Carlos Danger

Catchers are so finnicky... Look at Joey Bart, Campusano and many more... Should have moved Moreno while value was sky high...

C The trade deadline did not happen in a vacuum. All our competition got much better compared to us. Not satisfied with making the playoffs and going out round one. Hope, we get hot is not a good strategy. Bass is good for 7th inning or below... Pop, I like very much but not ready yet to assume late inning roles.. Not a high K guy.. I feel if Romano gets hurt or starts sucking, we have no bonafide closer.. I was hoping to have closers coming in from the 7th on and set up types 5th inning on.. First question out of the mouths of MLB.TV commentators and former GMs when we did the White trade was; What do the Dodgers know that the Jays don't...? In other words, why would the Dodgers give up a young controllable rotation piece and for the return.... What is the catch?? When dealing with the Dodgers I always say the same thing... I don't mind White and think he is a good complimentary piece.. No issues with that.. But as our only potential for SP/long relief help... Compared to SPs our immediate competition got... Nope... Wit Merrifield.. I do really like this move. I think he is the perfect veteran piece that will excel down the stretch and in the playoffs. He plays a key position/s for us with our delicate flowers situation.. Reminds me of the Royals picking up Ben Zobrist in 2015 and I think Merrifield will be the exact same type of player and be clutch/money in the playoffs. I also very much like that he is a contact type hitter who can generate some runs with small ball if needed... The last thing I thought we needed was a low contact, low average, low OBP (this year) HR type like Gallo.. We have the power guys... The way I look at is we are a tech company selling our new model cell phone and competing against a bunch of other cell phone companies. The other companies just released new 6g cell phones with NASA satellite level zoom cameras and we countered by releasing a 5G cell phone with new emojis and faster shutter speed.. Yea, we have a cool really nice cell phone, but compared to our competition not so much. AL Teams better then us- NYY, Astros, Mariners. Teams that will be very hard to beat, we are not significantly better then- Minnesota, Cleveland wont be easy.. NL Teams better than us- Padres, LAD, Mets, Braves. Goal is to win WS.. That is the gauntlet we need to run through.. We are a better team now then we were in the AM, without a doubt.. Not sure if we play 3-4 one run close games we are better then any of those Teams...

This will be Ben Zobrist trade 2.0 except this time we get him... CD likes..

Get fnn Laureno/Happ and Cobb or Rondon plus Iglesias!! We are running out of targets!!

Mahle too!

Yea, but when he is pitching, he was leading the league with most IP per start or something avg 6 innings plus.. and QSs.

T-60!!

Indians just traded Sandy Leon... Does that mean we can trade them a catcher for a pitcher Or are they setting up for a Contresas deal...

Hope we can add Cobb to that list.. If the Giants will trade Rodon, why not trade Cobb.. They already moved Ruff..

I truly feel Iglasias is just a matter of dollars plus scrubs.. If I find out we missed out soley because of $$ I will be pissed!!

CD likes POP... He was a victim of a roster crunch on my fantasy teams and got scooped up by my divison rival in one league... He was projected as the Marlin's closer in the off season..

What is, or should be the goal of the team this year and in this window?

We got Ben Revere to top it all off in 2015..... I think the jury is still out..

Iglesias or bust!!

You sure this is not because we just played KC AAAA, Boston Bad news Bears and the Detroit Tiger Cubs?

Twins killing it today... Got one each of the top closers and SPs available..

Ha, I had mentioned Pop as a supplemental piece for our pen... However, Bass sucks and I hope much more on the horizon..

Hosmer is “not thrilled” about the idea of waiving his no-trade protection to go from a contender to a rebuilding club. Da, you think!?

The Padres would DFA him and the Nats would pay his contract worse case..

Hosmer is browsing for the lastest model of Gulfsteam jet online and will tell Boras which model he wants shortly..

Espinal??? Don't let the door hit you in the ass if that was what it took to close a Soto deal.. LOL

Their pen was good in the playoffs. Doolittle was their closer, I think Rainey was around and another guy that was set up type ICR. Go look at the game logs, which I actually did from their playoff run the year they won the WS. Any game that was a win within 4 runs their pen pitched multiple innnings of scoreless ball or in extras etc... Any game that they won, that was not a blowout, their pen was key...

Their BP was good from the deadline on.. Their BP was a key factor in the playoffs..

Surprised Hosmer would agree to go from SD to the Nationals.. Probably some back room deal from Boras to incentivise him..

No, the Nats eat salary as part of the deal if they want all those specs...