moonslav59

Tonight looked like it might be yet one more hard luck late loss. We've been here, before. Maybe this time, we can get on a roll- for real. YES!!! One at a time!

I hate to get my hopes up, as it is usually a sign a tough loss is coming up, next game, but the landscape has changed, quickly. 5 teams are 2 to 2.5 behind the last WC slot with us. We are 2 GM CLE & MN for that last slot, but we are also just 3 GB TBR and 4GB TOR. Hell, we're 5 GB HOU. What a weird year!

Okay, so sellers but buyers w PIT.

I was gonna mention that.

He's a rookie.

Narvaez for ROY!

Monegro left the game injured, tonight. Anyone know what happened? Aita got the tough-luck loss w GRE (6IP 1H 1ER 2BB 6K)

See answers inserted in your response. I would not call up a top 3 prospect to play 50-60% of the time. They need to play 85%+. I would not play a valuable vet 50-60%, when his value for another team playing 85% is higher and thus a trade must be made.

I like em all, too. To me Rafaela seems like "the one" to trade, but we mostly hear Duran ("sell high") and Abreu ("platoon.") On the platoon aspect of Abreu, his numbers vs LHPs are worse than Rafaela's, but if you played both FT at 600 PAs, Abreu would have a higher OPS, so keeping Rafaela for offense reasons does not ring true, to me. Since I truly believe Anthony will be better than all 3 of our vets, I don't trade him.

Pitt is not a team that buys a vet w 2 months of control.

McGuire was a vet, so not a sell. It was more of a salary dump vet for vet deal. I'd call that deadline a sell, due to the Vaz trade, and the others were so minor and or involved us getting prospects, that I just can't call it even an attempt at buying.

We got prospects with him and paid part of his deal. It was neither buy nor sell and not really both.

You didn't say "big names," but you really call trading scrub prospects for Pham and then getting scrub prospects w Hosmer "buying?" That was my point. It's a huge stretch to call that or trading for Urias and Llovera "buying." Do you honestly consider that buying? It's almost like picking up guys off waivers.

Are you seriously calling trade for Luis Urias and Llovera attempts at buying? I wouldn't call trading for Hosmer and Pham a "buy deadline," either. Am I missing a big name we traded for in '22 or '23? Forget a big name, am I missing even a decent name?

The Sell idea has a lot of merit, and for once, we have some guys with decent trade value: The 1 year guys: Bregman has option years and is on the IL, but if he is healthy of close to it, he'd bring back a nice return. (Remember, when we signed Schwarber, he was not ready to play.) Chapman, assuming he is still going strong in 6 weeks, would bring back a decent return. Buehler would not bring back much, right now, but if healthy and doing well, he could. Wilson could get a decent prospect- same with Refsnyder. Giolito and Hendriks are long shots at bringing anything back, except maybe salary relief for JH. Log-jammed vets: Story & Yoshida are like Gio & Hendriks, only more expensive and more years left to go. Casas would be selling low, IMO. Duran, Abreu or Rafaela to make room for Anthony and maybe/eventually Jh Garcia. Toro and or Romy? I'd keep both around as having more future value to us than anyone else. Wong, Wink, Sogard and DHam will not bring much of anything back, but some team may want/need their services enough to give us something, and help us free up a roster slot for another guy.

The only time, we sort of bought AND sold was when we "sold" Vaz for Abreu & E Valdez, while making a bunch of minor "buys" like Pham, Hosmer and a sideways move of Diekman for R McGuire. I'm not sure I'd call this a Buy/Sell deadline, but it's the closest one, IMO. 2020: Total SELL: Workman & Hembree for Pivetta & Seabold was sort of sideways, except we gave up rentals for a younger MLB pitcher and a prospects, Pillar for J Wallace, Osich for PTBNL & Moreland for Potts & J Rosario. 2021: Total BUY: Aldo Ramirez for Schwarber, plus a couple minor buys like Chavis for A Davis and Scherff for Robles. Two, later additions helped, alot: Travis Shaw off waivers & signing Iggy in SEPT. 2022: See above 2023: BUY??? Scrubs like Llovera & Luis Urias? Sell??? (perhaps about to be DFA'd) Kike for prospects N Robertson J Hagenman. This was a clear DO NOTHING deadline by Bloom- not a buy, not a sell and not a buy & sell.

I'm with notin, here. Sell Story (+ $$$) and an OF'er not named Anthony, most likely for prospects or a RP & a prospect. Then, buy, using chosen prospects, not named Anthony, Campbell or Mayer, unless we get someone like Crochet with 2+ years of team control and the ability to extend. I'd look to keep Arias, but to get a real good pitcher without trading one of the big 3, he probably has to go. (We have to keep once from Mayer and Arias, IMO.) There farther away prospects don't bring back what they used to, but some have been moving up the farm ranks and are not so far away, anymore. Perales (AA) is on the IL, but he still has good trade value. Tolle, Clarke & Valera are all in A+, now. The AA guys are lower ranked: Early, Sandlin & Monegro. Arias (A+) & Romero (AA) have real trade value, too. The AAA guy with 40 man roster status is Jh Garcia, who is raking, right now. Unless we plan to play him at 1B/DH, he's essentially blacked. If we end up trading Duran, Abreu or Rafaela, then we could keep him in the system. Bleis (A+) and Cespedes (A-) might be the last two prospects holding significant trade value, right now- maybe Justin Gonzalez (A-) too. Add-ins might include Jordan, Uberstine & Penrod (AAA,) Ehrhard, Mullins or Wehunt in AA and Taylor, Jo Garcia & Paez (A+) If there is one thing our farm has, it is quantity of promising prospects, along with a few that just joined the top 100 or are looking to come close.

It would be great for several of our players to deserve winning the award, but for a few, not to win it.

Woo has won 9 of 10. Mullins threw 1 hit 5 innings and has an ERA of 2.45 for POR. Holobetz went 5.1 allowing 1 ER in GRE's win. Bleis 2-4 and now at .822. GRE has won 7 of 10 and leads their division, so far. SAL is 10 games under .500, and FCL is 3 under.

The guy is a monster! I think we need to give him a 1Bman's mitt and have him ready by April '26. By '27... C Narvaez & Jo Garcia 1B Jh Garcia (Devers) 2B Campbell (Romero) SS Arias (Mayer) 3B Mayer (Romero) LF Anthony (Jh Garcia) CF Rafaela (Campbell-Bleis) RF Abreu (Bleis) DH Devers (Jh Garcia)

Assume Abreu starts v every R (70%) and Ref vs every L (30%,) that leaves 3 OF'ers, Duran, Anthony and Rafaela to split time. Playing every day may not be needed but 67% is not really enough. I guess you could sit Duran v every L, so that's 70% play time. Rafaela plays vs every L and then 10-15% of R's, as Anthony plays 85-90% of all games. I don't see Anthony or Duran playing 1B. I'm not sure torid Toro continues, either.

It is great to have and keep depth, but when you have some pretty big holes in the 26, it seems to make sense to trade from strength and fill those needs.

You punster, you! Love it! LMAO on the "ignoramus" thingy.

Wow. Nine. I play bridge, mostly online, and I think I lead the site in players on my ignore list, but rudeness and incompetence runs rampant on that site. (I have a 2 strike rule for rudeness and 3 strikes for incompetence. 1 or each and it's bye-bye.)

They do usually work themselves out, and assuming total health is almost always folly. It is a good problem to have, and quite unusual for a team with the 4th or 5th worst record in the AL. We will have some hard choices in the months to come, unless we have some more injuries. If we do have some major injuries, then not only is the choice problem solved, teh choices won't matter until this winter and next season, anyway. I like to look ahead and wonder "what if." That's a trait that is not always worthwhile.