Kelly Gruber

Totally agree. Best case scenario is that the team is doing good enough to actually care about keeping a closer beyond the trade deadline. More realistically we will probably find ourselves in the middle ground of not being in a playoff spot, but not so far back that selling is an obvious choice. The prudent choice is probably to still move Giles at the deadline. Nothing saying we can't sign him back again in the offseason. Not sure we will have to pay significantly more in FA vs what an extension will be cost anyways. Even if we do, I can stomach having turned $$$ into prospects. I would imagine him getting to be part of a better winning environment for a half-season helps chances of coming back in FA as well.

Interesting this got bumped, as was just thinking about this recently. The best thing Jose Bautista ever did for the Blue Jays was ask for 5/150 instead of the 5/125 we would probably have agreed to. Can you imagine our rebuild if we still had 2/50 remaining on the books (end of 2021) on the player he became late career?

I don't understand the appeal of an extension when we aren't going to be competitive in the timeframe before Stroman becomes a free agent. We can trade him for a nice piece to help with the rebuild and then use the next year and a half to decide if he would be someone we want to sign back here when he becomes a free agent. By that time other options for our $50-$100 million will likely have emerged and we can evaluate stroman against that. By extending him: - we get nothing in return via trade - we are stuck with him for an extra 3-4 years if he declines before he would normally have reached free agency We would need a significant discount on his extension to make up for those two points.

This current 25 man roster is the pits, but I am still excited for the better days ahead for this team. Wondering if someone on this board is in the know about upcoming jersey numbers. Is Guerrero going to be 27 for sure? What # is Bichette going to wear? - currently wears same number as Gurriel in Buffalo Biggio? Is there no way to know this for sure until they get put on the roster?

Jose Bautista 1 year, 2 million. His lack of range doesn't show up as much at 3rd and he could have bounce back year at plate. If doesn't 2 million isn't much to DFA

Although Otani is a high-risk signing, the risk is minimized slightly in the fact that the odds of him being a bust as both a pitcher and a hitter are lower than if he was only one or the other. If I was GM I would put my resources towards the best combo of talent/value among the available starters. I think they have enough options in-house to fill the void(s) in the corner outfield spots. By default one of them will have a better year than Bautista did when you factor in defence and baserunning. Pearce gives some insurance if the group of Hernandez, Alford, Pompey, Smith, etc struggle at points in the year. Maybe there is a low cost signing to add to that group as well depending on budget.

Maybe he doesn't have a phone. Has to make the deals in person. Who do we play before the deadline?

12 wins, 2 losses. Guy gives us an 85.7% chance to win every time out. Is Buffalo on the verge of missing the playoffs and someone needed to push them in?

Drew's sister would do in a pinch

Simple solution....Montreal for a year. Might even increase the yearly revenue as that city tries to prove itself worthy of an mlb franchise. Full house every night.

It's too bad the collapse of Ricky Romero was so epic he can't even provide us 30-40 innings of mop up work in the last year of his contract.

This is my only account. Don't post often, mostly just a forum reader.

This might kill two birds with one stone. Get a sexy new hitting coach. Have him work with goins all offseason. Second base / shortstop solved as goins hits over .300 next year. We still have cito gaston on payroll. Search complete!!!

Colby Rasmus actually seems like a pretty good fit with KC. They are a team starving for a power hitter. We could really use someone like Shields. Both free agents at end of year. Lorenzo Cain interests me as someone to platoon with Gose although his splits are pretty even l vs r recent years and maybe not that much better than a Pillar? Would be nice to have some depth for Gose if we are trading Rasmus. Shields/Cain for Rasmus + prospects?

Thanks a lot!!