Bringing our Ace home my 3 point offseason plan

[D-train]

Baseball America has Naylor at 6 x $20M

[D-train]

I think we need to improve in all 3 phases of the game and here is my dreaming big plan with a dash of reality mixed in.

1st. My plan relies on improving our rotation by adding a legit Ace (Skubal)

2. Adding to at least 1 improvement to the BP to start the year.
I have a bit of a thought that you will see some improvement from the BP with-in:
But you start with Munoz, Brash, Buzzardo, and Speier. That is a solid top 4 but just like Buzzardo improved you could see the step up comes from guys like: Vargas, Emerson Hancock, Kowar, Lego, and a return to health of Gregory Santos.

3. We definitely need to improve the lineup over hate it was over the beginning of the year: last year we had injuries to Raley, Polanco, and Robles. And so you gotta have alternatives should you have a guy or two be unavailable. But My aim is to start out the year as approximately = to out post trade position player stack.

1st go get Seattle U’s own T. Skubal. He is a high Velocity lefty stud that we have not seen the likes of since Randy. He’s valued at 51 Mill on MLBTC So something like Anderson 30M, Miller 11M, Jurangelo 16M is the package for arguments sake. There are plenty of packages that could be made but that is what I would think would be a compelling one.

2nd re-up with Jorge and Josh Nails. Josh has been a 2-WAR player and I think we could get them both on 2-3 years deals at 14 to 19 Mil

3rd: 3rd Base :: We could do Donavan, or do Geno, but just to have a different long time target. DC’s CJ Abrams 26M Trade calc: he has averaged about 38 Sb, 19 HR, 3.4 BWAR, 31 doubles 6 triples the last 3 years and in the last 2 he has been a 110 OPS+ guy. My thoughts here are he is the JP replacement, or just a superior range 3B kinda like a Matt Chapman type 3B. He has only played into his age 24 season and we would get 3 years. My headliner would be Farmelo 20M, Tai Pete 6M, Teddy M 2.5, Josh Caron 1.5M and a comp pick or similar value. Maybe you throw in like a comp Rd. Pick probably 3-6M in value just to give them the win. With CJ you get a younger potential super star and a possible JP replacement. For now you improve your range over a guy like Geno, you improve on the bases and you get decent power.

4th. Improve the BP. 1 of 2 ways improve on LHBP which is bettering over Fergy. It would be a lot more pricey to improve from the right handed side which has about 8 guys that can push it 97-98+ and has at least 1 other +, if not ++ pitch or two. FA options include Gregory Santos who has high velocity in his history like 102 FB with a 95 MPH slider but had an injury last year and a velocity dip. There are some other decent guys in FA but he has a 100 ERA+ career but Seattle could be particularly appealing to him since our home park limits walks and hits better than any other park and those appear to be his weakness. He has a K-RATE of 9-11+ /9 and limits HR. I don’t know what a 30 year-old lefty with elite velocity but average results fetches? In the absolute best landing spot for him I say a 1 year 3 M with an 6M dollar club option.

Yeah I am sure the Nats are dying to trade their 2nd best player who just turned 25 yo, is making minimum wage and isn't an FA until 2029. Throwing is a bit of logic would make your plan more credible. lol

[D-train]

Any trade for Tarik has to come with an extension otherwise no deal. That's what makes that complicated. Seattle has shown they'd spend especially on pitchers. The CJ one is new. It's tough because you wanna go young the thing is you don't know how good these young guys can be, especially Emerson & Farmelo. It's easy to say trade for a CJ type. I think hopefully getting Santos back will help a bit. Still might wanna look at the reliever route, especially another lefty out of the pen. If you really wanna be ballsy instead of targeting a guy like Skubal who has Boras as his agent. Any dude is available for the right price. I know I've mentioned this before. What are the odds a team A) trades the farm for 1 season of Skubal & B) has the ability to re-sign him long term. Instead of going that route which we all want, why not go after a guy we know is not gonna re-sign with his current team in Skenes. I mean you can pretty much book it. In the last 10-15 years how many of their best players have they extended. We all know for a fact their not gonna re-sign Skenes so why not put together the best package possible & make Pittsburgh an offer they can't refuse. Like seriously. We have the most depth out of anybody.

That's not how it works in MLB. As a Boras client he is going to FA. At least we would get a comp pick though.

[GL_Storm]

Baseball America has Naylor at 6 x $20M

Yeah, there's no way the M's do that.

[tehmc]

Baseball America has Naylor at 6 x $20M

Yeah, there's no way the M's do that.

Honestly Naylor at 6 years $120mil doesn't sound that bad to me, I would prefer to go 4 with a higher AAV though

[GL_Storm]

Baseball America has Naylor at 6 x $20M

Yeah, there's no way the M's do that.

Honestly Naylor at 6 years $120mil doesn't sound that bad to me, I would prefer to go 4 with a higher AAV though

I'll be shocked if he gets anything close to that. I like the player, but he's one of the worst athletes in the major leagues. I guess it could happen though.

[D-train]

Yeah, there's no way the M's do that.

Honestly Naylor at 6 years $120mil doesn't sound that bad to me, I would prefer to go 4 with a higher AAV though

I'll be shocked if he gets anything close to that. I like the player, but he's one of the worst athletes in the major leagues. I guess it could happen though.

8 WAR in 7 season's and I like him too but that is insane.

[Pharmabro]

I think we need to improve in all 3 phases of the game and here is my dreaming big plan with a dash of reality mixed in.

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3rd: 3rd Base :: We could do Donavan, or do Geno, but just to have a different long time target. DC’s CJ Abrams 26M Trade calc: he has averaged about 38 Sb, 19 HR, 3.4 BWAR, 31 doubles 6 triples the last 3 years and in the last 2 he has been a 110 OPS+ guy. My thoughts here are he is the JP replacement, or just a superior range 3B kinda like a Matt Chapman type 3B. He has only played into his age 24 season and we would get 3 years. My headliner would be Farmelo 20M, Tai Pete 6M, Teddy M 2.5, Josh Caron 1.5M and a comp pick or similar value. Maybe you throw in like a comp Rd. Pick probably 3-6M in value just to give them the win. With CJ you get a younger potential super star and a possible JP replacement. For now you improve your range over a guy like Geno, you improve on the bases and you get decent power.

In 602 professional games, CJ Abrams has never played third base.

At shortstop, the 25-year-old Abrams has ranked near the bottom defensively, including range:

https://archive.fieldingbible.com/DRSLeaderboard

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major ... &pagenum=1

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major ... &pagenum=1 :

This season Statcast gave Abrams a negative 8 in range at shortstop while assigning Eugenio Suarez a negative 3 in range at third base.

Can Abrams roam the outfield (where he's played 30 innings in his professional career)? Is his projected salary of $5.6 million too much for a designated hitter?

Plenty of SS move off SS for CF, 2B, 3B. ARod, Geno, Bregmann, Chapman. He’d be a + defender at 3B. And the tools are there to place that clay in the capable hands of “Perry Bone Hill” and let him mold that clay into a fine defender.

[Pharmabro]

Baseball America has Naylor at 6 x $20M

But yet he signed last year for 10.9M for a 1 year and he was coming off a 31 HR season vs barely knocking 20 HR this year and I am not betting on betting on his continued SB. He is a 2 WAR guy who plays well here and is a brain on the game guy who I love but not worth a break the bank deal.

[HawkandMariner88]

Baseball America has Naylor at 6 x $20M

But yet he signed last year for 10.9M for a 1 year and he was coming off a 31 HR season vs barely knocking 20 HR this year and I am not betting on betting on his continued SB. He is a 2 WAR guy who plays well here and is a brain on the game guy who I love but not worth a break the bank deal.

Lefty bat, smart savvy hitter. Gotta bet on somebody. We have no options at 1b.