SoCalChiSox

If we get him, it means Ishbia is basically doing the spending and we probably have a much more liberal budget than something south of 100m.

Krall just trying to create some leverage. Getz isn't going to get Petty, the OFer and the pick regardless, especially from a low cash flow team that can't afford to write checks to solve problems.

So then Quero has to get moved then, right?

Hamstring is much better than knee...although hammy can linger. You guys prolly should sit him out next week.

That's a rough draw for Chicago either way (assuming Love is healthy). The Rams are probably the best all around team in the league.

Hopefully Burden is ok for you guys. Looks like a fun player.

That was a great game. Shanny Jr. is my favorite coach in the league. I hope he comes home at some point in the next few years.

JR isn't going to eat all the money for nothing. If you're gonna throw away a quarter anyway, might as well put it in a slot machine. It's one thing to trade him away for like half the salary because you are still saving 7.5m that way, but they aren't cutting him for nothing.

Yeah but the thing is even if you believe that report that's what the Sox wanted but the Reds refused to go that far, understandably so.

Get something fucking accomplished already. It shouldn't be this hard to get a useful piece if we are putting in half the money. I'm looking at NYM prospects right now and assuming Tong and Sproat wouldn't be in the deal, it's ugly if we are looking at pitching. PIT may be a better fit.

Jimmy, any idea about what the specifics of the Reds offer was? I'd be pissed if they offered Petty and we responded with unrealistic counters like we reportedly did with the NYM before the deadline.

Denver Broncos AFC West Champions...first time since 2015! Thanks for the assist, Houston!

I dont see how Bleday is a replacement for Robert for CIN. He isn't really a real CF and he's LH so he isn't going to kill LHP as i read they really need a righty bat to kill LHP. Is Krall maybe making this move to get rid of one of their other OFers to make room for Robert? Or is he trying to create the illusion of leverage for the endgame of trade discussions? I don't see them as duplicative at all. It's also only 1.4m and even for a poor franchise that's not really a problem. I'm not saying Bleday isn't useful and isn't a good buy low candidate for them that they can flip, he is, but he doesn't really address what they need.

Sunnier days certainly appear to be ahead of us.

I highly doubt this will happen since they are trying to flush the past and defensively he was awful last year which is one of the few areas he has been consistently good at previously. It would also leave Vargas without anywhere to play. Let's focus on continuing to develop our young players and building a good lockerroom.

Fucking get it together. We almost lost to a 3rd string scrub. We are gonna lose HFA and the division to the Chargers next week if we don't fucking wake up. Fucking get it together. This is a garbage win. Get it the f*** together

It shouldn't be super hard to get Meyers from HOU for like Cannon plus some 15-20 level prospect. That would be much better than trying to turn Baldwin into a CF. If we added him plus like another solid SP option, we could conceivably be close to a .500 team.

If this guy is correct that the return would be larger than industry expectations, I wonder what that would look like in terms of offers from CIN, NYM and PIT?

Agreed. And they are a good fit compensation wise with the Sox. I think if we can leverage the NYM interest a bit longer maybe we can pull whatever second piece Getz has his eye on. I do hope that the CF plan isn't just Baldwin or Pereira. I'd like to see them send Cannon to HOU for Meyers or make a big trade with Quero for a good young CF MLBer or prospect.

He spent alot of time on Petty...seems to suggest like in the other report that there also need to be something else added from CIN. Ruled out Duno and Stewart.

I dunno.....I hear he's a big deal in Ireland.

I expect Sosa to be on the move shortly since Murakami makes a bat only 1B type in Sosa moot.

That would be solid....especially with at least one of Schultz or Smith joining the rotation at some point.

Kepler is a perfectly fine bridge for Braden. His BA and WOBA last year were below his xBA and xWOBA so there may be some positive regression. For 1 yr and 9m or so, that would be solid.

There's a big difference between "should" and what JR allows to happen as you know. From what you mentioned previously, I thought you said we were around 61m currently IIRC, so if you add 17m for Murakami and 4.5m for the reliever we just added, we're already around 82-83m, so as you can see we are already getting close to your 90m budget number without addressing SP at all or the BP further. If they move Robert for Petty and eat say 8m of the 20m, we have hit two birds with one stone by going down to around 70m and adding a cash cheap SP with still significant ammo to land another SP and maybe have room for the Houston CF salary if they trade Cannon for him.