Hudson2 (03-27-2019)
You guys are nuts. I honestly think this off-season was the definition of patience. And brilliance.
We don’t want to screw up and trade away the next Alex Wood or Smoltsie when our window is just beginning to open. We don’t even know what we have - but odds are, it’s a fortune of young talent.
As the old bull once told his son: “you wanna charge down this hill and screw one of those cows? Or walk down there and screw ‘em all?”
It was the definition of being cheap and burying your head deep in your own ass. We know what we have and that is scary. Neck is past his prime and will be worse than last year. McCann's best years are way behind him and Flowers just isn't that good. Teheran sucks but is somehow starting opening day. The bullpen is in shambles right now and they won't make the one move that is a no brainer. AA and Liberty Media need to go and soon.
The "window" could close just was fast as it was opened in baseball. Every team in the division except the Marlins got drastically better yet may improve because if Donaldson sucks this is a lost season. You can be patient and still make smart good moves. The BP and Rotation are huge question marks but let be patient smh.
Pretty blistering point by CO in that interview: our Opening Day starter is a guy we left off the postseason roster. I get the injuries, but still. Daaaaayum lol
I bet the high dollar player he was after was Russell Martin
He was after Harper. This is a fact. Wasn’t about to do the years.
Water under bridge. And philly will regret the hell out of it. Starting tomorrow!
So...at the time of the Markakis signing "we were working on a really big trade with a really big salary, that didn't get done"
OK, that can't be Realmuto since he doesn't meet the really big salary part (assuming AA is speaking truthfully)
Then who?
It has to be one of a handful of positions, likely an OF or a SP, with SP being most likely.
There aren't a lot of OF who are a. worthwhile in trade and b. have a "really big" salary.
There are a few SP that would probably fall into that bucket.
I'm thinking Kluber.
To move Greinke the D'Backs would have to eat a bunch of his salary.
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True but it's all relative. For Greinke to be moved, the D'Backs probably have to pay down enough of his salary so that he equals the AAV of Kluber or ~$13.5M.
Realmuto is at $5.9M and probably doesn't arbitrate much above where Kluber is right now by the time he hits FA.
Who else you got?
I'm assuming AA was NOT discussing Pujols, King Felix or Heyward...
Maybe Stanton if the Yankees were serious about Harper and wanted to stay under a billion dollar payroll...