With Spring Training readied to start following week, below are 3 points we’ll be watching on around the baseball globe throughout the day today:
1. Coonrod DFA to be solved:
The Phillies choice to assign right-hander Sam Coonrod for job recently will certainly get to a final thought today. Coonrod, that was assigned in order to include Josh Harrison on the 40-man lineup, battled to the song of a 7.82 PERIOD (4.61 FIP) over 12 2/3 innings in a 2022 period that was primarily eliminated by a shoulder pressure. That claimed, Coonrod was a beneficial center reducer as lately as 2021, when he uploaded a 4.04 PERIOD (3.71 FIP) over 42 1/3 innings. If he undergoes waivers unclaimed, Coonrod does have adequate solution time to decline a straight-out job. However, offered his $775K adjudication wage for 2023 would certainly be shed in doing so, it’s feasible he might approve the straight-out job anyhow instead of examination totally free company.
2. Are extra extensions en route?
The run-up to Spring Training is often viewed as a time for groups as well as gamers to talk about extensions, with a lot of the hefty training performed in regards to purchases as well as baseball tasks not yet launched. This previous weekend break saw the Dodgers reveal an expansion with shortstop Miguel Rojas that will certainly maintain him in L.A. via a minimum of the 2024 period, with a club alternative for 2025 also. Rojas signs up with a handful of gamers such as Jeff McNeil as well as Yandy Diaz that have actually tattooed extensions lately, as well as it’s feasible even more offers might be en route. Giants ace Logan Webb has actually supposedly talked about an expansion with San Francisco’s front workplace. It was likewise lately reported that the Royals front workplace is checking out extensions for the group’s young core also.
3. Player Chat today at 10am CT:
MLBTR’s Player Chat collection will certainly proceed today, as well as we’re thrilled to invite previous major league right-hander as well as long time MLB precursor Tim Fortugno to organize a chat with visitors today. Fortugno joined in components of 3 MLB periods from 1992-95, dressing for the Angels, Reds as well as White Sox in the process. He pitched an overall of 12 periods in the minors, 3 in the majors as well as an additional in Taiwan’sChinese Professional Baseball League Fortugno has actually considering that invested greater than twenty years in Major League hunting divisions, helping the Rangers, Mets as well as Rays, that have actually used him considering that 2019. Tune in at 10am CT today to ask any kind of concerns you have as well as to review Fortugno’s vast range of experiences in baseball!
