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Here's a trade rumor the Yankees should f-ing jump at:

Per Buster Olney, the Giants need outfield help desperately and might take Ellsbury off the Yanks hands in exchange for SP Johnny Cueto.  Cueto just had TJ surgery is out for 2019, owed $68 mil, and Ellsbury has two years plus a contractual buyout for about $45 million.

You know if they both equally sucked it would be a fine trade but Cueto has made 292 starts pitching to a 1.19 career WHIP. He'd be 33 making his return from TJ surgery.  Ellsbury is, at best, replacement-level right now.

I have to ardently hope this is purely Olney making shit up.

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We are about two weeks from pitchers and catchers reporting and Harper and Machado don't appear to be any closer to signing than they did in November, not to mention players like Keuchel, Kimbrel, Moustakas and Marwin Gonzalez.  Incredible. Either we have collusion or owners starting to exercise fiscal restraint and turning it into a buyer's market. 

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9 minutes ago, Brad said:

We are about two weeks from pitchers and catchers reporting and Harper and Machado don't appear to be any closer to signing than they did in November, not to mention players like Keuchel, Kimbrel, Moustakas and Marwin Gonzalez.  Incredible. Either we have collusion or owners starting to exercise fiscal restraint and turning it into a buyer's market. 

I think it's the latter.  Just because players think they should get record-setting contracts and aren't doesn't mean owners are colluding in any way. It takes at least two to tango and the players aren't jumping at what they do get offered, you end up with major talent sitting around while their friends are reporting to camp.

It will be interesting to see whether the next negotiation with the player's association is ugly or leads to a work stoppage of some sort.  It took a while but the ideas they agreed to with a sort of soft salary cap is finally biting into the salaries at the very top of the market.

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3 hours ago, paul secor said:

Harper was supposedly offered $300 mil. for 10 years by the Nationals at the get go. He and/or his agent turned that offer down. It's on them, not the owners.

I wonder if that’s true and, if so, whether that offer is still on the table. Jon Morosi was on the radio today and he estimated Harper’s chances of returning to the Nationals at around 30%. 

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