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  1. Breslow must think they can get him right.
  2. The great thing about Nico is he's under contract for only two more seasons - his age 28 and 29 seasons. Age isn't a concern there. He also only has an AAV of $11.67m, has been worth 4.2 and 4.5 fWAR the previous two seasons and will probably be around 3 fWAR this season. How are you replacing that value in 2025?
  3. Yea I just don't see a path where moving Hoerner makes sense right now. I'm a believer on making prospects force their way onto the team. At that point, it's a great problem to have if Shaw for example is destroying AAA early next season. It doesn't make sense to fix our 3b problem just to create the same exact problem at 2b next season (See the 2b FA class).
  4. Seems like the Dodgers would be the best trade partner in that scenario. They have a plethera of young, injured arms. They already have the upper end SP, they need someone who can reliably eat innings. However, not sure which arm we would target and what else we might have to send depending on which arm it is. In a similar vein, I mentioned awhile back that we should kick the tires on Alcantara this offseason if we are moving Jamo this deadline.
  5. Good chance Montas is gone before tomorrow's start as well. Might get lucky and get a BP day from them.
  6. Agreed. I really hope Morel & Bigge are successful. It's almost like the twitter world doesn't understand that this can be a good thing for both sides and in terms of team context it makes since for both teams.
  7. Idk, call me crazy, but I think a guy who puts the ball in the air at over a 70% clip is going to be a welcomed sight at Wrigley in the summer time. His away HR/FB % is down 4% this year from last. If we are expecting the offensive environment to improve next year (I sure think it will), then we might see gains there.
  8. They have 55 games left. His current appearance pace is 60.5 appearances per 162, so they are right on the line.
  9. There's a lot more options for OF as opposed to 3b. Soto - O'Neil - Santander - Teoscar. Outside of Soto, the dream scenario would be trading for and extending Kyle Tucker.
  10. LFG Jed. This is the type of risk he has to take with limited options at 3b.
  11. Let Jed cook. In all seriousness, I like this move. Has good stuff, just need to fix him. 2.5 years of control and the cost was minimal.
  12. At least the pitching matchups get easier the next two games........Oh wait
  13. They'll probably go on a winning streak in Sept to drop us 3-4 spots in the draft lottery.
  14. If everyone knew the next AB was going to be a 69.1 mph pop fly, I think we all would of taken that.
  15. That's optimistic to think this offense was going to score 3 runs
  16. Feel bad for Kyle. He was pitching great and then got BABIP'd to death.
  17. Good weekend for me to be stuck watching the Royals broadcast
  18. Things are happening quick
  19. Doesn't seem likely that they would go after both Eflin and Jamo right?
  20. Anyone catch what Heyman said? Seeing on Twitter that he said Suzuki has been involved in trade talks. Hoping the context around what he said is along the lines of “teams have asked about his availability”. It was said on the B/R app, but I don’t have -
  21. Fully agree with the premise here. More or less talking out loud through the Astros farm and looking for need/readiness. Key word from my original post was "piece", so the hope would be we get more upside along with him (As pointed out, Astros don't have much, so they are a ****** trade partner to begin with). With that said, Whitcomb's line this year in AAA 20/63/78/24 .293/.381/.526 121 wRC+ 11.5%BB 19.9K% 407PA/91 games. He's been blocked by Pena/Bregman. It would be a Busch-lite level move to where you could start him day one and go from there.
  22. Thoughts on Shay Whitcomb as a piece of the return? His bad performance in AAA last season knocked him down all prospect lists, but seems to have made some adjustments with dropping his K% to 20%. Plays 3b/SS/2b. Has nothing left to prove at this point in AAA and is ready for his shot. Could stick him at 3b right away and let him finish out the season. There's a world where he's just a AAAA player or bench util guy with pop & speed. Not sure what to think on him, but have been following him for FBB purposes as Eric Cross and Chris Clegg seem to like his bat.
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