SonofaRoache

And what about the other offseasons of failure? The hit rate on free agents has to be like 10 percent.

Like Yonder, Jay, Nova, Santana, and the other trash we've been signing?

I was referring to if his numbers were like that here this season. In 5 or 6 years I expect decline and still wouldn't be mad if we contended for 5 years.

As opposed to blowing money on garbage like we have been? I know we get on them for mistakes but this is one we'd just have to bite. His worst case is what we see now. .246 10 Homer's and good defense. I think a nice chunk of the salary would have been made up by not signing his friends and fan support.

I think Manny's numbers would look like much in our park as opposed to San Diego's.

Okay, Manny can be one as well. Point still stands.

Harper was my 1 as well but Machado was the likeliest for us. I don't like the idea of trading Nick but for Manny and a TOR arm that fits our rebuild it is worth it. If Nick turns into a HOF I wouldn't regret it because Manny is one as well.

If nobody wanted them, they wouldn't have gotten that much money. 16 million is a lot of money. Had we wanted them, we would have probably needed to pay 20.

Brantley and Cain may not have wanted to be here as well. No way we get them on those deals.

Brantley and Cain may not have come here unless we overpaid them by a wide margin. We know Machado wanted to be here and he solves three problems. 1. The need for a Hall of fame talent. 2. Moncada stays at 2nd. 3. No early season terrible Yolmer. And a bonus is being able to trade Magdrical for a TOR arm. Add in fans being excited and spending money with us probably being. 500 right now and it would have been good value. I understand the premise of big contracts not working but we needed this dude and would have really told the baseball world we are coming. Those second tier guys you mention are gonna cost us 20 to 25 million or more next year when we could have had Manny at 30.

I think with this past offseason it was about opportunity. In most years we will get outbid by about 7 other teams. This year we just needed to beat the Padres and Phillies for two guys who probably preferred to play in Chicago. We need to acquire one good starting arm and 3 solid/good bats. Having premium players increases your odds of being really good and can also make up for potential busts. Had we signed Machado, Moncada could have stayed at second and we could have used Magdrical as a trade chip to acquire a good starting pitcher on a non contending team.

There is a reason the Sox offered a deal to MM that COULD HAVE paid him well over 300 million instead of paying him 300 million. The big boys pay the big bucks needed to land the big fish. We must prove that we will as well. Can we outbid the Yankees and Dodgers?

If he pitches well then he will be the second arm on the market and out of our price range.

The problem is the players they'd benefit from the most are gonna get mega deals from their own teams or the blue bloods. We are gonna be stuck in that mid major market hoping for over production. It is what it is, but I hope they can find the right fits.

I tried buying 4 tickets on the link listed, but I needed to add game tickets in order to add the patio party tickets as well. Is there another link I can use?

I bought tickets already, can I buy tickets just for the event.

Gonna be a long flight to Portland.

This was not a meaningless game or series. We still want success for our core and even ReyLo.

This season is shit in theory but this was a back breaking series.

That may have been our last shot at this game and at .500.

Quite what?

I was told we'd be at .500 this week. Looks like everytime we get close we shit ourselves.

Magdrical and Robert need to be called up in April of next year. If we are in contention for a playoff spot next year, Vaughn should be called up later next summer after service time deadline passes.

Just a shitshow going on right now. Lopez is just not that guy. He has good stuff but is just a head case. Gonna blow another chance to get to .500.

We all know he would have blown his arm out up here this season. And it would have been in like August costing us a possible 2020 contending year. I am confident they can re-sign him to a good deal and am glad he is getting TJ out the way early in a non contending year.