@Khi_oken i dont think the logic is too sound. reid is talented but he doesnt have an offering against righties, he dropped his changeup entirely last year. he mightve been optimized as a reliever, able to throw his FB, SL and CB in any count. that may not work as well 2&3TTO. hope not but
@joshha2012 burke was fine, lowe could be basically a mickey moniak replacement. only real issue with this is now we need a lhrp, unless saucedo vs natera is really something we wanna see
Set a salary cap at like $950M per year. Inflate the luxury tax, tax future deferred payments to present-day value to de-incentivize that. Put a salary floor in, maybe around $125M. Lesser punishments for revenue sharing recipients signing FAs, harsher punishments for cap teams.
"The big market teams like Los Angeles and New York are always going to have bigger payrolls, but should it be this much more than everybody else?"
It's a problem how little of a chance teams in the bottom 15 markets have at winning the World Series, says @JimBowdenGM.
@Jared_Tims if we could steal both the giants fa sp additions (mahle and houser) in addition to grayson and then leave manoah in aaa and reid in the bullpen i would be pretty happy with the offseason, but here we are
@BeyondTheHalo if i were making any kind of sell-side trades burke comes up at or near the top of the list this offseason. his relationship with maddux may have something to do with it, but id like to believe minasian is choosing a direction with this entire offseason in mind