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Cots says... 26:$8M mutual option ($750,000 buyout)

Plan A: Alonso and Suarez (who will likely get 2-3 years only.) Trade for a SP2. Polanco turns 33 next summer. If he'd take 3 years, maybe he could be plan A.

I'm in total agreement. I think we need two major additions, minimum, but one is essential.

The window is from now until 3 maybe more years. It's a big bay window.

I could see this being near plan A. (I removed Cease and Gallen.) I'd like to see Alonso & Polanco/Suarez, but that is unrealistic for JH to allow.

I'd bet my house against that. I doubt Alonso even gets $200M, but I would not bet against $200M/6 or 7. Maybe he gets $170M/5 or $186M/6. Even that seems way too high compared to last winter.

I'm okay with him as our #2 catcher, but not as #3/UT on the MLB roster.

We coulda not gone over, this year, if not for the Hicks deal, but despite what was said, I think SFG insisted on him being taken.

He's so bad on defense that he's really a DH-like signing, but one could argue Devers was, too. I won't be surprised if he signs for $30-35M AAV, but I'm guessing there will be a sort of repeat of last winter, but he'll get slightly more and longer terms. He got $27M x 2 w an optout. He may get $30M x 5, $33M x 4 or $31M x 3, IMO.

I'd like to see if Mookie's "twitch times" have diminished before projecting his future offensive production. IMO, that was a big reason for his success.

3rd C/UT in AAA is fine, but rather expensive for that role.

Too much time to think during a bye.

Give him a 2nd year option with a $1M buyout, so the AAV is $3M. (Assuming we add no better 1Bman.) If we go large at 3B or 2B, SP2 and DH, I'd be okay with Lowe/Romy and the Casas prayer at 1B.

I'm all for the idea- even going over the second line. To reset, next year, they may need to sign 1-2 players on 1 year deals, but what else is new? Expiring contracts after 2026 (AAV): $9.1 Sandoval $7.5 Whitlock Arbs: 3 of 3: Houck 3 of 4: Crawford 2 of 3: Duran, Romy, Casas, Wong, Kelly 2 of 4: Bernardino, Winckowski 1st: Abreu, Slaten, Criswell, Weissert, Murphy, DHam This is not a lot of lost salary or big arb raises projected- maybe Duran's, but Abreu's is year 1.

Indeed, but our record with one and dones has been putrid. Getting 3-4 good years, 2-3 okay years and 2-3 bad years would be a better record than we have had so far. Plus, our window is no, so getting those "good years" up front was what we needed.

What's your position? You say this, but also gave a thumbs up to this: Given the other needs, this isn't a tough call. Wong just had an awful start to the season and never recovered, but look around.......not many teams have better backups.

Not from JH.

After a lack luster season, Vladdy is having a better post season at the plate than even Ohtani! 8 HRs is 65 ABs (same as Ohtani) BBs to Ks: 12:5 Vladdy 14:22 Ohtani

I wouldn't pay $10-11M, so I'm not offering him an arb. I could see us signing him to less, later on, but I see about 6 1Bmen I'd sign before him.

I'm not advocating staying under, but you know why. JH is a stingy SOB. I thought I remember you saying you thought they "would reset, next year," but maybe I'm wrong. Either way, when was the last time we went over by a significant amount?

Casas will likely start on IL. The main question is the 60 or 15? I've been defending Casas on offense, of late, but no way can we plan on him being the 1Bman for 2026. If anything, plan on him being in the DH mix by May or June and an emergency back-up 1Bman going forward. I'm fine with Hoskins or even Josh Bell, as long as we get big bopper for another slot. Alonso would be great, and I'm really not so sure why everyone thinks 4 teams will bid him into the stratosphere, when he's a year older than last winter. He's going to get a lot, but we're not talking Vladdy money, Tucker money or even Devers money. I'm pulling for Alonso plus Suarez or Polanco, but I know those odds are miniscule. If Alonso ends up moving to DH, Suarez can move to 1B and Mayer to 3B (from SS or 2B.) If we get Polanco, then Alonso probably sticks at 1B for a few years. He's not any worse on D than Casas, who could end up DH'ing, eventually. Polanco is a switch hitter who has nice splits. Alonso & Suarez would be 2 RHBs, but that's okay. Maybe try to keep Duran & Abreu and trade RHBs Garcia & Campbell, instead. Throw in DHam.... lol. Can we get Ryan or Lodolo for Campbell, Garcia and Sandlin? If yes, then... 1. L Anthony LF 2. S Polanco 2B 3. L Abreu RF/ R Refsnyder RF 4. R Alonso 1B 5. L Duran DH/ R Romy DH 6. R Story SS/2B 7. L Mayer 2B/SS 8. R Narvaez C 9. R Rafaela CF (Or vs RHPs Duran in CF, Yoshida at DH and Rafaela on the bench)

Blue Jays!!!

Someone finally moved Devers to 1B! LOL

Is this maybe the best we can expect from a cheap organization? $16M x 2 Suarez $15M x 2 M Kelly $14M x 3 Hoskins That's the $45M that might bring us right up to but below the tax line.

I'm not predicting we do nothing or seek status quo: i'm just not going to expect more. I was pleasantly surprised, last winter. Like many of our signings, last winter could easily have been Brez's one & done.