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What difference is there between Bader and "the expensive Margot?" The expensive Margot was cheaper than Bader. lol
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Rizzo is finished. No. But it's not my money so why should I care? But the quality of players and the team affects what interest and money I will put into the team.
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My take, you don't need an elite glove in the corner. An adequate glove suffices. But your corner guys need to hit. Bader doesn't provide that. If you want Bader to backup Buxton and provide insurance to him fine. If you want to pay out 6-8mil for that fine. But if Bader is being platooned with Larnach and Wallner then he will be Margot 2.0. That is stupid. Everybody on the continent knows that corner outfielders need to be able to hit first and foremost.
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"But we were great until the August collapse." Not really. We feasted upon bad teams. So, yeah we were better than the terribly bad. But no one was held responsible for the collapse, except the hitting coach. And he was great too as long as we were playing bad teams. 2) is very true. The good teams revealed just how bad the team was constructed. Nothing was rectified either, except it will be Bader playing LF and RF this season instead of Margot.
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With the guys we have, Buxton should be shifted to LF. He's not getting younger. He's been fragile. You now have a CF in Bader, but he should not be a corner guy with that bat. Keirsey gets an oppurtunity to back up CF and can also pick up a rare game in the COF. Larnach gets shifted to sharing 1B with Miranda and also picks up some time in OF. Willi can continue to play around the diamond. He doesn't need to be used at 1B and should be used less than 2024. But imo moving Buxton to LF is crucial at this point and Bader should not be used as Margot 2.0. That has stupid written all over it.
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I like the idea of Larnach being slid over to 1B. He's not a good LF tbh. With that in mind slide Buxton over to LF. It may help his durability, who knows. And keeps him out of DH where he has struggled. Then a light hitting Bader can be the primary CF. If Bader were the main CF it makes his signing much more valuable. These moves do then increase our defense immensly without more devaluation of the offense.
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I agree as well on the importance of defense and this team greatly lacks it in various areas. CF defense is very important. . But some bat at that position is needed as well. We'll switch to Bader. As a backup CF he would be a great pickup. But that won't be the case, a backup CF. Margot was acquired as the backup CF for 2024. What happened? 54 starts in COF and 14 starts in CF. Sadly the same experiment will play out in 2025. Wallner a legitimate RF will sit while Bader plays a position he has no business being at. Wallner will suffer. The team will suffer and Keirsey will suffer.
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I'm going with Ronny Henriquez. Or, hate to say it Keirsey. Headrick for now has the lefty factor. I'm sticking with my hunch that they believe greatly in Gasper. He makes the ML team out of ST.
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One step closer, one hurdle removed for Gasper.
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Thanks. For cash. lol Edit: Helman not only got pushed to the back of the line he got dumped. Well now we know that he can't play. I wish him well and Thanks for his efforts.
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You have a good point. They may also be gun shy the same way with trading when the Mahle, Paddack trades didn't work as hoped. I support those deals even though they didn't. But as I said, Falvey era has seen some really good things. But this continual signing of vets, cheap, but overpaying for them is a bad continuation of the Ryan years. It rarely worked then and still rarely does. I know this won't be popular but Ryan was a good baseball guy. Did some good things. But he never went out and got the finishing pieces. Sign an older vet. Over and over again. Now we do the same things. I would have liked to of seen a risk taken this off-season, I think a fairly safe risk. Sign HaSeong Kim. He was the one FA going into the off-season that I saw as something affordable and who would have maybe been a difference maker for this team. DeJong, please no.
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Falvey has had some good moments and done some really good things. But this propensity to spend 25 mil a year on used up vets instead of spending that extra amount on a really good player does need to stop. It doesn't work most times. Sign another guy every season who has a legitimate chance to do something significant and let your cheaper homegrown minor league options fill in the gaps. It's win win. By doing this you've also found which of those milb kids are actually players. But we'll never find out if Keirsey or Hellman or Eeles could have been solid role players, or more even, because they always get pushed to the back of the line by a 6mil vet that we hope has a bounce back campaign.
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This team appears to do everything they can to stand in the way of its prospects. As a reward to them lets sign Bader. Lets sign DeJong. You can play in St.Paul with no real chance of advancing because we prefer to sign a used up veteran for large dollars that we will play no matter how well or poorly they perform. All the while the team shoots for being competitive instead of great therefore demoralizing the best players that we already have.
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It would certainly look good to get a TOR in Cease. But this team needs offense much more than any Pitcher. Who's going to replace Larnach and Castro? How many black holes can this team employ? Seattle is proving that you need some better hitters to go along with great pitching in order to be a PO team.
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If Castro is traded and replaced by either of these guys that is sickening. Sign Bader. Trade Castro. Sign DeJong. You just took three steps backwards in one fell swoop. Enough damage has been done already with the first move of Bader. Stop tinkering with poor fringe moves.
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My own thoughts were if we're talking Ober, sure Mountcastle as a throw in. But it starts with Mayo and Bassallo. Nothing less. 4 possible years of Ober, when you count the 3 and a QO year if accepted. Personally, now is not at all the time to talk a trade for Ober or Ryan. I'm of the opinion that after 2025 we might want to move one of them. If Matthews, Festa, Raya,Soto, etc have taken positive steps foreward.
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Appreciate your thoughts jm. If Buxton was your typical CF that was playing 120-130 games a year in CF I'd have no issue if his backup is a high defense guy that is a subpar hitter. That however has rarely, if ever, been the case. But for 30-40 games a cheap option is a far better option. But the potential platoon partner with Larnach and Wallner should not be a light hitting backup CF. If Wallner is sitting I want someone who can hit. This is not Bader. Sure he could bounce back but his history shows he is regressing rather fast at the plate.
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My own prediction is that Willi Castro will soon be traded. I hope I'm wrong that we aren't trading Castro for Bader but the numbers do line up.
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You cannot have a COF be a black hole offensively. You can't. But that is what we will see on a fairly regular basis.
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I too believe Gasper will be on. Difference is I think Martin gets bumped. But yes, Go Emma!
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