Cleveland Venezuelans

[buckeyemania11]

I got a hunch Naylor is going to pan out. But even with counting him, the list of competent big league bats in the lineup would be 4. Dolan is avoiding spending on hitting like it is the plague.

I guess at least games will go by real fast this year with the amount of .220 and under hitters they will have in the lineup

 

[Trevi]

I guess at least games will go by real fast this year with the amount of .220 and under hitters they will have in the lineup

Maybe a title change to Cleveland Mario Mendozas?

 

[Steve19]

I don't really keep up with baseball. However, when I thought for a moment that Cleveland had taken on the name in the thread title, I nearly choked to death laughing.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

I don't really keep up with baseball. However, when I thought for a moment that Cleveland had taken on the name in the thread title, I nearly choked to death laughing.

FIFY
"Realmente no sigo el ritmo del béisbol. Sin embargo, cuando pensé por un momento que Cleveland había tomado el nombre en el título del hilo, casi me ahogo de la risa."

 

[NorthCoastKid]

 

[NFBuck]

That's a nice pick up. Need about three or four more like him...

 

[buckeyemania11]

Rosario is a great signing for these cheap asses. Especially if he plays like he did the 3 years before COVID

 

[buckeyemania11]

 

[Zippercat]

Rosario pickup won’t win many games with all the black holes in the lineup. But he won’t hurt the OF in the hitting department. Rosario hit 13 HR in 2020. Excluding Reyes (who only played 5 innings in LF in 1 game), the entire 2020 Indians OF together hit 11 HRs.

 

[mattynokes]

I'm impressed with the signing. I figured they'd opt to sign one or two has-beens to MiLB deals, hoping that they'd turn into Austin Jackson and when they inevitably flop like Domingo Santana go, "Well, we tried?"

 

[AKAK]

What? Something is wrong. Rosario actually knows ho w to hit a baseball. This can't be right!

 

[Bucklion]

Wow, shows the market movement in COVID times. 4 years ago, in the same situation, I bet he gets a multi-year deal for 15 or so

 

[AKAK]

Wow, shows the market movement in COVID times. 4 years ago, in the same situation, I bet he gets a multi-year deal for 15 or so

Well, go look at the deal JD Martinez got 4 years ago at age 29... And tell me they're super different dudes. (I mean I would give Martinez the edge but... I'd say its pretty close to your point... He got 5 years 100 million and some change)

 

[mattynokes]

Wow, shows the market movement in COVID times. 4 years ago, in the same situation, I bet he gets a multi-year deal for 15 or so

He had another season of team control and was a non-tender. In a normal year, he returns to MIN making his projected ~$8.5M-13M. What COVID did was make most of 50/50 non-tenders all but a given and the longshot non-tenders (like Rosario) had realistic chances of being let go. If a normal season was expected for 2021, I think a player like Tyler Naquin is given the benefit of a small sample size. He was due to only make ~$2M and when healthy, he's usually productive.

 

[Jake]

The Indians 26 man roster right now stands at $22,950,000

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/

This is dead last, and about $20 million behind Baltimore which is one spot ahead of us.

I wasn't joking when I said Bob Nutting would take that as a challenge. The title is now back with its rightful owner.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have once again taken the title of having the lowest payroll in baseball.