The 2018 Major League Baseball Player Chatter, News and Fantasy Thread.

[koz-man]

David Price to decline option to become free agent, will stay with Red Sox


BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox left-hander David Price reaffirmed that he will stay with the team he helped lead to a World Series title.

He announced on the field at Fenway Park before a victory parade Wednesday that he was declining a contract option that would have enabled him to become a free agent.

Price, 33, who also said in September that he didn't plan on opting out of his deal for 2019, said he came to Boston to win, and that's what the Red Sox did.

He will earn $127 million over the next four years under the seven-year, $217 million contract that he signed with Boston before the 2016 season. He has gone 31-19 with a 3.74 ERA in three seasons with the Red Sox.

[cincinnatikid513]

David Price to decline option to become free agent, will stay with Red Sox


BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox left-hander David Price reaffirmed that he will stay with the team he helped lead to a World Series title.

He announced on the field at Fenway Park before a victory parade Wednesday that he was declining a contract option that would have enabled him to become a free agent.

Price, 33, who also said in September that he didn't plan on opting out of his deal for 2019, said he came to Boston to win, and that's what the Red Sox did.

He will earn $127 million over the next four years under the seven-year, $217 million contract that he signed with Boston before the 2016 season. He has gone 31-19 with a 3.74 ERA in three seasons with the Red Sox.

i wonder why he's declining that option, maybe because no way in hell any other team would pay him 30 plus mil a year

[mr. leisure]

i wonder why he's declining that option, maybe because no way in hell any other team would pay him 30 plus mil a year

Bingo , you nailed it !!!

[JMobile]

Clayton a dodger for life for sure.

Is that confirmed?

[BigSpoon]

i wonder why he's declining that option, maybe because no way in hell any other team would pay him 30 plus mil a year

The price is right for David for sure.

[batt33]

Clayton a dodger for life for sure.

would make sense dodgers like spending foolish money..

[Mr KLC]

Thank you to Brian McCann. He only played 2 years for the Astros, but he helped these kids grow up with his leadership. Good luck!

[EmpireMaker]

The Dodgers announced tonight that they’ve agreed to push back the deadline on Clayton Kershaw’s opt-out decision until Friday afternoon at 4pm ET. The original agreement in his contract was that he’d have three days after the end of the World Series, meaning a decision would have been due tonight. Kershaw has two years and $65MM remaining on his contract but has the right to opt out and enter the free-agent market.
There’s been persistent speculation that the two sides would simply reach an agreement to extend Kershaw’s current contract by a year or two, and it’s possible the extension of the deadline window was agreed upon with that very outcome in mind. Kershaw’s opt-out provision comes toward the end of what was at the time a record-setting seven-year, $210MM deal — the largest ever for a pitcher when he put pen to paper. (David Price has since topped that sum with a seven-year, $217MM deal.)
It’s long seemed logical that if an extension can’t be worked out, Kershaw would be able to earn more than that $65MM sum by opting out and testing free agency. While he’s spent time on the DL in each of the past three seasons, primarily due to back issues, he’s remained among the game’s most talented arms when healthy enough to take the field. And for all the talk about his durability since his initial back injury in 2016, Kershaw has averaged 25 starts and 162 innings per season (191 innings per season when factoring in the playoffs).
Kershaw, 30, has notched a ridiculous 2.26 ERA in that three-year stretch, and while he had a “down” season in 2018 by his Cooperstownian standards, he still pitched to a terrific 2.73 ERA with a sensational 155-to-29 K/BB ratio in 161 1/3 innings of work. Even a somewhat diminished Kershaw is among the most talented pitchers on the planet and would figure to command well in excess of $65MM in total on a free-agent contract. Perhaps that’d come with a lesser average annual value, but certainly in terms of overall contract value, his earning power outpaces the remainder of his contract.
Friday marks the formal end of the exclusive negotiating window that teams have with their own impending free agents. Even if Kershaw had opted out tonight, then, he would only have been able to further talk with the Dodgers for the next two days. Viewed through that lens, it’s somewhat natural to delay the deadline, as the only team he’d have been talking to for the next 48 hours is the Dodgers. Still, it’s easy to view this as a show of good faith from both sides that the two will eventually work something out.

[cincinnatikid513]

i think kershaw will opt out and become a free agent, prob signs a longer deal with the dodgers taking less money per season but gets more guaranteed money if he plays out this deal that's 2 more years he could decline ever further and cost himself lots of money

[BarkingToad]

Mad Bum for $12M in 2019 was a no brainer.

Exactly, probably still lowest paid starter on team.

[El Nino]

i think kershaw will opt out and become a free agent, prob signs a longer deal with the dodgers taking less money per season but gets more guaranteed money if he plays out this deal that's 2 more years he could decline ever further and cost himself lots of money

Yep. Always go for more years. He will get injured.

[Chi_archie]

Jung Ho Kang and Josh Harrison gonna be on the free agent market

[batt33]

i think kershaw will opt out and become a free agent, prob signs a longer deal with the dodgers taking less money per season but gets more guaranteed money if he plays out this deal that's 2 more years he could decline ever further and cost himself lots of money

That would be the smart move.....

[koz-man]

Will be counting down to Spring Traing soon....

[ApricotSinner32]

Good luck today boys I need a fuking winner.

[JMobile]

Where will Machado go?

[yisman]

Machado posted a farewell to the Dodgers.

One team reportedly said they will not consider Machado due to his antics.

[Mr KLC]

Cubs might make a trade to clear salary before picking up Hamels’ $20M option, sources tell The Athletic. At this point, a long-term deal for Hamels is unlikely. If Cubs decline option and make Hamels a free agent, #Rangers will pay his $6M buyout. But goal is to keep him.

[Cross]

Crossing my fingers hoping Cubs get Harper and not Machado. Why is it so hard for him to run out a grounder?

[cincinnatikid513]

i always heard machado really wanted to play for the yankees

[jrgum3]

i always heard machado really wanted to play for the yankees

This is where I think he’ll wind up. We all know the Yanks will try to add another slugger so I see them going after Machado.

[ApricotSinner32]

Fuking pelicans dunking my ass...

[EmpireMaker]

8:34pm: Morosi now tweets that Ramirez is indeed already going through the waiver process.
8:24pm: Right-hander Erasmo Ramirez is “likely” to be removed from the Mariners’ 40-man roster either via waiver claim or by clearing outright waivers and electing free agency, reports MLB.com’s Jon Morosi (on Twitter). That would suggest that Ramirez, 28, has already been placed on outright waivers, as both of those outcomes involve the team attempting to pass him through the waiver process.
Ramirez has split his career to date between the Mariners and Rays organizations, enjoying success at times with both team but struggling mightily in the most recent season. The Nicaraguan-born righty rejoined the Mariners in 2017 after being traded back to Seattle from Tampa Bay and threw quite well for his original club down the stretch. The 2018 campaign, however, was another story entirely. Ramirez was clobbered for a 6.50 ERA in 45 1/3 innings, allowing a stunning 14 home runs in that brief time while working with a diminished strikeout rate.
MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz had projected Ramirez to earn $4.4MM via the arbitration process this winter, even spite of those alarming struggles, making him a clear non-tender candidate. Rather than waiting until the non-tender deadline at the end of the current month, it seems the Mariners are opting to remove Ramirez now. If he clears, which seems likely, he’ll elect free agency, and the early outright will have granted him some additional time to explore the open market in search of a new opportunity.
For all of Ramirez’s struggles he’s not far removed at all from being a useful big league arm. In 385 1/3 innings from 2015-17, the righty worked to a 3.97 ERA with 7.0 K/9 against 2.3 BB/9. Ramirez was bothered by a teres major strain in 2018, spending more than three months on the disabled list with that injury, so with a return to health in 2019 he could be an affordable rotation option or long reliever for a new organization.

[Otters27]

Thank you to Brian McCann. He only played 2 years for the Astros, but he helped these kids grow up with his leadership. Good luck!

Got the guys Autograph once. Very down yo earth guy

[Chi_archie]

Cubs might make a trade to clear salary before picking up Hamels’ $20M option, sources tell The Athletic. At this point, a long-term deal for Hamels is unlikely. If Cubs decline option and make Hamels a free agent, #Rangers will pay his $6M buyout. But goal is to keep him.

Interesting

[koz-man]

Where will Machado go?

Phillies??

[batt33]

Kershaw 3 years 93 million

[JMobile]

Kershaw 3 years 93 million

Dodgers wanna win.

[Mr KLC]

Dallas Keuchel: "I would love to be back. I've made that known since day one.The frustrating part is that it's been 7 years to do so. Now it's my time to take a step back & realize that this is a business & sometimes my family takes precedence over certain situations"

[yisman]

Kershaw 3 years 93 million

Dodgers are insane. His velocity is noticeably down and they're giving him 31 million a season?

No way any team on the open market would pay him that.

[Cross]

Kershaw for 31 million a year. Crazy.

[cincinnatikid513]

who's going to give dallas kuechel big money hmm

[EmpireMaker]

I never would if I were a GM.

who's going to give dallas kuechel big money hmm

[ApricotSinner32]

What a collapse by the twolves ffs........

[jrgum3]

The Dodgers are nuts paying Kershaw 31 mil a year but I kind of expected it from them. He probably wanted to stay all along and knew he wouldn't get as much on the open market than what the Dodgers were willing to pay him.