moonslav59

What Lou says is always the truth. You win. A glitzy Rizzo was what we should have gone after.

Every year, decent 1Bmen sign one year deals. That's what we may do, this winter, assuming Schwarber is not around or sucked at 1B, this season.

Fun, fun, fun!

Although this is the 2021 thread, here' my peak at the 2022 forty man roster. Blue= My projected 40 man roster Free Agents: ERod Ottavino Marwin Santana Options: Keep- Vaz $7M Maybe- Perez $6M Bye-bye- Richards $10M Andriese $3.5M Opt Out/Mutual option: JD Martinez Schwarber (mutual option $11.5M/$3M buy out) For sure: Bogaerts Barnes Sale Devers Brasier Eovaldi Taylor DHern Eovaldi Plawecki (last arb) Verdugo P Valdez Pivetta Arroyo Houck Bazardo Mata Groome Wong Seabold Whitlock Renfroe Kike Cordero Sawamura Ro Hernandez Duran Bubble: Rosario Potts Rios Robles A Davis Arauz Rule 5: Jecorrah Arnold Brayan Bello Cole Brannen Gary Calvo Marco Cardoso Pedro Castellanos Felix Cepeda Kole Cottam Kutter Crawford Ricardo Cubillan Osvaldo De La Rosa Tyler Dearden Jonathan Diaz Danny Diaz Jeter Downs Tyler Esplin Durbin Feltman Ryan Fernandez Ryan Fitzgerald Antoni Flores Frank German Rio Gomez Devlin Granberg Gilberto Jimenez Jose Larez Dominic LoBrutto Bryan Lucas Charlie Madden Alan Marrero Elih Marrero Joan Martinez Alexander Montero Oddanier Mosqueda Brendan Nail Brett Netzer Tanner Nishioka Kaleb Ort Yusniel Padron-Artiles Aaron Perry Antonio Police AJ Politi Ceddanne Rafaela Oscar Rangel Tyreque Reed Jesus Rosillo Yasel Santana Victor Santos Zach Schellinger John Schreiber Gregori Segovia Chase Shugart Miguel Suero Jake Thompson Thaddeus Ward Grant Williams Josh Winckowski FA: SP'er RP'er 1B Utility That's 38 Total:the next 2 can be FA signings, extra rule 5's or bubble players.

Nobody is saying some players end up with better clutch stats. If you randomly distributed clutch hits, some players would end up with much better numbers than others. How can you prove Montgomery doesn't just have random luck? (Hint: you can't tell for sure- just as I can't prove it's not a skill.)

Dalbec will very likely be on the 2022 40 man roster, unless he is traded. He will not be DFA'd.

What a waste of whatever innings he pitches with Woo.

Clutch hits are real. It’s just not a repeatable skill.

Stop joking!

I thought I heard somewhere the team had the first option and if they did not exercise it then Schwarber could accept a certain amount over the $3M buyout. If I’m wrong, I bet we extend him.

Better yet, there was an 11 game stretch where he had a 3.09 ERA. That was 58.1 IP (or about 5 1/3 each start) with a .658 OPS Against. (First 11 starts) He was still at a 4.04 ERA after 16 starts (76 IP)

I'd rather see Kike in CF, as I have always felt is the best spot for him on this team. Once Arroyo returns, Kike should be our FT CF'er. 1. Kike CF 2. Devers 3B 3. JD DH 4. Bogey SS 5. Schwarber 1B 6. Renfroe RF 7. Verdugo LF 8. Arroyo 2B 9. Vaz C Bench: Plawecki Duran Marwin Dalbec

Rizzo is a glitzy mirage.

I haven't in a while. It helped that he has posted less than before.

So, we can't get a 1Bman this winter? They are a dime a dozen. BTW, what is the Schwarber option specifically like?

We shouldn't even count on 2023 for Casas. I think he'll be ready, but it is far from certain.

LOL. We are talking about 2023. There's a long time between this past deadline and 2023 to acquire a 1Bman, if Schwarber doesn't work out there and has to be moved to DH or LF.

True, but I'm tired of calling him a liar.

I guess they did not want to bench Verdugo, Kike or Arroyo.

Both hammies are not stretched.

I think we keep Duran over Cordero, once 1B gets settled. If that is September 1st, we keep em all up.

I've given up on Richards. I'd give Perez another start or two. I'm not sure Perez can pitch from the pen, not because I think he's worse than Richards, though. I'm clinging to hope for Ockimey, because I had him as my "sleeper prospect" two years in a row- way back when...

Then, it was a very bad pick to start with. The high K rate is not what it used to be. Half the league has high K rates.

So optimistic, you are.

We're not actually trying Cordero.