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This is the bullpen construction technique we wished Rick Hahn employed. I'm cautiously optimistic with how Getz has approached this off-season. Only $40M on the books for 2025, it will be interesting to see how he constructs that team with a bit of money to toss around.

I'm not going to get into the public money debate here, but this sentiment sure worked out well for Oakland.

Because it's the only real comp we have that makes sense since Vaughn barely played in the minors and Busch has barely played in the majors.

$25 says Vaughn out OPS's Busch next year, both have to play 100 games or more or bet is null, deal? 🤝

Well Busch was pitiful in his short stint in the majors. He might end up better than Vaughn, I'm just not giving anything up to get Busch at this point when I have a guy that can likely produce what he can for free and is younger and already shown he can hit above league average at the major league level. Also, the Dodgers were certainly not stacked at 2B last year where Busch has spent most of his time in the minors. If he was ready to hit he would have been on the major league team IMO.

Vaughn's college numbers blow Busch's out of the water, I know everyone here hates AV, but other than gut feel is there any evidence Busch is a better hitter? The grass ain't always greener...

Michael Busch is older than Andrew Vaughn.

Right, he's a politician making football decisions, same as it ever was at Halas.

This is where I'm at with the off-season. Sure, most of these guys will be terrible, but hopefully a few of the younger guys become assets (Eder, Mena, Nastrini types), and hopefully you get a couple hot starts from the others that can be traded for more controllable younger assets at the deadline. Not going to be a fun year, but will hopefully at least have some young guys to watch develop.

He's the guy that exposed the rampant use of sticky stuff, especially regarding his arch nemesis Gerrit Cole. Without Bauer complaining about it so much I'm not sure it ever gets the attention it did or banned.

If they're smart they would get serious now to avoid a bidding war, however they do likely have the most ammo so I could see it going either way.

Not sure about the timing thing with Maldonado, but I don't imagine too many teams that are looking to deal for a cost controlled SP like Cease are also looking to sign one of the top UFA arms available.

FWIW after perusing many sites and forums this offseason, my sense is Dodgers fans aren't keen on giving up Lux.

$25M guaranteed, they signed him to a 2 year/$30,350,000 deal with year 1 being only $5,350,000.

Hahahahaha touche!

Well sure, but what % of Canadians even give a crap about baseball? Just seems like an odd reason for a guy that doesn't really seem like he's motivated by attention.

A whole country that has roughly the same population as California? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

If Lin is the "top prospect" we better be getting Alek Thomas/Perdomo/McCarthy type young major leaguers as the headliners.

Tim was a -19 in defensive runs saved above average, a -1 in baseball savant's fielding value (89th overall SS), and a -7.6 in Fangraphs runs above average per 150 games (good for 93rd of 126 ranked SS, or 18th out of 20 qualifying SS's. He was by all definitions a horrific SS last year.

3 former first rounders still young enough to figure it out, a nice defensive piece and solid clubhouse guy in a position of need for a guy that serves no purpose on this team in 2024 or 2025 and hasn't been able to figure it out since the sticky stuff ban. I see nothing to complain about on this one.

Hahaha yeah he hates that, I'm pretty sure I'm blocked from texting into the Score for saying something to the effect of "and tell Larry nobody likes him."

I never thought anyone could be more sanctimonious and elitist than Bernstein, then he paired up with Holmes. Those two are must miss radio.

Beckham on play-by-play? Not even Jerry is that stupid, I hope.

They stuffed a 34 year AJ Pollock with about 10 innings of RF experience out there for 91 innings, I'm pretty sure the Sox think any OF can play RF, even if they've never done it before.

I'm somewhere in the middle on Jason. He's got great pipes, is a true pro, good for the occasional laugh and Seinfield reference, but his inability to read a fly ball and fair/foul balls was maddening to me. He needs to learn how to watch the fielders to clue him in on where the ball is going. I'm on board for a fresh voice, but Beckham or McKnight would be a downgrade for sure.