2019-20 MLB Running Hot Stove Thread

They didn’t give him a qualifying offer.

 

For fuck’s sakes. I completely missed that part. Sorry.

 

Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich have an article in The Athletic about the Astros stealing signs electronically in 2017. I believe Drellich was in Houston for a few years. Not certain that 2017 was one of them.

The Astros stole signs electronically in 2017 — part of a...

The discussion at BTF:

BBTF's Newsblog Discussion :: The Astros stole signs electronically in 2017 | The Athletic (paywall)

 

Straight from Philly, Giants name tanning booth as new manager.

 

Did Kapler actually earn some respect from baseball insiders during his time at Philly? I'm curious what the Giants roster will look like next year - they'll go with a reboot or a remodel on the fly.

 

Boone lost to Baldelii. Even as a Sox fan I think that’s a mistake; yeah, they had more talent, but the Yankees in regular season cranked along with all their injuries. They almost always give these plaudits to skips with low money rosters. A kind of soft toss — bc the chances they would actually win a title are null, but thanks for playing. Bonne and his savages — lol — got robbed.

 

Right now, on the fly. After the winter meetings, could be a rebuild. Farhan works in mysterious ways.

Of course, Bay area Twitter is up in arms for his handling of an incident involving a young girl in spring training when he was with the Dodgers. Poison pens are out already, I'm sure.

 

They have some young pieces but old legacies and a possible rotation without Bum could mean they are trying to piece this together as they go.

I don't know why Kapler. Sure he ticks Zaidi's boxes, but he couldn't get it done in Philly with a decent roster and has an iffy record with reporting violence against women in an area of the country where even a sniff of iffy is enough to have people want you gone.

 

I don't know how anybody could look at what the Yankees lost -- and especially the no-names they replaced them with -- and say that wasn't the best managing job of the year.

 

Yep, no big deal how he handled things.

 

Iffy for sure. I don't understand this hire for that and other reasons, especially since he was fired in Philly after just two seasons.