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I'd say... 99% Sandlin 20% Mullins 10% Monegro 5% Uberstine <1% all others.

How long can you stash a guy on the IL before losing your rights to a Rule 5 selction?

Agreed, but if you do trade one of the 4, an argument can be made for KC or JG to make the 26. (I's prefer bringing Ref back and having the two prospects play FT in AAA.)

100% the right thing to do. They've done it with much lesser pitchers at greater costs.

Apparently, nobody dared to tell him to play 1B.

Sign Alonso, Merrill Kelly, Matz & Refsnyder Trade Duran, Campbell & Crawford for K Marte 1. L Anthony LF 2. S Marte 2B 3. L Abreu RF/R Story SS 4. R Alonso 1B 5. R Story SS/L Abreu RF 6. L Yoshida DH/ R Refsnyder DH 7. L Mayer 3B/ R Romy 3B 8. R Narvaez C 9. R Rafaela CF Bench: Wong, Romy, Refsnyder, Sogard/DHam SP: Crochet, Kelly, Bello, 2 from Sandoval, Dobbins, Harrison, Early, Tolle, Perales RP: Chapman, Whitlock, Slaten, Matz, Weissert, Fitts, Bernardino1 from Hicks, Murphy, Moran, Criswell, Wink, Kelly, Sandlin

Hoskins and Bell are in the running. Don't be shocked if it's Casas & Romy.

He did go 3 years in a row with 180+ IP, but yes, me too. There are better options. I do wonder if MN is looking to dump some salary and might be more willing to part with Ryan, if we take Lopez, too. Not in the sense of a dump. He will cost more value, but as a way to jump start their rebuild. Duran for Painter. Painter, Campbell, Early and Sandlin for Ryan & Lopez

Post of the Month.

He should be tenderized.

He had arm trouble, too. He turns 30 in the spring, so not so old. 117 ERA+ since 2021. 3.48 FIP Borderline 2/3

Was Castillo?

We're talking last winter.

I figured he might get $180M/6, but that's probably too much. I wanted a lower AAV. Yes, $180M/7 is off. Maybe more like $150M/5, so offer $160M/6? Better?

Casas and _____ But I didnt really even mean Casas.

Naylor has been pretty good for longer than the SSS with SEA. OPS+ since 2022: 121, 130, 118, 128 (124 average) He's 28. How about Alonso? 146, 123, 122, 144 (134 average) Turns 31 in 3 weeks.

There is talk of a deal like Duran for Lodolo, which BTV says is a significant overpay by the Sox. MN might like the many years of control Abreu has, of we can involve a third team to give MN the prospects they want, and the other teams gets Duran plus others from us. Let's say what you want happens, and we trade Masa for some salary relief. Why would we DH Duran, when his value as an OF'er is so much higher? (Please don't say DH Anthony or rotate GG OF'ers through the position.) Duran is worth more to a team short of OF help than to us. On top of having Anthony, we also have Campbell and Jh Garcia. YES, WE HAVE TO TRADE AN OF'er. An argument could be made to trade two (Duran + Campbell or Garica.)

Monegro is coming off a major injury and may not even pitch in 2026. Nobody will take up a slot for that, and he's not really even all that promising. I know our farm has a lot of pitching prospects, but he's like our 18th ranked pitcher. Uberstine is our 12th ranked pitcher at age 26. I have no issue leaving him unprotected. I think we protect Sandlin and nobody else. My closest to borderline are: Mullins and maybe Bleis. Paez might be, but he's hurt, too.

I'm okay with going light somewhere or (gasp!) actually suggest a platoon, but only if we make major gains with a top bat plus another decent one of better. Returning Bregman is nice, but it's sideways. We need a better bat or Breggie plus a better bat.

Yes, that was a widely held view, at the time (or Casas and ____.) I see a deal for Pablo Lopez, this winter as a similar type set-up (with no Masa.)

I was hoping for Woo, but I think I said okay to Miller. Who leads the site if suggested Duran trades?

Bats Schwaber needs to be target #1. Deal with the DH jam afterwards. Alonso is a clear #2, IMO. Sure, he and Casas suck on D, but if we don't get #1, one can DH at some point. (Tucker plays OF and is too expensive.) Big gap.... #3 KMarte may cost too much, but kick the tires, even if we gat #1 or #2. Big gap... Bichette, Polanco, Suarez, Bregman (I'd love to get a #1-3 plus one of these. Two of these might be enough, but...)

If you go by fangraphs "Offense" 6. Schwarber 15 Tucker 16 Alonso 23 K Marte 26 Y Diaz (27 Devers) 33 Bichette 39 Naylor 40 Bellinger 41 Polanco 52 O'Hearn (56 Duran) The guy many of us suggest trading away for an arm. 57 Suarez (59 Anthony in a half season) wRC+ 9 Schwarber 12 K Marte 13 Alonso 15 Anthony 26 Tucker 27 Devers, 29 Diaz, 30 Bichette. 35 Polanco 43 Naylor, 45 O'Hearn, 49 Bregman 51 bellinger, 53 Suarez

I thought Story at 2B was a nice pasta. He just got hurt. Kiki was okay at 2B, sucked at SS and did best of all in CF. Arroyo was okay. Holt was more of an all around guy, but did fine. Grissom has some high hopes, but fell way short. E Valdez was a bust. Others seemed more temporary in nature and we never meant to be FT fixes. Most hit the wall and slid down to the floor too quickly. fWAR/gms since 2019: 2.5/94 Story 2.1/72 Kiki 1.6/151 Arroyo 1.3/59 Holt 0.8/63 Romy 0.6/16 Iggy ____________ 0.6/86 DHam 0.5/68 Chavis 0.2/72 Sogard 0.2/88 Urias ____________ -0.2/57 KC -0.2/89 Peraza -0.2/100 Reyes -0.4/119 Marwin -0.5/88 Nunez -0.3/55 Y Sanchez -0.5/105 E Valdez -0.5/109 Grissom -0.7/131 Marco H -0.2/29 Owings -1.0/91 Arauz -0.3/29 Lin -1.1/100 Rafaela Pedey+Munoz+Gasper were -0.6 combined in just 10 games at 2B (This is not a complete list of all the soggy pasta.)

Some love for Roman... https://www.mlb.com/news/roman-anthony-rookie-season-analysis Quotes... -his plate discipline looks even more impressive. Anthony showed a particularly keen eye on pitches that looked like strikes but weren’t, swinging at less than 30% of the out-of-zone pitches he saw on the edges of the plate. -he registered an average bat speed of 75.1 mph (75 mph is considered “fast” in Statcast parlance) and squared up the ball 26.1% of the time. To put it as simply as we can, more than one in four of his swings achieved at least 80% of the maximum exit velocity possible given the pitch velocity and his bat speed. it’s no surprise that Anthony absolutely blistered the baseball, registering an average exit velocity of 94.1 mph with a hard-hit rate of 60.1%. No one -- not Kyle Schwarber or Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge -- generated hard contact (95+ mph exit velocity) at a higher clip. -he was no slouch on defense. His 6 Outs Above Average and +4 Fielding Run Value are evidence of that, but those figures are counting stats. For someone who didn’t play a full season, they only tell part of the story. To get a clearer understanding of his range, consider his success rate added, which shows the difference between a fielder’s actual success rate and the percentage of plays an average fielder would be expected to make with the same opportunities. Only one outfielder (minimum 75 attempts) had a higher success rate added than Anthony.