Fix the tribe lineup with 3 offseason contracts

[Lee]

So you can pick any 3 offseason free agent contracts that were signed by other teams. You cant go over 30 million total, still keeps our payroll well under 100 mill, plus you have to keep the length reasonable.

I dont know whats out there, but we have so many knowledgable posters. I am guessing CF, SS and 1st base, but it can be any signings.

And go.

 

[sportscoach]

The biggest question is are we basing it off of who will be a free agent or just acquiring any player?

 

[AZ_]

Here is a decent resource to help:

2024 Free Agent Tracker | RosterResource | FanGraphs

Follow along as 2024 MLB free agents sign. Find their contracts, WAR, stats and signing teams.

www.fangraphs.com

I’m taking:
CF Michael Taylor $1.75M
LF Michael Brantley $16M/2yrs
SP Corey Kluber $11M

 

[Lee]

The biggest question is are we basing it off of who will be a free agent or just acquiring any player?

Last off season

 

[Lee]

Here is a decent resource to help:

2024 Free Agent Tracker | RosterResource | FanGraphs

Follow along as 2024 MLB free agents sign. Find their contracts, WAR, stats and signing teams.

www.fangraphs.com

I’m taking:
CF Michael Taylor $1.75M
LF Michael Brantley $16M/2yrs
SP Corey Kluber $11M

So 2 ex Indians and a CF who isnt much better than what we have? Or am i wrong on Michael Taylor.

Obviously Brantley helps but where do you play Rosario? I am assuming Naylor plays 1st base.

 

[AZ_]

So 2 ex Indians and a CF who isnt much better than what we have? Or am i wrong on Michael Taylor.

Obviously Brantley helps but where do you play Rosario? I am assuming Naylor plays 1st base.

I’d assume that we sign Brantley instead of Rosario, for my scenario to work.

Kluber just looks so good right now, weird how it worked out but Brantley’s veteran presence in the lineup, coupled with Kluber being a veteran addition to a young staff sounds perfect for this team as constructed.

Taylor is death to flying things in CF, anything you get offensively is a bonus would have been a more efficient alternative to Gamel or his caliber of FA signing (also needed to stay under the $30M). Rosario learns to be a true UTIL as a bench guy with speed.


I’ll cop to being an Indians simp, but those guys are who they are. Studs.

 

[sportscoach]

If I am going to do a do over of lost off season... And given 30 Million to do it without any restrictions outside of signing 3 players...

Have to go Brantley over Rosario even though it takes half my budget...We need his bat near JRam in the lineup on paper.

I would have gotten SP Alex Wood on the 1-3 million... He has always been a good pitcher when healthy and I wanted a veteran who has pitched in the playoffs to hold down the 5th spot. If he flopped, we still had all those young arms to replace him.

Then as strange as it sounds, I would have gotten Mitch Moreland to replace Bauers at 1B... Moreland has been to 3 World Series and has played in a fair amount of playoff games... I get he is past his prime, but I felt he would be a guy who could help with experience lead the team. I have seen nothing but praise for the guy in Boston newspapers.

I would have let Miller/Rosario take 2B and let competition take CF. Doesn't solve all the issues other than the current ones, but I think it could have made us better in the end.

 

[CDAV45]

I'm signing CJ Cron.

I'm signing Robbie Ray. Outside of the odd year/season that was 2020 he's been pretty damn solid.

I was going to use my 3rd move on a CFer, but all the FA CFers are playing like shit. So I'll spend it on Hunter Renfroe who is playing CF now and has tremendous power. He's struggled a bit to start the season as so many others have, but that power is exciting and reuniting him with the Franimal might have proved a good move.

I'd hoard the remaining $ as insurance to take on an expensive contract at the deadline to address a position of need/injury.

In hindsight I don't resign Hernandez, but you can't really knock them for doing so. He's relatively inexpensive and solid as hell. However, they had already acquired Gimenez and Amed along with knowing that Miller was a hitting machine so........

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

You don't need three contracts or $30 million.

Carlos Rodon, 5-0, 0.58 ERA, 31 IP, 12 hits, 2 earned runs, 44 K's.

The White Sox got him for one year at $3 million. Best signing of the off-season by far. Could you imagine if we had signed this guy and given him Logan Allen's starts?

The Indians would be 20-12 right now and we'd have Rodon for the rest of the year instead of Allen/Hentges in the #5 spot. The White Sox would probably be 16-16 and that's if whoever made those five starts in place of Rodon went 3-2.