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yeah, I made this if you want and have a gmail account. Just either download it or copy it into your account: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v-L_AWIcTXsM6LdFFzwS7dB30E3rS-WLeOe4anRs1MI/edit?usp=sharing With graverman, and without kimbrel: Scherzer @ $35M and Conforto @ $19million (which came from spotrac) puts you at $199M. That's without any 2b, so you are rolling with Romy. Trading Keuchel helps.

I created a $185M roster payroll team this morning that had people jumping off buildings so just prepare yourself people, even a $200M payroll doesn't get you anywhere near a spending spree of scherzer, conforto, semien it just basically allows you to get a great guy and two good guys

Are you against those?

Let's hope Colson Montgomery can have same ease moving up.

I just want to be clear my thing was Schwarber at DH.

exactly - the team that matches up best for sox is cleveland, which makes them the team that matches up worst. From Jose Ramirez to the pitching, they are the yin to our yang except our yang is bigger and we just need their beautiful yangs

Ok, I agree and I don't see pitching as a fit for him. Hitters mentioned: Bryan Reynolds Ketel Marte Both would be incredible gets, with control. Others I'd consider: Lowe (b/c who knows with TB) Here's a weird one: San Francisco offers you Mike Yazstremski, Kyle Harrison for Vaughn ???

this is great stuff, had on idea. I hope for his sake that Kevin Long can bring him some success.

every pitcher i'd trade him for is on a team that is competing. Yeah, would love Jose Urias or Buehler. I'd love Woodruff, Burnes, Peralta. Here's an interesting one, that I wouldn't do. Would you trade Vaughn for Mackenzie Gore

Probably - but I think biggest help is just confirming to players prior to an unknown-length lockout that they are either a free agent or have a contract for the next year, not necessarily to jump their market.

If in any trade a simple one for one of Vaughn for player, its a good sign I wouldn't make that trade. Vaughn + for like...? I don't even know. The guys last year are clearly not available. DeGrom ain't coming up. Pablo Lopez? Gallen? Glasnow maybe I'd have done but not for a partial 2022.

The point is the sox have shown the tendency to structure the team this way, not that I think defense doesn't matter. And even that poor construction no one likes, you are at $185M salary, to which the sox would be thinking "wow thanks jerry, great investment, we are all in"

Outs Above Average: Eloy Jimenez: +2 (LF) Vaughn : -3 (LF) FRAA: Eloy Jimenes: -0.2 Andrew Vaughn: -3.8

Because I forgot which of my plans I was promoting. Should be Vaughn/Sheets

Yes, we would not be good on defense. However, the sox have definitely played in those waters before. You don't have to trade Eloy and Vaughn, you actually just keep them, I don't get that idea. Eloy was actually pretty good in LF, and you have Engel too. And also, Vaughn is not a better defender than Eloy, that's crazy. He is likely slightly better than Schwarbs.

Keep in mind if we sign schwarber we'll get 10 million: ANDERSON ROBERT SCHWARBER ABREU YAZ ELOY MONCADA ESCOBAR GARCIA ZOMG SICK OFFENSE posts And they would be right?

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/