Stratos
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If that's the best the Jays could get for Gausman that bodes well for the rest of the SP and possibly reliever market. But the Jays would probably still have traded him for a bag of peanuts if that's all they could get just so they could dunnp the salary. Angels/Mariners etc aren't that desperate with their controlled SP.
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A few outs away from a World Series ring to last place is a pretty crazy falloff for a team that brought back virtually everyone except swapping Bichette for Cease and even adding a solid 3b.
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If I were a Jays fan I'd be PO'd with that deal.
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Batenan might be in CF for the Jays when we play them if they trade Varsho. Taillon very well could be in for Gausman. Would love to take Hoffman off their hands and make it a hat-trick.
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Same. Lots of opportunity to still add. We got a good SP without giving up a top 10 prospect.
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What a fantastic deal. We gave up some future bench guys at best. Gausman's peripherals look good, pretty much the same as the last 2 years. Has a bunch of playoff experience too, including WS vs Dodgers last year. He'd be my Game 1 pitcher. Would like one of the Angels SP but if he's it and they grab 2 really good relievers I'd be ok with that.
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Didn't know that about him, but did notice the huge BB% #'s. Yes i could see that as an issue for a player, I had that same issue a lot of the time when playing high school ball. Led the team in OBP and steals though haha. I was able to get over it, I'm sure not everyone could, just like being too aggressive as you say.
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True. But the FO seem more determined this year, and honestly are more desperate, and more arms seem to be available than last year. Almost no good arms moved last year and we've already had some. There's just no reason not to push in and deal some of our prospects, and we don't really have any elite "gotta keep" prospects either, even the 1st rounders. There's nobody of Shaw/Horton/Cam Smith quality in the system IMO.
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Sorry not sure what you meant by the last sentence, you might have been autocorrected. Can u repeat?
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I can't believe we got anything for him.
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That's odd... I like Kepley. I want a SP more than I want them to keep him, but hope they end up dealing other guys instead.
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The Dodgers are smart, but the super smart Brewers can't go out and drop 700m to get the greatest player of all-time plus anyone else available they fancy. They can't line their rotation with 5 Cy Young-caliber SP's and get more if some get hurt plus grab a bunch of HOF/elite caliber hiters whenever they want. It's a joke. The greater LA area is almost as large as the greater NYC area, almost 20m people, and almost twice as big as the greater Chicago population. So LA is among the top 2 US markets by a very large margin, plus being able to buy Ohtani and Yamamoto etc means their market extends to Japan's 120m people. Yes it also takes smarts and some luck, the Mets/Angels prove that, but not every team can dominate like those markets allow. The Brewers have never won 100 games in a season ever. The Dodgers have done it 6 of the last 9 years if you count 2020 and on pace for 7 of 10 this season The Brewers have also never won a ring.
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I think Holmes might be annoyed if he had to go back to the pen if he wants to start, wouldn't he? Would be a nice in the pen or rotation. If he wanted to start so bad his agent should have snuck in a NTC.
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Best name in baseball?
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Aidan Smith rated a 45 prospect according to mlb.com. Our 45's are in our top 7-11 range, like Wing, Long, Triantos.
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Just saw that Diaz was activated a few days ago. Snell and Glasnow are on their way back, and rehab assignments now. They'll soon have 5 SP better than any of ours. Diaz and Scott etc in the pen, plus one of Snell/Glasgow could move to the pen too and piggyback. They just have to get Tucker going by the playoffs.
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If we end up with another 4.00 ERA guy I'll be annoyed.
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Them Dodgers might not be done dealing yet...
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To be fair to Ryan, even if he had never been injured he'd still be blocked by the Dodgers having a full rotation of perennial Cy Young candidates plus Sasaki. F*** the Dodgers.
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Detmers/Peralta/Brown/Boyd/Shota/Peterson/Cabrera plus Assad/Rea plus Steele and Horton plus Taillon on the payroll.. That would be a lot of MLB SP. Jed must be banging his head.
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What's the motivations of Seattle in this deal? Cutting payroll and needing a reliever? Not liking Castillo or his salary for next year?
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This is true. I mean we fans barely know anything about Hartshorn at this point. We have no idea how teams evaluate anyone.
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Interesting. We don't even have any top 50 prospects. Hartshorn is #60 and Rojas #63. Do we even have enough to get Skubal? We only got Canario and Kilian for Bryant though lol, but he wasn't quite Skubal.
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Whoever wins the highest bid on Skubal is definitely going to give up a lot, Wonder if there's a comparitive pitcher in recent years ago was traded at TDL to compare. Can't think of a better player to have for a playoff run than an elite TOR. Sad to say, but similar to how we used Chapman in 2016, teams are probably even more willing to ride a rental pitcher hard in the playoffs if they don't have to worry about injury repercussions don't the road.
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I figure teams on the borderline of contention want to wait as long as possible before deciding to sell off or not. Even an injury in the few couple of days to one of their better players who wouldn't even be on the block would change a team's calculations. I saw on fangraphs that the Tigers have the 5th highest protected winning % the rest of the season. The Cubs are projected to go 27-25.
