Sure during the off season, but when you're in a race you also need to pull the trigger on a 1st baseman when you urgently need one.
Trade deadline
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I’ll wait until 4p tomorrow to be enraged, but so far, not pleased at all how this deadline has gone.
I'd like to see them get a 1B and a BP arm but if they don't I'm OK with it. They have the best record in the AL so far even with their current holes/needs. They're getting Sale back soon, Houck looks like he's going to help which one way or another strengthens the BP, Arroyo's coming back.
There are still 19 hours until the trade deadline, a lot can happen. I'm not ready to panic now and won't at 4:00 tomorrow even if they do nothing. The fact is that either SD or LA, maybe both, is going to give up a big part of their farm system and not win. I don't want to be in that position either.
There are still 19 hours until the trade deadline, a lot can happen. I'm not ready to panic now and won't at 4:00 tomorrow even if they do nothing. The fact is that either SD or LA, maybe both, is going to give up a big part of their farm system and not win. I don't want to be in that position either.
If these are going to be the prices thats fine by me... Dodgers are lucky they Won the WS last year, given the amount of money they have spent on FA and prospects they have traded the past few seasons... Also the NL west is not the cake walk it used to be for the dodgers, where they would literally be the only team above 500 in the NL west....
Also as we all saw with DD, we sold the farm for a WS and are now slowly building pack the pipeline)
Steve Pearce?
Eovaldi?
Kinsler? .
all want to fight you...
Yup..
exactly... Did we all forget where Bloom came from?
Such lack of faith in an organization that has won 4 World Series and which has assembled a team in first place. If they make a move I trust their judgment that they know what they’re doing.
This isn’t Lou Gorman and a bunch of good ol boy scouts deciding Jeff Bagwell isn’t going to be any good.
This isn’t Lou Gorman and a bunch of good ol boy scouts deciding Jeff Bagwell isn’t going to be any good.
I mean a bullpen arm would also be nice because as solid as guys like Darwinzon and Valdez have been they’re precisely the kind of guys who could turn into pumpkins at any time.
I wouldn’t mind Josh Bell. Has another year and hits righties. Not great against lefties but not completely awful.
Yes, you're right of course. Just a bit of "game threading" so to speak before the trade deadline.
The sun will rise, the sun will set and I'll have lunch.
Besides, where would we play Willie McGee?
I suspect the score in the game juxtaposed with the lack of willingness to improve the team are working in concert to fuel frustration.
Unfortunate combo
That road uniform was a "no sale" on the cash register of uniformsThis guy would definitely fight you.
Although they don't have to beat us over the head with "Nobody else can trade for Chris Sale" tomorrow. I think we all know that.
I would think that expectations for Cole starts are slightly higher than Eduardo
Chris Sale is great. If they didnt make a move at SP they absolutely could have said that and I would have bought in. Dude cannot play first though.
How much would a package of Josh Bell and Daniel Hudson cost? Hudson would be a rental and Bell is under control next year. Bell might get more expensive than we would like given his 2019 performance (which looks like more of an outlier than anything).
My experience living in Pittsburgh and lightly following the Pirates is that Bell was a steaky hitter who looks like he's all world one week and awful the next. It's possible that impression isn't totally accurate. I do recall his 2019 was basically two months of insane production and the rest fairly pedestrian.
My experience living in Pittsburgh and lightly following the Pirates is that Bell was a steaky hitter who looks like he's all world one week and awful the next. It's possible that impression isn't totally accurate. I do recall his 2019 was basically two months of insane production and the rest fairly pedestrian.
I just can’t wrap my head around this deal. View: https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1420911145758691330?s=21
Dodgers just made my point with Trea Turner. In no way shape or form did they need a Trea Turner.
But he's going to be really +WAR for them so go ahead and grab him.
Then Bloom doesn't think there is a move that would get this team a WS championship because what they have now isn't enough
The Dodgers seem to have an absolutely endless supply of incredible prospects that they can trade for stars.
It shows they know how to draft and develop. And that they have the money to keep adding expensive players.
They, not the Yankees, are the new 500-pound gorilla in MLB.
It shows they know how to draft and develop. And that they have the money to keep adding expensive players.
They, not the Yankees, are the new 500-pound gorilla in MLB.
Bell has a career WRC+ of 119 against righties and 94 against lefties. He is right about that this year as well.
They have been for awhile, no? Analytics driven, bonkers payrolls, blockbuster trades...It was a surprise when they kept losing from 2017-2019.
It’s not even a mammoth package of prospects. Two really good ones and two mid level guys.
With all of the outrage here can I ask exactly who did we REASONABLY think the Sox might get, that's now off the board. Anthony Rizzo, Marte and?
