Larry Cook

Lefty reliever Watson is still available to sign!

If dave could find a sucker to take hanley off our hands, I am confident he would pull the trigger on JD very quickly! However since no sucker exists, can we please pass on JD and sign a quality starter and reliever?

So-so is three floors up from where bogey resides.

I am thinking Vargas. We go into spring trainIng with six starters and see if everybody is still healthy by opening day. It is easier to trade a starter than acquire one.

In golf they have a saying, “hit and hope”. Please tell me you are not advocating that flawed strategy with our starters for 2018? We got our lightening in a bottle in 2013. That is never going to happen again. Competition and depth are proven strategies! Since dave has been extremely pernicious with our farm system, we must go the free agent route for more pitching!

If January is the new December, I guess we should see dave start to saddle up here soon.

Then why are the Yankees reportedly after cole?

You could buy a puppy!

I am glad you have faith in dave! I believe that nothing that has happened this offseason, ohtani, Stanton or other free agent signings has been anything he could have changed and most importantly I do not think he wanted to change, I think we are all panicking more than he is over the Stanton signing, Where my brain damage comes in is that dave’s options for making is a better team in 2018, which should be his ultimate goal are shrinking and he may get desperate and do something foolish!

In my mind,whichever team ( us or the Yankees) adds more pitching between now and April will be the team to beat next year!

Playing the hope and pray game is a fools gambit! Why not sign another starter and have more depth, just in case. Because last season we sure could have used it!

Let me clarify. Our pitching staff is very good! But counting on them being 100 percent healthy through the entire year is extremely foolish. We need depth. We need another starter signed!

And I would love to win the lottery. Chances are way better that price’s elbow goes pop in spring training and sale runs out of gas again in August! (He is a skinny dude with a bony arm!) Moreland is what he is, which is overpaid, but if he stays healthy, he should put up better numbers than last year.

1.) Price’s elbow (last we saw) has a tear in it. That thing is a pop away from costing him 18 plus months. 2.) Rodriguez is going to miss the start of the season due to knee surgery! 3.) porcello has a sinker that does not sink and gave up a ton of taters! Can we continue to roll out a 5 plus era every fifth day next year? 4.) sale is one skinny dude! Can his bony arm continue to pitch 200 plus innings and have anything left in the tank for the playoffs! If last year was as any indication, the answer is no! 5.) is Pomeranz a one year wonder. ( see porcello) How does his elbow, which was barking a while back, hold up next year! 6.) Wright is probably facing a 30 game suspension and has not pitched worth a crap in over a year! 7.) Johnson is probably better suited for the pen! 8.) Elias would look good in a reds uniform. 9.) Velasquez - I expect a year two leap from him. He could be our unsung hero by November 2018. So in summary, I would welcome another starter in a heartbeat in this team. I like Vargas! Let spring training sort it out and if everything comes up roses, we can very easily move a starter before the start of the 2018 season and replenish Death Valley, aka our farm system!

If we do not sign anybody, then Velazquez, beeks and Johnson duke it out for the fifth spot. I am putting my money on Velazquez, but deep down we need to sign Vargas!

Why play the games, when we can all just read fangraphs! We won 93 games last year with this lineup. We lost several games we should have won because we ran out of pitching due to injuries. Seems like a no brainer. We need pitching!

Unless it comes out differently, I will always believe Ben signed the cheap guys that won a World Series in 2013. He caught lightening in a bottle. He rode his winning streak into 2014 and we collapsed. Then Larry stepped in and became the puppet master. Now we are stuck with Hanley and sandoval’s Contracts thanks to Larry.

Don’t the Sox have insurance on guys like price? Hopefully the insurance company is picking up the tab on price’s shredded elbow!

Clearly those two months Moreland played through the broken toe damaged his stats line! I’m still calling him a steal!

Hasn’t Moreland hit 20 taters per season for the past couple of years? If we need more power, we isn’t everyone looking at bogey? Plus we will have devers for a full season. At the end of the day, we have a decent lineup capable of scoring, but we need more pitching!

Makes Moreland look like a steal!

I could not agree more. At some point that elbow is going to blow out. That is why we need more pitching!

Our pitchers love the guy. What is amazing is his first step usually made at contact because he seems to know where the ball is going based on where the pitch is located. Very hard to teach that! Dave needs to focus on getting more pitching and let someone else eat jd’s contract,

Ortiz was unique that is for sure, But JD loves to hit the other way and I thcan no only three guys hit opposite field taters in San fran’s Park all year last year. It just does not seem like a good fit for JD. Now if JD winds up in Arlington or Baltimore, look out for tons of taters!

It’s a difficult position for dave. In order to bring in JD, he needs to move Hanley. Selling low on any player is tough, but one coming off offseason shoulder surgery is even harder. Ps: the twins really need to call dave. Hanley would be a dh upgrade for them and they could probably get dave to foot most of the bill.