Ok fine you guys convinced me. I'm on board if they pay some salary and we don't give much up. With our corner OFs Free Agents at the end of the year we'll need someone anyway and there isn't much in FA.
Let's hope his 2015 and 2016 are for real and his 2013 and 2014 were flukes. 2017 is a FA year so he'll come in motivated if that makes any difference.
My guess is Upton would be pretty cheap and that the Padres would eat a lot of his salary. He better be his projections are pretty garbage and he is very well paid.
I've been trying to talk myself in to him and can't really seem to find a way to do it. If all he took was a C prospect and the Padres threw in quite a bit of cash I wouldn't hate it but then again what does he do that Pompey doesn't?
I'd probably take Loup but we are already paying Morales anyway. Might as well keep him and build a little depth (if you want to call it that) by putting Loup in AAA.
I'd pass. He looks cooked and even if he's not his projections aren't great moving forward anyway. Not sure if he'd bring excitement or be a distraction to the team either and if it would even matter so I won't bother factoring that in.
This team is playing really well.
3-2 road trip with two one-run losses. 9 game homestand coming up. 1 Game out of first.
I'll be interested to see what they do at the deadline. I hope they add some pieces.
Gotcha. I just think despite all that having Puig for 2017 and 2018 for a total of 14 million make him more valuable than Bautista for half a year. Especially with no DH in the NL and Bautista coming off his injury.
Well, Gibby certainly got creative in finding a way to stack the lineup with righties. Let's hope Barney is a natural out there in the OF. He's never played a game there, not even in the minors.
Yeah I mean it's possible although a team may just not even want Cola or Goins unless they value them as org depth.
But last year we traded 3 bums in A-ball for Mark Lowe. We also got Grilli for nothing this year.
Yeah that 4 million was well spent but I was just trying to identify what 4 mill gets you. And last year it got you a 33 year old Steve Pearce coming of a wOBA of .308.