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  1. moonslav59
    It's not clear with me. My point all along, in general is that I and nobody know jack about almost everything. I have no idea what the players feel and many other points argued, here. I do feel like when a big star is traded from a competitive team, I'm used to hearing more. I may be thinking it shows something not very supportive of Devers, but I will readily admit, I have no idea how many or some feel. I bet they miss his bat.
  2. moonslav59
    Masa and Ref are okay in LF and not net (O+D) negatives as a platoon. Buehler is proven to suck. Fitts is proven to be unproven, too. Are we sure Gio is going to stay like this? We can roll the dice on Sandoval, Houck and Fitts or roll the dice that after we trade an OF'er, another does not get hurt. Again, I'm not for trading any OF'er for even the best rental SP'er. I want to improve our rotation for 2025 and beyond, which would also add depth to the rotation. We have spent years building up our everyday player roster and farm. We lack depth at Catcher and corner IF, unless you count on Casas & Toro. Gonzales is too far away. Jordan is too unknown. We now look okay at MI, even if KC never plays another MLB game at 2B, again. We look extra strong at OF AND extra deep. for years, we've been saying, "keep drafting better odds everyday players, so we can trade some, when we need pitching." I still feel this way.
  3. moonslav59
    Throwing "IT ALL" away? LOL. BTW, you do know that adding a Joe Ryan type would add depth to the rotation, as a Fitts or Crawford would move down a notch into the 6th or 7th rotation slot. We have depth 3-4 deep at some slots, and if some don't pan out or some vets get hurt, we'll still 1-2 deep. It's nice to have 2-3 deep, but when you have a guy like Buehler pitching every 5 days, and a back to earth Toro playing a bunch, we could use some more quality, at the expense of a fraction of the quantity or depth. OF: Duran, Rafaela, Abreu Campbell, Garcia, Anthony Yoshida & Refsnyder (emergency) That's 8 guys with one DH'ing every game. If you count Arias as depth, so is Garcia, if not more MLB ready so. I love depth. I love a legit 4/5 SP'er more. We could also use a solid pen arm. Talk about lack of depth. We have depth there, but most are sub mediocre or borderline.
  4. moonslav59
    I'm fully aware of all this. (My offer was Cespedes, Jordan & Mullins, and I did not say for Gallen. My point was we could make better offers than the ones we made for Luis Garcia, Lucas Sims and Schwarber-Nate, without losing a top 10-12 prospect. I'm okay with going large on these kind of deals, even if for a rental. I'm not for making all 3 of my suggested groupings for 3 rentals. We don't even have roster room for 3, unless one if fo the unlikely back-up catcher.
  5. moonslav59
    We won't be winning 20 straight.
  6. moonslav59
    Yes, either "This is what should be expected when you play weak teams" and the ugly sister, "Wait til we play good teams."
  7. moonslav59
    Sounds kinda flattering, but also kind of a read between the lines kinda thing to say. Duran's quotes can't be taken at face value, IMO. Are there several quotes of players saying they were shocked? Why is the team selling? Bitching at the GM for trading a star? These things happen in many cases like this. I didn't hear much, this time.
  8. moonslav59
    There is not need for rewriting history to support the idea that trading Devers was or may have been the right move. Devers was a top 15 hitter in MLB, IMO- last 2-3-4-5 years, whatever you pick and almost any stat of choice. He's a career .855 batter. His .747 split v L if a very respectable for a L v L and .906 vs the bigger split is awesome. His Home v Away splits are just 45 points apart. His AUG (.759) and SEP (.798) OPS were concerning, but the guy played injured, when we needed him to play. I'm not a believer in "clutch" as a skill but consider his career OPS is .855, and... 893 RISP (.881 2 outs and RISP) .872 Men On Base .851 High Leverage (.820 Low Leverage) .880 v NYY
  9. moonslav59
    Any trade is a big risk. Keeping players is risky, too. We shoulda traded Dalbec after '21. Some say, we shoulda traded Duran after '24. We might have gotten something for DHam after '24. We coulda traded Houck and Crawford. I'm not against great depth. I love it! To me, it's simple: the step down from Duran or Abreu to Anthony is was less than the step up some other team gets by acquiring one. They have much higher value to another team. They have something we value more: a pitcher with more than 2-3 months of control. Maybe, I'm too high on Campbell, Jh Garcia and Masa-Ref as the new OF depth, but to me, it's a risk worth taking. I'd much prefer this to trading Arias or Garcia plus Clarke or Valera for a top rental SP'er. (That might not even be enough to get it done. We might have to trade 3 or add Early/Sandlin/Romero types)
  10. moonslav59
    That's not all that goes into making someone a better hitter. Power and BB% matter, too. Yes, I agree Masa is a better contact hitter. You did not qualify your statement, at first. As an offensive weapon, I'll take Duran & his speed and more power over Masas. I'll take the Abreu-Ref platoon easily over Masa FT or even a Masa-Ref platoon. They are better overall hitters and offer other offensive skills beyond just pure batting skills.
  11. moonslav59
    How is keeping Duran or Abreu helping 3B depth issues? I get the line-up issues, but we need pitching. That's a known. Injuries are unknown, and we still have decent OF depth and line up depth, if we lose an OF'er. We can't play 6 guys in 4 slots. It's more like 5, if you count Abreu & Ref as one, but we also have Campbell & Jh Garcia as OF depth. If it gets real bad, we can put Yoshida-Ref in LF and DH an IF'er- maybe the "hobbling" Bregman, so his bat stays fresh and healthy. We still have plus depth, even after trading an OF'er.
  12. moonslav59
    We have a massive gap, right now. It's known and ugly. If we do lose a key player to injury, we'd get back down to even. Plus, assume we trade Abreu and play Anthony FT in RF and platoon Yoshida & Ref at DH. Now, another OF'er gets hurt for the season: lets say Duran. Our OF would be: LF KC or Garcia/Refsnyder (Romy platoons at DH with Yoshida or Masa goes FT DH) CF Rafaela RF Anthony We still have a decent OF AND a Joe Ryan type. Now, assume no trade, and Duran gets hurt: We'd have a better OF with Abreu instead of KC or Garcia, but we'd still have Buehler as our #5 and an iffy Fitts as our #4. I'll take Joe Ryan and hope we extend him like we did with Crochet.
  13. moonslav59
    So does Duran, since 2023.
  14. moonslav59
    A bigger NOPE on Merrill Kelly, if we have to trade a top prospect for the soon to be 37 year old rental. I'm not for trusting it on 3 rehab guys, either. I'm for going bigger and bolder for someone as good or better than Kelly, but with more control years. Duran or Abreu plus maybe Arias or Romero and 1-2 prospects below #10 or 11 in our rankings. Maybe involve a thirst team, but get it done!
  15. moonslav59
    I think we do just that. No big prospects traded, unless it's for a Joe Ryan type non rental. I think we should trade an OF'er, but I'm not sure that's even a 50-50 bet. It's probably not likely.
  16. moonslav59
    Yup. It's a brutal stretch. We did hear this about the TBR series, prior to game one, too.
  17. moonslav59
    Probably heard comments like this when we traded similar prospects for Schwarber and Nate. People talk badly about Luis Garcia and Lucas Sims, as they should, but at the time of those trades, they were decent pitchers. Sims: 3.10 the previous season (61 IP) & 3.57 after 35 IP, before we got him for Garcia: 3.24 in '21, 3.39 in '22, then 4.07 and was at 3.71, when we got him for M Lugo (13th ranked by sp.com), Zeferjahn & Kavadas for Ovis Portes (29th ranked) Those two were picked up with a #13 and #29 and scraps. What can we get with a... #7 Tibbs & #17 Paez? #13 Bleis & #21 Uberstine? #16 Cespedes, #19 Jordan & #23 Mullins? Or add/sub in 24 Castro, 26 Wehunt or 31 Monegro If anyone wants a 40 man guy, we can offer: Wong (if we add a catcher) DHam, Sogard or Grissom Kelly or Guerrero-assuming we are getting a pitcher(s) I'm very hesitant to trade anyone not listed here for a rental. (Maybe I missed a few names plus players lower ranked than Monegro.)
  18. moonslav59
    Looks like they overvalue Young. 🙂
  19. moonslav59
    Famous last words.
  20. moonslav59
    Of course, I'd want every player to be significant better than average in every category of measurement. I'll take a positionally average SS, CF and sub avg Catcher, as a hitter, if they are clear plusses on D. (All ours are: Narvaez, Story & Rafaela.) If Rafaela bats average, he's a big net plus, when you factor D and baserunning. Can a team with with 9 average batters that are GG on D and decent runners? Maybe- maybe not. The pitching would tip the balance. I don't need all my 9 to be significant plusses on D and O.
  21. moonslav59
    2023-2025 Splits: vs R .873 Duran .842 Abreu .811 Yoshida vs L .896 Refsnyder (.932 IN '25) .663 Yoshida .640 Duran (.564 IN '25) .582 Abreu (.703 in 44 PAS IN '25.) Romy. KC, Eaton and Sogard are better v L in 2025 than everybody on this list, except Refsnyder. If we are talking DH...
  22. moonslav59
    He is a good hitter, and I'd be fine with a Yoshida-Refsnyder platoon at DH, and Masa is not bad vs LHPs, but better than Duran and Abreu? 2023-2025 OPS: .802 Duran (120 wRC+) .797 Abreu (117) .764 Yoshida (116) Yoshida does have a better BA and OBP, and many feel OBP>SLG, so it can be viewed as close, but I'd rather have Abreu-Ref than Yoshida-Ref. I'd rather have Duran FT DH than Yoshida, and that's before looking at baserunning. It's not a slam dunk, but looking forward, I'd go with youth about to reach prime than Masa. Now, Masa is untradable, so I see an OF'er trade as making the most sense. Involve a 3rd team, if need be. No rentals.
  23. moonslav59
    Depends on what time sample size you choose and what numbers/metrics, but many show him as top 12 to 20. I don't see him as top 10, but he's not far away.
  24. moonslav59
    Max, if Bloom promised Devers he could play 3B for X years, but Brez comes in and changes the plan, it's not a lie. There was no deliberate untrue statement made by Brez or Cora, that we know of. It has to be an intentional mistruth to be a lie.
  25. moonslav59
    Mullins, Paez & Cespedes for 2 months of Galen (and playoffs?) Maybe sub Bleis for one?
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