trujaysfan
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Ownership wants to sell the team but keep the broadcast rights as part of the deal. Once this team is brought under MLSE they may finally start taking risks again and building a winning team.
Zero chance,
Any Free Agent signed will be on a 1 year deal, and will not cost a draft pick. Of this i am now certain.
Shatkins is managing this team as if it's Cleveland, except he has 40 million or more to play with.
They're just buying more shitty players with the extra cash they have.
Well, we do have a lot of dead space on the roster right now. Morales/Pearce is their doing, but the large deals to Martin and Tulo do hamstring us quite a bit. The fact is, assuming we keep a 165M payroll which is around where it was last year (which was up from previous years), that only left us with ~25M in space to play with. So you're not bringing in Martinez and Cain plus depth pieces with that little to spend. Complain about Shatkins all we want, but it's Rogers who decides the payroll, so it's not like Shatkins can go to them and demand an extra 30M. There really is no reason why we shouldn't be up at the luxury tax mark, but that's on Rogers, not Shatkins.
So, with 25M or so to spend this year, getting Granderson and Solarte for less than 10M combined isn't that bad. We still have 15M or so to spend, but with holes at SP, in the bullpen, and in the OF, they're not going to be able to fill them all at FA prices. Of course, also the fact that the team doesn't appear to be making a serious push for a playoff spot (a la SFG/STL), or to make a serious push to rebuild (a la PIT), does leave us in a weird spot.
I'd argue we dont need help in the pen, but OF/SP absolutely yes, and 15M lands one....splitting it lands a meh guy at each spot.
Morales is the real dead weight. Cutting him and adding a legit OFer would get me optimistic, won’t happen though
Get Cain and sign a bunch of shitty 5th's. That's 4-6 added WAR right there.