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in an Injuries Don't Exist and Rehabs are Perfect World: SP1: Boyd SP2: Holmes SP3: Gausman SP4: Shota Multiple inning bullpen options, roughly listed in order of effectiveness: Brown, Steele, Cabrera, Assad, Peterson, Rea, Garrett Short relief bullpen options, roughly listed in order of effectiveness: Palencia, Webb, Zeferjahn, Rolison, Harvey, Milner, Maton, Roberts That's....a lot of names. Ask Rea if there's anywhere he wants to go, see if Assad can get you anything of value (preferably in that last bucket)...otherwise you're cutting some dudes in a few weeks (hopefully)
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I think that plan is probably internal reinforcements at this point. Even baking in pitching attrition, you've got Holmes/Gausman/Boyd/Shota/Cabrera as your rotation in the next week or two, then there's the tier of Rea/Assad/Peterson, then there's Brown and Steele and Palencia ramping up.
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devils advocate: the main prospect that was just used to get tarik skubal says otherwise
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We really shouldn't be factoring in any sort of meaningful value to 'well now we have a headstart on signing him to a long term deal' in terms of analyzing trades. Whoever pays him for 2027 and beyond will be paying him market rates.
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what?
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Don't really know how to square the relative prices of Gausman and Holmes. Good job making moves. Very bad job solving any of your future problems.
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He does. That's a fun little piece to add.
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Yep. Compared to what we've had to endure the last couple months, it's better, sure. But we need to probably stop a little short of calling Boyd/Shota/Gausman some 'solid' pitching rotation. 149 starters have pitched at least 50 innings this year. In FIP, Gausman is 42nd, Boyd is 44th, Shota is 93rd. It remains a weakness.
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Thursday's game being our two month rental going against his old team who traded a top 50 guy to replace him with a controlled starter that's about equally as good doesn't help either
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'Our prospects are actually too good to pick up desperately needed controlled starting pitching' is maybe something I can appreciate down the road but not at this exact moment, especially when I look at tomorrow's game and see newly traded Tarik Skubal going up against Javier Assad.
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The guy the Angels got for Soriano was a top 50 prospect too right? Is that just what it costs to get a pitcher like Soriano/Detmers?
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So we're (again, hypothetically) passing on controlled starters, knowing we need a bunch of starting next year, now, three months ago, etc, because we prefer a guy who maybe has a path to 80 starts behind the plate for the next few years. That no one knew existed 4 months ago.
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Basing it mostly on the blurb from Trueblood's Garrett article: EDITOR'S NOTE: The original version of this piece indicated that the Cubs were acquiring Angels left-hander Reid Detmers, based on my own reporting and that of Bleacher Nation Cubs reporter Michael Cerami. I won't speak for Cerami, but my own understanding is that both pitchers were in play for the team, but that the Cubs backed away from the Angels' demands on Detmers at the last moment and pivoted to Garrett, in whom they've been interested for some time, as we reported last week.
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Miguel Amaya has three years left of team control and has been an above average hitter since the beginning of last year. Ayers is already 25 years old.
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Jumping to conclusions, but the Cubs pulling out of a Detmers trade because of Owen Ayers would be absolutely infuriating. Again, hypothetically.
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I doubt there's anything worthwhile to get back in return, but was thinking in the last couple days that he'd be a good fit for the Rockies with their giant outfield. And then they went and traded Brenton Doyle, so they could use an outfielder. Senzatela maybe?
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We've cleared out basically none of the logjam of the blocked position players, unless for some reason the Angels reliever that wasn't in the top 80 guys listed costs way more than I thought.
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Which pale in comparison to the question marks surrounding Garrett.
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Zeferjahn is fine, certainly better than some/most of our relievers. But that's a spot that is now not going to be taken by a higher end guy. Can we do something, anything cool, please
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A. That was 3 years ago B. That's more an indictment on the current rotation than a compliment to Garrett.
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That was either 'this trade might not happen' or 'there's another one coming'. It's looking like the former, unfortunately
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Yes?
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Taylor Ward to the Mariners
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There's a ton of money coming off the books next year. $37m for DeGrom is essentially Taillon+Happ (or Suzuki). Said another way, swapping Taillon and Happ for DeGrom and Matt Shaw is basically net neutral.
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Rojas is the easy equivalent to Nimmala, the other two don't even show up on the FG board (24 YO OF in AA with slightly above average numbers, 19 YO complex league pitcher) so pick your random names from the 25-40 part of the Cubs list.
