moonslav59
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I don't want Vaz back, either.
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That's almost 25% of our winter spending budget on a position maybe 5th or 6th on the highest need area list. I can see thinking going light at SS as we wait for Mayer. I can see going light in the OF as we wait for Rafaela, but Kike's time runs out after 2023, so I don't think we can skimp there. We lost Nate, Wacha and Hill from a rotation that was already weak. That has to be a higher priority for at least one slot. (I'd say two.) Our pen has at least two slots, including close or top set-up man that are higher needs than catcher. I rank our needs as such: 1. Pitcher (SP or solid RP) 2. Pitcher (RP or SP) 3. SS 4. RF 5. Pitcher 6. Catcher 7. Pitcher (maybe #6) 8. DH
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Because they still haven't figured it out.
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We were talking about losing Porcello and Price. That's 2019 to 2020. I'm also not sure where you got the $203M number for 2019. cots has $236M opening day, $228M end of season and $244 Tax budget. 2020: $185 on the tax budget. Yes, by March of 2022 we got back to close to the 2019 tax budget, which included non Bloom contracts (tax dollars): 25.6 Sale 22.0 JD 20.0 Bogey 17.0 Nate 16.0 Price That's over $100M out of $235 spent on players. Some gave us value- sometimes in up and down years: some not so much value. Do you really think Bloom's hand weren't tied for at least the first 2 years? With a farm full of just far away prospects and actual cuts to the budget, Bloom should have improved on the 2019 team? I get the 2022 argument and figuring injuries are part of the game and planning, but the expectations many set on Bloom from day one were way out of whack, IMO.
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I'd rather add 2 SP'ers and make room for 2 solid RP'ers on the 26. Sure, if Paxton goes on the 60, he'll clear a spot on the 40, but it's almost like we'd need to plan for that to add the 3-4 pitchers we need.
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1. Emphatically no, when your budget is cut. 2. Yes, he was handed a team headed into a COVID season, but the whole Covid thing was added after my point about him being in decline and fragile.
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1. Porcello's team control was up, so why mention him? 2. Price was in decline and spending too much time on the IL to expect a bounce-back. Then he opted out of the 2020 season, anyway.
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Like that proves Bloom could have spent $10, $20 or $30M more?
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I know that's why. I hear it here 18 times a day. Doesn't make it fair, especially when you add the context of us playing in the toughest division, by far.
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Maybe at $5-7M, like last winter?
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When you see what sketchy SP'ers have been signing for, I'm not so sure it's reach, and it's not like I was saying we'd get anything back, except maybe salary relief or we pay his salary and get a far away prospect that frees up a roster slot.
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All good points, MVP.
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On paper, yes, but we all know how Sale has done off paper. I wonder, if trading Paxton is being discussed.
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This is the part I think is unfair to Bloom. No GM in the last 3 or 4 have been handed a farm that added only one semi-key player in 5 years, 3 tight winter budgets in a row with too many open holes on the 40 to possibly fill with high quality players, while having to start your time as GM by trading away your best player (Betts) and up to that point, a solid SP'er (Price.) I get why success leads to higher expectations, but within the context of what Bloom was handed, was a ring within 3 years even close to a realistic goal? 2018 was so spectacular, and some of the core of that team was still around when Bloom took over, but the 2019 team sans Betts and Price was more of a hint at what Bloom was handed than 2018.
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I don't think I need to say it again, and I never have said he "decimated it" like other said. DD actually did better with the farm than I thought, but because he dealt away all but Devers of the ML ready or near ML ready prospects, going 5 years with just Houck is an insurmountable obstacle, alone, for any GM to be given high expectations to. Add the budget constraints and the forced trade of our best player, I think this speaks for itself, but obviously not to many, here.
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It's like a broken record, but none of those 3 GMs had a farm that produced just Houck in 5 years and 3 tight winter budgets in a row like Bloom has had. They all had deadwood and issues to fix, but IMO, not like Bloom.
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That is why I do not see us adding a 1Bman, unless casas is traded. I also think Dalbec-Hosmer at 1B by themselves, would not be a top 4-5 high need area, either- maybe #5.
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That's pretty good. I've mentioned all of these guys but Jensen, and I'm not against signing him, but I wonder what he'll get. Note: I do think Brantley's profile indicates a platoon role in LF or DH, but I'm not sure he'd like that or knowingly sign with a team looking to platoon him almost exclusively.
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He's not bad, but I would not have paid near $7M out of our winter budget on him. I don't see DH/1B as a high enough need area to dedicate around 8% (7/$90) of our winter budget on him.
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I do wonder a little why SPs still clings to such a high value for Downs (only dropped from 13th to 24th.) I know there is still hope for him, and his defense is good enough, but I'd have put him below #30. I also think Seabold should be lower than 22nd (dropped from #14,) as he is 26 years old. I guess his .656 OPS Against in 87 IP at AAA kept him afloat. Wilyer Abreu was ranked 26th, when we acquired him and Bello, Wink and Wong all graduated since the trade, so his drop to #29 is actually like a 6 slot drop. RHern staying at #28 is sort of like a drop, too. Ward slid slightly from #20 to #23, but all the others from 21-30 rose up in the rankings: NR> 21 Coffey +39 or more NR> 30 Brannon +30 or more 52> 26 Drohan +26 35> 25 German +10 37> 27 Kelly +10 Players not listed in the 21-30 rankings who were there before the re-sort are: 22 Kavadas 25 Rodriguez-Cruz I'm assuming they take Wong and Ward's slots in the top 20, as they should.
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As much of a gamble it is to count on Casas (Dalbec/Hosmer) at 1B and Dalbec/Hosmer/Refsnyder/Arroyo at DH (maybe EValdez, later), I think SS and RF are much higher need areas, and I'm not sure we'll have enough money to upgrade every weaker area. I also see catcher as a higher need than DH/1B.
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Not that this is a reason not to sign him, but the Astros almost traded for him to be Maldonado's back-up. He'd certainly be our FT catcher over McGuire, but it makes me wonder about his defense and staff-handling skills.
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$11.5 x 4 for Montero is one I'd have done. I would not have given Carlos Santana $6.725M or more for 1 year. I'd prefer an extra RP'er or an even an upgrade at catcher to trying to upgrade DH and 1B depth.
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Only if the plan was to trade Casas, and even then, I'm not sure Abreu would be the guy I look at first.
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Actually, hell no! Also, hell no on trading for Murphy.
