Counting on any combination of Norris, Boyd, Sanchez and Osuna to replace the ~550 innings left behind by MB, Estrada and Dickey is setting yourself up for failure and will lead to an overworked and ineffective bullpen.
Gallardo and his ability to get ground balls would work well in Toronto, especially with the improved infield defence. He should come fairly cheap too. That being said, acquiring someone better than Hutch is the biggest need right now. Shields or Ross plus Gallardo along with Tulo and Hawkins would make for a pretty good deadline.
Grab Gallardo for Colabello, take on that contract of Shields and keep most of the farm intact. If Buehrle is gone next year
allocating those funds back into Shields makes perfect sense to me. Those innings are going to have to come from somewhere.
Is it really that silly though? Especially when you've done a better job so far to this point and then get demoted because of vetrin presents, potentially losing millions in earnings. I'd be a little choked too.
Well to say Toronto isn't more desirable for pitchers now with Martin behind the dish as opposed to Donair or JPA probably isn't right.
No they won't sign for pennies on the dollar, but a well respected back stop certainly doesn't hurt things in that regard.
Well considering it could potentially cost Pompey to get Cespedes, what do you suggest doing?
I'll take 6 years of Pompey over 3 months of Cespedes, thanks.