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11 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

It appears DD did nothing of significance which means he and or the ownership think they are contenders. I can understand not selling low on Britton (I don't know what they were being offered), but not moving Brach, Smith, Castillo or O'day (if he could) is inexcusable.

Oh well. I am not surprised.  Not too much done by the FO makes any sense. 

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2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

How attractive does the offer have to be for someone like Smith?

Pulse, check.

Pay Smith's salary, check.

Deal.

I don't know of any interest in Smith. But if you want to blame Duquette for not giving him away, and not saving all or part of his $2.5 million or so, that's a more reasonable criticism. 

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4 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Going for it in 2018. All the signs were pointing that way. Not a prospect although he was pitching great. We needed to do something about JJ and this fills the hole. Helps us now if we make a crazy run, and will definitely help next year. Tobias was not a prospect and we stink at developing pitchers, so I like this deal!

To be honest it remains to be seen what happens to Toby.  He's 18 and is sporting a 10.8 K/9 with a 5.83 K/BB rate at Aberdeen where he's younger than the competition by about 3.5 years.  He's an actual ballplayer in my opinion, albeit a young and raw one.

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Just now, tntoriole said:

164 pages on this thread and we get Jeremy Hellickson and Yefry Ramirez.   This is about the usual ratio every season and every offseason of pages written and actual results obtained by DD. 

And Tim Beckham 

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Just now, tntoriole said:

164 pages on this thread and we get Jeremy Hellickson and Yefry Ramirez.   This is about the usual ratio every season and every offseason of pages written and actual results obtained by DD. 

...and Bend it like Beckam, who I'm assuming will be our starting SS in 2018 after we let Hardy walk. 

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