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  1. moonslav59
    Wow, it was 20. Freaking insane. You know they went into it thinking 20.
  2. moonslav59
    I like the IFK deal, if we add a 3B/2Bman like the ones mentioned. I'm done with DHam. He's good at 2B defense ONLY. he's a fine base-runner, but he can't get on base enough, even against RHP'ers only. That is not worthy of a 26 man slot on a playoff team. He could start for some teams and be okay, I guess. I like Sogard, Eaton and DHam as minor league depth, and if the rest of the 26 is fine, I'm okay with one on the bench, but two is pushing it. With guys like masa and Casas pushing for slots and sucking on defense, our other 3 bench slots are important. With Story and Mayer's injury histories, this need is further highlighted.
  3. moonslav59
    Self flagellation
  4. moonslav59
    Yes, I like the "best player available" approach, but we obviously took the "best pitcher" instead, recently, and I'm okay with sometimes doing that, but to me, it's time to balance more, while still keeping a focus on pitching. Remember that year the Angels took like 13 pitchers with their top 13 picks?
  5. moonslav59
    Brandon Lowe woulda been nice. The guy hits like 1150 at Fenway, too. I thought Polanco was affordable, but maybe he's not good enough on D for these guys. Donovan might have been expensive, but it was prospects and not Duran or Abreu needed to get him. Yes, he's a LHB, but so is DHam. I think Shaw or Hoerner can be acquired. I still think Paredes will be traded somewhere in the next week or two. The options are dwindling, but still there.
  6. moonslav59
    Brez is leading the league towards the new fad. Hmmm....
  7. moonslav59
    I thought hearing things over and over = truth for you.
  8. moonslav59
    Well, I did give the quote where Cora agreed that Devers was needed at 1B.
  9. moonslav59
    We have some trade chips to fix the problem. If it's about money, we could make a trade that adds no money or even saves us some. There is no reason to think we can't make a major addition to help. It won't be KMarte, but I do think we'll be a top 5-6 contender with Paredes, Hoerner or maybe Shaw, Baty or someone like them. I had hopes of getting to top 3-4, but 5 or 6 gives us a shot.
  10. moonslav59
    If we do add someone like Paredes, Horner, Shaw, Baty or ___, thebench will look pretty nice with IKF, Wong, Casas/Masa & one from DHam/Sogard/Eaton
  11. moonslav59
    I think it's safe to say, we can start refocusing on some non pitchers, but be more balanced, going forward. We did trade Sale for Grissom, 3 pitchers for Contreras & Tyler O'Neill for two pitchers, so we have used some pitchers to boost the everyday roster. (Most pitcher trades have been for other pitchers, and we've seen several everyday players traded for pitching, like the Crochet trade.)
  12. moonslav59
    I agree with Ole Red more than many think. IMO, he's dead wrong on thinking a player can tell his boss how to do his job and stick around.
  13. moonslav59
    I rarely take managements/ownerships side in these sorts of matters, but Devers knew the team wanted him at 1B. I don't care if a fan thinks he'd be better at DH. The team wanted him at 1B and he balked. He then agreed to play 1B with his ext team. How anyone can assign less than 1% blame on Devers is astounding, to me, but hey, some opinions are wildly different than our own.
  14. moonslav59
    As I grow older, I really try to stay away from the obsessive blame game our culture seems to have embraced. It's hard not to, for sure, but when I do it, I rarely think it's all on one person. Many people could have done things differently in this whole Devers fiasco, and he'd probably still be here. That being said, if he was, we'd probably not have Bregman, Ranger and Contreras here, right now, too. (2 our of the 3 for sure, IMO.)
  15. moonslav59
    Well said, and a fine opinion you have.
  16. moonslav59
    You could end up being right, but there is still time to make a deal. You were wrong on Ranger, and moved on much more quickly from that one compared to this one. You also kept forgetting the Contreras add as being significant, though not enough, I agree. I got a glimmer of hope when those twp roster slots opened up. Gasper and K-F were not my expected additions, but we can trade someone for a decent infielder. and then K-F looks much nicer.
  17. moonslav59
    One of these two might be more likely than finding a return to HOU for Paredes. I'd be happy with any of these three, but we cannot give up Duran or Abreu, and neither team is looking for a star for prospects deal. I keep coming back to who can be the third team?
  18. moonslav59
    Paredes hit .691 v LHPs, last year, but I think that was an outlier. It was only 71 PAs. He's .805 career and is entering prime, now. Shaw hit .808 vs LHPs in '24. Hoerner is career .788 v L. The Cubs may be a better match, but Hoerner has just one year remaining and Shaw is sort of an unknown on offense.
  19. moonslav59
    I used to think I'd trade Abreu for Paredes, King and Janek, but I'm not sure that's enough. It's a push on O, although it helps balance the L-R thing. King would help the pen, but more than Crawford or Harrison can? IDK.
  20. moonslav59
    I'm not sure we'll add much more money to the budget. If we add a 2B/3Bman who makes more money than we send away, I think we'll use our SP'er depth to fill out the pen.
  21. moonslav59
    The team has moved away from several long term philosophies under Brez. 1. Making pitching the top priority from the top to the bottom of the system. 2. Extending young promising players before they reach free agency, and even before arbs. 3. Signing a pitcher to a long term contract. (The last 2 longer deals were Story and Masa.) 4. Making the one and done contracts higher than $10M. (Breggie, Buehler, Chapman...) Some that may need to go/change: 1. No Trade Clauses 2. Trade Deadline big deal reluctance 3. Doing whatever it takes to get that "one guy" you really want 4. A GM who is poor at communication
  22. moonslav59
    It can't be Abreu for Paredes, even if they give us King, Sousa or Janek. It's a sideways move on O, despite balancing the L-R issue. HOU won't trade Paredes for prospects, unless it's like Tolle or Early, but I'm not sure they want pitching or like ours.
  23. moonslav59
    Who could be the third team that gives HOU the OF'er they need, takes our prospects or pitchers and we get Paredes? We aren't giving them Abreu, and they don't want Duran, apparently, or they won't add players like King, I suppose. We probably can't throw money into the deal as Paredes is due just over $9M, so the idea of maybe Reynolds plus cash to HOU could not be with our money. Any ideas?
  24. moonslav59
    No way we will be close to that.
  25. moonslav59
    That looks like the biggest what if of this winter. We'd also still have Fitts and Clarke to trade for someone else.
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