Ok, so there’s a lot of talk about where we are, so I’d like to here some opinions on where we are going. Adding Acuna and Albies to Dansby, Freeman, Ender, and Flowers gives our offense a good core. I think we’ll trade Nick and go after a 3B, but the focus needs to be on pitching.
In the rotation you have Teheran, Folty, Newk, and R.A. (if we choose and I think we actually might) We have Gohara and Sims who could be ready and are coming off of good seasons. You could have a AAA rotation led by Soroka, Allard, and Fried with a token reclamation project and another guy like Blair or Withrow. Touki could be ready for AAA at some point depending on how he ends the season in AA and Wright of course could be in the picture at any time.
I think we’ll look to upgrade by signing at least 1 starter and trading for another. Looking at who is coming off of good seasons I’d say Gohara, Sims, and Touki would be the most likely to be traded with Allard as a longshot if we go big. Soroka is the only one coming off of a good season I can’t see traded. The only reason I throw Allard out there is the back. Anyone who has had a bad back knows how that goes. Also Gohara may be viewed as similar within in the FO but less valuable in trade.
Coppy was quoted recently saying the pen was a focus in the offseason. Relievers are getting paid these days, but I think it’s a similar approach of trading for one and signing another for the back-end of the pen. I don’t believe they have faith Viz can make it a whole season and Johnson will be on the block, although we may be stuck with him for the first half. Kroll will be gone. When looking at who will be here Minter is the first name to come up followed by Lindgren if he is healthy. Winkler, Ramirez, Freeman, Jackson, Akeel are all good options and are out of options. Winkler we’ll have to keep. I think 3 of those other 4 are traded.
Watts and Clouse should anchor the AAA pen with Dirks, Webb, Biddle, Pike, Mader, Roney all options depending on who we put on the 40 man roster and who we trade. Wisler is a wild card. He could be in the pen if not traded. He has options left.
So my complete speculation is we add 2 starters and 2 back of the pen relievers. It’s very hard to speculate on who they will be. I think we’ll have around 40-50M to spend pending other moves and exactly where our salary is. We should have some decent trade chips as well.
In the rotation you have Teheran, Folty, Newk, and R.A. (if we choose and I think we actually might) We have Gohara and Sims who could be ready and are coming off of good seasons. You could have a AAA rotation led by Soroka, Allard, and Fried with a token reclamation project and another guy like Blair or Withrow. Touki could be ready for AAA at some point depending on how he ends the season in AA and Wright of course could be in the picture at any time.
I think we’ll look to upgrade by signing at least 1 starter and trading for another. Looking at who is coming off of good seasons I’d say Gohara, Sims, and Touki would be the most likely to be traded with Allard as a longshot if we go big. Soroka is the only one coming off of a good season I can’t see traded. The only reason I throw Allard out there is the back. Anyone who has had a bad back knows how that goes. Also Gohara may be viewed as similar within in the FO but less valuable in trade.
Coppy was quoted recently saying the pen was a focus in the offseason. Relievers are getting paid these days, but I think it’s a similar approach of trading for one and signing another for the back-end of the pen. I don’t believe they have faith Viz can make it a whole season and Johnson will be on the block, although we may be stuck with him for the first half. Kroll will be gone. When looking at who will be here Minter is the first name to come up followed by Lindgren if he is healthy. Winkler, Ramirez, Freeman, Jackson, Akeel are all good options and are out of options. Winkler we’ll have to keep. I think 3 of those other 4 are traded.
Watts and Clouse should anchor the AAA pen with Dirks, Webb, Biddle, Pike, Mader, Roney all options depending on who we put on the 40 man roster and who we trade. Wisler is a wild card. He could be in the pen if not traded. He has options left.
So my complete speculation is we add 2 starters and 2 back of the pen relievers. It’s very hard to speculate on who they will be. I think we’ll have around 40-50M to spend pending other moves and exactly where our salary is. We should have some decent trade chips as well.
