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why would you even trade Sheets straight up for Betts? We are not going to compete as we are built this year. Unless you think Betts playing w/ us this year increase the chances of him signing there's no way I trade anything of value for him. Now, if we sign Stras/Cole + a strong DH then I would try to pull the trade bc that would place us in contention this year and if he leaves next year oh well.

Living in Tampa and the Rays being my 2nd favorite team I can tell you it does. The people that have true baseball knowledge know what they are doing, but your casual baseball fan does not. I have several friends upset over this only bc they liked Pham and feel like we cant keep the same players around. With already low attendance things like these don't help get people to the park (terrible location aside).

Living in Tampa I love seeing moves like these by the rays. wish we had TB's front office combined with our budget.

Good. Hopefully takes them out of the running for other SP. I was not a fan of landing him anyway.

At 100 plus forget him although I like him. I'd rather land Ryu for 3 years and Wood for 1.

Thought about it when I saw it lol I was born and raised in Italy and did not move here until I was 14.

5/140. I hope not. Blackmon no thanks. He is bad outside of Coors.

Guess it depends on the $. I would not mind him as the 2nd starter signed. But something tells me it would be wiser to sign a top SP and then bring back a Nova type SP as our second. We just need someone to eat innings as the 2nd guy brought in.

I read the Rockies are not interested in trading Gray. Plus, why deplete our system to land them when we can just pay $ for other options?

As long as we land Wheeler getting Puig on a 2 yr deal would be fine by me.

I have a feeling Puig is next. While we focus on Wheeler.

Such a great signing that takes care of so much. Takes care of C and DH. Adds a LH bat. Add an OBP guy. Adds leadership and play-off experience. Shows other FA that we mean business.

Wheeler/Casty bc we need a SP more than anything else and Wheeler is probably the 3rd best SP available. Only concern with Casty is his D. But I'd take that over Dallas being our #1 SP addition.

None that can quote from a Sox source. Just have seen his name tossed around often and I believe (I could be wrong) that we had interest in him last year.

If we sign Grandal I don't see a reason to sign EE. You rotate first/DH with Grandal/Abreu/Collins. If we lose out on Grandal I am all for signing EE on a one year deal.