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  1. Thanks. Not a very cheerful outlook.
  2. Link to article? I can’t find it on google mexico
  3. Okay. Seperate the two. Not many teams were looking at taking on one big contract year of Betts. Maybe no teams wanted Price or even half Price. How could we have kept Betts and had the same 2020 budget? There is probably a way to have done it by trading one from JD, Nate, Sale plus half Price
  4. They need significantly better.
  5. I would include Drury.
  6. If it’s not at least near the tax line, it’s a punt and a sham.
  7. No. We are at least 2 very good SPers and a very good all around 2Bman away from being close. Just 1 SP, 2Bman and a guy from your list does not get us to 80 wins, IMO. 2 from Stroman, Imanaga or Giolito plus a 2Bman might. My list is short, at this point. Monty Stroman Imanaga Maybe Giolito or a guy like Bauer. Trade for Kim or Polanco. I might beE forgetting someone, but to me, falling short of even this downgraded list, is punting. I’m not interested in how we can punt better, unless it involves improving the 2025 outlook.
  8. Me, too. I felt just as badly after we traded away most of the late70’s team and lost Fisk.
  9. I’ve stated my preference: concentrate on quality over quantity. Put all the winter spending budget into 3 players: SP SP 2B Now, if we spend big on 2 guys and have very little left over, then maybe one of these guys might make sense. If we get even two SPers like Stroman and Imanaga, none of the guys you listed look to crack my top 13 opening day pitchers.
  10. Feel free to make suggestions that keep us from even 80 wins. If these are the guys we are serious about, count me out from having to choose from that group.
  11. Not even
  12. No doubt. I don’t think JH would have signed Betts, after 2019, even if he asked for$280/10.
  13. If these are the types of guys we are looking at, I’d rather we just play the kids and punt to 2025.
  14. I can’t see how we could have extended Betts and got to the budget of 2020. Nobody takes Price off our hands without Betts or Bogey. BTW, I just said clear evidence, not that it shows trading Betts was a 100%. IMO, he was a goner after that 2019 season.
  15. Many working age families are moving to Texas.
  16. It’s still better to have the 5th pick than 15-20.
  17. Certainly the ceilings are higher in the 25 group.
  18. Probably close to the same as the team was thought to be LAD. I would find it very strange to think maybe we did not seek out all the possible trade parters before choosing the one we felt was the best, at the time. To me, the fact that DD almost traded Betts at the deadline, but hopes of making the playoffs put it off, is clear evidence a trade was already decided on after the 2019 team failed to advance.
  19. Yes, and how many teams were able to take on the contracts of Betts and half Price?
  20. This is worse than the time we traded Lynn, Burly, Lee, Cooper and lost Fisk by not offering him a contract on time? There were other long stretches of little to no hopes.
  21. Starting with at least one doing very well from Rafaela and Abreu.
  22. Usually, where there are high taxes, there is also a higher cost of living. People often move to places where they can get more bang for their bucks.
  23. I liked him before he signed, but never as the top pitcher we sign.
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