Bob Sacamano

He should already be in the discussion, right?

If Rangers get past Astros, I see them losing to the Phillies.

We’re not already off the cliff? Could have fooled me.

Brantley is such a professional hitter. Not a fit on this team unless you pushed Eloy to OF.

JR is going to want to kick that can down the road as long as possible. He may not be on the hook paying all of that $15M considering he's 87.

Yeah, give him a 2 year deal. And announce it towards end of off-season/spring training so you can give yourself 40-man flexibility all off-season/place him on 60-day IL at Spring Training.

Why would they pick up that Liam option lol

Probably not

Huh? Greg said he would not be a good addition though

Yeah, after taking down the Braves, I feel pretty good about the Phillies winning it all. Astros would be a tough challenge that is for sure.

I know why I'm rooting for them: I bet on them to win the World Series at the beginning of the year lol

Jesus. Can you imagine the amount of walks?

TA at SS with someone like Adam Frazier at 2B on a cheap one year deal or move TA to 2B and sign Rosario for SS. If Merrifield is a possible target, Frazier should be too.

I just meant I bet they’ll be more likely to spend the prospect capital on guys with 2+ years of control rather than hand out 9-figure deals. Sox rebuild never had the overflow of talent to trade.

Feel like they won’t spend the money.

Well no one ever dispute that. Edit: would actually love to see people try

Maybe even trade Cease and sign 4 guys. Although, if you do deal him, you probably just let Touki or Scholtens open the year in the 5th spot and hope Nastrini (or anyone…literally anyone) can make the jump to the MLB next year.

Yeah I don’t disagree. It’s just not going to be a good team ha hopefully you can trade at least 1 or 2 at the deadline.

Imagine being able to sign him for $25M a year and saying nah and then potentially trading for Salvador Perez at $21M a year. Harper would have been an amazing fit and sold a fuckload of tickets and merchandise.

Bryce Harper at $25M a year looks pretty damn good right now compared to *maybe* paying Sal Perez $21M a year. Makes no sense they didn’t pursue him harder that one off-season. Was a better fit than Machado. Sigh.

Yeah I envision at least one of those guys (hell, maybe both), maybe overpay a guy a little like Flaherty? Realistically, if they sign 3 SP they’ll be Severino, Montas, Lorenzen for like 1 year, anywhere between $10-15M each. Edit: toss Maeda, Boyd (need a lefty!), Martin Perez on the list.

Yeah, you’re basically declining TA option (or picking it up and hoping he’s the same guy he was 2 years ago) and hoping you get lucky on like 7-8 other signings and everything clicks, like 2005.

Go all Giants and sign a handful of mid/back end rotation guys to 1-2 year deals like they did a couple years ago.

I keep trying to figure out how to go about this off-season as just a fun exercise. Maybe I’ll think more about it and have something by Friday/early next week haha edit: none of my ideas involve trading for Perez lol but signing Garver has now made its way interesting my mind

Yeah, that would be better honestly.