If the Dodgers were to become sellers in July...

What would you do as GM?

I'm not writing off the Dodgers this season. I'm just curious what you guys would do as GM if...for whatever reason... everything went wrong and there was the intriguing idea of being sellers.

This just out of curiosity and intrigue.

I don't think there is much to sell though because we don't have a lot of in-prime starting players who would be sought after.

Might be impossible to be sellers haha.

 

delete this

 

Why? It's a fun hypothetical in my opinion. Forget that the Dodgers lost 5 in a row. Don't take it as a reaction to a losing streak. This can be posted amidst a winning streak for all I care.

I really want to hear what people would do with this team in a seller position.

Hypothetical

I guess a better way to put it would be...if we were a buyer/seller hybrid. What direction would you guys take the team?

 

What do we have to sell? I guess what I mean is that we did not sign Grienke, Price, Cueto, any big time hitter. We have marched out offensively the same team plus Puig, Seager and Joc.

All we have is middle talent players and prospects.

So WHAT can we sell? Prospects for big time players? That's pretty much it right? Do you sell Kershaw? And get what?

The FO has painted us into a corner....where the only solution to to pray on blended knee that our prospects pan out in enough time to still take advantage of whatever years we have left with Kershaw and Adrian.

We are basically stuck.

 

Yep, it's a weird spot.

Since we have the top farm system and a fringe playoff team right now...we're in a weird window where we basically can't do anything.

 

fair enough

as for the exercise, idk they can't really tear it down at this point so idk (sans trading Kershaw and no) I guess Puig has value but you know I like Puig alot so whatever

 

My follow-up question would be...how far would these moves set the Dodgers back in terms of competing for a world series?
And would it be worth it?

Probably not now that I think of it. I guess it depends on the FA market, among other things.

I was just thinking about how the Red Sox won that 2013 World series in between two terrible seasons. Shipping off some guys, etc. Not the same situation as the Dodgers, and I don't aspire to be where the Red Sox are. But just saying that's what got me thinking.

How teams see windows, break it all down, and quickly bring it back up.

Dodgers are in such a weird spot lol

 

Nerds are not as smart as they think they are. MISPLACED small market band aid mentality. Even McCourt knew it and shit canned the king of computers. Fuck these guys they'll just strip it down to save GuGGs $$$$$$$. We as fans mean dick.

 

With the second wildcard, the bar for being a seller is lower than ever before. We are a big market team, so the bar is even lower for us. Basically, unless our team is completely phillied then we are never going to be sellers.

Hypothetically:

Utley is the one guy that jumps out as a sell piece.

Puig... maybe. Puig could actually be a trade candidate if we are buyers or sellers. It just depends on how the FO views him going forward.

Teams become so desperate for arms at the deadline that we could potentially sell any healthy starting pitcher to clear out some salary: Kazmir, Wood (maybe?), Anderson*, Ryu*

* if healthy

After that our players are either too crappy or too young. AGon is still under contract, and with no obvious minor league replacement I don't think he's a piece you move either.

 

Ryu can't be traded he has the same clause as Kershaw.

They'd trade Utley and maybe Turner. It wouldn't set them back more than a few months but they're also not gonna get much back for those guys.

 

Na

Naa

Nahh

NOT gonna happen.

Pointless thread, delete it.

 

So just because you don't like it, delete it? Maybe I like hypothetical scenarios. So my thoughts are pointless. I'll keep that in mind.

 

Not all your thoughts are pointless.


Just this one.

 

All good, man. My humble mistake and apologies.