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Harold is saying it will take even more than Madrigal and Kelley. That already is alot. If he's suggesting Kopech or Vaughn too that would be horrific.

This makes me very nervous because major assets would have to be going the other way and im worried about Kelley.

Ahh i see....I bet he is waiting to see then whether Madrigal is moved in a trade.

Whats taking so long on the La Stella front? TLR is pushing hard for him so I thought they would have signed him by now.

This would be ideal but it seems unlikely La Stella would accept 5 and Q would accept 8. 7 and 10 is more likely which by itself would be 2m over budget and even that would not address backup C either assuming TLR is not a fan of Collins.

Yes that would be ideal. I think they are trying to wait Q out right now to see if he accepts their price but if push comes to shove they may need to move ReyLo to get that 2m off the books to make the math work for both Q and La Stella.

I'd much rather take Q as a 4/5 rather than trade Kelley because the foodies are suggesting that right now thats whats holding up the trade route since other teams want him. We need to keep some good SP prospects for the second part of the window.

That rules out resigning with MIN

Well the only alternative in our price range appears to be Richards. I'd prefer Q as a nice bounceback candidate. As a 4/5 he is perfectly good.

I'd be fine with Q.

And? We play righties 70%+ of the time and the rest of the lineup are lefty killers so we would be just fine against them even with Joc.

I feel bad for Hector. He is a nice man but his sources have been poor for awhile and people have been using him to spread false interest in order to try and generate offers for their clients.

Before 2020 Joc was the epitome of a righty killing LH masher. And his batted ball data showed he was very unlucky this year. He would have been a perfect bridge to someone like Colas on like a 2 year deal. This team is so stupid and so cheap.

Yes this would be bad...but it would cost NYY alot.....like Gleyber Torres.

We were told similar things last year about EE.

I wanted Joc but apparently we had to trot out hot garbage in RF in order to pay for our closer. Then we couldn't afford Brantley for the same reason. La Stella has a very high OPS vs RHP and can play multiple spots. Its not clear why we are overthinking the issue.

Hector has been wrong alot before when it comes to us. He is a nice guy and means well but he was wrong on Manny as well as Ozuna.

No more RHH. IDGAF who it is. We are going to get wrecked in a short series by righty killer SPs. And with our luck Cruz will now finally get busted for roids. HELL NO to this. Get a damn lefty masher. This isn't that hard of a concept.

I hope this doesn't mean La Stella is off the table now.

Get a damn lefty slugger already. Enough is enough. I dont care if it's Cruz. Enough righties.

MOAR RHH.

There is zero chance he gets 40 AAV even on a short term deal.

I wonder what upcoming scoop the team promised to Sullivan in exchange for this article?

Yeah those two are nowhere near enough for Castillo.

Possibly...but perhaps RH felt he could get something for him at the time. He still might. Maybe he wants to see if one of those pitchers will bite at 8m before being forced to give away RL for some scrub prospect in order to make the money work.