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I am higher on Mitchell than most but yes I would make that trade.

A little interdivision bidding war would be great here.

Even those numbers are not elite for a shortstop.....

One year contracts can't hurt you too badly.

Holy cherry picking of at bats. Let me know his full season stats because they counted too. The only way that would have more credence is if those last 365 ABs were last season.

Brian Urlacher's real hair is rolling over in its' grave over this ****.

Fields isn't going to last the way he plays.

I would love to see the stats of the season that he was an elite offensive performer at shortstop. Unless you are going to tell me elite doesn't mean top 3 and then I would question that heavily.

I think you are overestimating his offense by using the word elite.

You'd think Woody's injury would make them not want to risk that asset. I still expect Burnes to be moved before the season. Adames might not be as he isn't as much of a premium talent.

Worst case, you give Love time and he can make most of the throws. I do think they need to utilize his legs a lot more though.

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Let me know when a FA that doesn't suck gets signed first.

Sure if you don't care at all about defense.

I don't really get this one but there will be LOTS more small moves like this so no reason to freak out over every little move.

The A's got him when they traded Jace Peterson.

Next time put hot take incoming, geez... so hot!

You have a lot more faith in Freddy staying healthy than I do. The history of small guys with high effort deliveries isn't great. An injured pitcher gets you nothing (Woodruff). Devin is awesome obviously but he will be getting expensive like Hader soon. You hold arbitrary value websites in much higher regard than I do. Mayo, Westburg, Chourio, Mitchell, Contreras, Black, etc would be an awesome core.

You lose value every day of the season. Keeping them in a rebuild is a terrible strategy.

I like the Orioles young players and value them higher than most probably. They also don't seem to want to trade those young guys so I am willing to "overpay". The Brewers have signed International players before but Rodriguez isn't high profile enough to pick his destination imo.

Signings Bring Santana back for a 1 year, 5 million deal Sign Yariel Rodriguez to a 5 year, 70 million deal Sign Jack Flaherty to a 1 year, 8 million deal, club option for extra year at 12 million Trades Burnes to Phillies for Painter Peralta and Williams to Orioles for Mayo and Westburg Adames to Dodgers for Sheehan My Thought Process I am ready for a soft rebuild and this year is the year to do it. We can take a chance on Rodriguez as he is young enough and we are dropping a ton of payroll other places. Same thing with Flaherty, take a chance and maybe you can flip him for more pieces at the deadline. I like Santana for the clubhouse with a lot of young guys. In terms of trades, we are trading our core for solid prospects that hopefully will mostly pan out. I think you would see a team that wouldn't compete but would take their lumps and gain experience. I would look to take some of the "savings" and extend many of these young guys with the exception of Turang. C: William Contreras ($0.77M) 1B: Carlos Santana ($5.00M) 2B: Jordan Westburg ($0.77M) 3B: Tyler Black ($0.77M) SS: Brice Turang ($0.77M) LF: Sal Frelick ($0.77M) CF: Garret Mitchell ($0.77M) RF: Joey Wiemer ($0.77M) DH: Christian Yelich ($22.0M) Bench OF: Tyrone Taylor ($1.70M) Utility: Owen Miller ($0.77M) Utility: Andruw Monasterio ($0.77M) Backup C: Payton Henry ($0.77M) SP1: Yariel Rodriguez ($14M) SP2: Jack Flaherty ($8M) SP3: Emmet Sheehan ($0.77M) SP4: Adrian Houser ($5.60M) SP5: Colin Rea ($3.5M) RP: Joel Payamps ($1.70M) CL: Abner Uribe ($0.77M) RP: Hoby Milner ($1.70M) RP: Justin Yeager ($0.77M) RP: JB Bukauskas ($0.77M) RP: Trevor Megill ($0.77M) RP: Elvis Peguero ($0.77M) RP: Bryse Wilson ($1.30M) Way under payroll.

Yep! Plus with his small stature, I think he will be injury prone moving forward. He has a very high effort delivery. Burnes, Adames, Williams and Peralta should give us the best farm in baseball quite easily.

Tear it down (Burnes, Williams and Adames) and play the kids. If they show enough promise by the deadline, get them some help to make the playoffs.

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