Would imagine you could add Alex Cobb to the list depending on how much money the Orioles would be willing to eat.
Contrary to what the "experts" are saying in the papers/online or on TV and radio, there's plenty of pitching out there to be had already - it just depends on how far you're willing to go and whether you have ownership's OK to take on money. The good thing in making a move early like Philadelphia did with their pen is that you get reinforcements before the bidding gets intense - of course better options could become available if you're patient too. There are different tiers of cost to obtain - this is likely to be the deciding factor for AA since only he knows how legitimate a chance there is that we could add Hamels and Folty in a few weeks. PLENTY of options - really easy to make a mistake too...
Multiple Or High-End Prospect Cost
1.) Lynn
2.) Clevinger
3.) Plesac
3.) Gonzales
At Least Mid-Tier Prospect Cost
1.) Taijuan Walker
2.) Mike Minor
3.) Derek Holland
4.) Boyd
5.) Fulmer
How Much Money Can You Absorb?
1.) Eovaldi
2.) Cobb
The Seager/Walker package still seems really intriguing, and potentially a way to save on prospect-cost if the Braves are willing to absorb a lot of Seager's salary (about $4m left on his 2020 prorata, plus $18.5m in 2021, and a $15m 2022 team-option that becomes a player-option if he's traded).
Walker's got a 4.95 fip and a 4.81 xfip, but his walk-rate's been solid (2.67 bb/9), and even if he starts pitching closer to that fip/xfip (4.00 era currently), he's still likely an upgrade to the Braves' in-house options in the rotation. If you generously think he keeps pitching to close out the season as well as he has heretofore, and figure 0.3 war, that means he'd be worth about 2.5m in SV after accounting for the ~$300k owed him over the final month of the season.
Seager is harder to price, because a lot depends on whether you think he's closer to the 2.9 war player he was in 2019 (much less the 5.8 war/162 player he's pacing this year), or the 1.7/1.2 war player ZiPS projects him in 2021/2022. It's the difference between his contract being under water, or having some surplus. Given his age (33), and three-year production prior to this season (3.5, 1.5, 2.9), I'd be skeptical of a value over 4.0 war for the remainder of 2020 plus 2021–22—but let's be generous and say 5.0, since he does seem to genuinely be hitting well this season (.280 babip isn't crazy; .380 woba but .391 xwoba, so he's actually been a tad unlucky), or SV of around $7.5m.
For the combined package, that's $10m SV making pretty generous assumptions about the players the Mariners would be trading; add in $10m from the Mariners, bringing the total outlay from ~$45m to ~$35m, and you're at $20m in value. That's about in-line with a 50 FV prospect in Bryce Wilson's range, though some 35/40 FV sweetening would probably be necessary. Maybe they'd have interest in taking a flier on a guy like Trey Harris or Patrick Weigel, each of whom probably doesn't have a future in Atlanta (the former because of the surfeit of good young OFs, the latter because of the tea-leaves: namely, that the Braves still haven't called him up at this point).
