drewski6

team can be so awesome next year if brez has the ballz to seize it.

i do like that you are getting greedy, but duran will most likely be our top WAR position player 2 years in a row, plus he got that fire. The team did NOT want to see him traded at the deadline. I give him a "c"

duran only trails crochet in war, at present. also, i like his intangibles

He has more trade value than any position player on this team because he is the best position player on this team.

trade mayer and dobbins for marte trade cedanne, sandlin, and arias for ryan sign alonso or schwarber. Keep bregman and gio crochet, ryan, bello, gio, tolle, sandoval, early, crawford Duran Anthony Schwarber/alonso marte bregman Abreu Story campbell/pw/grissom Nav

cedanne is about 33 units, ditto for campbell, mayer is about 50. arias is 30, sandlin is like 16. PW is like 18. witherspoon is like 18. Keep gio, keep bregman, sign one of alonso or schwarber. And you have enough there to get marte and ryan. If you have to empty the farm, do it. Just keep Tolle and early. We are good and young, and mostly locked up. This is when you move the chips in. Create a 3 yr window. Get greedy. :)

we got more candidates than that, gio too and could make a case for bello.

they do comeback player of the year? we have 2 great candidates (chapman being the other)

a true comeback story.

At this point, Im angry if Story opts out. Partly because of how much hes made from us. But mostly because hes the man.

We've got 4 non noodle bats for next year. Duran, Abreu, Story, Anthony. We need more non-noodle bats and cant trade any of the aforementioned 4 to do it.

Please dont be 1-2 likely injuries away from being half-noodle bats.

No way alonso is slower than casas. Granted they both make vlad jr look like hamilton (vlad jr has sneaky wheels)

Yes, I think it is ridiculous to trade Duran for anybody. Now Id trade Cedanne and Mayer for Marte in a heartbeat. And Id throw in sandlin too.

I dont care who plays 2b or 3b. I care very much who is batting second and third in our lineup

who cares , he fills a more important hole. 2nd/3rd in the batting lineup

Im not sure i 100% want him opting in

okay, now that ive made a low effort joke about the title of the article, time to read the article

Did somebody say steak? Little deuce bigelow for you guys

Or in the deal, not because I dont like Mayer, but because Ketel Marte is signed to a team-friendly contract with more than a few years left and right now leads MLB in OPS among middle-infielders, so um, not cheap. When Notin talks about trading for Marte, Im almost thinking gee, you think you can get them to throw in Corbin Carroll too, and cash, and their top 7 prospects..... No offense Notin, Im sure you know that asking for Marte is asking for a lot.

Mayer in the minors. Not because I dont like him or that he isnt deserving. Because : see my long winded post in the other thread about using your farm to expand your 26. Redundancy for expected attrition. If you have Mayer in the minors, you can whether an injury better.

I have been playing MLB the show, in franchise mode, for 5 years. As in 5 different copies of the game, 5 real life years. During these 5 actual years, I have gone through well over 100 in-game years, 100 rule 5 drafts. And its hard every time. Granted the AI on trades isnt great and its too easy to get all the best prospects, which makes it sad when you have to let your B potentials get rule 5 drafted.

Yes. Dodgers, Padres, Yankees, Blue Jays, Tigers, Astros looks like a who's who of ws faves

I do not want to get too caught up in the nuance of exactly how deep you think we should be on SP because Id rather stick to your general point, expect attrition, because I agree and its relevant to the point Im trying to make about offense (expense attrition). Starting to think a rule of 2x applies. General rule. To win you need one TOTR starter, so have 2. You need 2 other good starters so get 4. You need 3 more capable (journeyman 5th starter types)/promising unproven youngsters (youngsters who you can hoard on the farm, but it helps your depth)/projects(guys trying to work back after a bad year or injury you think you can rectify). Putting these final 3 in one category, you need 3 of them so get 6. So all in all, you have 2 TOTR, 4 additional good starters, 6 additional options. It sounds like a lot, but like you always say - expect attrition (maybe not those words) But, my point here, is less also apply to offense, but remember - Im not saying positionally, Im thinking more lineupally. You need 3 very good bats, so get 6. I care not where they play. I mean for sure balance aquiring/playing these 6 quality bats with defense so you arent a train wreck in the field. But my point here is that Im not saying that you need 2x good 1b, 2x good cf, 2x good 2b....But I think you need 6 very good bats, so you are reasonably assured to have a good top half of the order to compliment your pitching and d. This sounds like I am expecting a lot, but I believe in windows. So you spend a period preparing for this, and once your window opens you have trade chips and propsect options that serve you well here. For example, you cant have all this on your 26, but if some are in the form of prospects, great. Its how you have extra depth beyond your 26. I think thats where we are, and I read an article this morning about how Chaim has had quite the glow up. If Im a St Louis fan, Im looking at RA and Tolle and Early, and Bello, and others, including pieces that went for Crochet, and Im thinking "did we get a steal?" As a RS fan, I know why Chaims time came and went, but if I was a ST Louis fan, Id look at the sox and be happy to have Chaim. I think, I cant know for sure.

Why Marte specifically? Hes not especially available