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How's this plan with a heavy lean to Asia? Sign Yamamoto, Imanaga, Jung Hoo Lee, & Duvall. Trade Duran & Mata for Rogers & Berti Trade Dugo for Torres SP: Yamamoto, Imanaga, Bello, Rogers, Sale/Pivetta RP: Jansen, Martin, Wink, Campbell, Schreiber, Houck, Crawford, Whitlock C: Wong, McGuire 1B: Casas 2B: Torres, Berti SS: Story, Reyes 3B: Devers LF: Abreu/Refsnyder CF: Lee, Rafaela RF: Duvall DH: Yoshida

The one loss teams: GA Lost to #8 AL (won't be #8 anymore) Win #9 Missouri Win #11 Mississippi Ohio St. Lost at #2 Michigan (will be #1)t Win v #7 Penn St Win @ #15 ND Alabama Lost v #7 Texas Win #1 GA Win v #11 Mississippi Win v #13 LSU Texas Lost v #12 OKL Win @ #8 AL Win #19 OKL St

It looks like Yoshida was an overpay. It looks like Story was an overpay. Some think the Devers extension was an overpay. At some point, why not overpay on our position of highest need? I'm not saying Monty is "that guy," but we need to go large and long on a pitcher at some point. I was wrong about Price looking like the type you gamble on, but when you can't develop an ace, and you have 3-4 big need areas, you can't use your farm to trade for 4 guys, without it coming back to bite us in the ass. I think I'd prefer Monty over Snell. Yamo looks like this year's big prize, but I'm not sure he's "that guy," either. I could see us trading for one SP'er and just signing a guy like Seth Lugo, ERod or Wacha. If it's Burnes, at least we'll be better off than we have been since 2018 or 2019, but what will CB cost?

At some point a deal like this needs to be done. I don't see any aces in our system. It's been a long time since we traded a top 5 prospect. We haven't signed a big FA pitchers since Price. We may have to do both to get back in the race. We may have to do both, twice.

BTV accepted: Duran & Mata (I'd throw in Walter.) for Rogers and Berti

The winningest teams in NCAA Football: 1. Michigan .733 T2. Ohio St .731 T2. Alabama .731 4. Notre Dame .730 (Texas at .701)

Yes, the conference championships give some teams one more shot to make it or lose their slot (like maybe GA.) Iowa plays but not Ohio St. The whole ranking system is flawed, but with so many teams and so many varying schedules and dubious strength of schedule formulas, it's hard to know who is the best. It was a good idea to go to 4 teams, and I think that expands, next year, but there will always be one team thinking they should have gone to the dance over another team. Is GA the 1 loss team that make it? Ohio St lost by 3 at MI, who will not be #1. GA lost to a lower ranked team. I can't see Texas making it. Maybe several 1 loss teams are better than Wash & FSU.

I meant to type "I don't think..."

They all pretty much play 12, but the conference schedules are not balanced, in terms of who they play from one year to the next

I do t think Monty makes more than $27M AAV… $28 tops.

Yes, he’s out of options. That’s why I threw him in.

He looks like about an equal gamble as Duran, but he's a SP'er with one good year under his belt (2021.) Not only would I trade Duran for Rogers (BTV=25.2), I'd throw in Walter at 4.4 or Mata at 2.3. BTV accepts Duran, Walter & Mata for Rogers & Cabrera.

Alabama up 17-7 on Georgia. Please NO! Washington won, last night. If FSU wins, they are in, and if AL wins, these teams have 1 loss: Georgia Ohio St. Texas Alabama One makes it.

I meant Trevor Rogers. Our views on Duran are close to the same.

He will likely get more than $120M/5. I'm thinking maybe $140M/6.

You think he's a solid investment? There is a reason BTV has him valued close to Duran (who I do think they overvalue.) 18 IP in 2023 (4.00 ERA) 107 IP in 2024 (5.47 ERA) 2022-2023: 5.26 ERA (4.32 FIP) 1.464 WHIP 3.7 BB/9 Career 4.12 ERA (3.50 FIP is not bad) 1.33 WHIP 3.5 BB/9 They both have question marks.

I didn't say they were successes. I'm just pointing out the last times we went large on a FA SP'er. Perhaps those results is why we don't do it anymore. Our success rate with trades for aces is much better: Pedro Schilling Beckett Sale Nate

Wakefield was our ace for some small stretches.

And we snagged Whitlock off Rule 5.

The stubbornness on overpaying for SP'ers has been a long-standing issue. I keep waiting for the next Price or Lackey, but I've lost hope.

He'd be the #2 on 5-10 teams, the #3 on another 5-10 teams and the #4 on 5-10 of the remaining 15 teams.

This guy keeps a straight face! Add Crawford and SEA still says no.

Apparently, the Mets have made Yamo their top focus. That could leave Snell and Monty for the Rangers, Yanks, Sox and others to fight over.

I never thought we'd be serious contenders for him, even if we knew we'd go up to the second tax line. That would be about $72M. $287M AAV SP1 $25M AAV SP2 $12M 2B or OF (Big RHB) $8M OF or 2B

I'm really not one to think improving a rotation by upgrading your #5 is worth the resources. I'd prefer to add a #1 or 2 and push our current #4 into the 5 slot. I do see Wacha as a #3-4, so he would not be a bad addition, especially if he was our #5, but we'd have to add 2 better pitchers plus him to make him the 5. 1. Yamo 2. Monty 3. Bello 4. Sale (Houck/Crawford) 5. Wacha Out of Houck, Crawford, Pivetta and Whitlock, the decision on who starts is not easy. The less we have to use in te rotation the better for the rotation AND the pen. I think Whitlock is my first choice for total pen duty. We need to keep him healthy and hope he can return to what he gave us back in 2021. Crawford and Houck are neck and neck for my second pen choice. I think Crawford can go deeper in starts, but Houck can do better over the first 18 batters. Assuming we add two inning eater SP'ers and with the pen as deep and strong as it should be, I'd start Houck and go with Crawford in the pen. Pivetta is my first choice, out of these 4 to start. He gives innings and has been a pretty good #5 in all 3 seasons with us. He's had 3 of the team's top 11 fWARs as a SP'er since 2021. That's 3 years and 15 rotation slots.