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Don’t forget Gary Matthew’s Jr and Vernon Wells

Gotta figure we will at least move SGL there, which frees up a 40 man spot for now

Remember the one time the Sharks dared Deuce to jump his 10 speed over Stutton Creek, so he attached bottle rockets to his spokes to give him an extra boost and one bottle rocket flew off and went into Tammy Gundersons hair? Deuce totally would’ve made that jump too if it wasn’t so windy that day.

Englert had his chances and never showed much of anything. Maybe he will get better over time but thats not worth our organization needing to find out at this point.

I see the “Moe Howard” is apparently still a viable hairstyle in Japan….

Keith would end up getting moved in a couple seasons for McGonigle anyway.

I’d assume Gipson-Long would go to the 60-Day. Have we heard anything about Langes timeline?

I feel like at this point it’s pretty obvious that Bregman doesn’t want to come here and that if he does settle with us, it’ll just be because we give him the most money. I think that he would actively hurt the morale and identity of the team that’s been built. Just roll with Vierling and Jung. Vierling has been an A+ guy to root for, and him playing 3B helps keep Wenceel in the regular lineup.

Bregman signing with the Tigers for 10 years 350 million. Torkelson traded to the Rockies for Kris Bryant Source:

Torkelson for Jon Dowd seems fair

I would be irritated if we moved on from Ibanez because he consistently serves his purpose of crushing LHPs. I low key feel like they’d be willing to send Sweeney and/or Jung down to Toledo in the interest of keeping McKinstry because we need the infield depth for the time being and it’d be easier to just use options rather than move on from a guy completely right now. I can see that being the first half of the season roster strategy especially if Baez is healthy and rostered.

So at this point are we figuring that the pitching staff will probably be: Skubal, Flaherty, Olson, Cobb, Mize in the rotation. Vest, Brieske, Foley, Kahnle, Holton, Hurter, Maeda and one of Guenther/Hanifee/Englert as the bullpen. Jobe, Manning, Montero, Madden and Flores or Lockhart as the Toledo rotation SGL and Lange start on the DL. If that’s the case I wouldn’t mind finding one more bullpen arm. Maybe like a Phil Maton/David Robertson/Andrew Chafin (again)

Or Carlos Pena, or Isaac Paredes, or Matt Joyce, or Willy Adames….

Please don’t use Maeda tomorrow….

First game is the 22nd, so it’s 19

63% for the Twins?

Less than 3 weeks until Spring Training games….which player is going to be the HMCBSOHLA winner? (Honorary Miguel Cabrera Best Shape Of His Life Award)

Mize was the consensus #1. I don’t fault Avila for the pick….sometimes it just doesn’t play out like you thought it would. If we didn’t take him, we’d have taken Bart. Equally as disappointing

Faedo to the Rays for Enderson Delgado- 19 year old catcher. Faedo will morph into a perennial all star now

Bold of you to call what he did last year “pitching”

At this point it’s probably worth it to just release Maeda for Flaherty. Id much rather run with Brant Hurter as a multi-inning relief guy since he doesn’t walk many and limits HRs.

We can always trade him for more top 100 prospects at the deadline too….

I’m good with that because it buys us time with Jobes progression, gives us a year to see how SGL returns from injury, and gives us one more year to decide what to do with the likes of Mize/Manning/Montero/Hurter.

Beautiful. 2 year deal for Flaherty for 35 mil. Opt out after the first year. I like our rotation now. Skubal/Flaherty/Olsen/Cobb/Jobe or Mize. That will be verrry competitive in the ALC this year.

The nice thing about having a top 5 farm system in this instance is that most of them are in A ball, so aside from Jobe, we aren’t up there because of 2 or 3 prospects about to break into the bigs with nothing of note behind them. The system has both quality and depth.