Tarik Skubal

[beekay414]

National media keeps pushing the narrative that we should make a move for Skubal. Or at least speculation that we should (Ken Rosenthal speculated and did the whole "it's not what they do" dance). 

That being said, we have more 40+ grade prospects according to Fangraphs than any system in baseball. We have another crazy interesting IFA crop of talent where another 40+ grade guy (Leanders Matos? Alexander Mercedes?) will come from in short order. 

If we're not going to spend on offense, and there's not much of a market anyways, why not try to shut down opponents in October? A 1-2-3 of Skubal, Misiorowski, Harrison and a 4th starter in a rested Woodruff? That's most likely our best avenue to a World Series berth. 

[beekay414]

Josh Adamczewski, Marco Dinges, Robert Gasser and Tyson Hardin for Tarik Skubal. Who says no?

Point being...use the depth and make a push. The package here is just an example. This is not a question for prospect nut huggers either. I get the idea as a franchise, I'm merely pointing out, as Ken Rosenthal so eloquently put it, we "have prospects on top of prospects."