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Cartaya is the Dodgers best prospect. He should be included in any trade including both TA and Hendriks. I am far from some Outman stan, but he does fill some needs. He is an LH OF, he can play defense and he is MLB ready -- those are very valuable things to the White Sox right now. Despite part of me dying inside to have listen to Cali tell us how he is the greatest baseball mind of all time until we die if Outman were acquired, he does make some sense as a third piece in these deals. The middle piece just give one of their close to MLB ready SP prospects - obviously Miller would be best, but seems unlikely we'd get their 2 best prospects which is why I said Pepiot/Stone. I think its pretty obvious the Sox need to target both LH hitters and guys that aren't butchers in the infield, which is why I avoided Vargas/Busch. An all glove no bat MI like Amaya doesn't do much for me. We have enough MI prospects. Obviously moving on from TA creates a huge hole, but if you trade TA/Hendriks, you may as well trade everyone. Can target a SS in a different deal.

If you're trading them TA + Hendriks, I want Cartaya+. Full stop at anything less. Cartaya + Pepiot/Stone + Outman. Gives us C of the future (who is blocked by Will Smith in LAD), a rotation option for 2023 and an OF option for 2023. Also frees up $25M ($40M in total) to figure out 1 more OF spot, SS and 2B.

Wish he could play defense. Was always impressed with the size of this dude.

Joey Gallo.

He got an award for the ACe program and said something like “this is more important than winning, which we don’t do much of anyway.”

Not sure I agree with the “good sign for the health of baseball” comment.

This.

Me

It is Colas. Like Cola Colas. Hope that helps.

Thats a lot of $. Mets are a cheat code right now.

If they trade TA, there is no window. It’s ovah. And honestly, it probably already is, as painful as that is to admit.

This. Now doing that with Correa ---- I could get get behind that.

Kepler is definitely a better fit Gallo. Problem is that he isn’t a FA and the Twins aren’t gonna hand him to their division rival without an overpay.

Montgomery isn’t even close to ready. He’s mid 2024 at best. You’d have to sign Elvis or some other stop gap, unless of course you received an mlb ready SS back in the deal.

Hardest pass of all time on that deal.

What kind of fan backlash would signing Correa result in?

Appreciate the clarification! That would certainly mix things up. Hope they're able to get a haul.

Agreed. Wouldn't have stopped the melt down here and on WST.

Whew. Imagine the melt down here.

He stated "its a 100% possibility" which I don't think is exactly what he meant, but could definitely be read that there is a 100% chance he's getting traded. But yeah, I was nit picking.

Wow. Its 100% a possibility, or its 100% happening?

I mean, he's gotta be salivating at these deals. And I can't blame him one bit.

Not saying its what I would prefer the Sox do, but if Sosa/Romy both fumble their opportunities (and lets not pretend there isn't a legit chance of that)....we're looking at playing Leury 2B most days anyway. If you're essentially planning to let Sosa earn that job, it would be nice to have some vet contingency plan in place. And if we're shopping at the local flea market for that fit, Frazier is as good of a fit as there is for a short term cheap contract.

The internal options would still be there, so if Sosa or Romy outperforms Frazier, great - he's now a bench piece. Its gotta be cheap though.

Trading for Murphy makes next to no sense IMO. The return would be way too expensive, and we still have to figure out what to do with Grandal/Seby. Trading AV to acquire a third catcher, leaving is with Gavin Sheets at the top of depth chart for 1B and still having no additional $ to spend seems like just an entirely awful strategy.