, traded for Gattis, signed Feldman, eventually signed Neshek/Gregerson)… but obviously have a stable of homegrown promotions that are expected to be the cornerstone/true impact players. Granted, the more frivilous they are… or if they want to trade some of those prospects for established players in the attempt to “win now”, I don’t think the Astros would be all that concerned.
