Right now he’s scheduled to pitch one of the three games next week at NYY. I’m not done with Povich for the year, but we could roll with McDermott that game. Or we could do a bullpen game.
Keep in mind how big that the Yankees series is. We’re 5-2 H2H vs them this year. That would be the tie break after 162. As of now, Povich, Grayson, and Kremer are scheduled to start against Cole, Gil, and Rodon. I think we need some rotation shuffling. We should try and get it Burnes, Grayson, then bullpen game.
The advantage to optioning Povich today is that we can get a fresh arm up here.
Do we have a pitcher on the West Coast that we could even activate for today’s game if we optioned Povich?
The idea of Chris Getz taking this down to the deadline holding out doesn’t sound like something I want to hinge a game 3 SP on. There’s too much risk in a Crochet deal for Elias. Being the risk adverse Dude he is, I’m thinking we go the rental route and maybe trade 1-2 guys #4-#20 for us to get one of Scherzer or Kikuchi.
We all know that no world ever existed prior to last week. All players who had a bad game, a bad week, or a bad start to a career need to be released or traded immediately. /sarcasm/
I voted yes. Everyone loves the idea of trading a “vet”. Also, the board is more attached to Cowser than Kjerstad.
If you had made this Cowser instead of Kjerstad it would be 25/75 Yes/No.
@Sports Guy I like the idea of trading Mounty. He’s been a .700 OPS guy since April.
Overall, I feel like Detroit wouldn’t do this trade. To get Skubal we’d probably have to give away one of the big 3 or do something like a 5-1 with Kjerstad, EBJ, and then our top 3 pitching prospects. McDermott, DeLeon, and Baumeister.
Burnes is a top level Ace. Grayson is a top level 2. Suarez is a top level 3 with a sub 3 ERA.
Yeah there is a drop of our backend of our rotation. Every team in baseball has that. You only need 3 SP in the playoffs.
Kremer, and one of Povich/McDermott/Irvin will be just fine in the regular season.
I agree. That’s what I was getting at. Even if you think McDermott becomes a high leverage reliever he shouldn’t be the sticking point in a deal for Skubal.
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