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He has assets to trade and guys are put on waivers all the time to accommodate new players.

Double like...for the meme and the movie respectively

(Zack Cozart right now)

My guess is Crane was not in on it...

More like he's insinuating they'll be a 72 win team after Correa, Greinke and Verlander are no longer on the team.

Shoulder is toast I'm sure...

Yep, they should have truncated their ability to sign internationally as well. This isn't much of a punishment.

Wow, Astros got off easy...

Likelier he's pursuing a trade over the flotsam that's left on the market but he could also still grab one of these guys as depth. That said, yeah, he could have totally dropped the ball on Wood...time will tell.

"You remember that thing we had about 30 days ago called the winter meetings? And how we failed to achieve victory? How come we didn't cross the Luxury Tax Threshold and push the budget to the maxz? [rips a desk apart] Then take every viable option on the market [shouts] signing by signing and nuke the payroll into the stone age forever?! Tell me why! How come? Say it! Say it!”

Same energy...

Remember when Mike Trout wouldn't re-sign with the Angels after the Angels underpaid him his 2nd season? Good times...

Is this sarcasm? I can't tell...

If can be signed for $4 mil with incentives with his track record for success just a couple of years ago while other teams are desperate for pitching, what does that tell you about the confidence in Wood's ability to make through a season healthy? I wouldn't minded signing Wood at all for $5-$9 million for one season to take a shot but it's clear, with Ohtani, Heaney, and Canning all with recent injury issues, he prioritizing predictability and stability in the rotation versus potential upside on an injury-plague player.

Pretty sure Eppler is still allowed to make moves past January 13th...

Cole took the most money ever offered to a pitcher to play for the Yankees. Strasburg was offered 7 years, at age 32, and a shit-ton of money by the team he just won a World Series, who also still has Corbin and Scherzer, to come back. Wheeler took less money to stay back east with family. Bumgarner took less money to be with his horses in AZ. Ryu is awesome when he's not injured and got $80 million guaranteed for 4 years at age 33. Keuchel: Career 3.67 ERA 110 ERA+ 1.260 WHIP vs Teheren Career 3.67 ERA 110 ERA+ 1.211 WHIP and 3 years younger...why would you pay $46.5 million more for Keuchel? After Strasburg set the market and the Yankees made money no object in regards to Cole, that was pretty much it for the ace-level starters. After that, every other option was problematic for one reason or another. This is reality of things.

Okay? I'm sure it's not enough suit Eppler or Moreno either which is why he's not done but the idea is to improve the team which he's done to this point.

The pitching is not a "mess" and it is a lot better than 2016-2019. 2016: Weaver was in his death throws at 5.06 ERA 178 IP, Shoemaker put a quality 3.88 ERA 103 ERA+ in 160 IP while the rest were at or near 100 IP 2017: Ricky Nolasco was bad (4.92 ERA 86 ERA+) in 181 IP, J.C. Ramirez was decent (ERA 102 ERA+) in 147 IP. Jesse Chavez was bad, and Parker Bridwell peaked (3.64 ERA 117 ERA+) in 121 IP, never to be repeated again. 2018: Heaney showed flashes of his 3 starter ability (4.15 ERA 101 ERA+) at times in 181 IP, Barria surprised in (3.41 ERA 123 ERA+) in 129.1 IP monitored innings, while Skaggs started fast but fell apart...everyone else was under 100 IP 2019: Complete disaster This is best rotation we've had since 2015. You have two durable starters at least (Bundy and Teheren) another with recent enough success (Heaney) and young, legit starters with upside (Ohtani, Canning, Sandoval and Barria). It could be better but this is the best it has been in a while.

All these "project" signings are what Eppler did before what had no internal options, was building his barren farm, dealt with a ridiculous amount of elbow injuries and did not have the financial flexibility to make an impact signing. So we got Tim Lincecum and Alex Meyer and Jesse Chavez and Parker Bridwell and Trevor Cahill and Matt Harvey and converted guys like J.C Ramirez and Felix Pena to starting to fill in the gaps and they gave us the mixed results that you'd expect and people bitched about the fact that we take on these projects to begin with. So, Eppler signs/trades for two pitchers with a recent history of health and durability who happen to be under the age of 30 to support talented but recovering pitchers like Ohtani and Heaney and talented but young starters like Canning, Sandoval, and Suarez and next thought is "Man, I really wish we could inject a little more uncertainty into this by signing a couple of injury-related question marks like Walker or Wood?

Are you talking before signing in 2019, because Cahill missed 10 starts due to an Achilles injury and Harvey missed most of 2016 and 2017 with surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome and a fractured scapula respectively and, as of 2018, was still a project dealing with mechanical issues. Or after signing in 2019 when Harvey went on the DL before being released and Cahill continued his streak of not getting near 150 IP for the 6th season in a row.

Eppler, who for 4 seasons has seen his pitching rotations ravaged by injuries, didn't want to sign an injury-prone Wood who was only healthy enough to make 7 shitty starts last season? Weird...

Look, the GM job is never "done"...even when he trades or signs a new starting pitcher, he's going to continue to work the waiver wire, continue to discuss deals with other GM's, etc "Best laid plans" and all but one or two injuries (Andrew McCutchen comes to mind) can come up at the most unusual time and throw the entire process for a loop.

It's January 10th so...no?

Not sure why he'd know anything internal about the organization at this point...he sounds like a bitterman