Official 2024 Off-Season Thread!

Bowman:

This was all about getting Kerr, a power left-handed reliever who has options and is controllable. The Braves really like his stuff and upside. Carpenter will likely be traded like Gonzales and Stassi were after being acquired over the past few weeks.
 
SJ24 said:
If they sign Yamamoto, it's just unfair.

The Dodgers are looking at the following playoff rotations for the foreseeable future:

This year: Glasnow, Yamamoto, Buehler

Following years: Ohtani, Glasnow, Yamamoto. That's 3 guys with top 10 SP stuff.

They will be in the running for Sasaki, too, I would guess.

And they have a gaggle of guys that can be good pitchers in the regular season.

It's a Dodger blue world.
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Don't forget Miller.
 
CJ9 said:
Bowman:

This was all about getting Kerr, a power left-handed reliever who has options and is controllable. The Braves really like his stuff and upside. Carpenter will likely be traded like Gonzales and Stassi were after being acquired over the past few weeks.
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Who in their right mind is going to give us anything for Carpenter? Gonzalez and Stassi are at least playable. Carpenter isn't.
 
It’s not a shocking trade at all. The bullpen was in need of three things going into this offseason:

- guys with options
- lefties
- high octane velocity

Add those up and you get Kerr from a team wanting to cut payroll by including Carpenter.

He’s not a sure thing, but he has a big fastball, lots of swing and miss, not a lot of hard contact and he doesn’t walk a ton.
 
jsebe10 said:
I've been saying since they signed Lopez and said the plan was to extend him to start that they were done. Ownership is fckn cheap...Just wait until Ronald comes up for his extension...if he makes it that far of course

They just aren't going to pay pitchers or above market value for a super stat position player.
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Cheap? We have one of the top 3-5 payrolls in baseball as of now. They're many things, cheap is not one.
 
SJ24 said:
If they sign Yamamoto, it's just unfair.

The Dodgers are looking at the following playoff rotations for the foreseeable future:

This year: Glasnow, Yamamoto, Buehler

Following years: Ohtani, Glasnow, Yamamoto. That's 3 guys with top 10 SP stuff.

They will be in the running for Sasaki, too, I would guess.

And they have a gaggle of guys that can be good pitchers in the regular season.

It's a Dodger blue world.
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Ohtani's coming off a 2nd TJ, Glasnow hasnt pitched a ton of innings, like ever. Yama would be a huge get for them though. On paper it's nice but it comes with a ton of risk.
 
The cheap narrative is an interesting one given the changes in the payroll over the last three years.

AA has been incredibly efficient in building one of the most potent teams in history.

Cheap he is not.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
It’s not a shocking trade at all. The bullpen was in need of three things going into this offseason:

- guys with options
- lefties
- high octane velocity

Add those up and you get Kerr from a team wanting to cut payroll by including Carpenter.

He’s not a sure thing, but he has a big fastball, lots of swing and miss, not a lot of hard contact and he doesn’t walk a ton.
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Pretty sure you just copy and pasted part of a tweet lol
 
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