Bob Sacamano

Right. There honestly hasn't been much activity yet around baseball minus a couple of moves.

So happy I will be in Nashville instead of refreshing constantly while working.

Probably about to get his shot with Marte being dealt.

My bad all lol forgot I started yesterday's thread. I've been busy getting some work done before leaving town the next 4 days.

Giolito vs Bubic Let's get another god damn win.

Agreed 100%. We have potentially 7 stars in the lineup when everyone is healthy. Of course, another potential injury to the team kinda fucks that up.I want them to get a 2B but the pen has to be a higher priority.

Agreed. Very nice trade for a rental.

I bet he goes to the Astros or Red Sox.

Buxton, Gallo, Peralta have an extra year.

Same. I don't mind.

They are usually pretty quiet with the way they operate. I wouldn't be too worried yet.

Was already*, a couple days ago.

Right. I look back at the last month and where we are now and its hard to be frustrated about it. I said this earlier. It's good they didn't make a panic move a month or two ago and give up more. We're 8.5 games up in a division with 4 teams that could sell. The deadline hasn't passed yet. We're in a good spot to make a move or 2 in the next 70 hours.

Yeah he makes sense for a rebuilding team that can give him regular at bats next year.

Eh, if I were Arizona I would want something better than a position-less 28 year-old with terrible make-up. But that's just me.

Mercedes is pretty much worth nothing right now. Really no argument to be made there. I bet the only way he gets dealt is to an AL team for nothing or after NL officially gets the DH in the off-season. Not for a switch-hitting All-Star 2B with power who costs very little salary-wise who fits perfectly onto our team.

Is that the same surgery Archer had?

They need to do a better job of lining that shit up where maybe Vaughn and Eloy are both not in the corners.

Exactly. It's not killing them to pay it but there is no reason for them to pay the last 2 months since he would walk for nothing at the end of the season.

Put it this way: the D-backs motivation to move him isn't because of his salary. He's making like $3 mill rest of year. It's because the team sucks, he's a free agent after this year, and they won't give him a QO to get anything for him. An All-Star at that remaining salary is not a burden.

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Right. It's really not comparable situations. We didn't move on from Avi because of his price. We wanted to move on from him because he wasn't good.

Yeah I think if you're gonna go with all that offensive power in the corners and DH, might as well play Engel (hit him like 7th) or even Hamilton and hit him 9th.

The way people talk about Escobar here you would think he had an albatross contract lol

I was close.