BackDoorBreach

He has said numerous times he only wants to take a series of 1 year deals.

It's not. When he was pitching in the Fall League his command was bad. You aren't going to just regain that over night when you haven't pitched in a year and a half. Even if he destroys ST, which is not full MLB lineups anyways, AAA will give him much more flexibility to refine his mechanics and build his arm up. Also innings limit Even if none of those things were a factor and he is super human, we get a year of control back if we keep him down there a month. There is nothing physically wrong with Cease and he isn't coming back from TJ. They aren't comparable.

Cease and Kopech are completely different situations. Kopech should start in AAA and this isn't even a question.

His vesting option is like 25 starts this year. That would be really shit.

He has 1 year left and is probably not great in the AL. He doesn't make much sense.

Why do you think I was arguing with you last week about Mazara? He is not a move a team makes that is doing everything they can to be as best as they can be. Especially when they are sitting on piles of money. It's a total shit fucking move.

Because that Machado money had to be recklessly spent.

It's pretty simple for me, you just don't do it if you don't get a piece back.

He has said that, I dont remember when it was but he implied he's going to start in AAA.

They played at 93 or whatever it was last year in a complete rebuilding year. They should be well above 100, it just doesn't look that way since they haven't been linked to anybody. They still need to sign 2 SPs and a RP. I'm not giving them credit for dumpster diving rebound trash that will total 15-20 million on 3 or 4 guys to put them over 100.

Betts lol. Other than that I'm not too sure. I think Pedroia has 2 years left.

Yeah I don't see them spending significant money on anybody else. Im really hoping they can get a trade done for SP.

Then everybody needs to be fired. They have a payroll of 80 million dollars and the entire core is up next year outside of Vaughn.

Yeah, I don't want him at all. There is no reason to add him this year. If they would have got a legitimate SP and RF wasn't a non-tender candidate sure.

That doesn't mean they are going to trade one of DeGrom, Thor, or Stro. I would think Porcello or Wacha are going to be some type of swingman.

They would rather gamble on Porcello and Wacha and trade Stroman because of Lowries 1 year 10 million dollar contract? That doesn't really compute and sounds like a bad hot take. They do a lot of Mets things but that would be really strange.

In theory yes. That doesn't mean they will trade him for something they don't want.

The Mets aren't trading any of their SP they are trying to compete this year.

I'm looking forward to the Walker signing and reading all the comments from the FO shills how it's actually a good thing. Like they did with Mazara. There's like 8 or 9 teams in on Ryu and Keuchel and surely some team will offer more than this FO is comfortable with.

Pirates for Archer was pretty LOLBAD too.

Yes he looked a lot better.

He's old and was hurt last year. They kind of fucked up by not trading him last off-season in hindsight.

Yeah, I would much rather trade 1 year of McCann then include Collins. He had a 950 OPS last year in AAA and is lefty with big power and OBP skills. That smells like something that could hurt really bad in a couple years.

I really don't want them to trade Lindor this year. Lux and May is what was being rumored. That just allows them to retool pretty quick. Doesn't the Rangers farm suck or did I make that up?

He had 100 ABs.