Have someone else that can close out games too like Whitlock or Houck? Need to have someone ready for next year anyway. May as well figure out an in house option and save some $$$.
Why? His numbers are decent in Japan, but he's most likely a 3 over here. Snell has ace upside. Imanaga does not. Monty throws a ton of innings. Imanaga throws even less innings than Yamamoto does. I like Imanaga, but there's a chance that his contract is NOT worth it. His game may not translate as well.
I think they need to trade some prospects and buy some FA's. I think they need to do both. They need a well rounded approach to fix the flaws of their current pipeline.
Well, you've been a Duran hater for a long, long time. Supposedly, Kelenic was the far superior prospect to you, but the Mariners dumped his ass this offseason because he has been a worse hitter than Duran so far.
MLB Network guys aren't the most reliable sources from what I've found. Maybe they just looked at his velo and said "oh, he doesn't throw mid 90's so he's less than and needs to go to the pen."