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  1. moonslav59
    How about this? Get KC to dump some salary, but lessen the budget hit by getting them to take some of our lesser salary dumps with some prospects. We get: Danny Duffy (LH's SP'er) $13M x 3 (~$4.3M towards 2019 tax budget) Ian Kennedy (RH'd Closer) $14M x 2 (~$4.7M for 2019) Total: $9M towards 2019 budget, $27M in 2020 and $13M in 2021 KC gets: Steve Pearce $6.25M/1 (~$2.35M owed at deadline) Eduardo Nunez $6M/1 (~$2.15M owed at deadline) Total: $4.5M in 2019 They save $4.5M this year, $27M next year and $13M in 2021 ($45M total) Plus prospects: Dalbec Duran Shawaryn Maybe get them to take Castillo to even up some 2020 money.
  2. moonslav59
    If that is your opinion, then you should be for trading Betts, before all we get is a crappy draft pick after he refuses our QO. When would you trade him? Now? At the deadline? This winter? 2020 deadline? (Might as well trade Porcello, too, right?)
  3. moonslav59
    I'm sure DD signed off on it, but that's not even my point. My point is that our "well-rested" starters have sucked their last 3 starts and longer. It's hard to blame Cora for that. Our pen over achieved for weeks and weeks, despite being over worked. They are finally pitching like expectations projected they would.It's hard to blame Cora for that. We can't buy a hit, when we need it, and I guess that's Cora's fault, too. In my opinion, the players are the first to blame, especially the talented ones who are under performing of not rising to the challenge when needed. DD is second. Cora is third. Henry is beyond reproach.
  4. moonslav59
    Pablo's contract is gone from the luxury tax budget after this year. Castillo, who doesn't count on the tax budget, is gone after next year. Pedey's contract is dead weight, and our best pitcher right now, Price, is under contract a few more years, but this winter, the budget is squarely on DD's shoulders. If we can't win by paying more than any other team, I don't see it as being Cora's fault, especially after he led a team not projected to win it all to a championship last year. Of course, Cora deserves some of the blame, but this is DD's roster. This is DD's pen. This will be DD's budget and farm next year.
  5. moonslav59
    With the state of our farm and budget going forward, is DD "on this ice"as well?
  6. moonslav59
    It's sad but true. I have more confidence in Wright than anyone else, except Workman & Brewer, as of right now. That's not the same as saying I have confidence he will be good going forward... just "better" than putrid.
  7. moonslav59
    I disagree, and I think my interpretation is totally within reason. Also, do you think Cora acted totally alone on the decision to rest our SP'ers in ST'ing?
  8. moonslav59
    "any" confidence does not mean a lot.
  9. moonslav59
    Thornburg is just a minor cost, but $1.75M adds up. He was an arb player that we could have refused. Others he overspent on were... Moreland ($13M/2) Nunez ($6M) Maybe Eovaldi & Sale (to be determined) If you add Eovaldi, Moreland, Pearce, Thornburg and Nunez, it's almost $37M (about 1/6 of our tax budget). DD has made some very good choices. His overall record is very good when looking through the lense of winning now, but there is no denying he has emptied the farm and is "partially" responsible for some "dead contract" players on this year's team.
  10. moonslav59
    I was speaking about mostly just recent starts. Cherry-picked sample sizes, granted, but here are some recent SP'er numbers: Sale: 5.29 ERA last 3 starts (3.30 last 9 starts) Price: 6.57 ERA last 3 starts (4.38 last 5 starts) Porcello: 7.43 ERA last 3 starts (6.03 last 7 starts) ERod: 5.30 ERA last 3 starts (5.00 last 9 starts) Yes, our pen has sucked recently, but so have our highly paid SP'ers. Price:
  11. moonslav59
    ERod and Porcello are pitching worse than last year. Both are not past prime, so that is a decline in my book. Sale and Price have done better after the first couple weeks, but they have still been inconsistent, and Sale's recent ERA is still higher than last year. Our 5th starter, alone, has killed our pen with overuse, and we have often started a pen arm in the 5 slot.
  12. moonslav59
    Horford has shown decline in his performance level. This year was his lowest min/gm and rebounds/gm. He'll be 34 next playoff season.
  13. moonslav59
    Yes, but any longer term signing is a gamble.
  14. moonslav59
    The tight box DD was in this winter was partially his own doing. Besides, if you add Eovaldi, Pearce, Thornburg and the $4-5M we still have left over, he could have gotten one big FA or 2-3 better-than-we got mid ranged ones. It's not Cora's fault. Look, I liked the Eovaldi signing, but GMs, right or wrong, are judged in hindsight. I'm glad we hired DD. He got a ring, but that doesn't take him off the hook for how spending more than $240M on this year's team gives us a .500 team.
  15. moonslav59
    Up until recently, the pen has over achieved based on their expectations and past history. This is all on DD. Yes, Cora's "restgate" helped (hurt) early, but we are beyond that. We should be seeing better starting pitching due to all that rest. Instead, they are flopping.
  16. moonslav59
    I amended it to 28-52 after the weekend.
  17. moonslav59
    Yes, and obviously DD liked them when he got them in the first place. So, was Eovaldi a short or long term major move?
  18. moonslav59
    Yes, I know, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out he is working both angles in preparation to be a buyer or a seller (or both). I wonder if his contract running out soon makes him much less likely to choose the seller path.
  19. moonslav59
    Pretty sad, when Wright, Brewer and Workman are the only three pen guys we can have any confidence in, right now.
  20. moonslav59
    True. I also think Henry is right to demand better from DD and Cora. Counting all the dead money (Pablo & Castillo), he has spent way more than any other GM. Asking him to throw more money at the problem is neglecting the real problem and actually making it worse by allowing DD to think he can just spend his way out of any problems that arise out of signing the wrong free agents and emptying the farm of any true, quality reserves.
  21. moonslav59
    One could easily say that DD spent on the wrong talent, and he won't be given more money to fix his mistakes. We can "read into" it either way. Can anyone deny that our pen was never "talented" on paper, and expecting Cora to make it so was not realistic. IMO, Cora got the pen to over perform for the first 6-8 weeks of the season, and now reality is setting in. That's on DD. Also, how can Cora be blamed for the performances of our starters, even after the first two weeks and the whole "restgate" period expired? Our starters have been way to inconsistent at a time when we needed them to take some heat off the pen.
  22. moonslav59
    Due to a separate off season signing not an in season move.
  23. moonslav59
    I think you over estimate the value some of the deadline players will get in return. Players like Greene, who are more than 2 month rentals, will get more, but there will be some quality players obtained for peanuts- just like EE and Jay Bruce showed.
  24. moonslav59
    Butler carried the lifeless 76'ers in the playoffs. I wouldn't under estimate his loss. You talk about Durant being 32 when he plays again, well Horford is 33 already. Yes, he will help, but he is not the same as he was even in 2018. I think the 76'ers and my Bucks got worse. If Leonard goes west, the East is wide open.
  25. moonslav59
    There may come a time where DD thinks, even if we have a chance for the wild card, we aren't going anywhere once in the playoffs. I'm not sure this will ever happen, but in 4 weeks we will know more.
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