Struck him out. Marcus Stroman. What a job
and stroh with the shutout. Wow, you talk
about earning it, Stroman the ace of the staff
. Stro continues breaking news. Marcus Stroman reportedly agrees
to a deal with the Yankees a two year$37
million deal. According to John Haman, the last
few days they showed me were talking seriously with Stroman
. He has three or four other teams that were
interested in him. Uh The Yankees first investigated,
the Snell Montgomery sees their top targets to add to
the rotation and they made an offer for Blake Snell
. We reported earlier today. They were just very
far apart on the terms of the deal. Uh
Montgomery, they kind of felt that perhaps you'd like
to go back to Texas or go somewhere else and
cease. They were not close. C uh,
the White Sox wanted Spencer Jones and some other top
prospects with the Yankees. Yankees didn't want to do
that. So their options were fairly limited and they're
gonna turn to a New Yorker Long Island, uh
, product Marcus Stroman here was standing in the first
half of last year, has been generally a very
consistent pitcher over his career and really never has had
serious arm trouble right now. I mean, he
felt like their best option and they're gonna give him
that two year deal, as I said, for
37 million plus the investing options, strongman, they
like him because obviously good for the Mets. He
is from New York terrific competitor, great fielder and
like I said, no real history of any arm
issues. So that's a big these days, most
pitchers have some history of arm issue. He's been
around as long as he has and he's been very
consistent. I mean, his, er, a
is almost always below four and that's pretty consistent in
major league baseball these days. So a record one
year deal reportedly worth 31 million and avoids arbitration.
Is there any talk that perhaps they work out a
long term deal before he hits free agency? Yeah
, I don't see that. I mean, we
know that he had turned down, uh, 440
million, I believe it was with the NATS for
15 years, uh, a while back. I
mean, this is Scott Boris client. He's now
, uh, you know, months away from free
agency. So, uh, it's generally those kind
of players, uh, even lesser players they want
. So one of the certainly one of the best
five hitters in baseball, uh, they don't sign
, uh, at this stage. I mean,
you could give it a shot but I, I
don't know what the success rate would be, I
would say probably less than 1%. So, uh
, I think they could look forward to him being
a free agent and then certainly would be expected to
try to keep him in New York once the year
is over 1012 miles away at city. Feel pe
Alonso will be there with a agreement worth a reported
20.5 million of avoiding arbitration. So, same thing
. What's his future with the Mets short or long
? Same thing. Um He's gonna be a free
agent and they'll talk to him after the year.
I'm just like with, uh Aaron the judge and
a great slugger over, uh 10 or 12 miles
to the north at Yankee Stadium. Uh, they
wait to the end of the year, they ended
up getting it done at$360 million. Uh I
do think the Mets have a very good chance to
keep Alonzo long term and they do want to keep
them. I do believe that obviously there'll be other
teams interested. We know the Cubs like Alonzo very
much. I'm sure a lot of teams do since
he came into the league in 2018, he's hit
more home runs than anybody. So I, I
do believe the Mets will make an effort, but
it's gonna be at the end of the season,
uh, just as the Yankees effort with SOTO will
be at the end of the season, the Cubs
, get Michael Bush an infielder 26 years old and
there is a chance that he will take over at
first base, maybe some other infielder as well on
the other side, on third base, you know
, his track record is, is pretty impressive when
you look at what he's been able to do in
the minor leagues, look at him right now and
I'm looking at a guy who, uh, I'm
sure he's looking at it where it's, it's,
it's his time, right. He's gonna have a
chance to compete at third base. Uh Patrick Wisdom
is kind of starting to decline a little bit.
He's, he's looking at this now, this trade
, this is a big opportunity. He's probably been
waiting for this for a long time. He's been
waiting for the opportunity to get consistent at bats.
So I hope it happens for him and I hope
he takes advantage. John A reported this a couple
of days ago that the Cubs are involved as well
. We've talked a lot this off season already about
the Giants and the Blue Jays. Of course,
the Jays don't really have an everyday third baseman ready
to go if Chapman signs elsewhere. And so as
a result, coming back to Toronto was, is
a valid option as is the Giants because of course
, you've got that connection to Bob Melvin going back
many years to the Oakland Athletics, his hometown Houston
Astros and the New York Yankees. Both of them
expect to be in October. Both of them need
some late inning bullpen help or recall one of the
more important parts of the Yankees trade for Juan Soto
was they gave up a lot of pitching depth and
, and there was the thought that they were gonna
potentially have king in the rotation or maybe some help
in the bullpen, whatever the reason they need,
I think one more late inning guy for more on
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