It's starting to feel like the fact that we spent close to $200M on 3 pitchers who aren't going to throw a meaningful pitch after July is catching up with us.
I had the #2 pick in one league a couple weeks ago, passed on him and took Saquon. Usually these holdout threats aren't very serious, but Bell is definitely committed to this.
I think the way it is now is the way it should be handled. Strop is the nominal closer but Joe has shown he's not wedded to it if he needs to go another direction on a given day. It's not ideal but it's probably the best we can do.
It would've been really cool if someone had warned us that the borderline ace we were trading for was going to become a horsefeathering roller coaster ride at best 6 months later.