NEWS/RUMORS/AROUND MLB Thread

Urias and Verdugo are both no go's for me for anyone rumored to be on the market(this includes Sale). Read a scouting report yesterday where they felt Verdugo is potentially already big league ready and at the very least should be in OKC now. I've said it before and I'll say it again, his skill set is the perfect compliment to Seager. Two high OBP/AVG guys with power and 5+ years of control each is a hard thing to look over. Those two should be the cornerstone's for our offense going forward. Not to mention, with Joc's struggles to refine his mechanics and Puig's ups/downs, you can't trade your closest to being ready Top OF prospect.

I would trade anyone else for Sale, but nothing insanely drastic where we are demolishing our top 10 prospect spots

Archer, probably look at Holmes, Barnes and some guys in the 10-20 spots. Bellinger, Alvarez, JDL and Calhoun are no go's for me as currently, I'm not impressed with Archer.

Nobody on the market is currently worth overpaying for. The Rays guys are all looking like #2's or 3's and that's not worth JDL who could be that as soon as next season. Since none of those guys are playing up to expectations, then you can deal a guy who has high upside, but is not there yet (Holmes). You don't get someone that is knocking down the door at the big league level(JDL) when the guy you are giving up is performing worse than the prospects projections.

 

I'm thinking the Giants come up with one of Chapman, Miller, Colome or Vizcaino.

 

If they nail Chapman or Miller...they skate into NLW winner.
Dont know who they give up, but for this year, they will be the serious fat cats.

 

I don't think they get Chapman or Miller. It honestly would probably cost them from their MLB stock in order to outbid either us or the Cubs, and even then... still pretty meh chance. They would probably have to call and say "you can have Arroyo and Bickford" and then the Yankees would think about a deal.

 

Can't let that happen, especially if we also need a solid 8th inning guy and another SP too.

Question is as always, the cost.

But it always seems other teams are asking more of the Dodgers than they have for other teams.

 

I guess that comes with billions and depth.

 

Makes more sense than for the FUCKTARDS to overpay in 'spects for another "underachiever with upside".

The ironic twist would be for them to actually trade someone of value for Chapman, since they had him already. The Yankees have $$$$ so simply taking him off their books won't be nearly enough. I also wonder how real the whole Kenley's fragile psyche thing was, since Miller is also out there?

 

TBH, the Giants put themselves in great position, season after season, in recent history. Sure, they would like to go for it all again...but really, if a team wins three out of the last five WS, is there actually a sense of urgency? You would really, as much as it is horrendous to contemplate, have to consider them one of the best teams ever *choke*, if they were to win again...like the Yankees back in the day.
But, with a clever pick up ( which is not too rare for them, let's face it), they could do it. Scumbags.
I think in light of 1988 as the last time we raised the banner,u nresonable to think we are the ones with the sense of urgency here...but if we half step and hold on to this one and that one instead, we will all be back to the "future looks bright" drone for another go round...exciting to some, a yawning bore of repetition to others.
We'll see...
and the beat goes on...

 

I think you might be over valuing our prospects. Until they prove it at the MLB level they are just prospects. Lets take a remeber back while.....say mid 2000. Brandon Wood was the Angels top rated prospect for 3 years and in 2005 was ranked by Baseball America as the #3 prospect. How about Joel Guzman.....ranked as the Dodger #1 prospect in 2004, ranked by Baseball America as the #5 prospect. Both of those guys never lived up to the hype. So I would rather trade potential talent for current talent. That being said I have no problem sending JDL for Archer.

 

Not sure if I am following your logic. If Urias is better than JDL and he is sporting a 4.69 era then what makes you think JDL is going to do better?

Yeah Archer's era is crap right now.......that is why the Dodgers are thinking about trying to pry him away from the Rays now.....cuz his value is low. Yeah it is a gamble, but IF Dodger MGT trades for him they are gambling that he will revert back to his 2012-2015 stats.

 

I just don't want to see another Fat Latos type signing. This is what worries me about Archer....worst case scenario, we get Archer and turns into another Latos but at a steeper price.

 

No rumors?

 

Not necessarily a bad thing.

 

I get that nobody wants to see a deal go south, but that's a risk in any deal. I assume you brought up Latos as just an example of a deal gone bad for us, but as far as a direct comparison between Archer and Latos there are literally too many differences to count between the two.