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Exactly. Rotation is full. We have mlb ready guys who can take some starts. Grab a cheap vet to compete with Keuchel and go to war. Keep Gavin. If you’re gonna make a trade, grab an expiring asset SP for Burger + fluff and call it a day.

I’m holding Sheets and dumpster diving SP. i know it’s likely Sox will make a trade or two and Sheets is at top of the list of who’s going, but 1 year of Bassitt in return is rough. Another SP would be nice but I’d rather have Gavin around for when we’re sure to need him. This team is plenty good as is to win division. Bassitt isn’t moving the needle on the playoff rotation.

I would not like that trade. Not opposed to using the Sheets bullet, but not on that move. He has legitimate value to this team even without a clear starting spot. I’d need to really like the return.

Can’t really go wrong between A or B tbh. But if I had to pick, I’d go A cuz this team badly needs to improve against RHP.

Way I understand it is players get those bonuses if they apply and then the remainder is chopped up amongst top 20% pre arb players, presumably also including the award winners.

Where are the damn transactions!? They gonna make us wait til tomorrow!?

Hahaha he did

We’ll find out soon.

This!

Just joking with you man. Kimbrel is getting traded. They have plenty of room. Just glad we have some baseball coming and hope they actually add that ~$20M player…cough…Conforto.

Not anymore!

Who is the executive committee besides Lindor, Scherzer and Cole?

Now sign Michael fucking Conforto tonight.

Letsssss gooooo

Maybe they should put less superstars with mega contracts on the executive board. Who couldn’t imagined this series conflict of interest.

This. Needed to be productive this week and next knowing half to day and all of Thur and Fri next week are shot. This isn't helping.

Well that's good news. So we're back to the players being greedy fucks if we don't have a deal today and the rumored final offer from MLB on the CBT, min salary and pre-arb pool were accurate.

I don't think they add another good, reliable SP to be honest. The rotation is full. Lopez, Stiever and Lambert will fill in as needed when Kopech needs a break. I expect they'll add a cheap vet off the FA scrap heap to give Keuchel some competition and an additional fallback option.

Whats the point of arguing about what got us to this point? We are where we are. Who cares what happened or didn't happen in November or January or last week. Its frankly irrelevant.

Soooooo are the owners expected to counter yet again today? This all seems so solvable at this point. Continue to repeat it but players need to realize they're going to need to agree to $50M max on pre arb pool or there is not going to be a season for awhiiiiilllleee. CBT differences almost look like a nothing burger at this point.

If you want to assume all the leaks are complete bullshit, sure. IF you assume its not and the CBT is up to $230M increasing to $240M range in 5 years, pre-arb pool up to $40M, player salaries up to $700k and increasing ~$15-25k a year, which are all things that have been widely reported. I think its safe to say the players are being greedy fucks at this point. Could it all be a ploy in the media to turn the narrative and MLB is still where they were a week ago in Florida on all these stances? Sure, theoretically possible. But I doubt that is the case. Players have hit a stand up triple and they're going to the inside the parker with no outs.

Woof. This isn't getting solved today. Players are being greedy. Sorry for those that disagree, but they've got a really good deal on the table here. Once far far far better than the existing CBA.

Yeah I hear ya but in terms of things I am concerned about, that is about the bottom of the barrel. Do agree there is some potential for funny business if the process isn't changed.

Wonder what players counter offer was. Hopefully they just took their gains on the CBT and offered something reasonable like $50M on the bonus pool. Otherwise this isn't getting solved today. Still really like the concept of using CBT tax dollars to go towards pre-arb bonus pool on top of $40 or $50M base amount. Seems like a great compromise.

Its been stated that Players who finish top 2 in ROY get full years of service, and teams who have players who finish in top of ROY races that started the year on the MLB roster get bonus draft picks. I'd say those two things help curb service time manipulation.