KC Signs Aroldis Chapman

[damuelle]

36-year old Wade Miley will earn more than to-be-35-year old Aroldis Chapman. Interesting times! This should probably unlock a few more LHP reliever signings as well (Chafin, Moore, Smith, etc.).

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/royals-to-sign-aroldis-chapman.html 

[Brewcrew82]

12 minutes ago, damuelle said:

36-year old Wade Miley will earn more than to-be-35-year old Aroldis Chapman. Interesting times! This should probably unlock a few more LHP reliever signings as well (Chafin, Moore, Smith, etc.).

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/royals-to-sign-aroldis-chapman.html 

Good. Besides being a terrible person, his baseball skills are rapidly declining.

Chafin and Moore are the two remaining FA relievers I have interest in. We’ll see what happens.

[nate82]

Wow only $3.75m which is about $2m short of the estimated for him.  This is a really good signing by the Royals.  If he bounces back the Royals could get something decent in return at the deadline.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Dayton Moore was a bad GM at the end but at least he wouldn’t have signed Chapman. 

[MrTPlush]

This is one of the first guys I think of when I ponder "If this guy is on an MLB team, I sure don't see why Trevor Bauer can't be."

[sveumrules]

26 minutes ago, MrTPlush said:

This is one of the first guys I think of when I ponder "If this guy is on an MLB team, I sure don't see why Trevor Bauer can't be."

Chapman’s offense resulted in a 30 day suspension.

Bauer was originally slated for 324 days before the arbitrator knocked it down to 194.

MLB appears to believe Bauer’s actions were considerably worse.

[brewmann04]

I knew some here wanted to crew to maybe add him to our Pen 

[jay87shot]

He signed for a bunch less than I thought he would, good deal for the royals.

[brewmann04]

I would thought we kick the tires and especially think they can use some help there 

[Brock Beauchamp]

There were two Chapman threads so I merged them.

Naturally, I merged them the wrong direction. Sigh.

[Axman59]

In 2022 his velocity dropped noticeably and his walks went way up. Plus he's a turd of a person and he quit on his team at the end of last year.

I'd say the Royals more likely than not just wasted $3.75 million, regardless of whether the deal was lower than expected.

I'm very happy to have the Brewers not sign this chump.

[Brock Beauchamp]

5 minutes ago, Axman59 said:

In 2022 his velocity dropped noticeably and his walks went way up. Plus he's a turd of a person and he quit on his team at the end of last year.

I'd say the Royals more likely than not just wasted $3.75 million, regardless of whether the deal was lower than expected.

I'm very happy to have the Brewers not sign this chump.

Yeah, I will just cheer for laundry at times but if the choice to cheer for laundry without a rotten person inside or cheer for laundry with a rotten person inside, I'd really prefer the former.

And given the number of arms out there and available options, let's just avoid the rotten people and everybody is happier.

[MrTPlush]

His K-rate is cratering, his walk rate is going to the moon, His fastball was the slowest of his career in 2022. I don't think we missing out on much. At 34 I doubt his velocity is going to come back. He also really would be much of a workhorse either. More you pitch him the more his velocity is going to take a hit and be less effective. His ERA wasn't woefully different 0-1 days versus 2+...but his advanced stats show he was pretty crummy on little rest. 

I forgot about him quitting last year...dude is definitely a douche bag. Kinda odd he turned down more money from the Padres. I suppose the Royals park is just as pitcher friendly. I guess he prefers to play for a bum team where he can collect a paycheck without much stress and can likely stay on the MLB team all year regardless of performance. Pretty sure he quit on the Yankees because he wasn't assured a spot on the postseason roster.