Tenacious D

Welcome back, Eduardo. Hope everything is OK.

Meet Faedo’s girlfriend

Great—looking forward to your list in a month or so when you’re able to do your due diligence. I’ll remind you. In the meantime, I’ll enjoy reading other individual’s content for debate and discussion purposes (which is why most of us come here in the first place).

Missed that Peyton Graham signed—hope he gets into some games soon.

Agree. He’s been called out on Twitter for Santana’s omission. Carpenter is interesting—is he the real deal or another Steven Moya?

Of course. Based on your response, you’re in no place to be critical.

Not a bad list—don’t know much about Bastidas, though

Wish Sale had been the pitcher

Nice—really would like to see him salvage the balance of the season.

If Miggy doesn’t get hurt, his career offensive stats would encroach upon the top 10 all-time in many categories. He’s not going anywhere next season—he might see his playing time reduced, but he’ll be allowed to retire on his terms. Maybe he can pitch in the blowouts? The 40-man roster squeeze is real, but will be for all teams. The Castro boys and Candy might be vulnerable, but as others have pointed out, we have some guys with expiring contracts which will help.

Cutting Hutchinson for Keuchel really doesn’t solve the issue. All things equal, I’d rather run Hutchinson out there.

Yeah, the 40-man roster is real and going to be a challenge moving forward.

I’d probably consider it only to have someone pitch innings besides Harold Castro. I’d prefer that Elvin Rodriguez and Garrett Hill pitch in Toledo this year.

I want to. Nothing wrong with taking a bit more time to develop. Hope he gets there.

If he doesn’t yield anything of worth in return, you keep him. We need as many innings we can get out of him, in the event of more injuries or innings limits to our young guys.

My point is that we’re under no obligation to make a trade. Moving a young pitcher like Soto for another young pitcher, unless it’s a big upgrade, doesn’t make sense. I also believe we have a lot of good young pitching knocking on the door, so yes, I’d prefer we fill one of the 7 lineup spots next to Tork and Greene that are currently mostly a black hole.

Or don’t make a trade.

Seems odd that a pitcher playing for an independent team would still be draft eligible vs just being a free agent

I’ll wait for the Netflix adaptation.

I’ve even considered reading books instead.

Such a Dad thing to say.

This is awesome

perhaps, but I'd rather pool out tradable assets for the best position player we can get (that makes sense for our roster). if we're getting more pitching in return, I'd just assume hold on to Soto, who we control for a few more seasons.

really hope we focus on getting a bat in return, if we move any of our relievers.

I think I've posted this before on the old board, but Manfred has a bit of Frank Burns from MASH in him. I'll bet he got hazed big time in college.