Your plan, as good as it is, would be my plan B My plan A: Sign Kuechel AND Kimbrel. Trade Kuechel at this year’s deadline Trade kimbrel at next year’s deadline Kimbrel massively improves our pen for this year, and next year till knebel and Wahl are back. Keuchel gives us a big time quality starter till Nelson and or Burnes re-establishes themselves in our rotation. Prospect haul could be massive, at worst more than what we’d lose with lower round draft choices givin up. If we backload Kimbrel’s contract, we could have use of both for this year at 20-22 mil Or do plan B > Gio and Kimbrel for 13-18 mil So, if we are in a pennant chase this year, you want to trade away one of the guys who got us there? (Kuechel) Makes zero sense. Same with next year, you want to take a team in the middle of a pennant chase, and trade their closer (Kimbrel) This logic makes no sense unless our playoff hopes have diminished, and we are out of it. No sense at all. Also, unless I missed something earlier, why would Kimbrel only cost us 6 million?