Name: Christopher Morel's Career Challenges After Non-Tender
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Description: After being cut by the Tampa Bay Rays, Christopher Morel faces career uncertainty due to his struggles in both defense and offense. Will he find a new home?

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Now I want to get to Christopher Morrell, who is non-tendered by the Tampa Bay Rays. The name that was on the trade block forever for the Chicago Cubs, and they were just looking to move, looking to move. Morrell was a big piece of the Isa Paredes deal that got him to Chicago before the reroute to Houston in the Kyle Tucker trade, but Morrell has been brutal since going over to Tampa and now Christopher Morrell is non-tendered. Him and Fraley were the two non-tenders for Tampa. Jake Fraley is a defensive oriented. an outfielder. Christopher Morrell is one of the bigger question marks in baseball. Morrell is just our new version of Jose Siri, where the ability is there to be an all-star. You just got to hit the baseball and he hasn't. What does a gamble on Christopher Morrell look like? Well, that's the hardest part with Morell is at least with Siri, when he's not hitting, he's gonna go play like elite center field. Morrell should be a good defender. I don't know why he's not. He's an above average runner. He is an elite arm, but You put him in the infield and he throws sinkers. Um, so your first baseman's miserable. You put him in the outfield and his reads and routes just aren't great. Um, and then offensively, it's kind of one swing for one spot. He's trying to pull the ball in the air to left field as hard as he can every single time. And like that may work for some guys, but when you have some swing and miss and chase issues, like it can really be easy to expose, and that's exactly what we saw. But at 26 years old, when you've got the tools that he's got, you know, I'm I'm, I'm always, you know, if I have an open spot, I'm very intrigued still on giving a guy like that the opportunity. Um, but, you know, it's just, to me, it's kind of a frustrating game similar to Syria where it's just like, you're just gonna do the same thing and struggle with the same things consistently. And, uh, it seems like for now, the answer is yes. Um, but, you know, he does have time to, to potentially improve those things. He hits the living crap out of the ball and I think the biggest hurdle for me with him though is just like, where you're kind of just sticking him somewhere by default. There's nowhere that he is necessarily good defensively. Yeah. Uh, the Rangers did not deem Adoli Garcia worthy of his about $12 million arbitration estimate. What do you deem adolis Garcia worthy of? If you were sitting in one of these decision making chairs and you were told, hey, we can bring Adolis Garcia in on a one year deal, what are you comfortable giving him? Oh, Cause the answer is not 12. Is it 6? Is it I was thinking I was thinking 6. I don't think I'd go above 6. I mean, we're we're talking about. Uh, back to back seasons here where he has been below the league average offensively and, you know, I think he's still worth a shot, but we're talking about hits the other side of 30. So age 31, age 32 seasons are both bad. That's not the most encouraging side of things, but, you know, and off of, uh, you know, some injuries as well. Um, but at the same time, he's still hitting the ball really hard. I change of scenery could help. Uh, you know, I, I think you look at some Aspects of the batted ball quality. He actually hit the ball harder in 2025, full mile per hour up in the average exit velocity department. Um, his launch angle was up a little bit, like there were some encouraging underlying aspects, um, and I think from that perspective, like you look at the, the wo XWba, they're about 25 points there, the expected slug about 25 points there. So maybe you drop him in the right stadium and, you know, you can squeeze out a little bit more, you know, in value, and I wonder like if I'm the Reds or something like that, I, I'd give him 6 to 8 million, I think, and on a one year and give it a shot. What about Jonah Heim, who is the other guy non-tendered? He's not worth 6 according to the Texas Rangers. He's an interesting one to me because I could see another team saying, you know what, I think you are worth 6. That's the funny one, because I, I, I was gonna say I think in the right situation, he, he's a pretty easy tender him a contract candidate. Like it's just, I think with the situation that they were in, and again, Heim where it's back to back years of him being bad, you're like, yeah, we'll we'll just, you know, if Heim is the same player he was the last two years, we're gonna be kicking ourselves because every dollar matters right now and we could have allocated that $6 million elsewhere. Whereas I think another team says, well, he could bounce back and worst case scenario, you know, we have a fine backup um at a little bit more than we wanted to spend. So I think a team's gonna end up coming in at 4 million or so and, and, you know, I don't think he's gonna lose too much.

Christopher Morel's Career Challenges After Non-Tender

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