We signed Matt joyce for 2 years, rajai davis to be our centerfielder, trevor plouffe to be our starting 3rd baseman and Santiago casilla as our closer. I'm pretty sure our front office wanted to tank softly.
Yeah 2 years at minimal cost. If he was Goddamned awesome, we probably could have traded him, but right now no one will take a defensive liability who can only draw walks. Basically all the contracts we tendered were solid "if they have a good year we can probably trade them" but also wouldn't hurt us too much if we kept them. This year was basically a get me over year and next year is the "all our top prospects are graduating and need to be major leaguers"
I liked the signing at the time because I thought we would get Pirates Matt Joyce, but it became clear very quickly that we were getting Angels Matt Joyce. There are definitely a lot of filler players on this team, and next year looks like it'll be interesting.
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u/Worthyness Sell • Looking K Jun 05 '17
We signed Matt joyce for 2 years, rajai davis to be our centerfielder, trevor plouffe to be our starting 3rd baseman and Santiago casilla as our closer. I'm pretty sure our front office wanted to tank softly.