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I hope too brother. What are some of your favorite hopes over the years that never did a thing? Alec Hansen had me thinking we were really building a juggernaut. Thought Alex Call had a real shot too

lol who are the last dudes to actually become something for us? Codi Heuer briefly? That one seemed like a nice job at the time

There’s gotta be something really special about his command though that those guys never sniffed

Well it sure is a different looking group of players from the disaster core, TLR + Colson thing we had going for years. That group made me quit being a fan of baseball after decades. Maybe these guys will bring me back

I feel like San Diego is just going to flip him at the deadline for Cowser and Mayo

How is one of the top pitchers in the game at a ridiculously low price with extra control not worth top prospects?

Funniest post I’ve maybe ever seen on here. I hope its greatness doesn’t just get lost in a 45000 page thread.

I don’t ever watch baseball anymore so I missed Evan Carter in the playoffs. How did he look in YOUR eyes? Imagine that’s our Texas target

How’s Joey Headlines doing this spring? Can we let him loose from his new team with this Cease performance?

Look no further than that staged video introduction call to Eloy last year. These guys would die for Pedro

Looking at Spencer Jones’ stats and fangraphs’ top 100… seems crazy to me that he’s ranked ahead of our other target Coby Mayo who has destroyed upper level pitching. Seems like Jones is all hope and projection. He barely played any AA and didn’t dominate A+. Why so vaunted at this stage?

In reality you can’t see 100 home runs. On paper potential world though… 10d for 10 Moncada 25 Robert 40 Eloy 40 Vaughn 25 Fletcher 10 Not in a million years but that’s what we should get if life didn’t suck

Holy s%*# what the heck is this- a bold idea?

You think Getz is raising the floor of the organization with most of these moves? These aren’t big ceiling plays but depth seems better

Yea I think money, commitment & opportunity get overlooked the most when valuing Cease. A team trying to win the World Series can trade for Cease right now and get 2 years of control, 180 IP, a decent shot at a CYA, pay only $8M…AND that comes with an option to roll it back for another $12M or trade him to restock a good chunk of what they lost to acquire him. That’s insane value. Cheap teams like Twins, Guardians, Rays, Brewers, Reds etc. this is their golden opportunity to get top pitching. They can’t purchase this.

I think I like this trade now. Getz basically wins the trade pretty easily and Arizona is totally okay with that. They are fine gambling on a chance to REALLY win the trade down the line because harnessing some pitching will be way more valuable. But it’s risky. Getz gets the safe win, for now. We might have a real RFer for his whole prime cheap. I’m okay with this. It’s only been since Mags

This precisely. This is what’s happening. The only thing is it seems to directly contradict Jerry’s public desire when Getz was hired to turn this around really fast. The only path right now to compete fast is massive breakouts from Eloy, Vaughn, Moncada & some pitchers. I mean maybe. It is Moncada’s contract year

I can’t imagine watching more than a couple games again this year. Interested in the minors though for sure

It’s pretty funny that Joey Ortiz headlined the deal

Cmon. You mean from Woo’s perspective

Corlas was great

Shhh. That huge benefit is not allowed to be factored into Cease’s value.

Yes. Cease is the only option for small market teams to add high caliber too. Getz is doing this pretty well it would seem.

I’d like to add that way more teams are probably in on Cease. All the teams that can’t spend huge money/years on a pitcher are in. He’s super valuable to like the entire NL Central just for starters. Especially since a team could trade him after this year to recoup prospects if they really wanted

If Westburg is worth more than half of Cease in SV…I mean you’re talking about making a trade that doesn’t even really help us. If you’re trading a pitcher that will compete for the CYA, isn’t the minimum ask 2 players that will compete for the CYA, but way in the future? They get to steal the sure thing now from us but we’re okay with that because if things go right, we maybe get 2 of those in the future. But using your percentages, you want to trade Cease for a guy who has a 10% chance of being really good? And then some other pieces a little worse than that? I mean you trade for Cease and pay him $20M for 2 years, or you give Blake Snell $175M for 5-6 years. And that benefit is only worth Westburg? There’s no way this makes sense