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    Minor leaguers can’t be placed on the 60 day IL. They would have to call him up in order to place him there.
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    CC said when he went on the IL that he had been battling through it off and on for a couple weeks and they thought it was time to IL him and let him heal.
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    That was my immediate thought as well. Hoping he's back in there soon.
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    Agreed. He was someone I had stashed in my minor league system in my fantasy dynasty league at the time. Solid trade both ways actually since Marsh has been good.
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    Imagine if I had a time machine and could talk to the Derwood from last year (below) and let him know that in 2024 Taillon will have one of his lowest K% (down 2.2% from last year) & SwStr% (Also lower than last year) of his career and that there's a chance a team might be willing to trade for his full contract. The outlier this year is his HR/FB ratio is way down this year (Hmm dead ball a factor anyone??) at 8.8% (13.4% last year, 12.1% career). SIERA of 4.21. If a team is willing to take on his full contract, you absolutely do it. Things are never as bad as they seem and things are never as good as they seem. If Taillon is on the club next year, the data suggests there's a good chance we see the below Derwood return. "Stealing a game with Taillon on the mound feels like three wins" "Taillon is Anthony Young bad" "Taillon is such a boat anchor" "What a disaster this Taillon signing was" "Taillon SUUUUUUUCKS" "Taillon was a great signing. Bang up job, there"
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    I do want to point out that you’re really cherry picking my original post. In no way was it a “You’ve got to move Taillon and go all in on Flaherty” post. Squally asked for examples and if they were to go the FA route, Flaherty was an example. I would much rather use the cash you save by moving Taillon/Belli towards Soto. Then make a trade for a cost controlled SP and use the left over cash/prospect capital to plug catcher/3b/bp.
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    Nico and Happ need to stay. It would just add additional holes and we aren’t going to upgrade over them.
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    They’re not though. Flaherty is going into his age 29 season, Taillon age 33 season. Flaherty has a 33% K% this season vs Taillon’s 18.5%. If you want to hold Flaherty’s injury ridden seasons against him, that’s fine I won’t argue against that. But a healthy Flaherty is in a completely different tier than Taillon plus being 4 years younger. Flaherty just misses more bats, which I think will be extremely valuable next season. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/jack-flaherty-656427?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb
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    We have a 1000+ innings on Jamo, we know what he is at this point. He wasn't as bad as he was last year and he isn't as good as he's been so far this year. I'm very much on the move Belli & Taillon train for financial freedom and build around the rest of the team. As to your question, there's two avenues. Which avenue is best is dependent on what they do at hitter. 1. If they spend big on a bat(s), go the cost controlled SP trade route. It's time to spend prospect capital. 2. If they miss on Soto for example and go the route of trading for a bat or spending less on a bat in FA, swim in the waters of the high end SP FA market - Burnes/Flaherty/etc. As much as I appreciate how solid Jamo has been this year, I don't believe his performance will be repeatable next year. I fully expect the MLB to make changes to the ball again in favor of offense after this disaster of a season league wide and I expect that to pile on to Jamo's looming regression next season. It's not the end of the world if we keep Jamo, but we're more than likely paying $17m aav for a low 4 ERA the next two seasons. Next season is fixable, but it's going to take Jed moving some chess pieces around and getting aggressive this offseason in FA and with moving prospect capital.
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    Just a nice easy swing to the back of the bleachers on a hanging breaking ball.
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    His original contract is going to be in the neighborhood of $70-$80m surplus value. Such a good signing by them.
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    He's listed on the Iowa roster, which I believe is what has sparked the speculation - https://www.milb.com/iowa/roster
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    The funny thing is, we pretty much could have had this exact team the Phillies built.
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    Exactly. The goal should be gaining financial and positional flexibility while not moving two of your best assets that could help you compete next year. Belli and Taillon make too much sense to move, as both help financially and are redundancies. Then, sign or trade for a big bat and do the opposite for a SP this off-season. Plenty of cap space left to fix BP, catcher, and possibly 3b.
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    Flipping Jamo and Belli would open up a ton of flexibility for next year. It's just a matter of is next off-season the season that Jed pulls the trigger or would we be in for more of the same conservative Jed.
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    Receiving good value in trades is one of the few things I have faith Jed will do well in. However, the bad news is, it usually means we're on the selling end of said trade.
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