Try pinging the site at home and at work (go to command prompt, type in ping bluejaysmessageboard.com). That will give you the round trip times with nothing else going on that could affect it. If they're wildly different, then try tracing it (tracert bluejaysmessageboard.com), and see if it takes roughly the same path. This will help you either point at or eliminate the things outside of your control.
In theory we could use a Donaldson return to get Yelich essentially, without touching Vladdy or Bichette. I'd rather take on a bad contract instead, but that's always a possibility. 1 year of Donaldson for 5 cheap years of Yelich would be fantastic.
Cargo is a 95 wRC+ player in his career away from Coors and a significantly negative defender. I guess if he came cheap enough it could be worth taking a flier, but this really IS dumpster diving. I'd be just as happy signing Ethier I think.
Avisail has only had one good year (last year). Prior to that he was a negative WAR player in his previous 5 seasons/partial seasons. Ozuna has never been a negative player, and in his 4 full years 2 have been at 3.9 WAR or higher, plus his partial rookie season where he was roughly on that same pace. They are nowhere near the same. Ozuna would be an incredible get for us. Definitely worth taking someone like Chen for.
It looks like reliever contracts are going to be inflated this off-season (maybe due to a weak free agent crop?). If we did rebuild, we could probably get a ransom for Osuna.
Harvey had a terrible year last year, no question, but he was still averaging ~94 mph on the fastball. His off-speed stuff was still above average, just didn't have fastball command for some reason. In 2016 he put up about 2 WAR in half a season. IMO he's an excellent bounce back candidate.
This was always going to be a rough week for me. I was way the hell down on man games (you had something like 15 more games than I did). I expected to get blown out, so a little bad luck to only lose 5-7 I'm fine with. Looks like Fleury is almost back too, which will really help me.
I'd think it would have to be pretty close, which is fortunate because we don't really have that truly elite guy in the starting rotation (although I guess Kyle is close).