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Don't disagree. I've seen 3 of the big 4 land a deal and I've thought all of them were bad in one way or another. Darvish, good aav but too long and almost would assure us of a 2022 rebuild. Lynn 1 years not worth a 4th. Arrieta, scary gross. I'll shut up on Cobb if he lands for a deal I deem bad. So far that's a strong 3 for 3. We will see what 4 brings.

Yep. That's why you carry guys like Perez in the first place. Gives you far more options in double switches and using more relievers. They'll probably need Sogard more than they'll need Aguilar, too. You can't just carry a bunch of DH types in the National League. Shaw and Vogt also have 1B experience. This roster is constructed perfectly if the Brewers played in the AL. But they don't, so it's not. Eh, go read my stupidly long post on the mlb forum.

Luke I completely understand the hangup when going from theory to practice. Maybe its not a clean 162. Maybe its 150...130. The goal is to be ideal as much as possible. You are going to hit some spots. If you hit 1... you still got 5 most days. If you hit 2... 4s ok. Captain catch all is on that list loosing 50+ games worth of PA. Maybe his don't get trimmed the full 279 PA. Still takes out about 700 pa I'll nicely refer to as sub-optimal. That's removing a full seasons worth of garbage pas from our lineup. 8 man pen is likely 4-5 uncertainty driven. A no one on the roster is likely to average 6 ip per start issue. If Nelson comes back to lift innings, and peralta can create a wipe out duo with hader, and suter can move to being a very good long man then a 7 man pen is far easier to do. I have a few thoughts about pen value. Another time.

Many points many points... I love aguilar. He's got old man game. He's gritty. Doesn't change the fact that he's just a guy. Man, I loved Lorenzo Alexander for years and the dude did nothing but you could tell he belonged. Get fat for DL get skinny for LB play ST dude just said yes. Gets in the perfect spot in buffalo at 32 years old and blows up for a pro bowl trip. Was sooo happy for the dude. Earned his spot, did great in the right spot but he's still not worth crap on the market because he's still just a guy. To me that's aguilar. Easy to like, but just not that good. You root for him but he's not very good. To luke. Aguilar didn't hit lhp as much as you think he did. To brewcrew: Numbers say Thames has about 400 pa on the way. He just did 550 last year. If braun gets hurt, thames expands his playing time. Perez hits LHP well. If Thames gets hurt, G-man. It's set up for JIC. Monty: An all star OF will not be on the bench unless he needs rest. If we had a Cf like Cain we wouldn't need walker. Cf and 2B was killing us. We looked at a couple 2b, a couple cf. Picked one last year. 1 is solved this year, no worries. No demand on Villar/Sogard/Perez's shoulders. I've hated how Brauns fit on this roster for awhile now. He's sent me on a 180 this spring. Love his attitude. SP... I'm not going to be sunshine and flowers on it. I worry about 4-5. Depending on 1-3 we need 4-5 to pitch in the 4.3-4.7 range. It's dicey. I want cobb but if we added cobb and not cain I'd give our offense a 0% chance of scoring 5 runs a game. We need that just as bad. The lineup looks beautiful as is, the pitching staff has a lot of stuff to throw at the wall... and we have to hope something sticks. Come on DJ.

In reference to another team having a 1b/of logjam and not needing broxton or aguilar 82brewcrew82 stated a sarcastic: "DUH! Stearns has created a trend. 1B/OF log jams are all the rage now. Everyone wants one." I responded: Lol... until it works Which got me thinking... should it be "all the rage." Humor me. 1 PA at 1b/OF we stand to replace. (1b/OF ONLY) Broxton 448 Perez 279 Franklin 48 Brinson 49 Kirk 23 Villar 20 Total: 867 pa Thames another 85 pa of defensive ewww in the OF...952 And the non-negative pa of: Aguilar 233 Phillips 91 Note that's 1276 PA at OF and 1b. In the last 3 years Braun's average has been 497 an increase of 95 pa over last year. Cain's average over 3 years is an added 554. Yelich last year an incredible 694. 1343 pa added. With nearly ideal health Thames loses 152 pa at 1b and OF... if DH/PH holds constant you can expect him to get 400 pa. Both should increase slightly. That fits pretty well. Even with health. 2. Over abundance: It's a common phrase on every scouting profile. His bat will hold more value if he doesn't slide down the defensive spectrum. They often do. Mlb bats with poor defense get shuffled towards LF 1B and some RF. (As do old players) Teams refuse to wait for the defense to catch up, or their defense simply fails them. It creates a glut specifically at the corner OF positions, 1b and depreciates value. An example, Adam Lind is old yet hit rhp to a clip of 303/364/898. He recieved a minor league deal. Santana has poor trade value, Souza was had for a song, Dickerson basically thrown away. 3. Scarcity. It's a simple fact. SS C 2B CF 3B in that order are weak offensive positions. You don't find many who can carry the stress of the defensive position and carry strong offensive numbers. Another example (there are better examples but off the top of my head) Cain despite playing near GG CF the last 3 years which is the top of the OF defensive spectrum was paid 16 mil per to the age of 37. His Owar nearly matches what Machado produced the last 3 years. Machado's going to get double that price tag... and maybe even 10 years taking him 35. Trout's getting paid like that. 9+ owar player yearly. Harper too due to his 9 owar year at 22 and they aren't bad defenders. Machados around 5 owar. Can a small market afford that? 4) Defense is back in style: See santana souza dickerson etc. Teams are after OFs who effect the game on defense as well as offense but still their value is not close to SS C 2b 3b who create the same outcome offensively. However, good defenders in the OF usually can play more than 1 position at an acceptable level. Cain can play all 3, yelich can manage in CF. Santana we'll call him a RF. Braun looks to be LF and hopefully an acceptable 1b and RF. No matter how you slice it, teams are after defense plus OF and those folks can man multiple OF positions. 5) Changing times: NL 8 man pen. What spot is most likely to get dropped? Back up 1b. Most backup 1b options are not multi-positional. If they are they probably can't hit. Multi-positional is all the rage... especially here. So what makes the most fiscal sense via FA... or via prospect capitol? First I'd propose avoiding 1b/LF only prospects in the draft. Duh! Let those spots be filled by players who fall down the defensive spectrum into the glut. Hitting on a SS C 2b is a huge get for your franchise. Elite players at those spots are pieces a small market won't be able to keep. (Bye machado, good luck to hou on altuve) Secondly, with a scarcity of elite bats at SS C 2b it would be wise to not expect one to come your way. Or at least not build a structure depending on one for your success. That's why we are/were dreaming on Hiura and Diaz. Why we hope Arcia continues his accent. Why we pray for Villar. Why some here are rabid over Mejia. We know that's the only way we are getting one. To structure a team to produce well enough offensively while not counting on more than 1 upper level bat at SS C 2B 3B... maybe a little creativity is in order. Something like... A GG LF who can moonlight in CF A near GG CF who can play all 3 A RF or LF with 1b versatility A good old fashioned clubber lane RF or LF A platoon mate 1b because they are basically free Use the 4 slots where you can acquire offensive and defensive quality (from cheaper to cheap) to carry the offense every. single. day. No lull. Stacking the top of the order. Let that allow 3 of your 4 at SS C 2b 3b to be defensive minded players that contribute on offense admirably. I'm not saying this was the objective. Santanas market could have tripped us into it, but... On a cost v production basis, a prospect capitol per acquisition basis, maybe its exploiting a talent glut that depreciates values. Maybe its brilliant. Maybe it should be all the rage.

DUH! Stearns has created a trend. 1B/OF log jams are all the rage now. Everyone wants one. Lol... until it works

The type of thing that makes me wonder why people think we can trade aguilar. He's a roster filler that you cut when the rosters full. If thames and braun need rest on the same day give perez a 1b glove and forget it. Much more interested in seeing what happens with bethancourt. This type of thing makes me wonder why San Diego gave Hosmer $140M. That too... amen.

Just for an as is to hit the mark. Assume 5 runs 3.8 era is that mark. Anderson 2.8... holds the era he posted for the last 203ip Davies 3.6... has a year with no april yips Chacin 3.8... dj magic 4-5 4.7 Or Anderson 3.2... acceptible regression. Davies 3.6... april yips go away Chacin 4.0 4-5 4.4 era Or Anderson 3.2... acceptible regression Chacin 3.9... minor magic Davies 3.9... status quo 4-5 4.3... pure magic. That shaves 1 run. That's crazy. Right?

Santanas a stud, so we hate on him for his Ks and defense. Aguilar is a ww guy, so we love him for spitting on pitches and playing a passible 1b.

First, thanks for reading it. Thought I was spewing information into a void lol. As is we have that weakness. I don't see it as necessary. I think in another thread I had it projected out that to match last years 4.1 starter era we need anderson at 3.2 davies chacin at 4.0 and 4-5 at 4.7. Shaving 1 run from the entire staff puts us on that 3.9 era pace where magic starts to happen. 3.8 team era. That's cobb in 1 shot. 3.7 cobb and if that very same redemption guru gets that split change back 3.7 is the floor for him. I trust that guy so I want him fixing cobb. Fixing miley is a 4.4... fixing cobb is a 3.2... big difference. We have tons of depth that could better 4.7, maybe, but do you want to trust it? I want to not trust it and if the 5 choice can do it then the staff starts to get special as a whole. The what if on nelson, and anderson for that matter, is a huge question that can tank the staff era unless 4-5 pull off some serious era stabalization. If cobb can be had at 48/3 we have a payroll near 110? But as the poster above points out. We shave cap on yo 2 mil, miley 2.5, sogard 2.5, vogt 3, chacin 6.5 (its 8.5 this year). That opens up 18.5 mil thats replaced by kids. BathencourtBandyNottingham, dubon, woodruff, burnes, williamshouserperalta. After that its 16 mil cheaper to hold our salary at 110 due to arby. But then in 2019 comes the choice or the allowance. Nelson anderson cobb davies... keep them all and go for blood? For 1 year? Trade 1 out and keep 3 who can carry a 3.6 era. Let woodruff burnes attack the 4.7 need at the 4-5 spot as they grow up? If 1 of those 4 bomb we are alive. Caps not crazy either. Now we have no choice. We hope. I just hate walking out into this year short. Its beautifully set up. Finish it. Its also not essentially an aim at 90 wins. Anderson 3.2 cobb 3.7 davies chacin 4.0 fifth 4.7. Has this team around 3.8 team era. If the pens at knebel hader 2.5, albers 3.0, logan jeffress barnes randoms and longs 4.0... you sit at 3.5 pen era. 3.8 is very strong. Offensive numbers last year rivaled teams in the 4.9 range. We added cain yelich and lost nadda. You get a couple more positive surprises and your pushing north of 1.1 run diff and the best record in the league was a +1.35 team. Cle was incredible at like +1.65 but lad and houston were much more sane. As is seems soo close to: If things bounce right we have a WC team and 90 wins. If it bounces wrong low 80s. But you add 1 more piece to this staff without gutting the farm and if things bounce right 100 isn't out of the question. If it bounces wrong a WC is not dead. A renewed cobb or repeat anderson or an april less davies and the 5 starter weaving 4.0 magic (suter?). A repeat shaw santana and villar or arcia step up and 5 runs could be 5.1 and the 3.8 era is 3.7. Thats big boy numbers. Its really really close. I just want them to finish. Maybe they see cobb totally different. Maybe he wants a 1 year prove it and I wouldn't want that. But this team is a 3.7 arm at a reasonable price from opening the window. That can't be bought with the farm without forcing us to pay depth, which sends us closer to arby hell. That 1 addition puts DJ magic with striking distance of special and could leave us in the position of TOO MANY QUALITY ARMS (the brewers, I know!) as soon as 2019. ABC and C without a 6 year deal to a 31 year old arm or blitzing the farm is a rare situation. What he's doing is brilliant regardless. Teams set up for attrition as you point out and that was as impressive of a project as any growth this teams shown since he got here. But i think theres blood in the water, and if cobb lands elsewhere for a deal around 48/3 then I think the sharks asleep and I'd whine and hope they have more up their sleeve than I think. (Wont hope cobbs less than I see but if that happens I'll own it and shut up about the lack of killer instinct.)

The line is thinner than you think, which is probably why we haven't been able to trade Santana. Santana is more consistent, slightly better OBP, and a slightly better fielder (but still a bad fielder). They are very similar players, really. Santana was 44 points higher ba... 61 points higher obp... 49 in slg...110 in ops. as a baby (21-22) in AAA vs aguilar who who was in AAA as a grown man (24-26). And no that wasn't in cs it was in fresno. Aguilar 275/345/800 every step. At 21 santana hit AAA blossomed and was a 315/407/928. Aguilar repeated his AAA numbers for us last year AFTER GETTING CUT. Santana was never getting cut. Sure he sucks at defense but come on. Santana might not be worth what we want but aguilar is worth a ticket at best. Santana for a ticket would send the board into hysterics.

Don't worry he hit a few HRs today so now those people want to bench santana because of aguilar.

No he is small. He doesn't look small he is small. Everyone following along knows that. They also know he was the best power bat in carolina last year after harrison was promoted. It continued in AA. Only erceg hit more and he had 130 more ab than stokes. But he's 5'8 so he lacks power OR? obp. The eye test... come on. Glad you didn't look at 5'6 altuve. (Not comparing them, just the eye test metric of... oh hes small)

Aguilar better than Santana. This Aguilar stuffs getting hilarious.

Provides depth for this season and to begin the next. Allows for flexibility if they do want to move a player. No reason to move him if the deal isn’t right. They'd have to move 2. Santana and Phillips. How long until Stokes is in that mix as well? He's on the wrong side of a numbers game. Unless the offers right... he's not going to fetch much. Like aguilar he's a nice way to fill out depth but his value is nearly non-existant.

Like yelich cain santana shaw you mean? Thames is a RHP only batter. Weird but too small sample to be real meaningful stat: The few times Thames actually got a start against LHP, he had a whopping 1.037 OPS against them. But figure in late inning relievers and LOOGYs and that plummets. He had no shot against lefty specialists. I'm still going to stick with the safe side of 918 vs 658. Especially with the 378 vs 264 obp. He wore down quick, didn't seem close to a 162 game guy and hes a rhp assassin. I'll take that. Especially with Braun who usually pounds lhp.

I'm not sure, but you just don't option a 3+ WAR 25 year old corner outfielder who hit 30 HR last year and OPSed nearly. 900. It's bad enough that Phillips, Aguilar and Broxton are all forced casualties of roster construction and to some extent, even Thames. The closer we get to the season with no end in sight to the logjam the more doubtful I am about the efficiency of this roster. I'd love to be wrong, and in Stearns I trust and all that, but I'm skeptical. I’m still scratching my head as to why having too many good players is a bad thing. As an advocate of never having a guy like Niewenhuis in our lineup, I would think you’d love this type of depth. While I get everyone wanting to maximize use on players... our current team is only a playoff team if the can score 5 or more runs a game. A 1-5 frequently populated by 5 of cain yelich braun shaw santana thames (vs rhp) is the only way to get that result. People worry about 6-8... but you dont have to with that 1-5. Wheres the list of slop ABs we had in the of last year from broxton franklin kirk villar perez? We can't make the playoffs continuing that. I'd kill for too much pitching talent. Too many impact bats is a good thing too. Trade santana and we get vulnerable vs lhp.

Well something is better than nothing and 1 year of broxton covering the same depth role as phillips is all he gives you. Next year zero options and its highly unlikely he has a MLB spot so he gets cut like scooter. I'll take something instead of doubling down on OF depth in AAA.

Davies arby 1 Nelson arby 2 Knebel arby 2 Anderson from 4 to 6 mil Teams not going to get any cheaper going foward so unless nelson comes back 100% and woodruff burnes hit the ground running fixing everything isnt coming without cost. Window of nelson davies anderson shrinks and next years options are also old and expensive.

Oh, I can guarantee that "these five" (Anderson, Davies, Chacin, Suter, Woodruff--or sub Miley in if you wish) will not "carry us into a wildcard spot." In fact, I'd even bet dollars to doughnuts that Stearns himself doesn't believe that, either. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the whole point of this rotation experiment. But wait, you might say, didn't Stearns express confidence in this current group of starters? Sure did. Or, didn't Attanasio say late in the offseason that money was available to add a new piece? Yep (and more on that in a minute). Others have noted this already, so I won't belabor the point too much, but our Brewers, as an organization, cannot get trapped into two fallacious modes of thought: 1) we must go tit for tat with the big-spending organizations on every single acquisition and 2) the way teams have been constructed in the past is the way they must always be constructed in saecula saeculorum and is The Only Right Way to Build a Champion ©. Many of the problems with this should be obvious, but in short: 1) We do not have the money to make the kind of mistakes the Cubs and Yankees can make and still field an above-average ball club. Guaranteed contracts and the difficulty we will always seem to have in luring people to spend much of their lives in Milwaukee mean we need to make all our dollars count as much as we can. Now, granted, I love Milwaukee as a town, although I've never really lived there, and sure, some people like Lorenzo Cain seem to like it a lot, too, but he seems more of an exception, not the rule. So we have to play a slightly different game. But, consider, the big-ticket FA route is still risky: if Darvish goes down, or Lester and Hendricks regress, all of which are serious possibilities, and the Cubs are in trouble, even if their offensive struggles last year were an aberration and the bullpen is improved (which, I will note, are still ifs and will have to be proven on the field this year). 2) Roster construction and deployment of pitching is changing. Relief aces are becoming more valuable all the time. In a sort of renaissance of the old fireman principle, people like Andrew Miller and his imitations (Josh Hader, anyone?) are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how teams are rethinking what it takes to build a successful pitching staff. It is about survival as much as it is about anything else. Your biggest threat to lose a game might not be in the 5/6 innings your starter happens to pitch, and it might not be in the 9th inning, either. If it comes after your starter leaves with two on and one out in the 5th inning, having multiple solid options to come into the game and take care of that situation is invaluable. Maybe that is a Hader who can go two and a third wipeout innings against the top-7 hitters of a squad like Chicago or New York. Maybe its a swingman like Guerra who can get you through an otherwise nightmare game without taxing the bullpen. And, in the biggest rethink of all, teams seem to be finally appreciating the fact that "those five" guys you start the season with are not the only ones you will ever hand the ball to at the start of ballgames, and those fill-in starts still count, too. A few years ago, Fangraphs (https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/so-how-many-starters-does-a-team-need-then/) estimated that on average, baseball teams have a 65% chance of two of their "preferred" starters will be hurt at the same time, and 32% chance of it happening to three of those starters at the same time. Most crucially, if a baseball team sees only average rates of attrition (6 DL stints for their starting staff throughout the year, totaling as many as 360 days), then that team will have it's preferred starters together for only 22% of the season. Even excluding year-long DL stints, that could still account for 32 starts made by starters 6-??. I don't have to tell you in a two-team wildcard scenario, those 32 games could more than make or break reaching the play-in game, or even winning a division. So how do the Brewers look on that front? Baseball Prospectus Milwaukee (http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/12/the-rotation-is-good/) has a good rundown, but TL;DR--"While the Brewers’ overall rotation may have an 'average' outlook, once replacement rotations begin to appear in the 2018 MLB, the Milwaukee replacements will have a runs prevented advantage of at least 30 runs (assessed against other teams’ replacements)." That means our rotation is in position to save 30 runs above average just because of our fill-in starters when compared to the fill-in starters of most other clubs. Teams like the Cubs, Dodgers, National, and Yankees have invested a lot of resources in fielding great "top of the rotation" talent, and, sure, when all those pitchers take the field, advantage those teams. But they won't all take the field every 5th day, what's more, the Brewers know this, and have prepared enough above-average replacements to claw back the difference once attrition rears its ugly head. That is the plan for competing with the big wallets. Finally, however, what about Attanasio's quote mentioned above? Maybe he was feeling good and was only telling an energetic crowd what they wanted to hear. Cynics might say its all a ploy by hucksters and cheapskates to sell more tickets and improve the bottom line without ever spending enough to field a real winner. That is possible, I suppose. Or, perhaps Attanasio and Stearns know something else: while what we might call the "defend against attrition" strategy is a great way to win games over a long season, it can all quickly go for nothing in a 5 or 7-game series during the playoffs. You don't have time to just play the averages when there might be no tomorrow. That is when you really need your aces. And having the prospect capital and financial wiggle room to go get a guy like that (and whatever Cobb is, I feel pretty confident in saying he isn't "TOR") when the season is nearing its second half is how you put an otherwise good team over the top for a championship run. That is how the Astros did it last year, and not trading for an Archer or signing a Cobb/Lynn/Darvish/Arrieta now means we can still do that when we absolutely need to and know our time is at hand. So I say, forget about Cobb (although I wish him well), and let's realize we're looking at the bleeding edge of how to make a small-market club competitive. I don't have a crystal ball, so maybe this all doesn't work. Round balls and round bats lead to some pretty random results, and all the planning in the world won't guarantee you a championship sometimes. But I am confident in saying that Stearns and Attanasio really do want to build a winner, and really do think this roster as constructed is the best way available to them to do it. I can't wait to see what happens. It is obvious that stearns has focused on adding depth to this roster in every way concievable. From the claim, drop, AAA stash attempts to the slew of arms we've added on the cheap, to pushing guys with options into lay away in the minors. People talk about our ST record... and I point to 2 years of depth building done on an elite level by stearns. Here's my problem with everything you posted. Defending against attrition is fantastic and also mission accomplished for this year. Defending against attrition is a great way to keep injuries from causing you to use players that drag you like an anchor to the bottom. Last year you saw stearns building this... but this year the teams brimming with it. But preventing attrition from dragging you to the bottom is half the issue. You also need enough pieces to anchor your numbers. I've pointed to a +1.1 run diff threshhold for 90 wins for a couple weeks. Thats 5 runs and a 3.9 era team wide. Attrition sunk us last year with a slew of arms averaging terrible numbers. The top was anderson nelson... knebel hader... and stabalizing forces like davies hughes. We added a stabalizing piece in chacin and albers. We are down a numbers anchor in Nelson. Thats a big problem. So that brings us to the question. Do you copy the astros and wait for the right time to add Verlander or do you add a cobb now? My problem with waiting is that we don't have 3 guys at the top who average sub 3.6 era combined. That would allow 4-5 to combine for 4.6 era while keeping a staff era at 4.0. Bullpen south of 3.65 would drag that team era to 3.9... perfect. Is cobb a risk, yes so is the guy you add going foward. Is cobb expensive? Likely less expensive than any guy you are trading for unless you blitz the farm which is simply a different way of being expensive. You add cobb, woodruff guerra can go down. Miley suter yo can man 5 and 2 spots in the 8 man pen to keep depth. Wilkerson is down too. Getting the 4th option on Guerra allows you to add cobb with ZERO depth loss. It also costs you 1 4th round pick, not a bundle of prospects. It also allows you to fast track FPeralta into the pen, long relief is valuable. It also allows you to keep woodruff Burnes to replace 4/5 in the future without costing you money like chacin. It also allows you to trade chacin and 1 of anderson/nelson/cobb/davies (if nelson rebounds) as costs start to increase in arby to help restock the farm and keep 4/5 starter costs low and increase option holding depth in the farm. Cobb in this market could be a very proactive move. Not just win now, but setting up a chain of domonos that fall in the next offseason that could aid in keeping cost down. They are actively building towards defending attrition. That's great. But a 45/3 on cobb doesn't prevent that. Having 3 guys in anderson cobb davies who can combine for a 3.6 era sets that model up for success. Doesn't spend a huge chunk of cap, or take on unnecessary risk or cost prospect capitol. Costs will rise on all our pitchers but it can be offset in part by moving on from chacin to woodruff and moving 1 of Davies Nelson Anderson as their prices start to rise. As is, we have depth to prevent attrition from killing us... but only if that attrition isn't Anderson. If he regresses beyond 3.2 era, or if he misses time, or if Davies Chacin can't hold 4.0 era and health we are dead in the water. Cobb would dramatically alter that. This builds great, but its got one fingernail holding on the backside of a razors edge. Any bump in the for our top 3 and depth won't keep the team afloat.

Like yelich cain santana shaw you mean? Thames is a RHP only batter.

But but but... what about Thames lol. Braun has got to play 1st. Glad he's open to playing 1st and rf ontop of lf... and is offering to play ss and 2b which I'll politely decline. Thames is a platoon guy. Please and thank you.

That is perfect! I'm good with Pina hitting 6th... I love that speed at 8 & 9. Heard far too many times last year that bunting with the pitcher was stupid because we don't have speed on the basepaths. If this ends that, I'll be happy. Acria, please drive pina in so you or villar can get moving.

I still can not believe the long list of posters here who don't want cobb at a very reasonable 45/3 type deal. Dreaming on arrieta (bad idea in my opinion) and yu was one thing. But last guy standing. Clearly would be our 3. Upside. Stuff that ages well. A guy you'd want in a playoff rotation. Buying in a depressed market. I don't know who would be good enough for some of you. Would anyone plausible be a big enough upgrade over Miley? These guys must be lined up ready to hand away our farm except for hiura lutz and I'm sure the guy they want has a 4.0 era and a K spiked fip. We have a chance to be one of the big buyers in the market, which is insanely rare and some dudes don't want us to open the door. I just don't get it. It's 4 options left: I see the mlb thread and we land cobb... fantastic dancing cheering fantastic unless the contract really surprises me. I see the mlb thread and cobb goes elsewhere... furious throwing things furious unless the contract really surprises me. He shaves .2 runs off our rotation era if he can go 180 innings and be the guy he was last year and he was meh. That puts the team in 90 win strata. Yet, pass? Watching gb trade for Kizer and cut the wrong wr for a TE who is on fumes has me panicked this franchise is going off a cliff... give me this!

Its sure not comforting.