Bob Sacamano

The extra $8mill to spend is big.

2B options are not great in free agency unless you want to gamble on someone. I would prefer to stay in-house and use the money towards a corner OF and SP. I guess anything leftover could go towards 2B.

They could roll with Cespedes like Jimmy said they could or maybe sign Kevin Pillar or Tommy Pham (Pillar you could probably get for like $1M) to be a right-handed compliment piece to a lefty. Pillar only had 13 PA in the MLB last year but had solid AAA numbers. Pour whatever savings on the right-handed OF bat into a left-handed bat and SP.

I saw a Tweet that Cespedes could fill the Engel role. Guess that could be an option. From Jimmy (posted in the "Off-Season Plan" thread.

Get a lefty every day bat for LF or RF (Colas plays the other spot) and grab a right-handed 4th OF. Non-tender Engel please.

Oh I agree. Just looking at the free agents options is discouraging, unless you want Tommy Pham or Kevin Pillar.

Looking at right-handed OF bats (potentially ones that can play CF too) to platoon with whatever lefty they bring in, there really aren't many solid options (in free agency at least) to the point where paying Engel $2.3 mill seems more likely now than when we thought Pollock would also be here. Unless the Sox make a small trade for one.

He could probably get a 1 year $5M deal sacrificing a few mill to play somewhere he wants to be.

Wow nice lol

Hahn already implied that it won’t.

Idk but I’m really hoping they find some way to dump one of the smaller bad salaries. Him included.

Tyler Naquin come on down.

Something tells me he’s more of a glass arm.

A lot of it too though is having innings beforehand. Over the last 3 years, he has 63.2 innings to his name (60.1 MLB, 3.1 in college). Your take of "he can take Giolito's spot when he's gone" is just unrealistic for 2024.

I don't even know how many innings he would throw if you had him in a MLB bullpen or beginning work of transitioning him as a starter with limited innings over the past like 4 years. At this point, I think the amount for either will be close as he just needs innings. Might as well get it in the MLB bullpen.

Yeah I saw that too. But in the article that I read, it mentioned that they could still line up both Judge and Betts in the OF at times. Dodgers love moving guys around the field. Platooning an infielder with a guy who plays the OF and then moving another player between the IF and OF isn't new to them.

Also, just looked up this guy's numbers (a 23-year old, left-handed hitting third baseman. Wow. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=muraka000mun

1/$8 mill but you’re probably right. We’re talking about the 4th OF (when Colas come up and if they add another left-handed bat) but with this team’s injury history, I guess you could do worse than Pollock.

Hoping that we read “Pollock declines player option” no matter how unlikely it is, ha.

It didn’t seem like Mookie would be moving to 2B full-time. It sounded like he would just see more time there potentially than other years. Plus, Trea Turner is a free agent and Justin Turner has a $16 mill option that probably gets declined (but probably resigns for less) so they still need Lux.

Limiting the shift should help him.

Thanks for the write-up. I didn't know anything about him but figured it was worth sharing.

Also posted this in the Off-season Plan topic since he is a left-handed hitting OF that will possibly be discussed if posted. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/11/orix-buffaloes-may-post-masataka-yoshida-for-mlb-teams.html

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/11/orix-buffaloes-may-post-masataka-yoshida-for-mlb-teams.html Tossed this in here since we will all be talking about the team adding another left-handed hitting OF all off-season until they do.

If we didn’t have as many 1B/DH options as we have, I think people would want him to return.