chw42

take it fwiw

Unless our top 3 guys get hurt, Keuchel won't sniff the playoff rotation.

Add Kimbrel between Hendriks and Kopech.

On one hand: incredible bullpen and we probably won't lose a lead after the 7th again. This is also a statement acquisition by a franchise, that quite frankly, usually doesn't play ball with the big boys. On the other hand: everyone else thinks we overpaid (we did) and we're being incredibly financially irresponsible. If Jerry is willing to go with $175 million payrolls, I wouldn't have as many issues with this. But unless we win the WS, I doubt we'll go that high.

Yeah might as well go for it now.

To do what? Play RF? lol

I really soured on Madrigal until he started hitting for power before he got hurt. He's still not that fast and probably a little limited at 2B defensively, but his hit tool was amazing. Had we gotten Bryant along with Kimbrel I would have loved this trade. For Kimbrel alone, I think it makes us legit favorites this year in the AL, but we probably had to overpay to really wow the Cubs and get this done.

Might as well go all-in.

2.1 WAR already.

Now you see why we traded for Hernandez. He's our starting 2B next year unless he completely flops.

God I hope so. This is a massive overpay.

What the hell?

He also said the Twins' return wasn't as good as people thought. So ?

Yeah Bryant and Kimbrel for Crochet would have been a dream trade.

I honestly want Bryant more...

I'm not gonna LFG until a big writer reports it and see who we gave up.

Who?

We finally have a real long man out of the pen now. Pecking order is probably Hendriks, Kopech, Tepera, Bummer, Crochet, Heuer, Ruiz, Lopez.

Reylo survives!

On Spotrac it says it's a vesting/club option. I saw someone else say it turns into a club option in case it doesn't vest.

Looks like the Rockies finally did the math and figured it wouldn't be smart to offer him a QO hoping he doesn't take it.

It's a club option if he doesn't finish enough games anyhow.

Excellent.

Yeah this is the biggest issue. Everyone's trying to get a 3 win closer like Kimbrel. He has no real surplus value if you only care about money. But the teams after him kind of don't, they're after wins. If money and surplus was all teams cared about, a Burger+ for Kimbrel swap would be pretty fair. But his market is probably way beyond that right now.

I think if you want both you have to include Crochet.