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Cleveland Guardindians (2023 Season)

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Zippercat said:
Brantley made about $16M while mostly not playing for Houston last year. MLB Trade Rumors projected him to sign for 1 yr/$15M for ‘23; FanGraphs 1 yr/$10M. Big spread! But can you see Cleveland even spending $5M for a 4th OF/DH?

Maybe they can send a SS to the Twins?

Here’s the current 40 man roster:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLE/2022-roster.shtml

Couple of names on there that are not too familiar, like Noel, Brito and Tena. Seriously, everyone knows Cleveland still has a 40 man crunch with too many infield prospects. If they’re patient other teams can probably get a couple of those guys when they’re DFA between now and June. To trade the IN prospects Cleveland will need to include a pitcher or Rosario in the deal. If they make a trade big enough to pry a pitching prospect away from Cleveland it would likely need to be for a back of the rotation starting pitcher.

I think they will sign another C or two, but to minors with invite deals, for depth. It would be a very rare Winter if they don’t find a couple dumpster dive pitcher projects that come in on minors with invite deals too.
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Noel is a big power prospect. Hit 32 HR between A+/AA/AA last year (also was in the futures game) but only hit .229. He is somewhat highly regarded by some however, only 21 and his best numbers in 2022 were in AA where he is a young AAer. His future is probably at 1B/DH. He has the same problems as a lot of these big power prospects we see now, pretty bad plate disciple, doesn't take many walks with a not good strikeout rate.

I don't know much about Brito, he is another 2B/SS guy they just got from the Rockies for Nolan Jones. He had a nice season in A ball in Colorado's organization last year but wasn't rated amongst their top prospects.

Tena pretty much fits the same mold as Brito, nice minor league #s but not very highly regarded (MLB.com had Tena as our #16 prospect in their end of the year rankings, hes about 4th/5th down the 2B/SS line depending on who you ask). Both of them should be expendable.
 
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AKAK said:
Yeah. Had to clear the spot and probably better utility guys running out of options
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Miller’s best position is 3B, so when Jose signed his extension Miller was tried elsewhere. He spent much of ‘22 at 1B and was not very impressive: horrible footwork and gator armed trying to catch imperfect throws. His range on ground balls was better than Josh Naylor’s, but that’s not exactly high praise either.
 
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#99 should have been Ricky Vaughn (aka Wild Thing).

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cdiddy70 said:
Don't pelt me with empties.

Anybody down for making a run on Bauer on a prove it deal?
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Don't think a prove it deal is an option. He's under contract for 2023 with the Dodgers. The Dodgers DFA'd him, so he can either be traded (highly doubtful, with the team taking up owing the contract) or release him. If someone picks him up, they are only obligated to pay him the minimum, which would relieve the Dodgers of that amount from what he's owed. No matter what, he's due the roughly $22 mil owed by the Dodgers, no more. The way he left Cleveland, very very unlikely that they would take him back at any amount.
 
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cdiddy70 said:
Don't pelt me with empties.

Anybody down for making a run on Bauer on a prove it deal?
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I think somebody will do just that and get rewarded for it. Bauer is smart enough to know he has to shut up and put up for the ‘23 season. But, I think (a) Tito had enough of Bauer and might retire if they signed him, and (b) the guys who brought you the bland “Guardians” new name last year don’t have courage to take the PR/political hit that will come with a Bauer hire right now.
 
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