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Just outta curiousity, how many wins do you guess this team would win right now if no other changes were made?

Nothing of high interest than normal AA banter: * Didn't want to get into specifics about Melky but sounds like they were never close * Wouldn't commit to say Sanchez would be the closer in 2015. Still seems him as a rotation guy. Will compete with Norris and Estrada for that 5th spot * Did want to acknowledge they've had interest in Toritani but wouldn't go into specifics. * Morrow was offered bullpen role, happy he got a starters deal in San Diego. I had to step away from desk but that's what I got

AA on Fan 590 now

I was hoping for Jason Motte too. Yah well.... at this rate though hopefully AA has some mega deal in the works.

I'm getting wrecked this year. I should just tank for high draft pick at this point.

Somewhere WardHenke1 is not be pleased.

Sub Dickey with De La Rosa and we good.

Sub Morrow for Motte and we're good.

I just want to win the bidding. Feels good to win.

So following up on a recent tweet from Barry Davis (or Wilner...don't matter) about AA looking at possibly some relief help who are free agents end of 2015/2016 season, here's the list courtesy of MLBTR Right-Handed Relievers Scott Atchison (40) – $1MM club option with a $100K buyout Grant Balfour (38) Jonathan Broxton (32) – $9MM club option with a $1MM buyout Santiago Casilla (35) – club/vesting option with a $1MM buyout Tyler Clippard (31) Neftali Feliz (28) Jason Frasor (38) – $2MM mutual option with a $550K buyout Juan Gutierrez (32) David Hernandez (31) Tommy Hunter (29) Jim Johnson (33) Shawn Kelley (32) Brandon League (33) – $7.5MM vesting option Edward Mujica (32) Darren O’Day (33) Joel Peralta (40) – $2.5MM club option (no buyout) Joakim Soria (32) Chad Qualls (37) – $3.25MM club option with a $250K buyout Ryan Webb (30) Brad Ziegler (36) – $5.5MM club option with a $1MM buyout Left-Handed Relievers Jeremy Affeldt (37) Antonio Bastardo (30) Jerry Blevins (32) Randy Choate (40) Ross Detwiler (30) Brian Duensing (33) J.P. Howell (33) – $6.25MM club option with a $250K buyout Sean Marshall (33) Eric O’Flaherty (31) Manny Parra (33) Oliver Perez (34) James Russell (30) Tony Sipp (32) Matt Thornton (39) Jonny Venters (31) Maybe we can figure out who he could be looking at. EDIT: Here's the 2015/2016 Starting Pitchers available too Starting Pitchers Clay Buchholz (31) – $13MM club option with a $245K buyout Mark Buehrle (37) A.J. Burnett (39) Trevor Cahill (28) – $13MM club option with a $300K buyout Jhoulys Chacin (28) Wei-Yin Chen (30) Bartolo Colon (43) Johnny Cueto (30) Ross Detwiler (30) R.A. Dickey (41) – $12MM club option with a $1MM buyout Marco Estrada (32) Doug Fister (32) Yovani Gallardo (30) Jaime Garcia (29) – $11.5MM club option with a $500K buyout Zack Greinke (32) – can opt out of remaining three years/$71MM Jeremy Guthrie (37) – $10MM mutual option with a $3.2MM buyout J.A. Happ (33) Dan Haren (35) Tim Hudson (40) Hisashi Iwakuma (35) Scott Kazmir (32) Ian Kennedy (31) John Lackey (37) Mat Latos (28) Mike Leake (28) Tim Lincecum (32) Kyle Lohse (37) Corey Luebke (31) – $7.5MM club option with a $1.75MM buyout Bud Norris (31) Mike Pelfrey (32) Rick Porcello (27) David Price (30) Ricky Romero (31) – $13.1MM club option with a $600K buyout Jeff Samardzija (31) Alfredo Simon (35) Jerome Williams (34) Jordan Zimmermann (30)

Another starter AND 2B. Right now it's 1) Sox 2) Jays 3) Orioles 4) Yankees 5) Rays

Boston, New York and Toronto at least have loaded up. Meanwhile Tampa and Baltimore have dun nutting.

Good. Weaken dem Yankees.

You always say that about LHP vs our lineup now. Lol

If its Cooler Heads Prevail, no deal.

We need a reaction trade. Quick.

Lots of parity right now... Tons of teams in the mid to low 80's win totals.

Relievers are gettin snapped up here, where's AA? He went to the Winter Meetings with the intent to fix the bullpen and time's a ticking.

If he doesn't drop major $ into some of the bullpen guys (depending on what kind of contracts are left out there for a guy like Romo) I wonder where AA can reposition his funds? Maybe an upgrade on another position?

Hahaha - nah b. f*** Winter.

Lester to Cubs! Time for an update!

Lol. I hate the winters here. Even though I'm Jamaican background and born here I still never get used to it.

That's just over 6/yr. That seems like a deal we could've had.

Yup. Steamer projects Wade Miley with a 2.3 WAR, compared to Mark Buehrle or R.A Dickey who project a 1.5 WAR. Also to note, Drew Hutchison is at 1.9 and Marcus Stroman 3.3

Totally agree, which is why maybe it's a multi player deal - To TOR: INF Aaron Hill ($12M 2015, $12M 2016) LHP Wade Miley ($0.5235M 2015) RHP Brad Ziegler ($5M 2015, $5.5M Club Option 2016/$1M Buyout) C Tuffy Gosewisch ($0.5M 2015) To ARZ: RHP RA Dickey ($12M 2015, $12M 2016 Club Option/$1M Buyout) C Dioner Navarro ($5M 2015) C Josh Thole ($1.75 2015) We really shouldn't have to add a pitching prospect considering we're taking on $12M of Aaron Hill's guaranteed salary for 2016 but the DBacks might insist. EDIT: Maybe we could substitute Ziegler as suggested Randall Delgado ($0.51M 2015) or Evan Marshall but now it's gonna cost us more.