Bob Sacamano

What doesn't add up exactly?

It's not suggesting they get both haha one or the other. My point above was if you want to sign one to a $300m deal and he signs somewhere else, you should have interest in the other. Both would be great additions.

Why? It's November 5th. These guys aren't signing today. And probably not this month.

If you're interested in paying for one, you might as well be interested in the other if your preferred player signs somewhere honestly.

Only thing that sucks about front loading the deals is it gives the player more incentive to opt-out later since he could probably get more. And this deal will have opt outs.

Also helps the Mariners offered significantly more than the Yankees, who had the second best offer.

I haven't seen anything suggesting they might rebuild. Link?

There's no talk of the Indians rebuilding. You don't rebuild with 4 good starters and Lindor and Ramirez. That's a good start. They just need to re-tool a bit. Making a few players available to gauge interest to try to improve other areas =/= rebuilding.

No.

I'm saying if you play those 3 and Gardner in the same lineup outside of Hicks.

I've been saying it for a while. Harper doesn't really make sense since they would have no CF playing all 3 (Harper, Stanton, Judge) and Gardner.

I definitely prefer Machado to Harper, but if Machado signs first, I definitely want Harper. Hell, like someone else said if they sign Harper, try to grab Donaldson on a high salary 1 year deal pillow deal.

I think the Phillies trading one of Franco/Crawford (3B/SS) means they just signed Machado a week or two prior.

Can we please stop throwing Moncada in CF for the 2019 season when there has been literally nothing to suggest he will be out there (yet)?

Yeah I just saw it on MLBtr, per the Tweet above.

Source? I just don't see why he wouldn't opt out if that were the case. He's 30 and could likely do better (maybe not as high of an AAV but could definitely get about 6 years I would think. Or at the very least, front load it the first 3 years since the luxury tax hit is the AAV anyway.

Dodgers nearing extension with Kershaw...any guesses?

We definitely need strides out of Giolito next year.

That's a guy I think the Indians should move to the pen. Their rotation would still be good (assuming no one is traded). Kluber, Carrasco, Bauer, Clevinger, Bieber.

Man, would they get a haul for Kluber. Carrasco should bring back something nice. I personally don't see them getting traded.

Ah yeah. I was off a year in my Joe Kelly guess.

Smyly is a decent gamble, especially for a team in need of pitching depth. His contract is similar to Eovaldi where he got 2 years even though he was going to miss the first year. Having a full off-season to work with, Rangers may be able to move him somewhere else. Who knows.

Who is the other one then? Without looking it up, my guess is Joe Kelly.

This is my guess.

World Series roster or just the roster in general (Pedroia)?