ASU Offseason Plan
YEAR OF CHANGE IF YOU THOUGHT MY PLAN POSTED ON OCT 20, 2014 WAS CRAZY JUST WAIT, AT LEAST MORE ARE AGREEING WITH MY PLAN FROM BACK THEN.
designing for 2018 and beyond
Arbitration-eligible
- Todd Frazier, $13.5M - Tender
- Brett Lawrie, $5.1M - Tender
- Avisail Garcia, $3.5M - Tender
- Miguel Gonzalez, $2.6M - Tender
- Dan Jennings, $1.2M - Tender
- J.B. Shuck, $1M - NT
- Jake Petricka, $900K - Tender
- Zach Putnam, $900K - Tender
- Daniel Webb, $600K - NT
Explain the toughest calls if necessary:
Contract options (pick up or buy out)
- Matt Albers: goodbye
Impending free agents (re-sign, let go or qualifying offer)
- Austin Jackson: Made $5 million in 2016. - no
- Alex Avila: Made $2.5 million in 2016. - no
- Justin Morneau: if reasonable yes
Free agents
No ian desmond he will make Melky look like a gold glover.
My goal with most of my free agents is to buy low and hope they rebound and trade them Obviously all these will noy happen but I will give it my best shot
No. 1 :AJ Pierzinski (2 years, $5M). First year he will help the pitchers 2nd year he will help Collins.
No. 2 : Norge Ruiz (5 years 35 million?????). Top international pitcher available
No. 3: Asdrubal Cabrera (2 years, 12M). To play second base
No. 4 : Doug Fister (1 years, $5M). Let Cooper fix him and trade at trade deadline
No. 5 : Carlos Beltran (1 years, $8M). DH him for half of year then trade him
No. 6 : Matt Thorton (1 years, $3M). Fix him then trade him
No. 7 : Jonathon Papalbon (1 years, $6M). Let Cooper fix him and trade him at deadline
No. 8: Andrew Cashner (2 years, $24M). Let Cooper fix him and keep him
No. 9 : Kurt Suzuki (2 years, $6M). First year he will help the pitchers 2nd year he will help Collins
No. 10 : Greg Holland (2 years, $10M). Let Cooper fix him and trade at trade deadline
No. 11 : Daniel Hudson (2 years, $8M).
No. 12 :Mark Bhurle(sp), (1year at 18M).
Trades -
do not trade for Jackie Bradley Jr he is KW's style fast but strikes out way to often
No. 1: Trade Chris Sale and Todd Frazier to the Boston Red Sox for Moncada, Benintendi, devers, Groome, Kopech and Travis.
No. 2: Trade Jose Abreu to the Cardinals for Matt Adams, Alex Reyes and Harrison Bader.
No. 3: Trade David Robertson to the Yankees for Jorge Mateo and Justus Sheffield.
No. 4: Trade Nate Jones, and Dan Jennings to the Cubs for Kyle Schwarber, Candelario and Ian Happ.
No. 5: Trade Jose Quintana, and Avisail Garcia to the Dodgers for Yasiel Puig, Urias, Bellinger, Calhoun and De Leon.
No. 6: Trade Melky Cabrera the Braves for Inciarte and Kolby Allard..
Summary
cC- PIERZINSKI AND SUZUKI
1ST - ADAMS
2ND - ASDRUBAL CABRERA
SS - ANDERSON
3RD - MATT DAVIDSON
UTIL INF - LAWRIE
DH - BELTRAN AND SCHWARBER
LF - INCIARTE
CF - EATON
RF - PUIG
UTIL OF - TILSON
SP - FISTER
SP- CASHNER
SP - RODON
SP - GONZALEZ
SP - SHIELDS
RP - THORNTON
RP - PAPELBON
RP - HOLLAND
RP - HUDSON
RP - BHURLE (SP)
RP - YNOA
RP - PETRICIKA
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