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10/9/19

OPEN THREAD - 2020 FA Outfielders




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:

  1. Starling Marte and Marcell Ozuna interest me. Ozuna was a CF in Miami and has a cannon for an arm.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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    1. 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.

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  4. Bill-
    I as assuming a 7-man BP. (on the logic that 8 guys who can't pitch is worse than 7 :-) )

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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,

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  7. Hamilton interests me: speed and defense for a 4/5th outfielder, makes a ton of sense.

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  8. Robb, if Hamilton is a good one year deal, he is worth considering

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  9. They need to address the bullpen first.

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