Jorge

M⁷Hey Pancake Bear, Right you are about those 107 win cheaters. Sure they are a great team, but how many wins came from their exploits. They got 60 home wins, how many came from cheating we will never know...but Oakland had 52 and is not only returning all of their core from 19, but instead of heading into the season With 6 weeks of Kendrys Morales, they will have Olly from the get go at first, rather than Hosh phegley being the primary backed by Hundley or Garneuax they start with uber prospect Sean Murphy who belted 4hr in his 18 game debut including a 3 dbl game. They also expect Khris Davis to be healthy and back on track as well as Piscotty. The only move they didnt make was bring in a 2nd basemen, but have plenty of in house options. Now, if they can get a full season from Laureano who is basically a 5.5-6 WAR player and dont platoon Canha and just let him eat, rather than platooning him for grossman, would be worth 10 extra wins. Thats before even getting into the pitching, the A's possibly have the scariest ceiling. Just think Sean Manaea could end up the #4 starter and Fiers who went 23 games without a loss could be the #5 or #6/ Long reliever. Now, they add 3 pitchers with #1 starter potential in Montas Lyzardo and Puk. Funny thing is, I have Bassitt as the potential Break out candidate, and has a lot of Charlie Morton to his game. So now how does this add up...well Frankie Montas was worth 3War in 16 games, Bailey 1.7 war in 13 games. So, ill double Montas War total as he replaces Fiers...so 6War - 1.7 War= 4.3+ Jesus luzardo only played 12 innings, but his .3 war stretched out over 184 innings, in 4.6 War, which seems fair for his prospect status and eye test. He replaces Anderson who had 2 War. So +2. So thats already potentially 7 wins and then they have Puk, Fiers amd bassitt over the like Ps of Tanner anderson(1-4) marco estrada (0-5) Aaron brooks (3-3) who went 4-12. The guys replacing them could easily make that 12-4, but 10-6 or even 8-8. Thats another 4-6 wins on top of the 7. This was then of the astros run.