I think he gets a big league deal, though I'm a little surprised that there's been so little talk about him. I think he's a fine AL piece -- fill in at C/1B/DH against lefties and provide some pop off the bench. I like him as a fit in Toronto.

Nah -- still think they'll add a reliever or something once the market dries up a bit more and they can get someone at a discount. In general, I don't mind that the Jays, Twins and a few other clubs haven't aggressively pursued relief help. The prices to this point have been way higher than I anticipated.

I don't think Tomas has much in the way of trade value at this point, and Britton's value is at an all-time high. Orioles don't go that route.

It's what I expected -- I said 5/80 in his November profile, though I could've envisioned it landing anywhere fro 75 to 90 million, realistically. It's a fine deal. He's a young free agent, so STL is buying more of his prime than if they'd gone elsewhere for rotation help. Leake should give them 190-200 innings of an upper 3.00s ERA each year with good defense at his position and a good bat, relative to other pitchers. Not bad for the Cards at all.

Sure am. Yours and a few hundred others so far. No way to get to all of the questions we receive in these, though I do publish one of these from time to time just to let newcomers know it's nothing personal. I'll probably receive 1500 questions today, so apologies if I don't get to yours.

I wrote about a Martinez extension in the Tigers' Offseason Outlook and pegged it at something like six years, $110MM. There's not a huge discount to be had on him at this point now that he's hit arb for a second time. You can read a much lengthier examination of it in that Outlook piece here:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/10/offseason-...

He's fine as a depth piece. Looked OK as a reliever last season and gives them rotation depth in the event that they can't lure someone more exciting. People will mock it, because it's the Marlins and Jackson stunk in 2013-14, but for what should be the league minimum, I don't mind the roll of the dice at all.

Empire! I liked Force Awakens quite a bit, but I still prefer the original three. Worlds better than eps 1-3 though.

Three years and $33MM for a guy who showed zero power last season and has had some injuries, at his age... I don't think so.

Honestly it's tough to say, because this isn't a conventional offseason. In a normal year, I'd expect things to begin picking up in mid- to late January as the remaining free agents lower their expectations a bit and as the field of suitors narrows. But, there are so many quality free agents left on the market... the remaining group right now is better than the entire 2016-17 class of FAs. I don't have a great answer because we haven't really seen a group of free agents this good in a long, long time. Certainly not under this iteration of the CBA.

I think Susac can be someone's everyday catcher, and it's not going to happen in SF, so he makes sense to me as a trade chip.

In that scenario I think I'm the troublemaking primate.

Still fully expect the Twins to trade for a lefty reliever and maybe sign another low-cost one -- bring back Neal Cotts, for instance.

I'm in the "Al Avila is done, but Mike Ilitch probably isn't" camp that thinks Ilitch might go over his GM's head and sign a high-priced left fielder.

Nah, I think Espinosa opens the year at shortstop.

Not for 2-3 years, but like I just said, I do think there's a very real chance he breaks the bank on another big signing.

I don't think the Indians do it. Soler had some pretty big durability issues in the minors and just wasn't that good in 2015. I'm still a big fan of Soler, but I think Cleveland would want more, since the stock of the guys they're moving is currently higher.

Nationals? Mike Rizzo drafted Upton with the first overall pick when he was Arizona's scouting director. Knows him well and could easily shift Harper to center for two seasons while Werth's contract finishes up.

Seems like he's the face of the franchise for the SunTrust Park era -- I don't expect him to be traded at all, be it this winter or during the season.

In July, I'd say it's possible, if Oakland isn't contending. I don't think they'll do it this winter. Beane actually said he wants to extend him, but with Reddick a year from free agency, that's a tough task for Oakland. Next year's class is thin, and Reddick has shown 20-30 HR pop with elite right field defense. He'll be going into his age-30 season. Platoon splits notwithstanding, he's going to get paid handsomely.

I like the idea of them packaging Hendricks in an effort to upgrade their rotation. If it's Hendricks+Soler, they'd have to get a pretty nice arm in return though -- one with multiple years of control remaining.

The Gordon thing is nothing new. He was connected to Boston pretty heavily at the onset of free agency. I don't think Castillo has a lot of trade value given his contract, so Bradley is the more movable piece in that scenario. A Gordon-Betts-Castillo outfield would probably be pretty sound, defensively. I wouldn't put it past Dombrowski, but I'm not expecting it as a likely outcome or anything.

They've been linked to trades involving their relievers and starters for quite some time. I don't think they're going to necessarily add much in the way of MLB-ready bats if they move one of them, though. I think they're set with a Jennings-Kiermaier-Souza OF and Longoria-Miller/Beckham-Forsythe-Loney/Shaffer/LoMo around the infield and at DH. I would like to see them add a catcher, but they have Rivera, Casali and Conger back there already -- none excite me, but the Rays love them some quality pitch-framing.

I'm not even sure he gets a Major League deal. He's been awful for two straight seasons and had 2-3 surgeries in that time. If he gets a big league deal, I don't think it's for more than $2-3MM. As for whether or not he bounces back, I think that's entirely dependent on his health. I'd endorse a team like the Pirates or Marlins rolling the dice to find out though.

Jeff Todd and I chatted about this last night after Stewart went public with that comment. It's one of the most bizarre things I've seen in awhile, and I frankly just don't believe him at all. As you said, they already surrendered a nice pick for Greinke. But it's more than that. Arizona traded the #1 overall pick from 2015 already (Swanson), traded its 2014 first-rounder for salary relief (Toussaint) and also included one of its 2013 first-rounders (Blair) in the Miller deal as well. They don't seem to value draft picks all that highly whatsoever. To me, this is Stewart just taking a firmer tone in negotiating through the media. This club is the definition of an "all-in" team (pardon the cliche), and to draw a line in the sand now after coming this far is nuts.

That's actually not a bad offer from the Cards' standpoint. Would depend on the health of Gonzales' shoulder, but I can see Colorado having interest in something like that.

If I'm San Francisco, I'm not "settling" for Fowler. If you're going to give up the pick, just go for broke and sign Upton or Gordon. Or, just spend more for Cespedes. I don't think Dexter Fowler going to a Warriors game is really indicative of anything though. If he were deep in negotiations and they didn't want word getting out, I doubt he'd be tweeting pics of himself at the arena.

I'd say they need to give more, but I'd have said the same thing if you tossed out Lawrie/Graveman/Nolin/Barreto for Donaldson last winter. Still, given Beane and Forst's on-record comments about not wanting to move Gray, I think they'd need to be more overwhelmed than that.

There's no real reason for them to do that at all right now. They control him dirt cheap through 2019. Madison Bumgarner is going to make $12MM in 2019 -- imagine what elite SPs are going to commanding at that time given the rate of inflation. There's just no real reason to do so for another 2-3 years... do they really want to commit to his age-31 season and beyond some five years in advance? That's not sound thinking from a baseball perspective, given the fragile nature of pitchers.

I don't think Phillips is going to be traded. If he wouldn't approve a deal to a winning club managed by Dusty Baker, whom he knows very well from Baker's Cincinnati days, to which team would he approve a deal? No one's extending Phillips into 2018 to facilitate that trade.

If Gordon were going to settle for 3/48, he'd just go back to Kansas City. I still think he'll make almost double that amount eventually, though I'm not as firmly in the "$100MM for Gordon" camp as I once was.

At this point, seems like that's only plausible if they move CJ Wilson first. Because Arte Moreno still seems really adamant about avoiding the luxury tax threshold.

They would, yeah. Did the original question I answered say "second round"? I read it as "second pick" (meaning the Comp pick), but a lot of these are kind of a blur to me. Sorry for any confusion. My point regarding the bizarre nature of Stewart's comments was in reference to his refusal to part with that pick -- at this point, why not? They've come too far to draw a hard line, in my eyes.

Not enough going to Tampa Bay.

I don't think so, no. Santiago has only two years remaining and Cron is a not-great defender that can't be hidden at DH in the NL.

Is Bengie Molina still playing?

I'm sure there's one or two old catchers or DHs or chunky pitchers, haha. I used to be pretty fast and ran track/cross country in high school and college, but it's been a decade since I ran competitively, so who knows?

Buck Farmer, Joey Pankake, Skye Bolt

Oh my god this is my nightmare

Competitive Balance draft picks can be, yes. But other picks aren't able to be moved. Charlie Wilmoth wrote about the value of Comp Balance picks for us awhile back:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/05/what-are-c...

If anyone offered Lincecum two years and $15MM, I have to imagine he'd take that in a heartbeat. But I can't see him getting more than a year guaranteed.

Not a fan of the O'Day, Soria and Madson commitments -- too much over too many years for relievers, especially one of Madson's age. But, as excited as it made D-backs fans, the Greinke signing is the ugliest one when looking at the long-term. It's way too much money -- total and annually -- and could really be a killer for that franchise. However, Arizona is very clearly looking in the next 1-3 years and not considering the future much, so if they have three deep playoff runs or something with Greinke and Miller, I doubt they care how Zack's deal ends. Too much risk there for my liking, though.

Should be but he won't be. Some BBWAA members are just off their rockers.

Apply the next time we do a post saying "MLBTR Seeking Writing Help." You'll be one of many, many applicants (probably a couple thousand), but that's how we've brought on literally every single writer who is with MLBTR, PFR and Hoops Rumors since I can remember.

It would need to crash in a huge way. I don't see the price dropping to the point where the Mets are in. His market isn't going to go below $100MM, for instance. At a certain point, if the asking price drops enough, a team that doesn't even need him will just sign him and make room for him because they consider it to be a good value.

I would really like to see him in a short relief role, possibly as a closer. He probably won't do it yet, but Dave Cameron wrote an awesome piece about that on Fangraphs within the past year:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/tim-lincecum-now-...

I guess technically Wade LeBlanc since we corresponded to get him on the MLBTR Podcast. He was great. Cool guy, very nice, very insightful. He was a great guest:

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/11/mlbtr-podc...

I get the thinking with Dombrowski connection but the rotation seems pretty full there. I think he'll go somewhere that gives him a better spot in the rotation. Plus, the AL East isn't a great spot to rebuild value.

If we have a large number of pictures of players playing at the Trop, that's pure happenstance. USA Today Sports Images is our image provider, but truth be told, there's not a lot that goes into the selection process when trying to grab an image. I usually look for one that has a reasonably clear view of the guy's face.

I wouldn't even do that if I were Chicago. Adam Eaton is so insanely valuable with six years and $41MM remaining on his deal. The surplus value there is incredible, and adding in Fulmer only makes it worse. I know people love Schwarber's bat, but Eaton is so underrated.