1 Year Contract(Nate’s idea, he was just too lazy to start a thread)

[Stradling]

Which current free agent would you be most likely to give a large one year contract to play for the Angels this year?

 

I would go with Arrieta or Darvish.  You’d overpay for one year, probably go over the tax for one year, but you’d have a heck of a pitcher.  

[krAbs]

I kinda think that if you're going to give up a draft pick for Arrieta, you want him for more than one year (unless he's dirt cheap). Darvish I'd be on board with over-paying, but...its not my money or whatever.

[Chuck]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Which current free agent would you be most likely to give a large one year contract to play for the Angels this year?

 

I would go with Arrieta or Darvish.  You’d overpay for one year, probably go over the tax for one year, but you’d have a heck of a pitcher.  

Darvish. How about a one year guarantee deal with a player/club option?

[totdprods]

I'm not sure we're going to see that much interest in one-year contracts. 

Darvish still seemingly has 5-yr, $100m+ deals floating around. 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

4 hours ago, Stradling said:

Which current free agent would you be most likely to give a large one year contract to play for the Angels this year?

 

I would go with Arrieta or Darvish.  You’d overpay for one year, probably go over the tax for one year, but you’d have a heck of a pitcher.  

Darvish is the only pitcher of the top 4 not costing a draft pick. Although Lynn or Cobb maybe cheaper and both had good years. No to Arieta, OK to the other 3.

[HaloCory22]

Sign JD Martinez to DH for 1 year 40 mill and Yu for 1 year 35 mill. Time to Kevin Durant this sum bitch.

[Angel Oracle]

Arrieta slumped in 2017.    Darvish is used to facing AL hitters.  

Darvish 

[floplag]

Ill go off the mound and say Hosmer if were talking just 1 year deals to be the primary 1B, part time DH maybe even a little LF 

[Ohtaniland]

With the risk of injury or sudden decline at any moment for pitchers that can throw in mid 90’s there’s no way that Darvish would take a chance on a one year deal. He’s not going put future guaranteed money and years in jeopardy on a one year deal. 

[totdprods]

^^^ agreed @OHTANILAND. Things are slow and quiet and the market is depressed, but there will still be plenty of legitimate offers for these big names that'll be close enough to find agreement. Darvish and Arrieta are too old to risk a 1-yr, and any number of teams will still be willing to offer 4-5 yrs at $20m - they're either holding out for more, or waiting for certain teams to jump in. 

Of all the big names who may take a 1-yr deal, Moustakas seems most likely, and there isn't a place for him in Anaheim, so I'd see him doing so back in KC. Alex Cobb seems likeliest of the big SP candidates, simply because another solid year probably guarantees him a 4-5 year at $15-18m. Lynn's peripherals are a bit too shaky for him to take his risk.

As for why things are so slow, there's always a lot of blame placed on agents, especially Boras, for setting high prices or unreasonable demands, but I agree with the general idea that the players dictate what the agent works within and they're likely receiving plenty of acceptable offers still. The problem is the agent is likely advising they keep waiting things out and the player is taking that advice rather than the offer. That again likely comes back to Boras. He has a history of holding out for big offers for his guys and more often than not, it works for him. He has the biggest names, therefore his guys will set the market for other big names...

[arch stanton]

At this point it's probably Darvish who is causing the slowdown. Everybody prefers him without the QO or the Boras hassle and it seems like the Rays and Marlins have priced Archer and Yelich out of most teams' minds. If Yu does sign with the Cubs then the others may fall in place right away. The position players probably all have offers they're willing to accept once it's clear there won't be any last minute competition

[nando714]

And if we suck we can flip that player at the deadline 

[Yellow Balloon]

I thought this might be a Charles O. Finley thread.  He once advocated putting ALL players on 1-year contracts.  All the other owners thought Finley was crazy but Marvin Miller later admitted it was the one scenario that scared him the most.    

[Ohtaniland]

1 hour ago, totdprods said:

^^^ agreed @OHTANILAND. Things are slow and quiet and the market is depressed, but there will still be plenty of legitimate offers for these big names that'll be close enough to find agreement. Darvish and Arrieta are too old to risk a 1-yr, and any number of teams will still be willing to offer 4-5 yrs at $20m - they're either holding out for more, or waiting for certain teams to jump in. 

Of all the big names who may take a 1-yr deal, Moustakas seems most likely, and there isn't a place for him in Anaheim, so I'd see him doing so back in KC. Alex Cobb seems likeliest of the big SP candidates, simply because another solid year probably guarantees him a 4-5 year at $15-18m. Lynn's peripherals are a bit too shaky for him to take his risk.

As for why things are so slow, there's always a lot of blame placed on agents, especially Boras, for setting high prices or unreasonable demands, but I agree with the general idea that the players dictate what the agent works within and they're likely receiving plenty of acceptable offers still. The problem is the agent is likely advising they keep waiting things out and the player is taking that advice rather than the offer. That again likely comes back to Boras. He has a history of holding out for big offers for his guys and more often than not, it works for him. He has the biggest names, therefore his guys will set the market for other big names...

And the worst thing you can do is give in to Boras and his clients by paying a premium for guys that are on the cusps of the sunset side of their careers. You see it happen time after time where you make that big splash hoping for that instant championship run and then it’s followed by almost immediate decline and injuries. 

 

[totdprods]

What will be interesting is to see what teams jump into the fray as prices decrease. That's when you see some serious surprises and deals being struck...

That's when you see random, surprising deals happen, like the usual suspects balking at Alex Cobb for 4/$60m and then someone random like the Blue Jays or White Sox or Reds swooping in and locking him up for 4/$70m, because they were originally out when Cobb's camp was asking 5/$85m or whatever, or the Padres going in on both Darvish and Hosmer, or the A's signing Lynn...

[Jay]

No to Darvish