chw42

We really decided to pick up Kimbrel's option of $16 million but were too scared to give Rodon a QO worth $18 million. If we don't end up trading Kimbrel for something noteworthy, that'd be a major fail.

Yeah how does it work exactly? Say if we offered Rodon the QO, he declines, but doesn't sign before the expiration of the CBA. Do we still get a comp. pick if they do come up with an international draft?

I don't think that's legal. Boras would be an awful agent if he let one player's situation affect another.

I wonder how much more money not having a QO attached got him.

How much cap space do we get with the 3 cuts?

Diekman was so bad last year the A's had to go out and get Chafin. He started out fine, but he was giving up a bunch of homers after June.

Never forget that Lance Lynn singlehandedly won us a game against Milwaukee with his bat and his arm.

It's almost like players' speed and legs decline after their age 31 season. Dye actually had a 104 wRC+ in 2007, but ended up being worth -1.2 WAR because of his awful defense.

The Braves won a WS with Duvall in CF and Rosario and Pederson/Soler in the corners. That's about as slow of an outfield as you can get. That doesn't mean other teams should try to do the same.

He can't possibly have very much trade value. It seemed like he was gonna quit football last year.

I don't think Dye was bad defensively in 05. But it really went down the shitter in 06 and afterwards.

I thought Chris Taylor re-signed with LA?

His sprint speed on statcast was about the same. He was like 1 percentile faster than he was pre-injury.

Yeah cause TLR made him play at the warning track so he wouldn't kill himself.

I also cannot stand his occasional tweets about Michigan.

I guess they could sign a Schwarber or Cruz type and then trade Sheets/Vaughn for somebody who can play RF.

So we'd play who in RF? Engel?

Realistically, all the options after Castellanos, Conforto, and Bryant are huge gambles and all have glaring flaws. Pederson and Rosario are in the same league for me.

Schwarber and Eloy in the OF would be god awful.

So we're not gonna get to beat on the shitty AL Central? Oh no.

Suzuki?

The only problem is that those guys might cost more. Especially Bryant. Cause he actually plays defense and can play anywhere on the field.

I'm bracing for Joc Pederson. Rick Hahn can't hurt me if I'm already expecting the worst.

Oh great, I went from worrying about no baseball to worrying the Sox will make half-assed moves.