Terry From Mount Greenwood’s Offseason Plan

4:30 PM CDT on October 22, 2019

PREAMBLE

So, I'm trying to win the World Series next year, but I'm not trying to spend all kinds of money on guys the Sox aren't going to spend on. For the most part, I think this is realistic and that this team could win a World Series in 2020. There might be some value issues on the trades, but I leaned on an outside resource there.

ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE PLAYERS

Alex Colomé, $10.3M - Tender
Yolmer Sánchez, $6.2M - Nontender
James McCann, $4.9M - Tender
Carlos Rodon, $4.5M - Tender
Leury García, $4M - Tender
Evan Marshall, $1.3M - Tender
Josh Osich, $1M - Nontender
Ryan Goins, $900K - Nontender

CLUB OPTIONS

Welington Castillo: $8 million/$500,000 buyout - No. Just no.

OTHER IMPENDING FREE AGENTS

Jose Abreu (made $16M in 2019) - 2 years for $32 million with a club option
Iván Nova (made $9,166,167 in 2019) - Nah.
Jon Jay (made $4M in 2019) - Get the fuck outta here.
Hector Santiago (made $2M in 2019 on split contract) - Come to Spring Training, my frent.

FREE AGENTS

Zack Wheeler, 5 years for $100 million

Wade Miley, 2 years for $16 million

Justin Smoak, 1 year for $3 million

Martin Maldonado, 1 year for $2.5 million

Jason Kipnis, 2 years for $8 million

Steve Cishek, 2 years for $9 million

I decided to avoid the biggest fish altogether and address stuff more through trades.

Wheeler gets what Shark got basically in free agency. I think he'll be a great starter here to sit behind Giolito as long as he stays healthy.

Miley will fill out the back end of the rotation. He's been solid for years now and can get innings. I just wanted a guy to throw 160 or more innings at a pretty good clip.

Smoak, Maldonado, and Kipnis will all fill key bench roles while Cishek falls into a middle relief role.

TRADES

The Mets send Michael Conforto for Reynaldo Lopez and Luis Gonzalez

The Cubs send Javier Baez for Nick Madrigal, Blake Rutherford, and Steele Walker

The Dodgers send Joc Pederson for Carlos Rodon and Alex Colome

The Blue Jays send Ken Giles for Zack Collins

I went on BaseballTradeValues.com to help on this. The only one that didn't work over there was the Pederson deal. That's only because Colome has zero value for whatever reason. I don't really buy that.

Anyways, I'm adding a lot of power here. Conforto and Pederson are both there to mash RHP and Baez is a star secondbaseman on his way out the door for financial reasons. Ken Giles has had an up and down career, but I like his stuff and he gets strikeouts at the end of the pen.

SUMMARY

I finished over budget at 128,410,000, but it's time to pay up, Jerry.

C - James McCann

1B - Jose Abreu

2B - Javier Baez

3B - Yoan Moncada

SS - Tim Anderson

LF - Eloy Jimenez

CF - Luis Robert

RF - Joc Pederson

DH - Michael Conforto

Bench - Leury Garcia, Justin Smoak, Martin Maldonado, Jason Kipnis