I’m starting to get spring fever. We are halfway through February & spring training is kicking off. Despite the narrative of the Mets being cheap, they were actually one of the more active teams this offseason.
Vegas has the over/under win total at 80.5 which depends mostly on health. Also, the performance of Dom Smith & Rosario are crucial.
How optimistic are we fellow Met fans?
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I’m kind of hoping they will be available in 2 weeks still only because I’m frothing at the mouth to see how Harvey, Wheeler, Matz look with full offseasons, ect but they probably won’t be there still.
He's still only getting paid as a SP good for 1.0 fWAR or so per season. In theory he's a significant upside play at that rate. I don't think people are going to have their minds blown if he puts up 4.0ish fWAR over the next 2 with a value of over 30 million.
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Proves the market for pitchers never really crashed. Guys are still getting big bucks this offseason regardless of how long they’ve been holding out.
He's still only getting paid as a SP good for 1.0 fWAR or so per season. In theory he's a significant upside play at that rate. I don't think people are going to have their minds blown if he puts up 4.0ish fWAR over the next 2 with a value of over 30 million.
True. I just think this late in the offseason you’d think costs would be dropping but Darvish, Cashner, ect are still getting pretty much what was expected all along. I really hate Cashner’s peripherals so I’m glad we stayed away.
Nope and this is exactly why guys are waiting for better deals. They know once spring training begins that teams will be willing to offer more due to injury and poor performance.
Frazier is 32 years old. Based on his last 2 seasons he was worth 44 million however the expectation is a 32 year old is in decline or headed there. He's also a low average player which the market very rarely rewards.
Still time to turn it around but yeah his 2017 was remarkably bad. Huge 2018 for him.
Absolutely, he is underrated and a very solid back of the rotation SP especially at that price.
100% agree at this point.
Lol, was there plenty of SP depth last season?
Jamie Callahan?