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[depley]

I am going to throw this out and see what kind of discussion it brings. All of this is based on for sake of discussion we have 50M to spend

Catcher. Do you
1) Sign Grandal to a 3 year 13 m per year
2) sign Maldonado 3 years 8.75M per
3) sign Ramos 1 year 10M per
4) sign Brian McCann 1 year 6M per
5) sign Zuk back at year 6M per
6) trade multiple high value minor leaguers for Realmuto (projected arb# of 6.1M for 2019)

Closer. Do you

1) Go after Kimbrel 4 years 18M per year
2) Go after Zach Britton 4 years 15M per
3) Stick with Viz and Minter
4) Some one else come to mind?

Outfield. Do you

1) Shoot the payroll and go for Harper at say 11 years 374M 34M per
2) Andrew McCutchen 3 years 45M 15M per
3) Michael Brantley 3 years 45M 15M per
4) Bring back Nick Markakis 22M 2 years 11M per
5) other, who and why?


We will start with these 3 and see how it goes.

[BeanieAntics]

I am going to throw this out and see what kind of discussion it brings. All of this is based on for sake of discussion we have 50M to spend

Catcher. Do you
1) Sign Grandal to a 3 year 13 m per year
2) sign Maldonado 3 years 8.75M per
3) sign Ramos 1 year 10M per
4) sign Brian McCann 1 year 6M per
5) sign Zuk back at year 6M per
6) trade multiple high value minor leaguers for Realmuto (projected arb# of 6.1M for 2019)

Closer. Do you

1) Go after Kimbrel 4 years 18M per year
2) Go after Zach Britton 4 years 15M per
3) Stick with Viz and Minter
4) Some one else come to mind?

Outfield. Do you

1) Shoot the payroll and go for Harper at say 11 years 374M 34M per
2) Andrew McCutchen 3 years 45M 15M per
3) Michael Brantley 3 years 45M 15M per
4) Bring back Nick Markakis 22M 2 years 11M per
5) other, who and why?


We will start with these 3 and see how it goes.

Catcher - #1 - Easy deal. I'd take Grandal on a 3/39 all day long
Closer - #3 - Don't think this needs to be an area we address. But I would be cool with a smaller value oriented deal, maybe.
Outfield - #5 - Trade for Peralta. I'm not big on any of the free agents available. Provided the Twins aren't selling, Peralta is the best available through trade.

I think you should also have two other categories: utility player and SP

Utility player because I think we need to find someone that will offset our infielder's strong platoon inclinations and perhaps our outfielder's as well.
SP because some people in our fanbase have no sense of risk and think trading for Bumgarner is a good idea. I guess let them have a category as well.

[nsacpi]

catcher Zuk

high leverage reliever Soria

corner outfielder Peralta in a trade involving Newk

backup infielder/lefty bat Lamb...see trade above

in addition we bring back Anibal...this gives us an opening day rotation of Folty, Anibal, Gausman, Julion and Fried

[Hudson2]

catcher Zuk

high leverage reliever Soria

corner outfielder Peralta in a trade involving Newk

backup infielder/lefty bat Lamb...see trade above

in addition we bring back Anibal...this gives us an opening day rotation of Folty, Anibal, Gausman, Julion and Fried

So with all the resources we have we are adding Peralta, Lamb, and Soria? Don’t get me wrong I’m fine with those guys but we need to upgrade catcher at the same time.

[nsacpi]

So with all the resources we have we are adding Peralta, Lamb, and Soria? Don’t get me wrong I’m fine with those guys but we need to upgrade catcher at the same time.

I'm expecting the price for Realmuto and Grandal to be excessive...just my take on how I expect the market for those two to play out...I've expressed in other threads some thoughts on prices I'd be willing to pay for them

id rather upgrade in a cost effective way

[Hudson2]

I’m all about being cost effective. I just think the way that AA is he values catcher pretty highly. I’d be very surprised if one of Grandal or Realmuto isn’t our catcher in spring training.

[BeanieAntics]

I'm expecting the price for Realmuto and Grandal to be excessive...just my take on how I expect the market for those two to play out...I've expressed in other threads some thoughts on prices I'd be willing to pay for them

id rather upgrade in a cost effective way

I think Grandal would be the preferable option until he hits a certain price point. For me, the maximum price where he remains the preferable option is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3/55. So about 3 years at 18.3 million. Luckily, it looks like most projections have him at about 5 million dollars below that AAV. At a 13 million per price, I think Grandal is an absolute no brainer.