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Felts as if most of those runs came when he was overused, Similarly to Alvarez last year.

Most likely scenario that's going to happen is that valubena and cron are going to stay, Billy's going trade for solid second baseman. Than around the trade deadline or after, Billy's going to swing a trade for either 1st or 3rd like he did with Upton .

Lets just consider how our Roster is stacked up for now.. Of- set solidly with Upton-Trout- Calhoun. SP- if healthy and our starters get back to there pre-injured forms, we are stack up nicely with most of the contenders in the AL. Bp- add a few peace and if the guys don't get overworked, its good as anyone else. If- set with Simmons, and Valbuena, left is 2nd and 1st, This is were it gets interesting, depending on who billy gets for 2nd base will determine if Cron stays or Not. if its lefty, Cron stays , if rightly second baseman is signed or traded for a lefty is brought in for 1st. likeliest solution for seconds- we trade for Dee Gordon or sign Neil Walker, leaving cron at first. Yes i know that billy's may goal this year is to improve Obp and that Cron may not be the solution at 1st. Personally, Crons value on defense and offense will be more value than any of the 1st base free agents that we are targeting. Secondly, 1st base wasn't the only place that needed work done, Lf, 3rd DH and second i'll include Rf as well. We solved LF, given that Calhoun had core surgery last year he should bounce make, Dh is still a question mark similar to 3rd. With a rebounded Calhoun, addition of Upton, an improving Simmons, a non-tired Maldonado included with Trout, we are looking at a much deadlier offense now, include an improving Cron ( every year he has shown improvements. did hit a little snag last year but mostly likely do to valbuena) in to it and we could have have a top 5 Line-up in, with a top 5 BP and a top 6 rotation in the Al .

a few things that could have been it are: 1. Dodgers felt like that they didn't have room for him or w/ Tuner,Seager, Forsthye... 2. arguments going on between team mates or player- coaches. He could just have been angry for not being called up last year. 3. coming into last year he only had 37 career hrs, than hits 16 could be PED or a power spike.

Oh i definitely think that Arte going to make a pitch to Trout after he retires. Also another think to consider is, the type of money a player wants depends on their own personalities or ways. We have guys that just care about money ( Greinke), we also have guys that take less money and care about winning ( Weaver/Upton). To me Trout fits the second group of guys and at the end of the career he'll get the money and also hopefully win something with us. 8- 10 yrs for 175-235.

You beat me to punch, Scotty. Yeah I agree that he could be a solid buylow guys for us, I don't see the powers but he has an really great eye of the strike zone. Only 33 strikeouts compared to 24 walks last year In Double A.

I'm going to change mine a it. Sticking with moose at 3rd Cron at 1st Chatwood Petit and Minor Finally the change...... 2nd Jose Miguel Fernandez.

I think we may have found our 2md baseman/ 3rd baseman in Jose Miguel Fernandez, who was just release by the Dodgers. He was considered one of the better players in Cuba before leaving last year. With double aa he hit 306/366/498 with 33 strikeouts and 24 walks including 16 hrs.

We can't always get the right players. The under slot money with Thaiss not only helped us get Marsh what also Rodriguez( who i think may have a similar ceiling to Whitley),Troy and also lund.

I think what's going to happen is that Billy Keeps valbuena and Marte paired at third, than once our prospects gain more respect following the year, we'll make a trade to get a 3rd baseman. For example, a guy like Hermosillo + Gatto for Jake lamb.

I don't know if this is true or not, but you can use next year's Intl money to sign a guy like Maitain. But you have to pick, either this periods or next periods

This is how it's going to go down. Marlins get- Castillo, Lund and Smith Angels- Gordon + 1.2 mil intl money. Than eppler going to trade a rule 5 pick for more intl money (200k) with that we'll have about 1.5 intl money and we are going to sign Ohtani.... killed two bugs with one stone. Heck if the Marlins are asking for more and we have a clear chance at getting ohtani I'd put Wilkel Herendez in that trade but Marlins have to give more money.

Nate Smith + Jose Rodriguez to the Marlins for intl money about 1-1.2 mil? Or any team. Than trade the players we drafted in the rule 5 for anything we can get.

Nate Smith + Jose Rodriguez to the Marlins for intl money about 1-1.2 mil? Or an9ther team with intl money to give.

this a bit off topic, But it looks like the yankee's may have had an under the table agreement with Ohtani and with the stuff that happened with the braves, could this be a risk for the yankees. and this is also JJ cooper's tweet- " Before today, I wouldn't have been shocked if there was an under the table deal in place for whichever team signed Ohtani (if he comes over). Now I'm not so sure. To do so, front office execs would be taking a huge risk"

I think it could have been both, i'm kind of leaning towards roster. They had a good lineup but had no Bullpen at all, Rotation only had 2 solid starters, while rest were declining.

I can see them switching him from 1st to 3rd this season. should have the arm strength.

looks like othani being posted is close, i think Eppler may try to make a trade for someone along with intl bonus. also for the rule 5 draft wouldn't be surprised if he tried to trade to get more bonus.

I think we'll see 2 kept with us and one traded away. one to replace Calhoun and the other for LF after moving Uptoon to DH.

It would be amazing to see a line-up similar to this by 2020 - Jones, Thasis, Adell, Trout, Marsh, Upton, Simmons, .........Etc and a rotation of - Rodriguez, Canning, Barria.............

Quite interesting that Wilkel Hernandez isn't ranked in your top 30 and that Troy Montgomery is ranked that low.

Yes I've read a lot of your report and i'm a big fan. I think your scouting reports are pretty accurate. On the Castillo's topic i did not know that that he had fully developed oops. But i'm hoping your scouting report is wrong on this one and he surprise us (lol). But if not i think he has good enough control that he's similar to Barria.

Personally i would rather keep Chris than trade him and hope that he learned something or makes the proper adjustments for next year. Quite frankly his number don't stand out that well but i check his FIP a bit ago and it was around 3 which suggest that bad luck was involved in his 6 ERA. In the starts that he did not struggle in, he pretty much dominated older competition. Like i said if he can make small adjustments next year, he has a chance to increase his value and be a top 100 guys

Yeah i think we may be giving to much in that trade for Gordon, i can see it for Hernandez but not Gordon. I'd probably start with Castillo as the main peace and than add a lower level prospect that's out of our top 20.

And we'll trade away Valbuena while eating 5 mil of The salary for a low level prospect.