MLBTR FA Predictions

[Backtobanks]

Of possible interest to NSBB:

Harper 420,000,000/14 Dodgers

Machado 390,000,000/13 Phillies

Kimbrell 70,000,000/4 Cards

Donaldson 20,000,000/1 Cards

Gonzalez 36,000,000/4 Twins

Britton 33,000,000/3 Astros

Robertson 33,000,000/3 Mets

Lowrie 30,000,000/3 A's

Miller 27,000,000/3 Red Sox

 

[highlight=yellow]McCutchen 45,000,000/3 CUBS[/highlight]

[highlight=yellow]Chavez 10,000,000/2 CUBS[/highlight]

[Cubswin11]

horsefeathering gross on McCutchen if he’s the only move. That doesn’t move any needles. If he’s part of the Bryce FU offseason, sure.

[UMFan83]

Hell horsefeathering no on McCutchen. Rather try to upgrade the roster through trades

[imb]

lol at the idea of paying mccutchen 45 million for what will probably be about 3 war over the lifetime of the deal

[Bertz]

McCutchen is one of my favorite players of all time, but hard pass. The Cubs offense is fine and still pretty young, so there's no reason to make a move just to make a move. Any move needs to move the needle. Obviously Bryce is the ideal, but if we miss on him go for one of the high risk/high reward guys in the second tier. Maybe that's AJ Pollack, who will give you 2/3s of a really great year each year. Maybe that's a pillow contract for Josh Donaldson. Maybe that's two high end relievers like Miller and Robertson. The team is not hurting for another "pretty good I guess" player (unless they can back up SS), Cutch solves nothing for this team.

[Post Count Padder]

I like Cutch as a person and he's a fine player but that's a move for the sake of making a move. He doesn't add much to the offense and his defense is about on par with Shwarber's now.

[Cubswin11]

The McCutchen signing is gross in the context of him being their loudest FA signing but he’d work great with Harper or Machado. Might even answer the leadoff question for a year or two

 

I actually find 2/10 for Chavez more gross

Yeah like I said McCutchen with Harper is fine. By himself awful. And if Chavez costs more than $3-4 million for 1 year no thanks

[d_money]

The predicted length of the Machado/Harper contracts is getting ridiculous.

[Cubswin11]

The predicted length of the Machado/Harper contracts is getting ridiculous.

I think both will get longer deals than they “should” because teams will add 1-3 years for LT purposes. 11 to 14 years makes a lot of sense for that.