The Mets were a popular pick for outfielder George Springer before he signed a six-year, $150MM contract with the Blue Jays in January. Team president Sandy Alderson “suggested” on Monday that the Mets were willing to sign Springer for five years, not six, per Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. Alderson added that New York likely wouldn’t have been able to extend outfielder Michael Conforto had it signed Springer. “At some point, even Steve Cohen runs out of money,” Alderson said of the team’s owner. Conforto, who turned 28 today, is three years younger than Springer and coming off an even better season at the plate. He’s due to become a free agent next winter, but the Mets expect to begin talks on an extension sometime soon.
- With Springer no longer in Houston, the Astros appear likely to turn to Myles Straw at center field to open the season. If the Straw experiment doesn’t work out, though, it’s probable that Chas McCormick will be their fallback plan at the position, Jake Kaplan of The Athletic writes. The 25-year-old has a better chance to make the team than veteran outfielder Steven Souza Jr., whom the Astros signed to a minor league deal, as he’s already on their 40-man roster and capable of playing center, Kaplan notes. McCormick impressed during his most recent minors action in 2019, when he slashed .269/.386/.432 with 14 home runs and 16 stolen bases in 448 plate appearances between Double-A and Triple-A.
- Sticking with the Astros, ace Zack Greinke is entering the last season of his contract – his age-37 campaign – but is not thinking retirement, Brian McTaggart of MLB.com relays. Based on his performance in 2020, Greinke has plenty left in the tank. Although he posted a 4.03 ERA – one of the highest figures of his potential Hall of Fame career – Greinke registered a better 3.72 SIERA with a 24.5 percent strikeout rate and an elite 3.3 percent walk rate. Greinke also induced a fair amount of weak contact, evidenced in part by the 86.8 mph exit velocity hitters mustered against him.
Greinke not getting into the hall would be a crime
Agreed. I’m sure he’ll hit 3,000 Ks which should make him a lock for the Hall.
Easily one of the most underrated pitchers in baseball the last 20 or so years. He’s 88th in all time bWAR.
Greinke a career .225 hitter with 9 HR.
Traded for Cain Escobar and Odorizzi long time ago.
two time silver slugger and six time gold glover
That trade worked out pretty well for the Royals I’d say.
I know pitching wins don’t mean a whole lot, but if he pitches three more years (ages 37-39), he could conceivably be at 250 wins or more. I wonder if he would hang on and try to reach 300. It seems like a long shot, but Johnson pitched until he was 45 to get there.
I mean, yeah, pitching wins aren’t a great way to judge a pitcher, but it would be awesome to see another 300 game winner, potentially the last for a long, long time. Verlander is 74 away and only a year older and, like Greinke, has not shown many signs of slowing down.
Yeah other than the two major injuries he’s sustained the last couple years…
Yes, he’s injured now, but immediately prior to it (2019) he was literally the best pitcher in the AL. His last two full seasons were among his finest as a pro and his best strikeout seasons of his career. Wouldn’t put it past him to pitch for a while longer.
Greinke could never play another game again, and I think he’d still should be a no doubt HOFer
Grienke not getting into the hall would be a bigger crime than Rose betting on baseball. Over came bad anxiety early in his career, was shut down by the Royal and comes back the next year and wins the Cy Young award. Had he not been number 2 to Clayton Kershaw he would have likely won 2 more Cy Young awards. He’s won gold gloves, silver sluggers, and he can hit. Hall of famer if there’s ever been one.
Fred McGriff says “hold my beer”.
I thought Tom Emansky always held Mcgriff’s beer.
Tom Emanski thanks the heavens for Fred McGriff.
As for McGriff, it’s ridiculous that he’s not in.
I think Straw can be a perfect leadoff hitter. He had a .380 OBP through his first 138 plate appearances in the major leagues and .394 mark thoughout his minor legaue career. Plus he’s an extremely fast base runner. Good OBP+fast runner=lots of run scoring opportunities.
The asterisks, what a joke of an organization. They are & always will be the black Sox of the 21st century. They should be contrite & ashamed of themselves but they’re anything but. Pathetic.
two words. rent. free.
Tru dat!!
In fairness, I’d consider the loss of draft picks and IFA money rent.
And had they only beaten Cleveland, you wouldn’t care anywhere near your fake passionate level. But they beat your Yankees – the franchise that shamelessly outbid every other team for the most unapologetic anabolic cheaters of the generation if it meant another banner. Enjoy your flags, hypocrite.
They didn’t beat any of my teams and I care. I think the whole sign stealing scandal runs much deeper than just the Astros organization. The amount rich corporations potentially made betting on the rigged outcome is the number I want to know. The amount of money they printed off a rigging the world series could equal more than the entire US economy operates on in a year. Lets just keep that in mind, not who they beat, the fact that a world series was rigged to cash in on bets and nobody noticed cause they were all to busy arguing about the trophy
The isn’t FLAT people, that’s just NASA’S CLICKBAIT ASTRONAUTS
Hi Marjorie.
Thanks punk1, I will. Ahahanaha!
Lol I love these outraged fans that still have the Astros in their heads like this.
The MLB and teams don’t seem to care. Tigers called Hinch 30 minutes after the WS. Springer was signed for 6 years and $150 million. Marisnick has been traded for and signed by another team. Marwin Gonzalez might’ve been the player that gained the most from the sign stealing and he didn’t get boo’d in Minnesota and just signed with Boston.
Let it go people.
Crawl back in your hole from 5 yrs ago ya friggen johnny come lately. Sign stealing since 1876, or can you even read? Full of hate is all you are, bet you’re a real hoot at partys… This joke of an org has, and just keeps on winning no matter what kind of elementary schoolers poke their heads up to say.. “They should be contrite” LOL what a sissyboi.
Ahhh, did the ole riddler make little gosty cry because he said mean things about what a laughing stock your asterisks are. It’s ok, just run home & tell mommy all about it & stay off the grownup sites until you’re a big boi. Ahahaha!
I’ll ask again because I really am curious: Do you have the “Ahahaha!” as a copy and paste or do you type it out every single time?
It’s the Frank Gorshin laugh, it varies in length & I type it out.
Cohen’s worth $13B smh sell 30% of your hedge fund stock and you will never run out of money in fact he’ll make another $13B in 10 years with the remaining % and however much off the Mets.. Mets having a tough time luring free agents this year, maybe next year they do better.
This is why all owners should all shed payroll last, it’s never good enough for the simpletons. Guy spends insanely first year and it’s still not good enough. SMH.
So if Greinke puts up the *exact* numbers he did in 2020, in 2021, then what would a one year deal look like for him? Would he get 20 mil in free agency? 15-20?
1 year deal? 22-28M. 2+ years maybe 20 or under
As long as he’s healthy, teams will bank on him matching or beating his advanced numbers imo
In his age 38 season? 1 year 22-28 mil? In this climate? I’d be pretty floored
Dude. Cuz it’s Greinke and he always seems to get a “you’ve gotta be kidding me” number when it comes to payday, I could see him tacking on a 3yr/35aav/$105M deal to tKe him on through his age 40 season. Though, while the Yankees staff is and will be a tire fire, my contract prediction may be hampered by the fact that NYY/NYM are not on his list of suitors and thus a lack of biggest market competition may drive down his number but bit by more than $5-7Maav
Now imagine if the LAD hadn’t stuck with Puig over Greinke…cheese and rice!
Is it just me or does Zack Greinke look like a younger Adam Jones of Tool?
Have to say it – its just harder to hit for exit velo when the pitches you’re hitting are at 50 MPH. I mean that as a compliment to Greinke BTW.
And don’t come back at me with velocity numbers for him – its a joke.
Chances of Greinke or VERLANDER getting 300 wins are nil. You have a better chance of seeing the tooth fairy leaving money under you children’s pillows.
she’s quite elusive i hear
Verlander will have a new arm, and managers know he does not want to come out of the game. I can see him getting to 300.
I can’t believe Steve Cohen is already broke after owning the Mets for less than half a year.
he was defeated by Reddit
A lot of people who used Reddit for that are now having to work two jobs thanks to Cohen.
How did you come up with that lie.
Same way you lie about the Mets being a great team without proving it.
It’s very easy to look at stats and see why the Mets are a top 5 team. I could teach you math if you want.
The Mets are a last place team and Prison Steve is going broke. Little brothers forever..
Metsfan – team needs to prove it. They didn’t in 2020. Or 2019. Or 2018. Or…..
Your math fails to comprehend logic.
Mets are the best last place team ever.
Bc they had the same team….. bro stop…
How if the marlins are a lock for last place??
How many games are the Marlins finishing out of fourth place this year?
If you predicted that even in 60 games the Marlins would finish 15 games out of fourth place for 2020, I guess that calculates out to about 40 games out of fourth place in a 162-game seasons. Is that a correct number?
So, how many games out of fourth place will the Marlins finish this year?
6th year for Springer will likely be regrettable. Mets are better off with Conforto in the long run.
Betcha Greinke ends up in SF next year. Zaidi is loving his old Dodgers and SF will need an entirely new rotation.
Met’s are better off letting Lindor walk, getting a good pick, and then pursuing a different SS next year. He’s not going to perform at the 30+ million dollar level very long. Better off signing Story and reinvest those other funds
The real cheaters of 2021? The Mets getting Cano to take the fall so Cohen could still spend some money. Somebody do a real investigation and find out HOW they are paying Cano this year, just to keep his salary off the books. Just kidding, there are no real journalists any more.
Gee, why couldn’t Verlander juice the year before he goes running back to Hinch, so the Astros didn’t have to pay $33m?
A take so hot New England warmed up
Buddy, this isn’t 4chan or wherever you Qanon losers hang out now on the internet. Does your tinfoil go on top of the ball cap or do you wear the cap over top of it to conceal it?
Lol well that’s a weird hill to die on.