Bob Sacamano

Long live this joke.

Why does everyone expect there to be a press conference? Last year they at least announced they were moving on from Renteria but it doesn’t feel like there has to be one this year. They’ve already announced the coaching staff is coming back.

Yeah I think he would be fine too, but you would probably be pushing Grandal into more of a DH/1B/back up C role (sort of like Victor Martinez when he was with the Tigers). With so many guys receiving DH at bats, it would be tough.

To trade for him at $7.5 mill? I they think they will go way cheaper than that at backup C.

4 years control of a switch hitting OF who is coming off a 6 WAR season? I definitely would. I feel like you’d have to include some pitching in there too, maybe one or two of the middle infield prospects as well.

You would have to otherwise it wouldn’t make sense for Pitt. Vaughn and Reynolds have similar control.

True. Maybe they’ll get the DH though or can play Vaughn in LF. Or a different trade package. Not sure what though.

Trade for Marte for 2B and then sign Conforto for RF.

Yeah this definitely feels like a worse team.

Interesting. I wonder what the resident Padres fan thinks.

Most of the time it is the case though.

Yeah I love the framework too. Keuchel may pitch well in that ballpark. A DH in NL does open up Longoria going to DH (and playing a little 3B and maybe 1B work?) and LaStella at 3B opening 2B though.

Not for top free agents anyway.

Barnhart has an option that should get picked up (only $7.5 mill). They should be able to deal him if they want to hand the job to Stephenson.

Lol yeaaaaah I started typing what I WANT them to do but then realized none of it will likely happen and then didn’t want to waste my time even finishing the post.

Why do people assume they would shop Abreu? That is never going to happen.

If you were to sign Castellanos for say 4 or 5 years, that’s the same amount of time you would have Vaughn (5 more years of control, assuming he doesn’t get sent down for a period of time due to struggles) and you can make him available. Not saying I want to go this route, but if you wanted to deal for another starter or someone at 2B.

Just received this about 20 minutes ago. Nice.

It would be awesome if they end up changing it to something else instead of the dumb name they landed on.

I’m pretty much open to signing anyone and dealing from depth at this point ha

Right? And even if there is a buyout, that would be like $500k or a mill. Not much money for an MLB team to even worth factoring in.

I just feel like if we’re going to add another OF, it shouldn’t be a below average defense, bat first right-handed corner OF.

Yeah if you sign Castellanos, you basically have to deal 2 of Vaughn, Sheets, Eloy I feel.

All the DHs!

The difference is in the bats, as someone in those arguments had make clear. I’m someone who doesn’t want any of those 3 (Sheets, Schwarber, Castellanos) in RF however.