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Spare parts as in the sense that he allows you to keep your most important advanced prospects. If you brought Taylor in, you have your 2023 LF (and CF if needed) platoon already ahead of him. Probably going to have to give up at least one prospect you'd prefer to hold onto to land a package...

And can still spin all those pieces for Soto. Preller is all-in once again.

Honestly think they were just looking for an excuse to cut bait on Harris - he's probably a victim of the number of corner guys at this point. With Malloy moving to LF, this opens up ALL the PAs they want to give him in Mississippi. When Franklin returns next year, he'll probably exclusively be...

Rosario's "OK" out there - in the sense that he's better than having Ozuna playing defense. Unfortunately if Eddie's not hitting, you're probably better off with a serious defensive upgrade out there - trying to save more runs than the two of them would let in defensively improves your club as...

I'd imagine this will be the case - with Adrianza filling in here-and-there. Just a guess - and we'll likely never hear about it even if I'm right - but this was probably entirely about getting Cano out of the clubhouse before he caused a stir and Alex had to admit it was a mistake to bring him...

This - 100 times.

Now trade a few more spare parts for Taylor and Barlow and let's roll.

This is the way I'd prefer to lean. An interesting note I noticed this morning was that DMGM may be willing to part with Scott Barlow. The Royals suddenly become my #1 target if I'm Alex and that's true. Barlow's the nasty RH arm you're looking for to add to the pen WITH closing experience -...

Not sure Alex will be willing to pay the ask for Drury alone since there seem to be multiple teams involved - Drury AND Mahle seems way out of the realm of possibilities IMO. TBH, I wouldn't be upset if he stands pat if adding any of the pieces he's looking at are going to cost Grissom or one...

Waters' "improvement" is because Scott Thorman is now his Manager.

In other words... "Click on everything I say for the next week - the recession's coming, and I only get paid when you click. Need extra rainy day money!!!"

Thanks a lot!!! Nobody else could possibly notice that.

Continuing to show your stupidity - completely agreed with his take that it was a stupid move for the Rockies. Pointed out that Bard has pitched well this season - which he has - and the numbers back it up.

Hate to always circle around to veterans with reputations that aren't particularly good anymore, but since Alex doesn't have much to go shopping with other than cash and rotation depth of any sort couldn't hurt... DMGM is on the record saying they're not going to trade Greinke unless he asks to...

One can only hope. I don't have a huge issue with the lack of production at 2B until you get Ozzie back - I'm just leery of having a non-productive Cano around because he might adversely affect the clubhouse vibe.

Doesn't matter who plays where - the point is there aren't going to be many balls that can even get into the gaps with those three out there. The reason you'd slide Harris over is to allow him to focus a little less on defense and more on hitting - Taylor's going to give you what he gives you...

Probably not that bad an idea.

I'd agree with the first part - the second part is at least somewhat arguable. 10.27 K/9, 53.8% GB%, and less than 1 HR/9 plays pretty much anywhere - and would be awfully good with the Braves' defense behind him. The ERA and xERA are pretty deflated when looking at his xFIP, but if he had the...

Not real high on Taylor - particularly that contract - but he'd make the OF defense other-worldly. If Rosario isn't going to hit, at least you'd have the option of having Harris shift to LF and let Taylor patrol CF - with those two and Acuna out there anything hit into the OF might never touch...

Not going to work with Devers...however, there is a RH-hitting 3B that has actually spent a little time in LF that Alex probably has the type of expendable pieces to get if he wanted to go that way. The Yankees are still shopping Andujar, and at least know he's not going to net them much in...