moonslav59

You mention WAR a lot, for someone who doesn’t care. In short, IP is a big factor in the total value of a pitcher or pen, as it should have value.

We sure have run into a buzz saw. Gotta stop the bleeding!

DD almost traded Betts, so there is some evidence he was doing what JH wanted, probably not liking it. He did not replace K and K, which is more evidence he might have been willing to stick around through the massive cuts, but I don’t think he liked it, at all. To me, that was a source of friction. DD was not “about to break the bank,” because JH writes the checks. IMO, DD would not have liked being the GM in 2020, and JH did not view DD as the type of GM with an expertise of building winners with cheap budgets and no serious farm infusions for a 5 year period. That’s when JH decided to go for a GM that was thought to be good at building winners on low budgets. I’m not sure what you mean by “finally” seeing it your way. This has been my opinion for over5 years and seems to differ a bit from yours. I do not think DD would have spent more than bloom did, because JH would never have let him. JH actually started restricting spending shortly after the Sale and Bogey extensions and Nate re-up deal.

They should be plenty cautious. I can’t help but feel Deja vu, here. It seems every summer we look to players returning from the IL to bring a needed boost or spark to the season. It never seems to work out that way. At least it’s not SPers we are waiting on. Casas and Hendriks may yet give us a boost, but who knows?

Hope you bring some good luck, Max!

I’m not so sure DD is fully to blame for not replacing Kimbrel and Kelly. I think the tightening on new spending began before DD left. Hell, DD almost traded Betts at the 2019 deadline. Does anyone think he wanted to do that any more or less than Bloom did? That 2019 team still looked good on paper, but some extensions were about to kick in, arb raises accumulating and a farm that gave DD just Devers in 2017 and nothing on the horizon to temper the high-priced players need to fill out the 26 and 40 man roster in coming years. Not signing any RPers for 2019 was a clear sign of major changes coming. IMO, JH looked at the state of the farm, the cost it would take to keep everybody or replace in kind via FAs was just going to get way too costly. I think that was the crux of the spat between JH and DD, along with some personal style issues. The writing was on the wall, all along. The only realistic way we could have kept competing was to keep spending more and more, and I’m not just talking Betts. We lost more after K & K. Although Porcello had declined after his Cy Young, we lost him and others. Although not known at the time, we were to see major injuries to Sale, Price, ERod and lesser injuries to Nate and others. Plus, Pedey was still on the books.

Does anyone disagree with this?

If somehow we find a way to trade for a solid SPer who is not a rental, maybe someone near Zanetello, Fitts or Sandlin might be the headliner, but those are rare deadline trades. IMO, I think the highest guys we might trade are Lugo, Paulino, Castro, Romero or Meidtoth. Batters for pitchers.

That was a quick Campbell sighting!

Dalbec, yes, along with 95% of this site. On Pivetta, if we are to be sellers, yes, I’d trade all of our FAsbto be forvgg to he best return possible. It looks less and less likely as we get closer to the deadline. BTW, you ignored my posts about extending Pivetta, which I still would like to see done, at a reasonable cost.

Perhaps more amazing is that Dalbec is second in 40 man roster seniority. He was drafted in 2016, a couple years after Devers was an Int’l signing. Pivetta is 3rd.

“Bloated” for the Rays!

The high salary reduced the return value. Bloated was a bad choice of words

Aldi Ramirez for Schwarber? Iggy for Peavy Espinal for Pearce Beers for Nate

Cora spoke out after those two deadlines. It didn’t seem to change anything. One good way to get good talent without giving up better prospects is to take on bloated contracts. Will JH allow this?

First, I said maybe to only him. Second the AAA sample size is small. Third, the return would be more for him, and we are not talking a top 10 prospect.

The prospects I’d really like to keep below #10? The Garcia brothers E R-C and any pitchers Bailey wants to keep.

I doubt we trade a top 10 prospect and maybe even no top 20’s. These might be the highest prospect we might deal: Sandlin Paulino Castro Wikelman Meidroth Maybe Yorke

When was the last time we had 3 prospects in just about everyone’s top 40? KC might make it 4 in the top 60-80.

The wat Devers swings, you’d think he’d have done this.

I think so, too. How many of our big 4 will make tge all star game at least once? Over-under 2.5 or 2? Or 1.5?

I’m not sure the cause of the injury means it might happen on a future swing.

Agreed.

Agreed. Teel could end up the best of all. Who knows?

Bello has done nothing to help his projections.