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Resources are limited though and we should not waste them on lateral moves. Seager costs us $18M next year and money that could be used towards RF. The prospects you’re talking about giving up could be two major pieces for a legit TOR starter this offseason. Personally, if a guy like DeGrom isn’t available this coming offseason, I’d rather just keep Kopech & Madrigal, sign someone like Stroman to a 4/$80M deal, and acquire the best stop-gap RF that can buy us a year until hopefully a Cespedes or Colas is ready (assuming we sign one of them).

Why would where they’re playing the games affect the start times?

I honesty don’t get what Seager accomplishes outside a little better balance. He’s a fine player, but he simply makes our team older & more expensive. Any dollars we have to commit to the lineup should be allocated to a RF upgrade. As for Gonzalez, just don’t think he’s the answer to what we’re looking for. We need another arm that can be dangerous come October and Dallas already has one spot locked down. I really don’t want to throw out two soft-tossing lefties with similar arsenals in a playoff series.

Yeah, I was a little confused at first when he was talking about the Dodgers. But in terms of our lineup, we still got Andrew Vaughn coming and an upgrade in RF will happen at some point, whether that be adding a free agent, making a trade, or signing one of the big Cuban outfielders like Yoelkis Cespedes. And what’s really scary is that Tim (4), Yoan (5), Eloy (6), Luis (7), Vaughn (6), & Madrigal (6) are all controlled for the next four to seven years. This window is just opening up for us and the lineup is already a force to be reckoned with.

Gonzales is obviously a good starter, but fairly similar to Keuchel and wouldn’t want my post-season having two guys like that. Seager I’d want no part at his age & contract, especially when it requires moving Moncada off a position he’s both comfortable and very good at.

The Rangers play tonight at 6pm and Lynn is scheduled to be on the mound for them. That could really accelerate things from a trade perspective. Also, just wanted to post the quote from Ken Rosenthal that I referenced earlier. If teams are truly unwilling to move a top 100 prospect for him and the Rangers figure now is the time to move him regardless, then we better be serious players with a 3 or 4 player quantity-based package similar to how we got the A’s to bite on a Shark deal. Fuck, I’d give up Stiever, Collins, & Adolfo plus Lopez at this point. That package lacks a true centerpiece, but gives them an arm they can instantly replace Lynn with that might benefit from a change of scenery, a pitching prospect that had some serious helium coming into the season, a major league ready LH power bat that could immediately factor into their 1B/DH mix, and a high risk / high reward OF prospect that may only be a year or so away. I’m sure they’d rather land a blue chipper plus lesser pieces, but if the market is suppressed because of COVID-related concerns, that‘s a deal I think they’d consider.

Dunning’s stuff looked spectacular those first few innings. I feel like we must have been watching different pitchers.

Wow...and thanks.

What happened?

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Come on Yoan!!

Ugly at-bat there

Nice work Yas!!

Apparently Ken Rosenthal has been speculating that teams may not be willing to pay a huge price for Lynn given the economic environment and the increased value of cheap young talent. I still think a quantity-based package (Stiever, Collins, & Adolfo) might be enough to get something done. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Fucking A

I honestly think that’s him slowing things down in hopes of commanding his fastball better.

We really need to see what he looks like coming out the pen, so we can make a decision on if he should return next year. Same applies to Rodon assuming he actually comes back at some point.

Or Sunday for the Sox ?

Ball 4 it is! Nice work Nomar!

Ball 4 grand slam

Nope, still Mazara ?

Why are you watching the Royals broadcast?

We need to see how Lopez looks coming out the pen, because he isn’t going to make it as a starter, at least under Cooper...

The job will be Madrigal’s come tomorrow

I fucking love Robert