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  1. Hitch
    If Phillies ate a lot of the contract or at the very least took Masa and Hicks off our hands, that would be something, but not sure I see either as very likely. He'd be a vast improvement on our 1st base for a few years, but it's still a risky contract to take on to say the least. Really hard to judge what it would take to get him out of there. Phillies clearly want to parse some payroll though. It's not an uninteresting proposal.
  2. Hitch
    Anyone looking for the sunny side of this deal is at least a couple of years too early, and it's still not going to have made any sense. It's a trade that will haunt this franchise for decades. That said, I do think they offered him a competitive and fair deal when they put $200m in front of him after his down season in Year 2. His mother made the right call, but it wasn't an insignificant amount of money to offer him. After that he was only ever getting superstar money however, and deserved every penny.
  3. Hitch
    Skubal is likely going to be on the trade block. Apparently, he and Detroit are $250m apart, so an extension would be miles north of $30m x 6. If he guarantees the extension with a deal, I'd trade virtually anyone for him that isn't Roman Anthony. I'd happily send them Mayer if they want to take the risk on his injuries.
  4. Hitch
    I wanted Alonso last off season. I want him again this one. Defence is a bit of a worry but that bat would be big.
  5. Hitch
    I thought the same thing when I read that part. We very much are one of those teams. And while I agree Bregman always planned to opt out, the injury lay off and then fall off of form was not planned for. He likely will, but I'm far from sure on it. In fact I've been leaning that he'd stay for a while now.
  6. Hitch
    Soto himself said they come for him hard. I get that it is hard to trust these guys after the thrift of the past half a decade, but I think we can put this one to bed.
  7. Hitch
    I'd quite like to see Mariners Brewers in the WS. I don't have any dog in the fight so I'll pick Mariners just because it would make Harmony happy, and they seem like good people.
  8. Hitch
    Preller loves Duran. He's going to want him or nobody from us I think.
  9. Hitch
    Oh that's sobering. I didn't realise it was that bad.
  10. Hitch
    This is true. But at least we'll have a little more clarity shortly after the WS. I'm still not convinced he's opting out. I would imagine Boras and Bres are in constant dialogue about the possibility of a restructured deal at the moment.
  11. Hitch
    It's crazy how much more solid and exciting our lineup would be if we knew we could pencil in Mayer to player 150 games at 2nd/SS. Let's hope this wrist thing is in the past now. I'm excited to see what Dobbins and Crawford can do next year. Casas is a write off for me. See if you can send him and Hicks together (instead of Duran as you suggested in the other thread) for nothing and clear the money. I originally entertained the idea they'd just non-tender Houck. But I don't think they'll do that now. They love an injury project. Narvaez is the big one. We need him coming through that injury clean and healthy and ready to go. Notin's idea to trade for Murphy feels more and more pressing by the day.
  12. Hitch
    Who? Who would want a light hitting, overpaid DH? Just to get Duran? Who's the fit, because I can;t think of anyone. We send Duran with Masa or Hicks, we get next to nothing back. The only reason you do something like the Masa deal (if you could pull it off) is if you're getting Schwarber through the door. That mitigates the nothing you'll be getting back in the deal. Otherwise it's a salary dump to lose Duran. No thanks.
  13. Hitch
    I'd love us to get Alonso but last year was the time to gamble on him. This past year likely puts him out of our range in both dollars and years, even if Bregman doesn't come back.
  14. Hitch
    Agreed, all the guesses and summations are not worth a lot right now, not until we know what Bregman is doing and where we stand financially. But in terms of the pitching, I wonder if/wouldn't mind if we package some of our younger highly rated pitchers into one ready pitcher now. Ryan is the obvious choice after the Twins sell off. Maybe we can give them a few of our pitchers with high ceilings but a year or two away for Ryan. Not sure if that would interest the Twins mind,. We have got A LOT of pitchers in the organisation. We're going to need to find ways to make them work for us at some point.
  15. Hitch
    I mean, we knew he was new to the job, right? Why are we ragging on him for actually learning as he's going? I swear people just search day and night for things to bitch about.
  16. Hitch
    The way teams view prospects has changed. They have no compunction in easing prospects in now and having them mostly platoon to start. As we saw virtually the entirety of Mayer's time when healthy. But regardless you mention Password being up in the scenario of Abreu and Duran being traded. We better have a fantastic pitcher and infielder back in those deals because we will have just weakened our outfield significantly if the Password is starting LFer. I think there's no chance of that happening, bar injuries. I'm not convinced one outfielder gets traded, never mind two. I think it's a lot longer than you think. When we badly needed offence in the last month he couldn't even earn a September call up. the kid has a long journey to prove he is MLB worthy. I hope he does, he seems like a super kid. My odds are against at the moment.
  17. Hitch
    I could not see this at all. If we go onto the season with those 4 players combining for LF, Bres has got something very, very wrong. Not to mention Masa will hardly ever see the field.
  18. Hitch
    It's not about giving up on him. He's not proven he's worthy of a spot. His offence isn't good enough and he's proven a bad defender at every position. It would be ridiculous to start the season with him in left. He's got a long road ahead of him before he proves himself worthy of anything yet. The Password would be risk enough - he should be the back up at best to start.
  19. Hitch
    Casas last year was a good example. It was patently clear that we as a fan base valued Casas way higher than opposing GMs.
  20. Hitch
    You cannot go into next season with Kristian Campbell as your starting outfielder. Or the Password. But most definitely not Campbell.
  21. Hitch
    I agree, I see next to zero likelihood we even look at Tucker never mind bid for him. But it's still too simplistic to say they wouldnt add in the outfield because of our infield. You never know just how other teams see Duran and Abreu. If a couple are willing to way overpay and solve our #2 and infield/potential 3B problem you trade them and make another move for your outfield. I think we'll end up packaging one of them with pitching and trading for our #2. Infield will be an uninspiring move i fear.
  22. Hitch
    DH is only open if Masa and Ref are gone. And even then, if we don't trade one of Abreu/Duran, we will need the DH spot for the outfield jam. Our 1B needs to be playing a lot of games. 2B is almost certainly going to Story/Mayer. 3B will be interesting if Bregman opts out. I can't shake the feeling he isn't however. That injury and late season slump will hurt him. Ideal world is he stays with us for the next two years and we miss out on the bad part of any potential contract coming his way into his latter years. C - would not be a surprise if it's Wong as back up again. Definitely need some bullpen help and a #2 (wouldn't be surprised to see a #3 come in though). We've got stuff to do, but I don't think we'll be getting anywhere near as much as some of the lists I've seen bandied about, including yours. I think we'll see a few trades this summer, however.
  23. Hitch
    It's too simplistic to say that the infield is where the problems are, so we won't sign anyone in the outfield. We would just make trades from our outfield depth to bring in the help needed at infield in that case. The bigger issue is that we have next to no chance of signing Tucker. Regardless, I'd be very surprised if one of Abreu/Duran isn't moved this off season.
  24. Hitch
    In a dream world, we find someone to take Masa off our hands. Trade Casas for something, then sign Alonso to play 1st and Schwarber to play DH. Suddenly our line up looks deadly, especially if Bregman stays. But, that's in a dream world.
  25. Hitch
    Romy needs to be a utility/platoon player not an every dayer at any position.
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