Major League Baseball’s offseason continues to trudge on. Let’s have a look at what’s cooking on the hot stove. Cardinals Make Strong Pitch For Arenado According to Bruce Levine of 670 AM The Score in Chicago, the St. Louis Cardinals are prepared to part with arguably their top prospect and three solid major leaguers in exchange for Colorado Rockies’ third baseman, Nolan...
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The New York Mets were hamstrung by their defensive inefficiencies behind the plate last season. Despite trotting out one of the most talented pitching staffs in baseball, general manager Brodie Van Wagenen and his staff clearly didn’t prioritize who was on the receiving end. Mets backstops ranked 17th in baseball last season (-5.1 FRM, FanGraphs’ framing statistic), with starter...
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According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, the St. Louis Cardinals have acquired left-handed pitching prospect Matthew Liberatore and minor league catcher Eduardo Rodriguez (per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic) from the Tampa Bay Rays for outfielders Jose Martinez and Randy Arozarena. Both teams swapped compensatory picks in this year’s draft, as well. Tampa will receive a Compensation A pick...
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On the latest episode of Simply Amazin, Tim Ryder is joined by FanGraphs senior writer and author of The Cooperstown Casebook, Jay Jaffe. In addition to Jay sharing his thoughts on a number of this year’s Hall of Fame candidates — Larry Walker, Scott Rolen, Todd Helton, Billy Wagner, Gary Sheffield, to name a few — he and Tim even squeezed a little Mets talk in there. Be sure...
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New York Mets All-Star Jeff McNeil, rehabbing from the broken ulna he suffered versus Miami on September 25, told Laura Albanese of Newsday he is “feeling good and I’m basically back to my normal offseason routine” following surgery in early-October, adding that the location of the fracture (“not really on the joint or where it flexes”) was beneficial to the healing...
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