10 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Philly would never make that trade....Gonzalez would need to put up an 800+ ops for June/July.

They're not going to replace Turner any time soon.

Maybe 2B...but not at the cost of Painter.

Painter stinks.

1 hour ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Painter stinks.

And was just demoted to AAA with a 7.08 ERA.

2 hours ago, GreenSox said:

Buying is for suckers.
Dodgers sold at the 2025 deadline and now have the AAA home run leader.  Rays and Brewers don’t buy much (a little on the margins). Sonny Gray?  Salary dump price, no more.  He could turn into Shields tomorrow.  Mets bought Peralta.  Orioles bought Shane Baz. 
Suckers.   

This is a way too simplistic way of looking at things. Going “all in” at the trade deadline may be foolish, but augmenting your roster with non elite prospects is something any serious GM should be doing to some extent.

And in the case of the Dodgers, they traded away a single piece as they had soured on the player and were able to get a nice return. They are also not a good example of anything when they can rock record payrolls that allow them to accumulate significant depth during the offseason.

20 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

I hate trading significant assets for a guy that's ceiling is a back-end rotation piece.

I get that, but I also think Detmers is a bit better than bottom of the rotation. And he's young. Don't think Davis Martin was even in the majors at his age.

I think this org needs to buy some pitching because it's really pretty barren in the minors, and this guy at least has some control and some upside. There really isn't any for sure starting pitching at the major league level right now - hopefully Martin and Shultz but not close to sold on them. So, I guess, where is the pitching going to come from over the next few years?

What are significant assets in your opinion for Detmers? A fringe top 100 prospect?