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I don't understand this. We'd have Giolito, Lynn, Cease, Kopech, Keuchel, Kluber, Lopez. You are all upset that I'm throwing a February-mindset offseason at you in November, but it's really not that far off!

Schwarber may be best hitter on market, and would be a big cost, so I don't find it that bad. But my update is probably more acceptable to folk.

I don't know. It isn't a pretty list. But I also think we are undercutting our own talent a lot in this. The cool thing about Schwarber is 2021 schwarber, if you get him, was a one man wrecking crew that essentially solves our LHH issues and groundball issues in one swoop. He's so good that it's like an "eff yo plans" kinda addition. I think including Joc is probably wrong, and maybe swap Escobar in. Okay mentally delete that post. Let's start over. Schwarber ($20M) Escobar ($10M) WE go in with RF of Sheets/Vaughn/Eloy/Engel as our corners for the year. Graveman ($8 M) Kluber? Hamels? Happ? ($10M) That would put us at around $185M for the year with Kimbrell traded for full $16M Plausible.

Glad we are on the exact, exact same schedule.

Jesse Rogers on Our Chuck said the sox are aggressive but he has not heard they are swimming in the waters for the top tier pitchers, and specifically mentioned Max as the group he's talking about. They legit had a portion talking about Rizzo which I nearly puked but a lotta Schwarber talk. So with that, and this is not me saying "CHECK THIS HOT STUFF", what do we make of this plausible offseason. I do see it as a white sox tendency, they love paying for offense and seem to love that DHs offense comes cheaper without much concern for the why. Adds: Schwarber 4 for 80, Leury back at 2nd, Joc at RF, Graveman, and uehr...Kluber? Paxton? Some older guy they say with hot experience.

Bullpen as it stands, if we assume Kimbrel gone: Hendriks Graveman Bummer Crochet Ruiz Lopez Foster Bilous Burr Severino Lambert Bold I think are locks. The rest are competition. Severino, Bilous may be closer and more productive than we expected in November. Ideas for relief: With a return to a 93 mph fastball, he may still find starting. But, I think approaching Folty on a switch to bullpen and a move to Sinker/Slider vs. his absolutely obliterated 4 seamer could be the potentials of a new bullpen stud. Or he'll suck. Probably will know his options late. Aaron Sanchez - at this point he just continues to get crushed under the workload, and his Curve/FB/Sinker all have tremendous break - an area I think Katz did well in addressing. Also - opener potential. Incredible name alert: JD Hammer - 94 mph fastball, above avg dropping slider. Cool glasses. Other than that probably better options. Oldies - squeeze that pulp : Bryan Shaw - Cleveland is much smarter than me, but his stuff feels like his use of the cutter SO exclusively is underrating what he gets from his curve, slider. I unno. Brandon Kintzler - I just don't think the Phillies pitchers are used well. He's old as hell and probably just sucks now, but he was a decent reliever with Cubs, Marlins then sucked as for some reason the Phillies upped his extremely meh 4 seamer. Blake Parker - I like split finger pitchers, always have always will Yusmeiro Petit - excellent control, and maybe a normal offseason after a normal year gets one more year. Nice stuff on his cutter still.

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Man Cohen is still blabbing to every baseball writer who will listen. Shut the hell up. The nice info is it seems by merely flattering Cohen telling him Matz wanted to stay with NYM, it coaxed an offer out of him when they were otherwise not in pursuit. Nice playbook for other agents. "Hi Steve, my player really just wants to play with the mets. He loves your aggressive style, he thinks you are a visionary, you are our plan A and B. What do you say?"

Cool story on Bailey Falter https://blogs.fangraphs.com/when-92-is-actually-95-bailey-falters-extension-adds-meaningful-velocity/

Maybe instead of relying on matching you make him the offer that gets him to stay?

Say what you will about Jerry, but the fact he doesn’t tweet is >>>>>

It’s really not that clear cut to me, because for for Escobar I don’t know that it’s a 1 year 10 mill deal. And it really isn’t clear to me if he is a good defender anymore, and whether on a 2-3 year deal if that continues to drop off. He’s also pretty power dependent. I get that there is a scenario where it’s like Segura and Pederson or Conforto and Escobar, and like, gross. But if we are just collecting good players where we can, it’d 55/45 I’d take Segura over EE.

What does this even mean? Today I guess?

See this is what I’m objecting to. Couple things: love @fathom resisting narrative that it has to be a binary. Though it probably IS a binary decision. Next - I’ve mentioned Seguras GB% rate from the beginning. Between that and avg splits, it’s not getting Marcus Semien. But he has great contact rates - career of14% k rate. That matters too, and also balances out a weakness. Hes not amazing. He’s not great, but he is good, and his defense and contact are important and helpful. And so the idea he’s specifically shitty for this team holds zero water with me.

But Segura had a tremendous year defensively according to baseballsavant, and considering our infield that matters. Kemp among 2b was toward bottom

“Segura has a 98 wRC+ as a RHH vs RHP” Soxtalk: “BOOOOO” “Escobar has a 98 wRC+ as a SH vs RHP” Soxtalk: “Yaaaaaaaaay”

The thing is most of these LH/SH options at 2B mentioned are just average vs RHP. And Segura is … Avg vs RHP

At first I thought - meh it happens. But I was pretty busy during day. As it’s progressed, yeah this just all comes across as very mean.

Yeah, that slider is unbelievable. I think 2021 was a transition year for him, not sure he knew how to harness that.

I had a post talking about bringing more diverse offerings into our pitching, graveman, tepera bring that. (I know we had tepera but notable he was one of our best in playoffs)

The good news is his stats in Cuba were also terrible

Never heard of them, will slice em and dice em now. Good stuff!

I was going to cali-clap for myself thinking I originated pointing out Kimbrel for segura but it was our @Squirmin' for Yermin congrats ?

Unfortunately the teams mentioned aren’t ideal there. I do wonder …would Philly part with Eflins risk? Would Sox take it? Always felt like he had a lot more in there and I think Katz has shown promise in his teaching, and harnessing guys with more break. I wish Phillies still had spencer howard

I wouldn’t call either high quality