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Not a fan of that trade proposal.

I dont get the hate. He was not my top choice but he is a LH bat and had a high pedigree. Would he be the first ever player to put it all together in season 5? He is also, what? 24/25? I liked Walker but since its a straight up swap I am not that mad. We can platoon him with L. Garcia/Angel. Now move on to Ryu and Lindbloom + bullpen. If we miss on Ryu go for Lindbloom + Wood. Not exactly what we wanted but still improvement and were bound to get a player who you did not expect to break out to do so...... right? lol

if it takes a 4 year contract I dont know man. switching to AL, injury history, age..... I think he ends up on the DL way more than pitching for us. but if the sox dont think it will handcuff them for future signings (including our own guys) then let's do it. I really want to see Lindbloom and Wood out of the remaining, realistic, SPs options. I know it's blah but it is what it is at this point. As many have said missing out on Wheeler was huge. The $/yrs for Bum and Keuchel just dont do it for me. I think they get lit up at the cell.

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.

I would be excited with Grandal, Dickerson, and Moose as our bats. Land Wheeler and a RP or 2 and I'd call this a great off-season.

Cole but I would take Stras in a heartbeat.

Thanks! Springer would be ideal IMO although I had no idea he was already in his 30s.

I'm getting more and more turned off with a signing of Ozuna. He is an OK player. But for the amount and length he will get I'd rather just get a guy we can sign for less $ and years that can actually play some D. I dont want Robert surrounded by 2 players that cannot play OF. I'd rather sign a Dickerson/Puig type player. Then see what happens with Basabe/Walker/Adolfo/etc. If they dont pan out what's RF FA look like next year/2022?

I am def on that boat. The last thing we need is to wait around trying to sign Cole, etc. while the Wheelers of FA sign elsewhere. Then not only do we not land a big name we miss out on players we absolutely need to take a leap forward and possibly contend if all goes right.

IMO, you go hard after Ryu, Wheeler, Bumm while everyone else works on Strasburg and Cole. Were not going to outbid others and I'd hate to lose out on the 2nd tier guys while we mess around with Strasburg and Cole. Then quickly focus on RF and DH. I'd like for us to strike early on SP, DH, and RF. Then move focus to BP.

The best I would offer a DH is a 2-3 year contract. I dont want to trade any of our talent towards a DH. Only way I'd do this is if for some dumb reason they took our trash (Palka, Cordell, etc.) which wont happen.