The slow FA market bit Todd Frazier hard. He was projected by MLBTR to get a 3 year/$33 M contract from someone, but yesterday settled with the Mets for 2 years/$17 M. Ouch! Now, before you go all THE GIANTS COULD HAVE...... Evan Longoria's hit on the Giants CBT is a lot less than $8.5 M THIS YEAR and THIS YEAR is apparently all the Giants care about in terms of the CBT. Of course, they are so close to the threshold now, it's anybody's guess whether they will actually stay under it or not and it's hard to see how going over by $1 is much better than going over by $10 M.
The Giants need dingers and Frazier would likely give them a lot more of those than Longoria, but there is also risk that the dingers would disappear in AT&T and they'd be left with a .220 BA and 15 dingers, but just for 2 years.
The biggest news out of this is the FA and stock market officially crashed on the same day. This signing is very bad news for the remaining FA's in the 2017-18 market.
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Mets signed Jay Bruce and Todd Frazier, Giants traded for Longoria and McCutchen. Should be interesting to see how those two duos perform in 2018.
ReplyDeleteI will take Cutch and Longo over those 2 every day of the week.
DeleteGood call. But I'd also take Cutch and Longo in 2018... and 2019.
DeleteA third Anon:
DeleteBruce and Frazier will be better FOR THE METS than Longoria and McCutchen would have been, and vice versa for the Giants.
Comparisons are difficult but NY's improvement over 70-92 v SF's improvement over 64-98 will most likely depend on what the pitchers do.
Signing McCutchen over Bruce kept the Giants marginally in the race for Harper next year. Shedding Pence, McCutchen, Dyson, and Sandoval would be enough but there are scheduled raises (and reductions in $$ offsets on trades) that will squeeze the available funds, but over $30MM/year could be available -- but not with Bruce!
ReplyDeleteBruce contract, btw, is $13MM/yr and would make signing Harper all but impossible without shedding Belt or Crawford.
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