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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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Gausman and Tillman could be good starters this season.

Gallardo is a wildcard right now. Historically a good starter, not looking like much of one so far.

Does shields make a difference? Not sure, but with our offense........he might.

Do you want to take on that contract for a might?

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DrungoHazewood Hangout Grand Counsel

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Do you want to take on that contract for a might?

We're looooong past caring about fitting everything under Angelos' hard cap! It's Mike Ilitch time, burn it all for tomorrow may never come! I'm not even really kidding, if you can go 7/160 on Davis what's 3/56 for Shields? So we don't get to parade down Pratt St. with the Marginal Dollar per Marginal Win Trophy... big deal.

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We're looooong past caring about fitting everything under Angelos' hard cap! It's Mike Ilitch time, burn it all for tomorrow may never come! I'm not even really kidding, if you can go 7/160 on Davis what's 3/56 for Shields? So we don't get to parade down Pratt St. with the Marginal Dollar per Marginal Win Trophy... big deal.

I'm thinking when this spending spree results in an under .500 team Angelos starts getting thrifty again real fast. Immovable contracts on the books will be a big issue.

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I'm thinking when this spending spree results in an under .500 team Angelos starts getting thrifty again real fast. Immovable contracts on the books will be a big issue.

They're already going to be a big issue. If you're paying Davis $20M for his age 35 season where he gives you 89 games of .189/.280/.440, and $25-30M for Gallardo and Hardy to sit on the DL it's not going to be James Shields that's keeping us out of the playoffs. Spend all of it!

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Hardy and Davis. Perhaps Shields, O'Day. What is left on the Gallardo and Ubaldo deals.
Hardy has what 2 years left, hardly an albatross especially if he hits. Two years for Ubaldo and Gallardo? This is a stretch. Only Davis has a contract I would call difficult to move but if you paid the differed money and he doesn't hit like 2014 he could be traded.
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Hardy has what 2 years left, hardly an albatross especially if he hits. Two years for Ubaldo and Gallardo? This is a stretch. Only Davis has a contract I would call difficult to move but if you paid the differed money and he doesn't hit like 2014 he could be traded.

Two years of bad contracts on a losing club is rather not good. It pushes back the rebuild.

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Two years of bad contracts on a losing club is rather not good. It pushes back the rebuild.
Baloney. And who says it's a losing club, the games haven't started counting yet. The rebuild won't start before 2019 and most of your immovable contracts will be gone by then.
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Baloney. And who says it's a losing club, the games haven't started counting yet. The rebuild won't start before 2019 and most of your immovable contracts will be gone by then.

The discussion I was having was predicated on the team losing this season after acquiring Shields.

Maybe you should have read more closely before you joined the conversation?

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