Bob Sacamano

Yeah…even if the NL gets the DH, they have Dom Smith for that. Basically either trade/turn McNeil into a bench player with his versatility , or trade/release Cano. Or trade Nimmo.

I agree.

Lol fair enough.

Trading for Moniak feels like trading for Lux: someone we’re hoping develops and takes a major step forward while we want to win.

Least surprising take.

Yeah… I don’t know where this benefit of the doubt for them to be able to build around the team through trades and free agency is coming from. I’ll gladly tip my hat to them if they pull off some major moves.

If they even extend him that is. He will be down to 4 years of control going into the 23 season.

Hopefully they spend soon. Going to suck to have a long lockout. Will already suck not having a Winter Meetings to follow due to no CBA. At least give us a more complete roster to drool over.

Fuck it. Let’s get crazy. Sign Conforto for RF, Schwarber for DH, trade Vaughn in a deal for Marte for 2B and a reliever, deal Kimbrel for a lesser reliever and whatever prospects we can get, try to unload all of Kuechel’s salary for whatever.

Sign Conforto, sign a cheap 2B, play Sheets at Charlotte (or sell high on him, I don't care) and make it work for a year until Abreu is a free agent (not that that is a guarantee for him to be gone).

Take a few days off on the COVID-IL when we go to Toronto.

Wait how are Escobar and Garcia both in the lineup?

Probably closer to reality than signing Scherzer tbh.

RIP nearest toilet 30 minutes later.

Yeah that doesn't help solve the rotation at all. Unless in this scenario, Vaughn is dealt for a front of the rotation arm with like 4+ years of control.

Agreed. That's not exactly all in.

Honestly, I was thinking about it the other day and I would be content with Villar at 2B in the 9-spot for cheap if it means we added a top of the rotation arm and Conforto is in RF.

Would it make sense to change it to the 29th, giving non-tendered players at least 24 hours to maybe find a new home before the lockout?

Hopefully they can pull it off this time and we can be happy we got our guy instead of being happy we almost got him.

"I need to meet that 50-name per page quota!"

I wasn't that excited about Matz but for $11/year, I would have been fine with that.

I think it's pretty clear they don't have any sources, outside of reading posts on Twitter or this board from people who do. It's really easy to connect teams to free agents and line up trade partners based on needs. When a move doesn't happen? "The team talked with team/player and he signed somewhere else/trade fell through."

I agree with this.

It really depends on what they get back

What second baseman "like Marcus Semien" is out there? Free agent market is weak at 2B, especially when you realize Escobar isn't good against righties.