While rumored to be in splashy trade talks, the Reds have been active on the margins.
Cincinnati Reds
... till throw an occasional changeup, but he has largely shelved the curve. The Reds only have two other lefties on their 40-man ( Amir Garrett and Wade Miley), ...
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Houston signed a part-time catcher, but there's some chance that they'll get more than that given Castro's exciting batted ball metrics in 2019 and 2020.
Houston Astros
... ikely to replicate his ludicrous success from the end of his career with the Astros — he was 16.1 framing runs above average in 2016, the third-best mark in the ...
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Houston Astros
... 5M). Given the contract they just gave Brantley, it is fair to wonder if the Astros wish they had made him a qualifying offer instead. The club is now about $15 ...
Toronto Blue Jays
... ons still available and potential needs in the infield and the rotation, the Blue Jays didn’t have to have him. Where he plays is less of an issue for the Astros, ...
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Toronto Blue Jays
... row 25/55 50/55 25/50 50/40 40/45 55 After his dominant 2018 in the DSL, the Blue Jays pushed the physically mature Hiraldo right past the GCL and sent him to the ...
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Houston Astros
... Springer has escaped some of his former team’s sign-stealing stigma, how the Astros stack up post-Springer, the Cubs’ soft-tossing, poorly projected rotation, t ...
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Chicago Cubs
... g Eloy Jiménez and, to a lesser extent, Dylan Cease, two of the players the Cubs exchanged for Quintana. Jiménez is already terrorizing pitchers in the major ...
Chicago White Sox
... naged a 4.03 ERA, 4.43 FIP and 1.7 WAR. His 2019 season looked more like his White Sox days, as he posted 3.5 WAR, a 3.80 FIP and a 4.68 ERA, the latter of which w ...
Los Angeles Angels
... hat is Los Angeles, which is perpetually in search of quality pitching help. Angels starters had the second-worst ERA in baseball in 2020 after missing out on t ...
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Chicago Cubs
... an additional facet of Mr. Lester going to Washington: he’ll join several ex-Cubs. Nationals manager Dave Martinez and pitching coach Jim Hickey both spent ti ...
New York Mets
... 2) via our Depth Charts, but their NL East rivals aren’t standing still. The Mets have added Carlos Carrasco and Joey Lucchesi and will get Marcus Stroman and ...
Washington Nationals
... well below average over the past two seasons according to multiple metrics: Nationals’ Infield Defense, 2019-20 Player Pos Innings UZR/150 DRS/150 OAA/150 Josh Be ...
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New York Yankees
... rrent playoff structure. After all, the Rays just traded Blake Snell and the Yankees have a rotation that’s very reliant on Gerrit Cole. Even if the Jays don’t d ...
Toronto Blue Jays
... wins, even over the first season — he’s not quite a five-win player, and the Blue Jays weren’t Rockies-bad in the outfield — but he does add just a hair under four ...
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New York Mets
... Cubs in 2016, Porter’s subsequent firing by the Mets, Mets president Sandy Alderson’s comments about Porter’s hiring, the limitations o ...
Starter? Reliever? Swingman? How Toronto uses Chatwood remains to be seen, but there's upside in that arm regardless.
Toronto Blue Jays
... rotation spot, Chatwood’s competition for replacing them will be stiff. The Blue Jays have 15 pitchers in their organization who have started a game in the majors ...
Kurt Suzuki fits Los Angeles' needs but is an unambitious move for a large-market team.
Los Angeles Angels
... ts will do anything to alter such a calculation. As noted above, we have the Angels with a luxury tax number at a skosh under $180 million, putting the team abo ...
Pérez was too close to the front of Boston's rotation last year. Now he's back to fill out the middle.
Boston Red Sox
... back of a rotation, the real question is how much closer to the front of the Red Sox rotation he’ll be in 2021. Between the departure of Rick Porcello via free a ...
Los Angeles Dodgers
... 6.7 .365 86.4 8 Aaron Civale Indians 113 388 29.1 .371 86.7 9 Walker Buehler Dodgers 104 571 18.2 .340 86.8 10T Kenley Jansen Dodgers 151 220 68.6 .357 86.9 Adam ...
