HaloNArizona

This is kinda where I started when I first heard about the trade.  But some other thoughts have been rattling around since.  
First, I think you have to consider 2022, 2023 etc in whatever argument is being made.  
Lindor, Baez, Correa, Seager, Story.  All free agent short stops next year.  If you commit to someone like Wong or even Hernandez, you likely aren't committing to them for 1yr.  It's probably 3.  Which means you are committing to Fletcher at SS for those three years as well.   Some money comes off for 2021 and then again for 2022.  And some pitchers need to be replaced.  This is odd to hear but I would welcome someone to challenge this statement.  Right now and for the next 3+ years, we have more young pitching depth in this org than we do MIF depth.  Outside of Fletch and Rengifo, we really have no one that will be ready in the next two years whereas on the pitching side we've got Canning, Detmers, Sandoval, Suarez, Rodriguez, Yan, Soriano, and maybe a few other that will be worth mentioning in a year.  Oh and Ohtani.  I understand we are comparing two positions to 5 but the math still favors not committing down stream money to a 2bman when it can be used for either more pitching or a potentially better SS next year.  This isn't just a 2021 play.  It's a future play where you don't commit 10 mil a season for the next three years.  
And the options for going cheap in free agency?  Well, for 3.5 mil, you aren't getting Simmons, Gregorius, Semien, LeMahieu, Wong, Villar or Hernandez or La Stella for close to that and they're all in multi-year commitment territory.  So maybe you get Freddy Galvis, Jason Kipnis, Hanser Albert or Jon Schoop.  Maybe but it still likely costs you more for that one year.  
Which leads me to my next thought.  Which is, what if you don't get one of those halfway decent third or fourth tier guys and you are rolling with some scrub like a Logan Forsythe?  
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but one thing that's very important in the off season process which people tend to ignore is timeline.  Minasian now knows what his MIF is gonna look like opening day.  He also knows how much it's gonna cost and how that impacts other moves.  We knew he was gonna have to make this type of move at some point.  Did he potentially leave 0.5 WAR on the table?  Maybe, but at least he can be fairly confident that neither 2b or SS are going to suck next year.  
To me, he just did what one of the things I've been asking for.  Avoid absolute train wreck, grease fire, horrendous disasters.  Now we know we're not going to end up with Greg Garcia or Joe Panik or Chris Owings at 2b.  He got a fairly known quantity instead of someone who we hope can rebound or find old form.  
He dumped a couple pen guys to pay for Iglesias.  What are the odds he can find a couple other pen guys to offset that production for league min vs. trying to do that at SS?  
 

Zero kids for the fifth year in a row.

Mt Lemmon in Tucson: The fire burning in the Santa Catalina Mountains remains at 119,020 acres and 75 percent containment as of Tuesday, July 7.
 
 

Mt Lemmon in Tucson: The fire burning in the Santa Catalina Mountains remains at 119,020 acres and 75 percent containment as of Tuesday, July 7.
 
 

We are going to NYC and Cooperstown in June....
If you are planning on going to the Statue of Liberty...get your tickets early, especially if you want to go up in the crown.  We are staying 450 ft from MSG and Penn Station
Seeing Billy Joel on the 6th at MSG and a few other surprises along the way.

We have tickets to ASU Gammage shows...Just saw Fiddler on the Roof.
 

We are going to NYC and Cooperstown in June....
If you are planning on going to the Statue of Liberty...get your tickets early, especially if you want to go up in the crown.  We are staying 450 ft from MSG and Penn Station
Seeing Billy Joel on the 6th at MSG and a few other surprises along the way.

With the 49ers D...Most casual 49er fans only really know Bosa...but it's a healthy Dee Ford (you know what he is capable of), with Bosa, Armstead, and Buckner.  The line backers, with a healthy Alexander to go along with Warner and the emergence of Greenlaw are very fast and very good in coverage.  Moseley and Sherman just shut down Devante Adams and stopped Jones and the week before shut down Cook and the Vikings.  They can handle the RBs and Wideouts...what scares me about the matchup between the 49ers and the Cheifs is Mahomes.  Mobile QB's, like Kyler Murray, Wilson, Jackson and Mahomes have killed the 49ers.  The D-Line is ultra aggressive and sometimes the lanes and containment break down.  If that is the case....it will be a long night for the 49ers.
On the otherside, Mostert is the feel good story of the year.  The dude has been huge this year....If Coleman is healthy, the running game is dangerous.  What really throws off most teams, is the running game will involve Kittle and Samuel.  Very physical runners (RB's included).  They always are picking up extra yardage after contact.  Jimmy G can, if necessary chuck the rock, he just needs not to make the bonehead throws and reads.
This should be a very good game.

Wait....what....we are not family.....

Tank is going to Dollywood...
 

Tank is going to Dollywood...
 

Now I will be able to sleep at night!

You need to contain Mahomes...
The 9ers have struggled with the likes of Wilson, Murray and Jackson
On the plus side, Dee Ford and Kwon Alexander have been healthy for the post season, which helps to chase down the speedy QBs.
This season the 9ers have won ugly against the Steelers, wont in dominant fashion with the defense and the run game and have slugged it out with the likes of the Saints and the Ravens.  
Everybody over looks the likes of Samuel, Sanders and Bourne on the offensive side.  They can put up big numbers if necessary.
If the 9ers get a lead in the Superbowl, unlike the last two weeks, the need to keep the foot down on the gas pedal otherwise the Chiefs will blow right by them.

When you have a team defense that is in the top five and a rushing attack that is #2, you do not need a QB to throw...Both the Vikings and the Packers knew what was coming and the couldnt stop it....The 9ers throw a pass with 2:10 left in the 2nd quarter, and didnt throw the next pass until about 9 minutes left in the fourth quarter.  
 

You need to contain Mahomes...
The 9ers have struggled with the likes of Wilson, Murray and Jackson
On the plus side, Dee Ford and Kwon Alexander have been healthy for the post season, which helps to chase down the speedy QBs.
This season the 9ers have won ugly against the Steelers, wont in dominant fashion with the defense and the run game and have slugged it out with the likes of the Saints and the Ravens.  
Everybody over looks the likes of Samuel, Sanders and Bourne on the offensive side.  They can put up big numbers if necessary.
If the 9ers get a lead in the Superbowl, unlike the last two weeks, the need to keep the foot down on the gas pedal otherwise the Chiefs will blow right by them.

Mostert made Jimmy an after thought.   Second most rushing yards ever in a post-season game

First off....I am in the camp the we need another starting pitcher.  With that being said, the off season pitching pick ups will (and Rendon) will make this team much more competitive.  Based on WAR, both Dylan and Teheran would have been in competition for staff ace last year:
Bundy: 2.3 War
Teheran: 2.4
Heaney: 1.0
Canning: 1.1
Barria: -.6
Suarez: -1.2
Skaggs: .9
Peters: -.7
Harvey: -.7
Pena: .8
 
With a new staff of:
Bundy  (2.1) If you compare him with Harvey +2.8
Teheran (.5) If you compare to Peters or Barria: +1.2
Ohtani (2.2) if you compare to Skaggs +1.3
Heaney (2.9 😞 +1.9
Canning (1.7) +.6
??
Without a sixth starting pitcher added, we are have increased our starting pitching WAR by 7.8....is it great...obviously not...but it is a move in the right direction.

My wife teaches preschool....I have been called her Dad many times before.
Take into consideration a few things about the young children...
They think there mommies are anywhere between 5 years old and 100 years old
While estimating a jar full of candy corn, usually about 150 pcs of candy, many kids guess in the single digits
 

I'd like to see Fletcher at 2b full time next year...We can move a guy like La Stella or keep Renigifo in AAA.  La Stella can play 1B when Pujols is DHing.
I'd be good with adding a MOTO 3Bman.  

Yeah well the entire minor league system on both sides of the ball was absolute garbage when Eppler got here. He can’t rebuild the entire system (Both pitching and position players) in 3 drafts, bro. 

The Twins released Allen.
Didnt like the CAhill signing...I like the Harvey signing....ugh!!
We should have kept the catching unit from last year....
Again at least they are all one year signings and didnt cost anything to acquire them.

The Twins released Allen.
Didnt like the CAhill signing...I like the Harvey signing....ugh!!
We should have kept the catching unit from last year....
Again at least they are all one year signings and didnt cost anything to acquire them.