Steve75

We could afford the bloated 11 million contract of Joey Gallo last year, Polanco would be way more valuable to our offense than that. There should be a first baseman's mitt in both his and Julien's locker in Fort Myers.

Some of you will not approve of this plan at all but we have plenty of answers in house. With the glut of infielders on the roster and looking for ideal spots for Julien, Martin, a resurgent Miranda ( we hope) and where do we put Lee, I think the answer for center field who is right handed and allows for us to keep Farmer, Castro, maybe even Polanco is none other than ROYCE LEWIS. Yes, I realize he did get hurt playing the outfield and maybe he is more likely to get injured diving for a ball in CF than at third base, but I was all in favor of doing this during the last half of the season so we could play Farmer, Castro and Solano, who were more than clutch for this club. This makes room for Lee then at 3rd base (or Correa in a few years) because where is Lee going to play when he comes up? Do we jettison Julien (or move him to 1st) or do we jettison Kiriloff or move him to the OF, too? We project Martin now as more as an OF rather than SS, Gordon has done OK making the position switch and could Lee actually play the OF if we think Lewis can stick at 3rd base? A move to CF worked out pretty well for Hall of famers Robin Yount and Craig Biggio! Being one of the better athletes on the team and playing the OF some in the minors could work out well until Jenkins and others are ready. We're not talking Migual Sano out there! This might be heresy to most of you on TD but if Buxton can't come back as Plan A, we have a major league talent in Lewis we can put out there.

14 hours ago, Fighting4par said: why would we ever want this guy. He is an injured cheater who is out here to only make as much money as he possibly can and then play mediocre baseball. I have no clue why everyone is so in love with him. I applaud the giants for seeing that. Correa is a nice shortstop, steady as they come but is no superstar. Wasn't worth even half of what they paid him last year. He will be an above average 3B man but wouldn't crack the top tier of that group either but will be paid like one ( a slightly better version of Donaldson, perhaps). IMO he looked pretty feeble as a Twin last year, superstars don't strike out 120+ a year as he did last year, and usually at inopportune times. (That's only 40 less than our Joey Gallo!) I think we dodged a major bullet financially. Pick up that Mets SS, sign Fulmer, Hand or Rogers and a good RH bat ( I wish we still had Urshela) and if we can start to play sound, fundamental ball (bunting, stealing bases, better situational hitting) with some hungry, scrappy young players we could have a team that might be exciting to watch. Which the Cleveland Guardians seem to be.

I agree with you Ted. Give him 25-30 starts like Stroman and he'll give you the same 10 wins (maybe some undeserved) or 10 quality starts as Stroman did in 2021. The same holds true for Ober and Ryan. I can't believe someone who would pay $25 million a season for a career 61-60 pitcher. Sign Big Mike, maybe an Alex Wood who the lockout ends and trade for another starter and let's roll. Maybe not the rest rotation money can buy but you go to war with the army you've got.