According
to www.MLBTR.com , the following are the outfielders
available
in the upcoming free agent season:
Left
Fielders
Melky
Cabrera (35)
Lonnie
Chisenhall (31)
Corey
Dickerson (31)
Derek
Dietrich (30)
Brett
Gardner (36)
Alex
Gordon (36) — $23MM mutual option with a $4MM buyout
Curtis
Granderson (39)
Matt Kemp
(35)
J.D.
Martinez (32) — can opt out of remaining three years, $62.5MM
Marcell
Ozuna (29)
Gerardo
Parra (33)
Hunter
Pence (37)
Center Fielders
Peter
Bourjos (33)
Jarrod
Dyson (35)
Billy
Hamilton (29) — $7.5MM mutual option with a $1MM buyout
Austin
Jackson (33)
Jon Jay
(35)
Adam
Jones (34)
Juan
Lagares (31) — $9.5MM club option with a $500K buyout
Starling
Marte (31) — $11.5MM club option for 2020 with a $2MM buyout
Leonys
Martin (32)
Cameron
Maybin (33)
Chris
Owings (28)
Right
Fielders
Melky
Cabrera (35)
Kole
Calhoun (32) — $14MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Nicholas
Castellanos (28)
Lonnie
Chisenhall (31)
Adam
Eaton (31) — $9.5MM club option with a $1.5MM buyout
Avisail
Garcia (29)
Carlos
Gomez (34)
Carlos
Gonzalez (34)
Curtis
Granderson (39)
Jason
Heyward (30) — with 550 PA in 2019, can opt out of remaining four years, $86MM
Matt Kemp
(35)
Nick
Markakis (36) — $6MM club option with a $2MM buyout
Gerardo
Parra (33)
Hunter
Pence (37)
Yasiel
Puig (29)
Eric
Thames (33) — $7.5MM club option with a $1MM buyout
Ben
Zobrist (39)
Anyone
either in a starter or backup role?
10 comments:
Starling Marte and Marcell Ozuna interest me. Ozuna was a CF in Miami and has a cannon for an arm.
We need to spend first on a stronger pen. As much as is needed to have a top 10 pen in 2020. And sign or equitably replace Zack. Then comes the outfield.
Doing the above two priorities on this budget-obsessed team might require the Mets to trade someone - JDD, MC, or Nimmo perhaps - that would determine if we go after a quality guy like Adam Eaton, or even Ozuna or Marte, or just go after a 5th outfielder who can hit from .250 - .280, not like the crap the Mets foisted on us this year.
Over, say, a 2 G stretch, the OF/1B generate 48 position slots. Let's say Alonso & Conforto fill 20-22 of them. That leaves 26-28 for some rotation of Cespedes, Nimmo, Davis & Smith.
While Conforto & Nimmo are not optimal in CF, unless one of the above 6 are traded, I don't see signing a FA outfielder. Or to put it another way, signing an Ozuna or Marte would necessitate trading one of the six. I would do that for only a no-brainer return
Now the McNeil, Rosario, Cano IF with Lowrie as UT needs a second reserve. There's Davis, of course, but how about Zobrist as super UT? A bench of, say, Nimmo/Davis, Smith/Cespedes, Lowrie & Zobrist on any give day is not so bad IMO.
Unless we go to a 7-man pen, there's only room for a 4-man bench, and 1 of the 4 must be a Catcher. Lowrie AND Zobrist won't fit.
Bill-
I as assuming a 7-man BP. (on the logic that 8 guys who can't pitch is worse than 7 :-) )
7-man pens can work in the AL, but in the NL there are times when PHing for a pitcher is needed. We need the 8th RP.
Bill,
Funny, I've always thought that with a DH you could get away with a shorter bench (and longer BP) since you did NOT need to PH for the pitcher. Never thought about it the other way, idk,
Hamilton interests me: speed and defense for a 4/5th outfielder, makes a ton of sense.
Robb, if Hamilton is a good one year deal, he is worth considering
They need to address the bullpen first.
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