An off-season plan based on Dipoto and Hollander's comments.

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I think George Springer is needed. He is a clutch player when playing and could help them as a RH bat vs.Lefties.

Would be just like us to pull a guy with one foot in retirement and put him in our lineup...

https://heavy.com/sports/mlb/toronto-bl ... eculation/

Dude is freakin 37 yo, 2 years older than Refsnyder and Pollack were and put up 0.6 WAR and a 99 OPS+

BUT HE IS RIGHT HANDED!!!! LOL

Sure, but if you noticed that while he did have a horrendous 1st half(still better than anything the M's had on the bench), in the 2nd half of the season he had a 120 OPS+ and this was not as hitter against lefties. Plus, he has actually hit in T-Mobile throughout his career at a 102+ clip in over 270+ PA's. On top of that, he has 384 postseason plate appearances in which he has been successful; don't you think it would be handy to have a player of that ilk helping the feeble-minded M's lineup? We all know Springer is a prick, but he is a winning prick, and aren't players like that better if they are your prick than the other team's prick?

Not concerned about his prickyness. Concerned about his ancientness. 37 is the new 47 vs. 10 years ago when guys played until they were 40...

[D-train]

In my opinion, they need to bring in at least 2 defensively capable middle infielders that have the ability to play 2B, 3B, and SS. They should be planning as if Colt Emerson spends the entire season in AAA, which is where he should have been playing this year. I fucking knew those assholes would call him up too early.

But yeah, go get two solid major league quality middle infielders. Leo Rivas and Ryan Bliss should not be a serious part of the conversation in spring training. Maybe this means Brendan Donovan gets pushed out. That's fine. You can trade him. He isn't as valuable as he was when you acquired him, but teams will still be interested in that skillset.

Totally agree regarding Colt. That is why the contract was so asinine. Again totally fucked themselves trying to be "Clever" to save a little bit of money in 7 years IF he becomes a very good player.