Sale? His advanced numbers are not that bad. Not great but better than our other starters this year.
fWAR
Bello 2.1 148 IP
Crawford 1.9 118 IP
Sale 1.9 92.2 IP
Max has a partial point, but he is stretching it a wee bit.
Story has played much better D than Kike, obviously, but Story's offense has been so bad that he has an fWAR of -0.2. (Kike's was -1.8.)
They would be the consensus top 2 targets.
Next question - how much will it cost to win those auctions?
Has to be a cool half billion total (roughly).
I'd love it too, but hard to say if Henry is thinking that way.
Old Schoolers tend to think Buck Showalter is a good manager, even though he's never taken a team to the World Series, and oversaw the Mets expensive disaster this year.
It's a mighty big if. We've had this discussion before, but I don't know what the rules are about making trades contingent on extensions. And in this case you're talking about 2 extensions!