YS 25.04 - Savage Spurns Springs Sheet

[RonCo]

YS 25.04 - Savage Spurns Springs Sheet
Releases Torrent of Activity

We all know the deal by now. Social media was all over it. Sports Center ran tickers for hours. Alfredo Savage is a Wolf in … uh … $249M worth of Wolves’ clothing.

“We made the best offer we could make,” said GM RonCo. “And, to be honest, we thought it would have been best for Alfredo to take our offer. We’re going to win a little, after all. And the endorsement cash outside baseball would have been better here in the end. But he wanted to be a big fish in a little pond. So be it.”

Yellow Springs is rumored to have made Savage a package offer of something in the $220-$230M range, but was balking going higher in the first year of the deal.

TEAM TURNS ATTENTION TO THE REST OF BASEBALL’S TALENT

Free to spend, RonCo began to work the room a bit. Here’s what he came back with:

C Peter McClure: (6/7/6/7/8), 35 yo

Yes, McClure is getting old, but he dropped 3.3 and 4.2 WAR seasons on the league while in Huntsville, and the Nine felt like they needed a real catcher. With cash to burn this season, RonCo structured a top-ended deal that gives McClure $15M now, drops to $5M next season, and carries a team option for $3M in 2027. McClure is a borderline Hall of Fame kind of player. If he keeps that 3-4 WAR kind of value for another couple years, it’ll be a great deal.

LF William McIntyre: (8/7/6/7/7), 30 yo

In similar fashion, veteran outfielder William McIntyre joined the club on a deal the gives him $8M this season, but $2.5 next and a $2.3M team option in 2027. McIntyre has limited defensive ability, so aging shouldn’t hurt that much [grin], but he can run, and he’s a professional hitter whose numbers in Vancouver were likely depressed by the massive dimensions of that park. That’s our story and we’re sticking with it. Expect him to DH a lot, and to play the field only when one of the starters puts a gun to the manager’s head in order to get a day of.

RP Sven Trauner: (8/7/7), 31 yo

In what, by now, is clearly a broken record, LHP Trauner signed a front-loaded deal that nets him $9M in 2025, but drops to $4.5M in 2026 and $3.7M in 2027. He has been effectively a league-average starter, but the club expects to put him out to the pen and see what happens. “We think Sven will be a successful reliever, and in fact we’re beginning discussions with him to determine if he would be willing to really focus on that aspect of the game.,” RonCo said at the open presser in which he introduced Trauner.

RP Mauro Zúñiga: (6/7/8), 29 yo

$750K. Why the hell not, eh? ... Don't answer that. (We're apparently suckers for guys with two diacritical marks in their name).

SS Tino Aguilera: (5/6/4/3/9), 27 yo

Imagine the phone call.

RonCo: Hey, guy. How’re they hanging?
TA: S’up. Pretty good. How about you?
RonCo: I wanted to call and say that I’m sorry we cut your ass from the team a week or two ago. We were just in a Savage rage and needed any cash we could get.
TA: Yeah, I get the Savage thing. Bummer he played you like a violin.
RonCo: It happens.
TA: Just wait.
RonCo: On that front, I’m wondering if you might like to come back?
TA: Depends.
RonCo: On what?”
TA: On how sorry you are.
RonCo: I’m pretty sorry.
TA: How sorry?
RonCo: How about 750 thousand dollars worth of sorry?
TA: I don’t really know that this sounds very sorry.
RonCo: Maybe 900 thousand dollars worth?
TA: That’s sounding sorrier.
RonCo: Maybe 950 thousand dollars of sorry with an option for another?
TA: Ah, hell, man. I’m feeling the Quan pretty good. Let’s do it.
RonCo: Thank goodness.
TA: To be honest, you had me at "How’re they hanging."

RP Ryan Craigie: (7/7/8) 32 yo

Craigie is in convalescence and won’t be available until June, but the team took $3.5M flier on him in hopes he would sign again later. Might be lost cash. Might work out. Shrug.

[felipe]

Its really enjoyable for me to see the quality a professional puts out.

My question is, is your stuff crafted? Planned, thought out, edited, (work put into it) etc...

Or is YOUR stream of thought just way more polished because you do it for a living (years of practice)?

[RonCo]

Thanks!

For pretty much all the stuff you see here, I just kinda let it flow and have fun. I'll occasionally come back and fix the most egregious of my mistakes...but this is just that...pure fun.

Writing my other stuff has a more complicated answer. The bottom line for my SF is that sometimes I have a plan and other times I wing it until the piece speaks to me. Then go back and do it "right" ... whatever that is. I've been doing this for a lot of years, though. The truth is, though, that no one can tell where this stuff comes from, you know? Just have fun. Do it a lot. And things work out.

[recte44]

The Aguilera bit is priceless and I wanted to bump this thread in case anyone missed it.

[bigmike13]

Nice pick ups, I still love me some McClure.

[bschr682]

Tino is a prick and wouldn't even talk to me.... Funny bit though.