2025-2026 offseason thread

I'm checked out on the pitching at this point. It is what it is. At least on the pitching side, we'll likely get a chance to watch the young guys in Ritchie, Fuentes, and Sinnard. It's always fun to see top prospects get a shot.

I'm more interested in seeing our offense rebound AND stay healthy. I would like to see Ronnie, Riley and Ozzie all get 600+ PAs. I want to see Harris not be the worst hitter in the league. I want to see Murphy come back, stay healthy, and hit well. Let's see Kim come back healthy in June maybe and stay healthy and hit well. The offense will likely drive how successful we can be, even with the pitching woes we're seeing so far.
 
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jpx7 said:
Sure. But which pitchers aren’t, at this point? The model is: collect two rotations’ worth of talented starters, hope some mix of them gets you to the playoffs by September, and pray you have four left pitching well heading into October.
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That seems like a great idea, but who is actually doing this?
 
jpx7 said:
Sure. But which pitchers aren’t, at this point? The model is: collect two rotations’ worth of talented starters, hope some mix of them gets you to the playoffs by September, and pray you have four left pitching well heading into October.
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It’s weird to me that teams don’t just raid the developmental staff of orgs that successfully avoid this stuff or maximize potential. If I drafted catchers who have a chance I would raid Milwaukee’s staff. Based on pitching history Atlanta should be raiding someone like Houston. I’m sure it’s just down to organizational inertia but it’s very frustrating.
 
jpx7 said:
Sure. But which pitchers aren’t, at this point? The model is: collect two rotations’ worth of talented starters, hope some mix of them gets you to the playoffs by September, and pray you have four left pitching well heading into October.
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I agree. I'd rather have Giolito than not. Sooner than later the luck has to change. I hope.
 
Slippyjms said:
This has been the Dodgers model exactly. They just have the luxury of using 10 TOR pitchers.
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The caveat is that the Dodgers have Ohtani, which allowed them to carry 14 total pitchers for a good portion of last year. And they also had the luxury of signing Kershaw late last off-season. It seemed like Kershaw didn't have a desire to pitch anywhere else and the Dodgers, who already had a full rotation, signed him as an "extra SP."

I think people forget the Dodgers rotation was pretty ass for much of last season. For nearly half the season, their starting 5 consisted of Yoshi (great), Kershaw (good), Dustin May (terrible), Sasaki (who was not good as a SP) and a bevy of other re-treads who were mostly hot garbage. The difference being that their offense allowed them to whether the storm of losing all those pitchers. And they didn't lose their injured pitchers for the entire season.
 
If nothing else, getting useful pieces like Giolito and Littell allows you to manage Lopez’s and Holmes’ innings, even Strider’s and Sale’s. They’re not going to get the big ace and they’re not going to make the major deadline splash that requires holding on to the 20+ million before the third threshold. It’s going to require some outside the box thinking.
 
I don’t like Giolito at all. He’d be far down my list of acceptable starting pitchers to acquire this offseason.

Unfortunately, we are in a position where the better starters are off the board. The Braves are a couple bad breaks away from breaking camp with Carrasco and/or Perez in the rotation
 
If there’s anyone out there left who is a better option than Giolito or Littell, I’m listening. I had no interest in Scherzer. Now it might be necessary for however long he can stay healthy.
 
Kyle freeland is the play. Very reasonable salary this season, and we've had great success getting guys from the Rockies. He may not be on the market, but I'd check for sure
 
Maybe we should have signed Fried a yr ago and we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Good luck building a good rotation now. Going to be a long yr.

What’s he going to do if Strider and Sale get hurt? Which is highly possible.
 
ChapelHillMatt95 said:
Maybe we should have signed Fried a yr ago and we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Good luck building a good rotation now. Going to be a long yr.

What’s he going to do if Strider and Sale get hurt? Which is highly possible.
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Fried for the money he got, and his postseason struggles. I still agree not signing Fried to that deal.
 
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