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What is even the point in that?

This is a pretty good summary of this place. Add in about 5-10 posters who add pretty much nothing of value but post about 15-20x a day, and you have a lot of BS to weed through to find the stuff that I try to come here for. It's a shame.

I think Steiever + Rutherford is a better package than what the Blue Jays got.

Yah...not sure how the Twins or Yankees didn't beat the offer.

The guy the Brewers DFA'd to make room for Lyles is fairly interesting as well. Marcos Diplan - http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2019?list=mil.

Getting Haseley for Colome would be a big win, IMO. Seems unlikely to me.

Yep, hard to argue that.

Very little outside of the draft, but they've also had very little to trade.

You sure they don't plan to use him in the pen? Brewers acquired him last year as well, and he did very well in the pen for them.

Probably. He's been pitching much better. 25.2 innings of 3.86 ERA since the ASG. He's not flashy, but you can do worse as a back of the rotation insurance policy, especially in the NL.

He is a free agent following 2023. So 4.33 years. He isn't even arb eligible until 2021. The Mariners probably aren't going to just give him away.

Fulmer has maxed out at 3 IP this season, exactly 1 time. His days of starting are over. But yah, I guess he's up there on list just by purely by being healthy.

I'd trade Nova in a heartbeat. Issue is, who TF is going to start games the rest of the year? I know the games don't really matter - but legitimately, who is going to start? You're not getting a MLB ready SP for Nova, or really probably anybody that may be traded next few days. We already only have 4 SP in Gio, Lopez, Nova and Cease. You subtract Nova you're down to 3. Cease is probably on some innings limits. That leaves 2 at some point. I guess you can run Detwiler and Santiago out there. Maybe even give Kubat a chance. More Covey? Gahhhh. The pickings are outrageously slim. Really sucks for guys like Lambert and Dunning because they'd be getting opportunities right now, but the pitching depth in the organization has just been decimated by injuries.

I know Lip is a respected historian of the game (and good on him for that), but he lacks fundamental understanding of simple things in today's game. His comments are not even worth reading.

Yah, the Micker comment was more in general - not just with respect to Diaz. I just wouldn't trade him right now unless its the piece that gets us a controllable SP with TOR potential or a legit RF for the foreseeable future.

Micker is the one guy in the org outside of the obvious (Kopech/Cease/Gio/Eloy/Madrigal/Yoan/Robert/Vaughn) that I am not moving unless we're getting a controllable star. Micker has been an enigma, but he has as high of an upside as anyone in our system outside of Robert. The guy could be a star in this game. DO NOT TRADE HIM AT HIS LOWEST VALUE!

Tough to really pinpoint exactly how much the Mets gave up for Diaz with all the big contracts that moved around in that deal.

Big fan of stoney. Not sure how you could not like him.

The Mets are going to get at least 1 top 25 prospect + another top 75 prospect for Thor. This deal wouldn't even warrant response.

Hard pass on Thor. Paying the price to acquire him makes zero sense for the White Sox. Let the Twins trade Kirilloff + Graterol + for 2.33 years of a wildly overrated pitcher.

Lol, @Chicago White Sox was suggesting one of Dunning/Walker/Rutherford + Pilkington. Not all four. That would be a massive overpay. I am thinking something like Walker OR Rutherford + Pilkington + Zavala + Heuer could get a Nimmo + Diaz deal done.

I would trade Dunning/Walker/Rutherford + Pilkington for Nimmo and Diaz in a New York minute. Hell, I'd do that just for Nimmo. He fits what this team needs perfectly.

I still don’t particularly understand why we would give up any legitimate assets for starting pitching. There are plenty of good to interesting starting pitchers on the free-agent market in a couple months. Why give up assets when all we will need to give up in a couple months is money? If the price is minimal, sure. Otherwise, just fill our starting pitching needs via FA.

Yah, cause he’s a Cubs fan. He may be a casual follower of the Sox, But also clearly a Cubs fan

Diaz + Nimmo? Pretty please.