Rays & Rangers
Submitted by: ShaquilleOatmeal
Rays
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Leiter | 24 | Majors | SP | 5 | 18 | 4.4 | 13.6 | 10.9 | 13.6 | 16.3 | ||
| Sebastian Walcott | 18 | Minors | 3B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30.2 | 24.1 | 30.2 | 36.2 | ||
| Yeremi Cabrera | 19 | Minors | OF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 4 |
Total Value:
47.10
Rangers
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shane McClanahan | 27 | Majors | SP | Low | 3 | 64.9 | 17.1 | 47.8 | 38.3 | 47.8 | 57.4 |
Total Value:
47.8
Comments
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The Rays should spend the next 3 years making sure their #1 farm system produces the Major Leaguers necessary to make the 2028 opening of the new stadium a successful season. Who cares about trying to win 85 games in a minor league park next year. Most of their graduated prospects have disappointed, and I no longer believe a team with the likes of Mead, Morel, Aranda, Walls, Baz, and DeLuca in the starting lineup should expect to compete for the post season. McClanahan instantly gives the Rangers the ace they need, and he isn't a FA for 3 more seasons.
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I think if TB put McClanahan on the block it would create a huge bidding war driving his price up even higher, I like the package but for Shane that would feel lite to me, I didn't look at values on here but I would require Walcott, Rosario, Santana, and Huff if I were TB cause lots of teams could use a cheap, controlable Cy Young candidate
Except McClanny isn’t a cheap, controllable Cy Young candidate. He’s a 2X TJS pitcher who hasn’t faced batters yet in his rehab. Any trade for McClanny won’t happen until next Winter (at the earliest) in my opinion unless the Rays choose to give him away.
I think this is an unprecedented situation. A team that already struggles to attract fans has literally lost it's home. They have no TV revenue as of the end of the season as well. The player they owe $200M to will never wear their uniform again, but without a conviction that will keep him out of the US, the Rays will owe him the remainder of the contract. After making the post season for the past 5 years, they finished under .500 after trading away 2 ot their 3 biggest fan favorites. Additionally, 2 of the 3 best teams in baseball play in their division. They have been unable to ever do a proper rebuild, because they can't survive attracting 8,000 to the stadium. Now they are going to be stuck attracting 8,000 no matter if they win 40 games or 140. The only decent players they have on the team either make 9 figures or are already in arbitration. Time to do a proper rebuild, and come home look superheros 3 years from now. That includes trading McClanahan. I agree with Mosely...there will be a bidding war. They will not be selling any lower now than if McClan comes back and posts a 3.5 ERA season in 120 innings. I think they do some heartbreaking and seemingly unique moves, but Stu won't want a $70M payroll with essentially zero revenue.
They will have a new broadcast deal by March, but the stadium issue is a huge problem with no obvious fix. I expect them to cut payroll down to $50MM by OD and then cut another $10-15MM at next year’s deadline. If the Rays can get full value for McClanny this offseason, then they probably trade him. I just don’t see it. That said, I also don’t see him, Ras or Springs on the OD26 roster either.
This will be such a clusterfuck season. Will DeWayne and BA even want to call games 80 times a year from a minor league park? That's quite a downgrade for a 75 year old man who's been doing it for 50 years and a former long time big leaguer who could be a color guy for any of the 5 teams he actually played for. I'm sure our games will be on TV this year, but I am sure it won't be for anywhere near as much as if we actually had a stadium with a team people expect to try to win. I wouldn't be shocked to see MLB make all the decisions for the Rays this year, so that Stu has some plausible deniability. "We submitted 5 sites to MLB for their approval and they chose..." to explain to the locals why they won't get to attend a home game for at least 3 years.
Yea but even with the operations teams would be lining up to trade for him this offseason, TJS isn't what it used to be cause I'd bet over 25% of pitchers in mlb have had it, they're giving guys like Verlander and DeGroom $30M a year and if they make 20 starts they consider that reasonable, Glasnow got $125M even, there's less than 15 true aces in baseball, Shane is easily a top 10 pitcher, those guys very rarely hit the trade block not already making $15-20M and only a year of control plus it just takes one desperate team like the Rangers, Mets,Cubs etc.. to make a deal.