Drew Anderson

They've got the team option for two.

That's Kenley Jansen and Drew Anderson.

So let's just say, hypothetically, they take both of those, which I don't think they're going to.

That's $20 million.

The final starters as we get right and start into the reserve rounds.

Ryan Sloan, Andrew, you took him along with Drew Anderson to fill out your start rotation, or I think so.

Maybe Anderson was actually your first pitcher on the bench.

But anyway, Sloan in round 21, Matt McClain in round 22, Kalen Culpepper 23, Drew Anderson in 24, and Braden Montgomery there in round 25.

I'll tell you now, Kalen Culpepper, I think he might be one of my favorite guys to take at the end of the start of rounds as a middle infield guy.

I just really like him in terms of his price here.

I wouldn't say it was, like, my favorite pick, but I thought it was fine.

And, again, like, somebody that I could be using a lot if he's playing well, obviously.

I know we've got some young arms and it's almost set, but I think it would make the decision a lot easier if we got him.

It kind of reminds me a little bit of Drew Anderson.

The Tigers signed him to a $10 million deal after pitching three years overseas.

I took a look at those numbers over the weekend when I was looking at free agents, and I thought, this is an interesting player.

Yeah, I mean, I'd love to have them.

I think you can't have too many arms, right? That's what I would do.

But if you sign Mize, that means River, Ryan, and Drew Anderson and Olsen all need to work from the pen.

So many decisions.

But there are five UFAs total, and then they also release market value predictions for anybody who has a club or player or mutual or vesting, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, option on their contract as well.

So we can talk a little bit, Drew Anderson and Kenley Jansen.

Let's start with the top, right? We don't have to beat around the bush here, and we can just kind of go right into the biggest names.

Gleyber Torres made $22.025 million this past season for the Detroit Tigers.

I do think, however, there are significantly better ways to spend $18.2 million.

Significantly.

Matter of fact, just on this list, Drew Anderson, club option for 10 mil, Kenley Jansen, club option for 12 mil.

I don't need them to pick up Kenley Johnson's option, rather.

Ozzie Alves is a really, really good player.

I don't know too much about Drew Anderson.

If you've heard of him, guys, let me know.

These are some of the names that the Cubs could definitely turn back to and say, hey, what are your guys' thoughts on coming back here? Like, Sandy Ocontra is a club option for $21 million.

So this was an article Beck published, I don't know, probably about a week ago.

I thought they would be interesting fodder for... for some discussion let's start with the first one near and dear to my heart and specifically your heart will drew anderson and kenley jansen be back now they both have uh options for uh 2027 which is why this is a specifically interesting question

um this is gonna shock potentially yourself and some people i think they're both coming back next year But I do think Drew Anderson has earned it.

I mean, all things considered, he had a pretty solid season.

I mean, he had a 3.67 ERA with a 1.27 whip, 114 strikeouts.

It's not exactly like he's a young kid preparing his body or whatever.

But I do think that an entire offseason dedicated to that role specifically will probably help.

That said, I'm just broadly a Drew Anderson fan, so I'm in favor of that.

And, uh, on that's about it from what I can tell on the, um, in the lineup on the pitching side, obviously they already lost Terry Scooble via trade.

Um, they will expect to see Jack Flaherty hit the free agent market as well as Drew Anderson, who has a club option, um, Uh, with a hundred and some odd innings and, you know, a 3.6 ERA, you know, they could pick it up.

Um, I actually don't know how much the option is for, but let's just go on the expectation that Drew Anderson is also a free agent.

Uh, Kenley Jansen has a club option, uh, Still no word on what Detroit's going to do with that.

But, you know, again, they could find that he was good enough and they want him to be part of that team when he hits that milestone, that career saves milestone.

I'm looking at this $2 million buyout, $12 million option, so it costs him $10 million to keep him.

Yes, I expect him to be the closer coming into the season.

And a $10 million option here on Drew Anderson as well.