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I think the best thing we could hear is Mazara headed to AZ this winter to work with Menechino. Unlocking him really is just about approach and we had such great success with Moncada last year.

I think this makes a lot of sense but man it feels hard to pull trigger on. You should definitely call up Mets on him though.

Yeah I think this makes more sense.

Hmm...yeah I think you are cheating with McCanns numbers at DH

I forgot about McHugh. That would be nice for our transitions.

Sorry, availability meant health. I have zero doubt they are making 25-28 starts next year.

And Morton was 35

Can easily discard the contract

What does it matter honestly, it’s easy to discard.

The nice thing about Keuchel/Bum is I just have high confidence in availability. With Ryu I’d really want someone we know will be around. Nova becomes a real option then. Otherwise you can take those risks with Walker as 5th starter. Id like them to give the Ervin Santana deal to Salazar and see if they can get a team option with a guaranteed buyout in year 2.

Ha. Yeah what’s left is depressing. Assuming we give up in ryu/Keuchel/bum I’d still be fine with the Charlie Morton contract for Miley. After that...a lotta woof. I like the idea of getting old Alex wood back but am genuinely concerned that he’ll be injured all year. Backs aren’t fun.

Yes, kinda weird but they will have their nice prospects up so makes sense to provide some additional support

Miley? I kinda thought he would be 1/14

Maybe offensive, you couldn’t get the versatility on the left side.

I don’t care what people say, a VP like Hahn who oversees all of that is responsible for making his owner understand the value of that budget. It’s minuscule compared to payroll (which isn’t large)

I like Jose Iglesias as an option for a few million, would allow TA more days off. really not much for me to care about in FA now and I don’t see the trades. If you gave me the reigns I could probably salvage something meaningful, but what’s left is even trying for me.

Agree with others on some stuff. His lack of commitment to international and then only slowly starting to modernize their PD team after already aligning the future of his tenure to young prospects is just idiotic to me. Some stuff like the draft feel better, but I’m not sure they are. Take away his superior draft position and it is hard to tell, still next to no success in rounds 2-10. So regardless of his money constraints affecting FA, he put himself in a position to rely on big impacts from FA because he has been so terrible in the organic levers of team building.

It’s almost like posters can see the quality of the remaining free agents.

Woof.

He had decent success with a cutter last year, thought he would make sense and be productive. Only 29 still. The handful of interesting bounce back pitchers are dwindling. Ideally they can get Miley.

the shitty dickens sequel

Would have been more fun to invert Athletics than As though I understand the logo wouldn’t be manipulative

Have the cubs stated their expected revenue gains? I imagine the bolded is the reason why theres more mystery.

Hmm, good question. Probably because they've done a good job avoiding public disclosure of the expected increases.