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Well, sure. Although any starter throwing that hard doesn't tend to last very long these days. The issue was the Vaughn price tag. Also, it's hard to come up with many pitchers at mlbtraderumors for $3 million I would rather NOT have than VV. Derek Holland, maybe. Arrieta. Matt Harvey.

Oops, sorry. And can we please limit the next VaFan optimistic thread for at least one week passing passing by without another calamity, first?

What stopped the White Sox from spending millions in Latin America? That's not even the 1/2 of it, because Arias of the Clevinger trade might be the best one of all...now we will be dealing with him and Quantrill for five years until the next Guardians fire sale.

Words Will Smith could have said at the Oscars for $500, Alex. Instead sounds like something from the Left Behind series, lol.

It would help if we would actually play him in the position where he belongs, instead of converting him to Alex Gordon.

Ross Detwiler. Just making some fun of your obsession with all things lefty.

Uh-oh. Now you've done it. World War III at Soxtalk.

Let it be noted that I said 2024 is the last year. And KC only had two years, total, but boy they were good ones. Just one Bumgarner super human effort away from two consecutive World Series titles.

We would be better off with just Jesus, Sermon on the Mount high leverage reliever. Make him a lefty, as well.

The fact that he was drafted so high to be a reliable 25-30+ homer, doubles hitting machine for the next decade at 1B. Generational bat, etc.

7-17, 6.17 ERA last year. Would fit in well with Velasquez. Maybe we can get Jon Adkins, too.

Somehow the McDonald's and Twinkies combined will lead to yet another lingering lower leg injury to Moncada...

The supposed quad injury...

For Madrigal and Suzuki...lol. They need a closer, but Suarez likely gets the first look. Still have Pomeranz and Pagan, among others.

And Heuer coming back next year...

https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/depth-charts/orioles Jordan Lyles, haha...

You're firstly making a mistake thinking Hahn would get something back, but I'll go with Laureano since they can't trust Engel to stay healthy. (And yes, he's suspended for roughly the first month.) Which matches the Joe Kelly deal.

The rule of Sox young player trades is that Montas would end up like Jaime Navarro and Vaughn would win a couple of MVPs back home or in Las Vegas.

The money was spent. Just not well enough. Why can't we have the Indians or Rays ability to compete ona shoestring budget? Because we need to get back that mentality after wasting so much money the last decade...such as the Friends & Family recruiting disaster.

The Vanderbilt Estate is lovely. Nice summer weather in the mountains. Unfortunately, you're heading for the coastal plains with the next move, maybe not the best plan with climate change/sea levels rising.

Probably Burger. Of course, Moncada would get hurt as soon as Burgatron was out the door.

But we almost traded for Burnes, and almost signed Wheeler...that has to count for something, right?

And that's how you end up with no window after 2024...they might as well embrace that fact and decide to be all in this year, instead of their current half measures on pitching side. Really, they threw out the extended window as soon as they gave up on Rodon and Madrigal.

Sure, assuming they wouldn't give up major leaguers as well as Vera, Montgomery and Colas, our Top 4-11 doesn't really compare with SD's 12-30. Hahn is getting too cocky about outsmarting everyone with Lopez and Velasquez.

#12 and #26 prospects https://www.mlb.com/prospects/padres