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Last offseason, everyone announced the death of the Indians...and it didn't happen. Bauer didn't even have close to his typical season, they had a number of injuries and non-performance from Jose Ramirez for half the season, and yet still, they ended up with 93 victories. They're not just going to disappear. Reyes is going to put up huge numbers in the AL, despite his being a black hole defensively.

Last offseason, everyone announced the death of the Indians...and it didn't happen. Bauer didn't even have close to his typical season, they had a number of injuries and non-performance from Jose Ramirez for half the season, and yet still, they ended up with 93 victories. They're not just going to disappear. Reyes is going to put up huge numbers in the AL, despite his being a black hole defensively.

If he’s so bad, then why would we not ask for some money coming back or just dump a spare reliever or two on them? I mean, it’s not like every veteran is doomed to not make any meaningful contributions. For example, Lowrie, Kendrick and Zobrist all had really solid seasons in their mid 30s and beyond...to name a few.

For two expensive years of Schwarber, yikes...there are plenty of similar bats you can just buy.

We're just being realistic. Fine, Grandal, Betts, Moustakas, Wheeler, Keuchel/R.Hill/Miley and another RH reliever. That won't cost much. Practically a guaranteed AL Central title. Only $170-185 million, right? No problem.

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Well, yeah...you can argue Dickerson, Avi, Puig, Calhoun, Nimmo or Polanco TIL you’re blue in the face, but there aren’t any guarantees attached to anyone. Coming from an AL career, the risk is somewhat mitigated...and he can at least handle the position competently. Marisnick would be another, cheaper option to acquire for filling the spot one season. And really improve the defense markedly.

Looks like another blowout with 4-0 lead in the first and Cole on the mound at home. In the end, Astros/Yankees is probably better for promoting the sport of baseball...but TB taking down Boston (regular season), Houston and NY would have been an amazing story of front office and managerial ingenuity if you look at that roster.

Logically, the Astros need to trade/dump Josh Reddick to open up a spot for Kyle Tucker.

From recent Vince Duber article at nbcsportschicago “He's a quality bat in Japan, but he's really not the elite bat," Allen said. "The whole question is how much of his power is going to play in the United States, and the big question is how is he going to adapt to seeing 100-mile-an-hour fastballs, which he hasn't seen regularly because very, very few pitchers in Japan throw that hard. And he's 27 years old. So it's like taking a guy who's basically played college-level ball most of his life and suddenly at 27 he's in the major leagues. "(Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei) Ohtani was a bit of an outlier. There are hitters who are that good in Japan. Tsutsugo is not quite one of them. He is relatively adaptable. In other words, I expect him to make some adjustments to MLB, I expect him to find some solutions to MLB. But I also don't see him getting a guaranteed contract. "He's flexibile, adaptable, good leader, good teammate. But if you're looking at the skills, I don't think he's going to blow anybody away with his skills. "My guess is he'll agree to a minor league contract, he'll get a camp invite and that he'll win a major league job out of camp because he's just a really useful guy to have. But nobody's going to be throwing guaranteed money at him. If they do, I would be surprised."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27813181/philadelphia-phillies-fire-manager-gabe-kapler Showalter supposedly in consideration for Philly, Kapler to SFG? Weird, since Zaidi and Kapler are pretty much on opposing sides in the analytics department.

Geoff Blum...Willie Harris.

Rodon honestly could go either way depending on how he looks the last two months of 2020. They won’t cut him at $4.5 million, though.

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If we didn’t have Vaughn coming up soon...Schwarber has just two more expensive arbitration years left.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27810837/dave-roberts-own-dodgers-disaster Passan and pretty much every media member going after Roberts...Plaschke did the same in LA Times.

Grandal, Avi/Dickerson, Moustakas, flier on Gennett....paired with Wheeler, a RH bullpen arm and older (30+) but decent veteran starter on a 2-3 year or 2+option seems to make a lot of sense and doesn’t come close to $150-160 million payroll mark. You have lots of options there for DH, two guys for the RF spot who won’t break the budget...upside/flip/recovery candidates in Dickerson and Gennett, left handedness for Lillian, lots of quality veteran leadership.

Rodon is one pretty obvious cut if he struggles mightily in his return next year. Lopez might or might not still be in the picture, or he could be moved to closer, replacing Colome (sure, fairly unlikely.) I don’t see adding Rendon, a $30+ million long-term frontline starting pitcher or Grandal...although Grandal AND JDM AND one starter at least seems possible. It’s hard also to believe they’re going to add two pitchers making over $15 million, for that matter. A Wheeler AND R.Hill/Hamels/Miley/Wacha combination seems to be another way they’d go, based on past history, Ozuna and Rendon are just going up in price at this point...the Eeovaldi Effect. Same with Stras.

If they used Maeda to start the 8th or Jansen instead of Kelly, arguably a much different result.

We would be on a ten year rebuild without Sale, Eaton and Q. That much is obvious. As it stands now, after we graduate those 3 players in the next calendar year, we might be all the way down in the mid 20's in terms of farm system rankings heading into the 2020-21 offseason. If we keep Vaughn in the minors and make an amazing pick at #11, we're around 18-22nd. I guess Stiever or one of the low minor league hurlers could put together a Daniel Hudson/Brandon McCarthy ascent, but that hasn't happened for ages. Hansen was the closest, and he just basically imploded after early success.

As soon as Hahn shows he's capable of hitting on 75-85% of his FA signings, sure. He hasn't even come close to that. This type of logic goes back to 2004-05 and the "riverboat gambler" mentality of KW going for it each and every year at the rade deadline. SURE, IT'S ALWAYS POSSIBLE. But there are pretty much zero indicators this ownership/front office staff is capable of being the ones to pull it off, except for the once every 88 years hitting of the Power Ball by blind luck.

Hear, hear...amen to that. But preaching to the choir or already-converted, unfortunately, the White Sox are likely to either do nothing or the opposite to prove how smart they are.

It's not ONE team, it's still two. The Indians won 93, we won twenty less than that. Unless the Twins for some strange reason (with a youngish core) decided to blow everything up completely...and alienate all the season ticket holders in a relatively new stadium, they're going to be there again. God knows what the Indians will do, but they're more likely to go for it again than tear things down. I think you're putting WAY too much stock into Kopech making a big contribution next season. He would have to be nearly an All-Star level performer, either him or Cease, for any of this to make sense.