Castillo Conundrum

[GL_Storm]

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Agree. I also don't see him being moved to the pen and obviously they aren't going ask him to fake an injury like the idiots X suggest thinking they have come up with some brilliant idea. lol

Now would be a good time for Castillo to unveil a new pitch but then I'm just some dude on the internet that doesn't know anything.

Is 4 days enough time to create develop and unveil a new pitch?

It isn't really possible for us to know these things. I assume that Castillo, the catchers, and the coaching staff are all aware there's a problem and have been trying to figure something out for some time. Given his issues last year, it bothered me that there was no new pitch coming out of spring training. That was a red flag for me. But maybe they've been working on something.

[Seattle or Bust]

They can't trade him and they won't simply eat the money remaining on his contract. That just isn't going to happen. So I think he probably stays in the rotation for now and they keep working with him, trying to figure out a way to make him more effective.

I don't agree.

If the M's ate $24.5M of the remaining $49M (and no team is letting him pitching 180 innings to let his option vest for '28)... you're telling me there wouldn't be a team willing to take him on as a no. 5 starter making $12M a year?

In today's game... there's a lot of teams that could use a guy who can get them 150+ innings of 4-5 ERA ball.

It certainly wouldn't net us anything... but Nolan Arenado was traded this off season for Christ sakes...

[GL_Storm]

They can't trade him and they won't simply eat the money remaining on his contract. That just isn't going to happen. So I think he probably stays in the rotation for now and they keep working with him, trying to figure out a way to make him more effective.

I don't agree.

If the M's ate $24.5M of the remaining $49M (and no team is letting him pitching 180 innings to let his option vest for '28)... you're telling me there wouldn't be a team willing to take him on as a no. 5 starter making $12M a year?

In today's game... there's a lot of teams that could use a guy who can get them 150+ innings of 4-5 ERA ball.

It certainly wouldn't net us anything... but Nolan Arenado was traded this off season for Christ sakes...

I don't think we'll ever see this organization eat that much of a contract. I'm also not sure it would be enough. My take is that their best chance of moving him has to start with rehabilitating his viability as a starting pitcher in the major leagues. If you can make that happen and teams can see that he's actually useful, then maybe at that point you can start swapping numbers and see what makes sense.

[D-train]

They can't trade him and they won't simply eat the money remaining on his contract. That just isn't going to happen. So I think he probably stays in the rotation for now and they keep working with him, trying to figure out a way to make him more effective.

I don't agree.

If the M's ate $24.5M of the remaining $49M (and no team is letting him pitching 180 innings to let his option vest for '28)... you're telling me there wouldn't be a team willing to take him on as a no. 5 starter making $12M a year?

In today's game... there's a lot of teams that could use a guy who can get them 150+ innings of 4-5 ERA ball.

It certainly wouldn't net us anything... but Nolan Arenado was traded this off season for Christ sakes...

Nolan is having a good season so far: .284/.787 0.8 bWAR 4 WAR pace.

[D-train]

I don't think there's much chance they do anything about Castillo given his salary. He'd have to tank pretty hard to get pulled from the rotation imo.

They're going to run into self-imposed "inning issues" with Hancock, so I'd stack Hancock and Miller as the fifth starter. Consider it a bullpen rest day for the most part.

Personally I think, if you're going to do it, that limiting innings by going 5 per week is preferable to going 6+ and getting shut down in August.

Give Hancock 5 innings, pull him early and use a reliever through the 5th inning as needed. But let Miller come out fresh in the 6th as if he's a starter there to throw a complete game. Even if he actually only gets 3-4 innings the first month or two until the rotation sorts itself out and he builds arm strength.

I'd be hoping Castillo can build some trade value by July, but them trading him in the middle of a contending season is pretty unlikely. Even if we'd probably be better off without him..

Bouncing your idea off of my guys on X and positive feedback so far. Only issue is it makes to much sense for them to do it. lol