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Willson Contreras, William's brother on the Cards. Keep William at C and trade for Willson. It isn't my favorite idea but I could boost the offense.

While I am out here throwing out ideas what about Willson Contreras at 1B, if we could move Rhys cheaply I could see it working. I will be the 1st to admit I am not a big Willson fan, however his bat has been sneaky good .264/.380/.468 and he wouldn't cost much. I don't know if I am a huge believer in him at 1st but I could see him being a Carlos Santana style defender at 1st in time. It would likely be good for William and maybe motivates him to accept a cheaper extension.

The consensus seems to be to trade Black before he loses to much value. What about instead of trading low on Black we trade high on an OF like Perkins and make Black the 4th OF? I think the general consensus has been that Black will be a good OF and his bat would offer more power and upside than Perkins. While Perkins is cheap and affordable we could get good value from a team that highly values defense. I could see the Blue Jays, Rays, and Phillies being great options among others 1)Perkins and Devin for Spencer Horowitz, Orelvis Martinez (Will Wagner preferably), and OF Alan Roden We get a 1B platoon, 3B option and a near the bigs upside OF. 2) Perk and Devin for C Eduardo Tait, P Mick Abel, and SS Starlyn Caba I am off Bohm until I see the price come down, this is just 3 solid high potential prospects for the Phillies 2 biggest needs. 3) Perk, Peguero, and P CarGo to the Rays for Yandy Diaz maybe small 2nd piece This would require Rhys to be moved but the Rays get 3 solid (cheap) pieces and save money we get a greatly needed bat to replace Willy with a couple years of affordable control. If you want you could make any of the Sal instead of Perk and add a little more value coming back.

I feel like all 3 off these are short changing the value of Devin and/or Black. In my opinion, we should get a player like Mauricio and at least smaller 2nd piece. Devin at worst has 1/2 the value of Corbin from last year, I still also consider Black a top 100 prospect value, I know he is losing value but not to the point as a throw in like the Bohm/Jung deals.

Cross Bohm of the list if that is the price, may it comes down later in the offseason.

I think Josh Jung comes to my mind 1st, he was great in 2023 but not much this year. The Rangers have a crowded IF and I would love to pluck him cheaply if at all possible.

Any thoughts on if there are any quality young guys that a different team may give up on (cheaper than expected) and we could trade for a good young controllable bat. In all likelihood on the IF but feel free to mention OF. In this case I am looking for someone with some level of major league success but prospects are welcome.

Agree with the not waiving NTC to anywhere but Cali. I think the Giants could be an interesting trade partner if the front office could work something out. We could do Yeli for Robbie Ray, Lamonte Wade, and a couple of interesting prospects and I could see everyone being happy. We get out of the scary later end of that contract and get two short term vets to help and a couple long term prospect peices. The Giants are desperate for some go bats and Yeli could fit in really nicely there and financially it doesn't affect the ledger for a couple years with Ray included. I do seriously doubt anything would realistically work, everyone is going to be to worried about his back and we will want something of quality value maybe next offseason if he can stay healthy for the majority of the year.

Clearly the Mets and Cubs saw something in these 2 guys that makes them think they can be top of the rotation arms. For Montas, the stuff especially with the Brewers was high end even if the results weren't. For Boyd, the 8 games last year were terrific even if he didn't average 5 IP per game. I don't think there is anything that would lead someone to believe Rae is or could be more than a passible 5th starter. I do think this makes a possible Civale trade more likely because he should have more value than either guy based on results from the past 2 years. I still think there are going to be a bunch of quality starters at spring training like Lorenzen, Clevinger, and a few other last year. I would be all for trading Civale if we can get someone who is a top 10 prospect in our system and wait for a free agent hoping to sign someone for 2-4 million like John Means, Alex Cobb, Trevor Williams, Joe Ross/Jacob Junis/Wade Miley.

I wouldnt mind the 25 year old Kim but I am not sure if he is the caliber player I would move Turang off of 2B for. I think there is some upside to him but at 5'10" I doubt the power gets much better and there will be adjustment concerns. The biggest worry is that it will probably take 5 years and that is a long time if he doesn't pan out.

I like Rojas a bunch, as mentioned the bat isn't great but he has hit .260-.270 before which will play. My concern is that I would want to platoon, he hit .133/.224/.133 in 60 ab's vs LHP last year. Mone would be fine but our best 3B candidates in my opinion are Sal and Dunn which doesn't work. I love the ballpark data you included, I do think that the would hit better in AFF. I would love to sign him for say 3 million and still have the 2026 arby option. He probably jumps up to maybe my 1a/1b favorite cheap option with Jon Berti for 3rd. Actually we could just sign both and have a moneyball 3rd base and utility player that would likely be really effective.

The Mets signed Montas 2/34 and the Cubs signed Matthew Boyd 2/29. That is crazy money for 2 guys that have had major injury issue, and neither have been very effective (Boyd made 8 solid starts last year). If that value holds firm I kind of am more inclined to trade Civale, Civale has been way better than either the past 2 years, is younger, cheaper, and more durable. I thought we would only get a player like Barrios that we gave up but the value of those two deals gives Civale like a 8-10 million surplus value which is nearly a top 100 prospect.

I would be fine with him coming back, we need someone who could fill in for a few weeks if Contreras or Haase get hurt in the first couple months before Quero is ready. I am sure there will be plenty of vets to pick up. I like Carlos Perez a AAA catcher from the A's. He hit 27 bombs last year. 31 in 2022, 31 in 2021. He seems like a good backup in AAA and DH. AAA will have Wes Clarke as an emergency. A Brett Sullivan reunion would work well for the same purposes.

Any chance the Dodgers could be interested in some prospects for a pitcher. Like Wilken and Kuehner for a starter?? We have enough prospect depth and the Dodgers may be just looking to shave some 40 man space.

I am going to run with the Casas idea. 1)Casas for Devin, Peguero, Black, Henderson 2)Coby Mayo for Freddy Peralta and Mike Boeve 3) Trade Rhys (eat 6 million) to Mets for low level prospect 4)Sign Buehler 1/15 (option(s)), Eovaldi 2/36, Scherzer 1/18, Beiber/Sugano 2/25 Ok this is a pretty big stretch but lets say the O's strikeout on pitching and get desperate for Freddy and the Mets strikeout on power bats. Our everyday positions would be lock in for like 3 years until arby raises. Our pitching would be solid this year but reliant on our younger starters for the future (which it is anyways).

I was reading that the Red Sox are thinking about moving Rafi Devers to 1st creating a strange scenerio with Triston Cases and Yoshida. Would there be any possiblity that we could trade for Casas, he would be a perfect long term 1st baseman for us. Would Devin, Peguero, and 2 prospect (say Black and Henderson) get close? To much?

I've written this before but I think the problem is that that Rhys has good value as a DH, he was worth 0.2 offensive WAR (between 1.9-3.4 every other year, not including 2020). Since we have Yeli and Contreras who will likely need a vast majority of the DH time there isn't really a DH path for him. If he does break the bat out for us and has a 3 WAR offense season the glove and baserunning likely makes that a 2 WAR season. For a team like the Brewers 2 WAR for $18 million isn't a great deal but I think everyone would take it in a heartbeat basically picking up the Willy slack. However I feel like there could be lots of ways we could find a 2 WAR 1st baseman cheaper. I am pretty confident that if Tyler Black provided even Rhys quality defense he would be worth over 2 WAR just because of the baserunning factor addition. The big question is how much would another team value him in a trade, coming of a poor season he is definitely going to have a negative value. My thought is that some DH/power needy team would put around a $8-12 million value on him, giving him a -6 to -10 million dollar value. Essentially saying we need to eat 6-10 million in a trade or add addition players that reduce that value. Now we aren't a team that can really just eat 6-10 million but saving the 8-12 million might be worth it if we can spend the money elsewhere and replace the Hoskins value cheaper (Black/FA/trade). One of my favorite trades to get rid of Rhys is sending Rhys and Civale to the Mets (say the Mets miss out on the top 4-5 bats in the market) for basically nothing and then using the money to sign a short term pitcher and then getting a 1B back for Devin (N Lowe, Mountcastle, Horwitz (plus), etc.)

Having all this pitching depth is a blessing I just worry about having to cut 5-10 really interesting young arms. Are there any other teams that minor league systems really really lack pitching depth that we could do like a 4 for 1 swap and get a 3B. I look at the Mets maybe as an option they have a couple top 10 org pitching prospects but only 4 from 12-30. Is like Fitzpatrick, Cornielle, Middendorf, and Yeager (swap out whichever nontop 30ish prospect you prefer) to cheap to get us a guy like Baty or Mauricio

60 million is also being deferred, I think it is crazy that the league always so much of a contract to be deferred over basically forever. I didn't read over how many year but in like 2035 they are going to be paying more deferred money than then a few teams entire salary. I don't actually mind this contract however, Snell has had 1 year in the past 6 over 3 WAR and with this going through his 36 season I guarantee at least 1 injury year. I doubt he gets close to making the value of this deal. However he probably will have a Cy Young caliber year in there and help them to another WS at some point. That rotation is gross especially if they get Sasaki and then sign Kershaw for later in the year when someone is hurt. Devin for Alex Freeland and Kyle Hurt ??? Devin for Bobby Miller and lotto prospect ???

I love Haase as a backup especially with Contreras. He is affordable, a solid defensive player and showed enough last year that he doesn't need a lot of playing time to hit when he gets a chance. He is also athletic enough that if you needed him to play in the OF or maybe 1B as like an emergency he could probably do it fine. The bat is good enough to pinch hit if need be in a big situation.

Does anyone have good insight on Derrick Harmon from Oregon? He seems like a potential upside replacement for Kenny Clark if we lose him but can't say I've seen much other than a highlight clip. Any WR stick out as go to threats where we would be drafting, I could see us parting with Romeo this offseason after his issues. I like our WR corp but it would be really nice to have that 1 go to guy when the going gets tough. I like Tai Felton a lot but don't know much about him other than a half or so I watched Maryland this year. I am not a huge fan of any of the free agents, at least not paying 20+ million for them.

I like all the minor league adds but we have like 40 pitchers between AA and AAA. Is there going to be a large amount of decent arms being cut or traded?

He was medically cleared like 3 or 4 days ago but said he still didn't feel ready. I would hope he his back in the next couple games. He has had long enough, however with the team playing better and how little the nba regular season matters I am fine with him being out a couple weeks just to get to 100% before he is back. Trent, Green, Prince, and Jackson are all playing solid so no need to rush, but he had missed a month or so longer than expected for no given reason.

Do we have any indications if we will be going back to an offense with the QB under the center? I don't mind the spread offense in college but feel that you really need a running qb to make it work. We haven't had a running qb and it has shown that we haven't had many long runs and the short yard running game has suffered because it is easy to predict what is going to happen if the qb can't run. I really would like a more pro-style 3 WR with the qb under center so we can still use the power run game but spread the defense out with our solid WR core.

Whoops sorry wrote the wrong team. I would prefer he starts in Biloxi, not Carolina. Thanks