moonslav59

A little Burdi must be almost ready to be activated. We also have our own 3 H club: Houck, Harrison & Hicks.

or, to insure we sell not buy.

It's time to try anyone else in Kelly's 26 man roster slot.

Your optimism is unending.

How many guys has Narvaez picked off?

I spoke too soon. He ends up walking the next sub .600 batter to load up the bases- then walks the #9 batter. Hey Max, does he have enough BBs, now?

Max, 2 HRs in the first inning sucks. There is no spinning that fact.

Another sub .600 batter burns us. At least we didn't walk him with the bases loaded. Geeesh!

If you were talking 2020 to 2024, I'd agree, but last winter saw a significant uptick in spending. Of course, if you subtract the Devers trade, which makes a sense, it wipes it out, but the fact is, we are still over the tax line. That's not getting cheaper. This winter's spending budget will be telling on our spending trend.

We will not get Peralta without giving back serious quality. Painter will likely cost us 2-3 high level prospects: if not two from Anthony, Mayer, KC and Garcia, at least one plus one or two from Arias, Bleis, Cespedes, Tolle, Clarke or Valera.

KC has been walking a lot at WOO. I doubt he gets walked in MLB, upon his return. He's 5 for 18 at WOO, since his demotion. He has 7 BBs in those 6 games. Is that enough to earn a trip back? I'm not saying no, and the way DHam is hitting, I can see the reasoning, but the L-R thing looms large and Sogard is the comp to look at there. He's at 1.000 in the last week.

You really want to give up multiple top prospects for a rental and unknown?

Buehler needs to work on his pregame prep. His first innings suck! (His next ones have not been great, either, but you get my point.)

We've got squat on our farm, in terms of good, ML ready catching options. Brannon is 21 and unproven. Jo, Garcia looks the most promising, but is just 20 and coming off rehab. Sabol & Zavala are typical AAA catcher depth that offer very little hope of any overall plus value. Rosario at AA needs a lot of improvement on defense. Hudson White & Juan Montero (both at GRE) and Diego Viloria at SAL are hardly worth mentioning. Kleyver Salazar (SAL) is the only other catching prospects listed in the top 60. He's at 57, Jo Garcia at 32 and Brannon at 42. It looks like we need to trade for a decent back-up catcher and give up on Wong.

Thanks for this. It's a good sign that maybe our younger guys, plus Romy, might end up better than they have looked, so far. I'm still very optimistic about our everyday player core of young players. I also am excited about all the years of control we have on them and the depth at just about every position, except corner infield. I'm fairly optimistic about the strides we have made in building up our farm pitching- both in terms of acquiring more and better pitchers and improving our development practices. We may be years away from seeing those results, but Brez has also shown the willingness and ability to recognize and do what it takes to get a guy like Crochet. While his Gio, Buehler and Hendriks deals all look bad to awful, with maybe Gio doing his best at redeeming a portion of is $39M payout, Brez has also acquired a lot of good and promising pitchers in just 2 short years: Crochet Chapman & Wilson Fitts & Weissert Slaten & Criswell Harrison, Hicks, Burdi & Alcala Sandlin, Moran, I Campbell, Fajardo, J Bello, Judice & others (Trades) Tolle, Clarke, Aita, Cason, Tygart, Neeley & others (Draft) Delzine, D Reyes, Cordero, Montero & others (IFA) Sandoval remains a big unknown. That's a formidable and long list for just 1 draft and 2 off seasons.

Maybe Brandon Walter is "the one that got away." By and large, Brez has added way more pitchers than he's traded away. A few have looked bad, many are still on the farm, and a few have looked pretty good to great.

How low is Grissom's stock? He's still on the 40, yet these guys are on the big club, while he's still in AAA: Eaton Sogard DHam Toro My guess is, if we end up needing yet another infielder, KC may get the re-call before Grissom gets one.

We have the righty line-up in place. Too bad no Bregman. R Romy 1B L Anthony RF R Refsnyder DH R Narvaez C R Story SS L Duran LF R Rafaela CF R Eaton 3B S Sogard 2B

I'm more than fine trading DHam, yesterday or last week. I'm sure some team does want him. He'd be snapped up in a minute, if DFA'd. The return is going to be a single A player or AAAA type nobody, IMO. Sure, let's trade for a nobody who might have a sliver of faraway hope. I'm not against that idea, but I'm also not going to kid myself that trading him is going to make a difference- now or 5 years from now. Trading Chapman, Gio, Buehler, Wilson, Refsnyder and even Bregman, if it looks like we can't extend him, WILL bring back value. DHam, Grissom, Eaton, Wong, and a few others- likely not. Story and Yoshida might bring something back, if we pay 60-80% of their contracts or add prospects to the deal.

I was going to point that out, too. We all knew losing Devers was going to make a major impact on our offense, especially when also knowing Bregman was not going to be back, anyday soon. I know June trades are rare, but I kind of expected we had a second trade line-up to at least partially address the hit to our offense (like Hoskins or even a lesser bat.) At this point, I'm on the verge of jumping on the sell wagon's front seat. (Not yet, but I'm close.)

Next, we'll here, "Send 'em all back to the D. R.!"

I think most of us thought he was just plain awful, and then got injured (or was to start with, too.)

Of course the lost season count on the final evaluation on what we got for $39M/2. I'm not discounting that. Of course, all GM see their moves viewed in hindsight. It's the nature of of their job. My point is this: I felt he signed a probable bad pitcher (in foresight) who ended up getting hurt (hindsight.) Now, I'm not so sure I and others were right on the foresight part.

Well, when you say "no fault he got injured," then why still lay full blame on Brez? I'm not saying the signing worked out well, but our main beef was that not only did he sign a guy who got hurt, despite being one of the more healthier pitchers up to that point, but that he sucked and has sucked right before we signed him for that half season. That part may have changed. The part where the GM knows what pitchers are good or not. Richards was not good. Kluber was not good. They both stayed relatively healthy for their one year deals.

LOL, 100 Jordans wouldn't get the job done.