2016 Offseason Redo

[backwardsk]

1. Trumbo trade good insurance for Davis, made sense I'd do it since you gave up nothing;

2. Sign Davis for less;

3. Do not sign Alvarez, Kim, or Gallardo, but sign Zimmerman (which is what I advocated at the time);

4. sign O'Day as that was good sign;

5. Work hard to lock up Manny;

6. Do not offer QA to Wieters (Disclaimer: At the time I assumed he would turn it down also, so I can't get on DD about that)

7. Sign Fowler

Got to hope Zimmermann's MRI goes well.

[backwardsk]

1. Sign Chris Carter to DH

2. Trade for Adam Lind to play 1B

3. Keep Miguel Gonzalez if he passed the physical

4. Take a look at any FA's who didn't require compensation (Happ/Kazmir/Cespedes)

5. Not resigned O'Day or Davis. No compensation offer for Wieters

6. Not traded Clevenger for Trumbo

7. Not signed Gallardo

8. Re-signed Steve Pearce to play LF/1B

With the benefit of hindsight, you'd rather have Clevenger, Pearce, Carter, Lind (and comp pick) over Trumbo, Davis, and Wieters?

Lind has an 64 OPS+ and has been on base 30 times. Davis has walked 25 times.

With no clear improvements to the pitching, that's way too much offense to give up, IMO.

[Bahama O's Fan]

1. Sign Chris Carter to DH

2. Trade for Adam Lind to play 1B

3. Keep Miguel Gonzalez if he passed the physical

4. Take a look at any FA's who didn't require compensation (Happ/Kazmir/Cespedes)

5. Not resigned O'Day or Davis. No compensation offer for Wieters

6. Not traded Clevenger for Trumbo

7. Not signed Gallardo

8. Re-signed Steve Pearce to play LF/1B

How can anyone not LOVE the Clevenger for Trumbo deal? An absolute steal and probably some of Dan's best work.

[25 Nuggets]

At the start of the offseason I wanted three major moves:

a) resign Davis

b) sign Jordan Zimmerman

c) extend Machado

Everything else was small potatoes. I didn't know the budget would increase as much as it did however. What would I do with the benefit of hindsight?

1) Trumbo. Yeah. Definitely. DH him.

2) Wieters. No. Spend that $$ elsewhere. Sign Geovany Soto (1 yr, $3 mil) to share with Caleb Joseph as a bridge to Chance Sisco.

3) Davis. I wanted him anyway, so yes.

4) O'Day. With the increased budget, happily so.

5) Rickard. Was looking at other Rule 5 possibilities but no complaints. Correct position to draft.

6) Kim. No -- would have signed Matt Joyce for LF. Minimum.

7) Alvarez. No -- Trumbo would be the primary DH with Joyce second.

8) Gallardo. NO. Mat Latos can do just as well for much less (1 yr, $4 mil to beat the Chi-Sox)

9) Gonzalez. Would have non-tendered him before spring training.

So, that's about $23 mil saved I think between Wieters, Kim, Gallardo, Gonzalez and their replacements. Brian Matusz would be an additional $4 mil gone. With that theoretical money, I outbid the Mets and their 3 year deal for Yoenis Cespedes, RF and keep all the draft picks.

So endeth the dream.

[Bahama O's Fan]

At the start of the offseason I wanted three major moves:

a) resign Davis

b) sign Jordan Zimmerman

c) extend Machado

Everything else was small potatoes. I didn't know the budget would increase as much as it did however. What would I do with the benefit of hindsight?

1) Trumbo. Yeah. Definitely. DH him.

2) Wieters. No. Spend that $$ elsewhere. Sign Geovany Soto (1 yr, $3 mil) to share with Caleb Joseph as a bridge to Chance Sisco.

3) Davis. I wanted him anyway, so yes.

4) O'Day. With the increased budget, happily so.

5) Rickard. Was looking at other Rule 5 possibilities but no complaints. Correct position to draft.

6) Kim. No -- would have signed Matt Joyce for LF. Minimum.

7) Alvarez. No -- Trumbo would be the primary DH with Joyce second.

8) Gallardo. NO. Mat Latos can do just as well for much less (1 yr, $4 mil to beat the Chi-Sox)

9) Gonzalez. Would have non-tendered him before spring training.

So, that's about $23 mil saved I think between Wieters, Kim, Gallardo, Gonzalez and their replacements. Brian Matusz would be an additional $4 mil gone. With that theoretical money, I outbid the Mets and their 3 year deal for Yoenis Cespedes, RF and keep all the draft picks.

So endeth the dream.

I like that one. I wanted Cespedes as well. No comp pick. The only player in our budget I wanted to give a pick up for was Heyward.

[weams]

If we are pretending PA isn't owner, then the best chance would have been Upton. How does that look now?

That needs another thread. This one plays by the rules in place. And the other one when someone makes it will be put in the fantasy forum.

[Going Underground]

I wanted Fister and Leake . Also said would take a chance on Desmond since we already lost the # 1 for Gallarod and the Fowler debacle.

[monarchO]

I think signing Fowler instead of Pedro is he only thing reasonable.maybe try to lock down Manny or offer Davis less.

[El Gordo]

I think signing Fowler instead of Pedro is he only thing reasonable.maybe try to lock down Manny or offer Davis less.

The problem with most of these redo's is many would require opt outs and PA's rules don't allow that.

[sportsfan8703]

Would of liked to see the O's have made a play for Pearce. Still not sure why DD seemed to push Pearce into the Chen tier of "Thanks for your time, but time to move on..." list of FAs at the beginning of last winter.

Pearce plays all over the diamond and has great pop for a bench bat. Don't look now but he's batting over .300 with 7 HR. And more importantly, he's walking more.

Probably could of had him for Kim's contract (2 yrs/7 mln)

Maybe, but Fowler was in the mix too. Plus we're pretty set on COF's. I'll root for Pearce. Not too hard this season if TB makes a run. Remember the more he plays the more his wrists flare up. Dude could never stay healthy over a season for us.

[DrungoHazewood]

The only one you could criticize him for is Gallardo.

Yea, I still don't get the interest in Gallardo. Before he was hurt. Then after the failed the physical I'd have just walked away. Again. Just take the PR hit, who cares if people are up in arms about not signing a bad pitcher?

I think you can also question $160M for Davis. Someone might have been able to sign him for 75% of that (although the deferred money makes the real value more like 75% anyway). Not me, but someone. It's nearly a guarantee that the Orioles will have $50M+ in dead money from lost years in that deal.

[weams]

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