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Move Pache to 8 and pitcher 9 and you have it.

Alex Jackson can't hit his way out of a wet paper bag. Backup catcher has to be either Contreras or go get Flowers.

Barring any other transactions, I'd guess BN1 to be Alex Jackson, and BN5 to be Camargo.

This is pretty much spot on with my thoughts on this off-season.

I agree with your point about Smylys potential upside. He did seem to find "another gear" last year that is definitely promising.

Thank you Matt, yes perhaps that was a better way of writing was I was trying to say/ask. I will admit that many make a good point about Smyly and I certainly understand that view.

Well one thing has been made crystal clear to me. Stating an opinion gets ridiculed with demeaning remarks by certain posters on this forum. I would have thought the adult response would simply be to disagree and state your opposing view which a few have done. Others, well I guess it makes them...

I just used those four guys that together will make the same as Smyly as an example. The point was could the Smyly money have been better spent strengthening other areas of the team. If we had enough to pay Smyly 11 and 11 on the bench/pen like the big market teams, then heck yes the Smyly deal...

Sure if you have budgets like the big market clubs that can afford it But when you have a much smaller budget, I would think getting as much potential bang for each dollar spent would be a primary goal. Fangraphs pegs Smyly for 1.3 WAR while the four I mentioned are pegged at an aggregate 1.9...

Are you always an asshole or just today?

So would you rather have Drew Smyly for $11MM, or Tyler Clippard, Mark Melancon, Asdrubal Cabrera and Brett Gardner for the same $11MM?

Which begs the question, why did he spend $11MM on Smyly when it then left him financially handcuffed to address the rest of the team's needs? Been saying all along we are probably out of money because of that signing, and it appears that is exactly what has happened.

Either of those two or Gardner would work.

If the DH does get announced to stay in the NL, AA could be holding out for JBJ for left field and then Ozuna for DH. That would be great.

Brett Gardner would be a really good addition.