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Rene88 Hangout Grand Counsel

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We just bought one he's in AAA dominating.

Also-I have posted this several times but nobody seems to take it seriously: Oliver Drake has dominant reverse splits. He holds lefties to like a .120 average. Why do we need a leftie specialist when we have Cebral, Wright, McFarland and Drake?

The fact Matusz is still here is a joke.

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I don't know if we're buyers or sellers, but I'd love to get another Joe Gunkel type. We have a numbers game that I think is between Young and Lough. I'd prefer to keep Lough, but I'd trade Lough for another Gunkel. I think it's important to keep both Pierce and Snider.

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I don't know if we're buyers or sellers, but I'd love to get another Joe Gunkel type. We have a numbers game that I think is between Young and Lough. I'd prefer to keep Lough, but I'd trade Lough for another Gunkel. I think it's important to keep both Pierce and Snider.

Its not going to be between Young and Lough, Young is not plus defender and can't play CF.

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If we added one of a Kershaw, Gordon, or Stanton. We'd be in business. If we added all three we'd never lose. But we can't afford any of these so we'll have to make do with spare parts.

LOL-that's pretty funny.

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Duquette on acquistion cited Miller's strikeout ability specifically last year, I imagine this year's strategy is similar.

It's blunt, but you can probably make a reasonable preference list just looking at reliever K/9 among possible sellers.

Today I'd say that's BOS, CHW, OAK, MIA, PHI, CIN, MIL, COL, SD, ARZ, and list would be:

15.7 Chapman/CIN

13.3 Kimbrel/SD

13.3 Putnam/CHW

11.8 Smith/MIL

11.2 Logan/COL

10.5 Papelbon/PHI

10.3 Perez/ARZ

10.2 Uehara/BOS - last year's partner, Koji didn't burn any bridges

9.8 Scribner/OAK

9.8 K-Rod/MIL - been there, done that, won't be rerun

9.3 DeFratus/PHI

8.6 Clippard/OAK

8.6 Tazawa/BOS

8.5 Dunn/MIA

8.4 Duke/CWS

8.0 Benoit/SD

If manager shift sparks Padres, Kimbrel will come off market but he might be in mix with Chapman if the team continues to scuffle.

Those two are the obvious top tier.

Beyond this year, Kimbrel signed for 2/25. Chapman has Arb3 club control next season and figures to set RP arb records.

That's the market I see us in. We can't afford much 2.50 FIP and what we can we aim to have in the late innings.

Smith from MIL would be a very nice little steal as he wouldn't cost that much.

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Valid point - though I'm not sure Jones is going to get another day off for the rest of the season.

Nope, you want to see AJ stay healthy all season. If I was Buck, I might be tempted to DH AJ and let Lough play another game in CF. Mainly, I really want AJ back and 100%, he had a couple of nicks going on and glad it wasn't worse.

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Also-I have posted this several times but nobody seems to take it seriously: Oliver Drake has dominant reverse splits. He holds lefties to like a .120 average. Why do we need a leftie specialist when we have Cebral, Wright, McFarland and Drake?

The fact Matusz is still here is a joke.

Lefities are hitting .184/.244/.263 off him and he has a 14/2 KK/BB ratio.

Matusz is doing his job as a LOOGY just fine.

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