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PS: I'll take a big swing at that... Detroit sends Ron Holland, Marcus Sasser, unprotected 1st and two 2nds to the Pelicans for: Pelicans send Jose Alvarado and Herb Jones to Detroit.

I would be all over trying to get Herb Jones. Add in Ron Holland to this trade package. Jones is the best version of what we could hope Holland turns into. And I'd take that bet on Jones' offensive potential... PS: Is NO interested in getting cap savings at all? Change your lottery-protected pick into NOT lottery-protected OR into three 2nds... They would be a definite YES on the 1st rounder + Holland? WE would prefer Holland + three 2nds... Does Holland + three 2nds get a yes from the Pelicans?

I'm surprised this only has two laughs and not 25...

That looks like 7 utility IF'ers between Lee, Jung, Cruz, Navigato, Kreidler, Workman and Ibanez. I'm assuming Anderson to Toledo would be the priority guy and get most of his starts at 2B (unless they want to try him also at 1B?) It still looks like a utility guy or two would need to go to Detroit, or Erie... or somewhere. Even with playing Workman and Kreidler in the OF quite a bit (I think Cruz also has been played quite a bit in the OF this year and last year IIRC...). What does everyone else think...?

Montero (on ESPN under "Splits"): 1st time through order .699 OPS 2nd time through order .855 OPS 3rd time through order .910 OPS But I think his biggest problem is consistency... when he's having control problems or 1 of his 2 good pitches aren't working, he's terrible. When everything is working and he's hitting the strike zone... He pitches gems... Just an observation.

Specifically: From April 30th through today: .302 BA, .895 OPS, 7 HR's in 185 PA's. And 14 doubles and 2 triples. Not huge power. But enough.

Just a WAG... But I think Anderson would be called up to Toledo once one of Jung, Lee or Cruz gets called up to Detroit. Probably based on the call up being for at least a week as I don't see bouncing Anderson up and down from Erie to Toledo... And I don't know if "rest of season" comes into play for one of those three (and Anderson by extension) unless there's a season-ending injury... knock on wood. Toledo still has Ibanez/ Navigato/ Workman on the team - not priority prospects - so maybe the alternative path is to move Ibanez and Navigato somewhere so a timeshare (add in DH) will open up enough time for Anderson? If nothing else... per your suggestion... who wants to grab a 1B glove? And that could just as easily be Anderson as Jung or Lee. In fact, I'd choose Jung and Anderson for trying that...

Not Soon Enough.

He wants to talk only baseball... Jason started laughing about the VERY LOUD voice of the plate umpire right at the start of the game... Adam joked once about it but within 10 seconds said: "We actually have a baseball game going on here..." So I think he already knew Jason's reputation... and made a move to cut him off before Jason wandered off-(game)-topic too far... Adam wants to... talk baseball.

Actually... they're holding Fox mikes...

And I have Detroit's TV feed so Bennetti...

I've got Prime and this game is an MLB free game...

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That was more of a "hot take" than anything... He's not in imminent danger and I don't view my hot take as an absolute... The "Ice Age" cold streaks are annoying... What if the Braves decided to trade us Austin Riley and wanted Tork plus Jung plus Montero? Don't laugh... It's the middle of the night and I'm sleep-typing...

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"Trouble with the Curve"?

I've stopped most of my pre-draft analysis too. For all 4 sports. I take a quick look at profiles and think... "hmmm... I like him and him and that guy and..." And then I forget about them all until after the drafts and take a look at who-we-drafted-profiles. That's all that matters anyways...

Give this kid a chance!!!

Ditto.

Tork is in danger of being traded this offseason. IMO.

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I don't believe this is correct. Which is why I said "additional pieces as necessary"... in fact, it's IN what you QUOTED from me, the very next sentence. So let's say you are correct: Dylan Smith plus Max Anderson. Plus Mattison. Plus maybe Liranzo, also? Do they take a lower-level international sign like Osorio or Franyerber or Miranda instead of Liranzo...? I'm guessing Harris could talk the A's out of Liranzo and into one of the lower-level guys not named Cris Rodriguez... and he may even add another guy to offset that like Schiefelbein or Owen Hall... But I'm just guessing. There are packages the A's would take that do NOT involve two of our top 5 prospects (per TigerNation)... IMO. Yes, costly... But I'm hunting World Series. I want domination. Difference-makers. Aroldis Chapman. Jacob DeGrom. Mason Miller. True difference makers in the playoffs and WS games. Just my 2 cents. And sorry if I wasn't clear on the cost for Miller.

You're talking Garrett Crochet or Joe Ryan here. Very costly in prospect terms. And uncertain if Boston or the Twins want to move those guys.

Exactly on DeGrom. Sale also fits that description (to an obviously lesser degree); and is at half DeGrom's cost so we wouldn't have to go through Rangers' salary-pay-downs/ better prospect gyrations. I'd prefer DeGrom... but you've outlined a difficulty there (salary-paid-tied-to-top-prospects). Joe Ryan is a difference maker. But even more tricky because he's a higher prospect cost and it's the Twins... Next year's rotation would be Skubal-DeGrom-Olson-Flaherty-Jobe, with Madden/ Melton/ Hamm in Toledo and other depth either signed for Toledo or in Erie on the way up, or as a 5th/6th starter for Detroit (hopefully better than we've seen from Maeda/Cobb). IMO: that makes Mize/ Montero/ SGL superfluous, or at least tradeable assets. If Mize needs to be a part of a package that gets us DeGrom: Absolutely. I don't see Mize as a 1.10 WHIP guy, he's a really good pitcher but has consistently been less than that (this year at 1.20, one of his best years ever...) but I'm looking at difference-makers in the top 2 spots. Maybe top 3. That's DeGrom... and I'm hoping Jobe steps it up after recovering from his injury and gets into that 1.05 WHIP or better range. Olson has been in the 1.10 range, with a higher K-rate... Just sayin'... I'm absolutely with point 3. I see no reason for a depth starter. It's difference-maker as a starter or forget about it.