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But Phil Rogers still references them...and he's paid to write about baseball still, somehow. Tenure.

The Rays will never spend that type of money on a closer in a million years...especially with their impression from when he pitched for Boston against the division. He would increase payroll by 25-30% alone...and Kiermaier gets so much of his value from CF defense, so we are still adding to the payroll by getting an older Engel at this point in his career. Unless we already could predict Luis Robert going down, it seems like too much of a luxury...unless we are going to up it significantly. You add Kiermaier l together with Leury, you should have just by gone after K.Wong and used internal youth and FA castoffs for the bench. We need finishing pieces to put this team over the top...Kiermaier 3-5 years ago would have been fine, but it would mean sacrificing Eloy or Vaughn.

Trea Turner combined with someone else might have worked...

Crochet hasn't worked nearly enough on endurance or secondary repertoire to pull that one off for next season...they would have to use a six man rotation the entire year, at best.

Giants more recently under Faidi. A's will probably tear down now. Brewers, Braves, Cardinals, Indians some other examples of teams that make the best out of non Top Ten payrolls....although ATL is really close to 10 now.

Who the hell is this M.White guy QBing the Jets?

Maybe track down the guy who spent $8000 on Shiba Inu now worth almost $5 billion on paper. Could buy the White Sox twice over if he didn’t crash the market selling them.

But what are the Braves and Astros spending on their pens…? Less than the White Sox at season’s end, even if you combine the two together. Minor league development/draft/trade.

Keep him away from Cespedes’ car collection…

According to the Michael Douglas movie Falling Down.

https://sports.yahoo.com/could-the-braves-rebrand-and-drop-the-chop-experts-say-the-route-is-long-but-navigable-181929271.html The Braves would simply have to be subject to the same rules FIFA applies to racist chants in European soccer...doubt it ever happens, same with the Chiefs.

So Baez, Story or trade? Unfortunately, more high K hitters won't change the complexion of the lineup much...but we're definitely not going after the Big 3 FA middle infielders.

Might have been too optimistic. Just need a completely different offense (modern) approach on offense...just can't see it happening if they keep the coach's son as OC. No way can they allow Ferentz to pass the torch to Brian.

You could have afforded Rodon and had another $15ish million to split between two veteran starters for the same sticker price as Keuchel.

Uh, oh…

Uh, oh, there goes this thread down the drain. The Padres also interviewed Rojas, the former Mets' manager. Interestingly, no Espada. Eventually, Carlos Beltran is going to get another shot, somewhere. Maybe with the A's, although that would be a really tough gig. That said, expectations would be almost zero at this point.

The Giants are still blocking the San Jose option...Salt Lake City is only ideal for Rockies matchups, but the location is far from ideal for the rest of baseball. Contracting seems to be out of the cards for at least another decade.

And maybe this universal DH thing will work to the advantage of the Sox since we lead the world in them...that and the Braves' FA Four.

That said, what can they do with their stadium/SF Giants territorial issue...strip the team down to the floorboards and maximize profits (harder to do with a salary floor) or simply sell off to the highest bidder.

They had to get an experienced, battle-tested manager, and Melvin was the natural choice when Bochy didn't bite. Francona, the other guy I would have taken a run at. "As for what the Padres are getting here: Melvin led the A’s to three AL West titles (2012, 2013, 2020) and a 853-764 (.528) record during his tenure in Oakland. Only the Dodgers made the postseason more times than the A’s did between 2012 and 2020." https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/oakland-athletics-compensation-bob-melvin-padres-16575377.php

Well yeah, Lynn is a risk, but no guarantee Gonsolin is more than a fifth starter/swing guy. For all we know, Lopez could fulfill the same role again...along with Cordero.

Look at Ray’s longer term track record. Tons of walks and strikeouts, but before this season, he usually struggled to get out of the fifth. You can’t afford that risk at $30 million. In many ways, he’s a lot like Blake Snell, a talented but enigmatic/inconsistent performer who’s more of a luxury for Top 8 payroll teams. And from a marketing standpoint, his addition might not even mean more than ten additional season ticket packages sold. Just feels like spending that much on a guy in his FA push year is asking for trouble when he gets a multi-year or you have to overpay that dramatically for just 1-2 seasons.

Yes, and it’s hindsight, but it would have been better to spread the Keuchel outlay over two of those guys in the $8-10 million range…like the Giants did behind Gausman, in Wood and DeSclafani. T.Walker would have been another. Unfortunately, there’s just as many Wachas and Arrietas when you start diving into that tier of the market. If we took Paxton, we would have been screwed. Always comes back to pro scouting and talent evaluation/projection. Hard to see much evidence that Hahn or Haber are specialists in this area, but they at least have to bring the right people on board with that niche aptitude.

Well, that was out there well before the trade was made…but it does make a convenient excuse. Just not sure how well it reflects on the organization, ultimately.

Contreras trade isn’t going to happen for that return, and Ray at $30 million is way too big a risk…that’s almost 1/5th payroll. Also, the Dodgers will get May back next year in the second half, no need to bloat their payroll when they will have some flexibility with Bauer, Kershaw (maybe), Scherzer and K.Jansen coming off. They are going to be financially astute with their tweaks, and won’t go back to all-in if they’re still struggling at the trade deadline. Could even retrench and auction off Trea Turner and do a retool on the fly, which Friedman hasn't faced doing since his TB days. They do have to decide what to do with Bellinger…with Muncy coming back.