D-Trains Off season plan

[GL_Storm]

DT I just read an article on Yahoo that stated the 5 best fits for Mr. Bo Bichette & Seattle was on that list.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/marine ... 42276.html

Mariners — The offense needs one more true middle-order hitter, and the roster already runs on run prevention. With J.P. Crawford at short, Bichette at second is clean and immediately raises the OBP/contact floor in a lineup that leans boom-or-bust. MLB Insider J.P. Morosi explicitly called Seattle out as a fit if Bichette toggles to 2B.

I know he had the injury but outside the the dude flat out hits. How is he not a fit here. Is he worth the long term investment. Again they can't bank on all their prospects somethings gotta give. Clearly you know who your SS of the future is. 3rd remains a mystery but 2B could be right there in front of you. If your gonna spend any money on a hitter why not make it him. Clearly in his prime. Seems like his arm is more suited to a move to 2B. Huge upgrade there for Jerry & company.

They won't do it. Bichette will have a healthy market and the Mariners don't get into bidding wars on players. It's probably Cole Young at second base on opening day.

[D-train]

DT I just read an article on Yahoo that stated the 5 best fits for Mr. Bo Bichette & Seattle was on that list.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/marine ... 42276.html

Mariners — The offense needs one more true middle-order hitter, and the roster already runs on run prevention. With J.P. Crawford at short, Bichette at second is clean and immediately raises the OBP/contact floor in a lineup that leans boom-or-bust. MLB Insider J.P. Morosi explicitly called Seattle out as a fit if Bichette toggles to 2B.

I know he had the injury but outside the the dude flat out hits. How is he not a fit here. Is he worth the long term investment. Again they can't bank on all their prospects somethings gotta give. Clearly you know who your SS of the future is. 3rd remains a mystery but 2B could be right there in front of you. If your gonna spend any money on a hitter why not make it him. Clearly in his prime. Seems like his arm is more suited to a move to 2B. Huge upgrade there for Jerry & company.

The sad reality is that just because a player makes sense it has no impact on the chances of us signing him or trading for him unless we can get him for cheap and $200M might as well be $200 trillion. That is what it is until we have new ownership.

In an article published on Friday, Finkelstein projected an eight-year, $208 million contract for Bichette and had him landing with the Detroit Tigers, who had some of the worst infield production of any teams in the sport this year, especially playoff contenders.

[D-train]

DT I just read an article on Yahoo that stated the 5 best fits for Mr. Bo Bichette & Seattle was on that list.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/marine ... 42276.html

Mariners — The offense needs one more true middle-order hitter, and the roster already runs on run prevention. With J.P. Crawford at short, Bichette at second is clean and immediately raises the OBP/contact floor in a lineup that leans boom-or-bust. MLB Insider J.P. Morosi explicitly called Seattle out as a fit if Bichette toggles to 2B.

I know he had the injury but outside the the dude flat out hits. How is he not a fit here. Is he worth the long term investment. Again they can't bank on all their prospects somethings gotta give. Clearly you know who your SS of the future is. 3rd remains a mystery but 2B could be right there in front of you. If your gonna spend any money on a hitter why not make it him. Clearly in his prime. Seems like his arm is more suited to a move to 2B. Huge upgrade there for Jerry & company.

They won't do it. Bichette will have a healthy market and the Mariners don't get into bidding wars on players. It's probably Cole Young at second base on opening day.

Yep. Or Polanco.

[D-train]

It is just mind boggling that any site would like us to a top tier FA. How do they not know that we haven't signed a guy to a $100M+ deal since Robbie Ray???

[Donn Beach]

DT I just read an article on Yahoo that stated the 5 best fits for Mr. Bo Bichette & Seattle was on that list.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/marine ... 42276.html

Mariners — The offense needs one more true middle-order hitter, and the roster already runs on run prevention. With J.P. Crawford at short, Bichette at second is clean and immediately raises the OBP/contact floor in a lineup that leans boom-or-bust. MLB Insider J.P. Morosi explicitly called Seattle out as a fit if Bichette toggles to 2B.

I know he had the injury but outside the the dude flat out hits. How is he not a fit here. Is he worth the long term investment. Again they can't bank on all their prospects somethings gotta give. Clearly you know who your SS of the future is. 3rd remains a mystery but 2B could be right there in front of you. If your gonna spend any money on a hitter why not make it him. Clearly in his prime. Seems like his arm is more suited to a move to 2B. Huge upgrade there for Jerry & company.

The sad reality is that just because a player makes sense it has no impact on the chances of us signing him or trading for him unless we can get him for cheap and $200M might as well be $200 trillion. That is what it is until we have new ownership.

In an article published on Friday, Finkelstein projected an eight-year, $208 million contract for Bichette and had him landing with the Detroit Tigers, who had some of the worst infield production of any teams in the sport this year, especially playoff contenders.

They sign Bichette and trade us Skubal

[Captain 97]

It is just mind boggling that any site would like us to a top tier FA. How do they not know that we haven't signed a guy to a $100M+ deal since Robbie Ray???

Yeah Jerry likes to give money to his own guys but going out and bringing in a huge name off the market is not really his style. Here is a list of the Free Agents Dipoto has signed from outside the organization this decade.

Donovan Solano
Mitch Garver
Ryne Stanek
Austin Voth
Aj Pollock
Trevor Gott
Luke Weaver
Tommy LaStella
Robbie Ray (the only exception)
Sergio Romo
Justin Upton (the scrap heap version)
James Paxton (the scrap heap version)
Ken Giles
Chris Flexen
Keynan Middleton
Matt Andriese
Kendall Graveman
Taijuan Walker (the scrap heap version)
Yoshihisa Hirano
CJ Edwards

[tehmc]

Just think of the free agents we could have signed for quality over quantity.

[bpj]

Just think of the free agents we could have signed for quality over quantity.

Stars and scrubs, baby.

[bpj]

Trade Kirby and Peete for Skubal. Tigers get 3 years of a good TOR starter and a high upside OF prospect. M's get a year of the Ace of Aces.

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Trade Arroyo for 25 yo Abner Uribe. How cool to have a guy named after the inventor of baseball who is also a lights out reliever. 1.67 ERA, 2.75 FIP and 90Ks in 75 IPs. Brewers get a kid who has absolutely raked his entire minor league career and is very close to his big league debut despite a hiccup late in the season in AA. I would be happy to add more to get this done.
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Trade JC and Celesten for Donovan and Joshua Baez, a 22 yo RH OFer that had a .883 OPS in AA last season. Perfect replacement for Randy in 2027. Obviously Donovan would play 2B.

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Sign Okamoto to play 1B. 4 x 15M

Line up:
Julio CF
Donovan 2B
Cal C
Randy LF
Okamoto 1B
Canzone DH
Raley/Robles RF
JP SS
Williamson 3B pray his late summer swing change and power is real or bring up Emerson if not

Bench
Raley
Robles
Rivas
Ford

Rotation
Skubal
Woo
Gilbert
Castillo
Miller

Pen
Munoz
Brash
Uribe
Bizardo
Speier
Santos
Vargas
Kowar

Good stuff! Hopefully Dipoto will push harder this offseason instead of relying on the trade deadline.

He doesn't have much motivation to go too hard though. He made the playoffs. Dipoto won. He knows it.

And the competition is so mediocre. I think covid time off may actually have messed up some league wide development or something. These teams are bad if we're one of the good ones.

[HawkandMariner88]

What about about this.

Trade #1: TB for Yandy Diaz & either Edwin Uceta or Garrett Cleavinger

Trade #2 : Cardinals for Brendan Donovan

Solves your 3B problem in addition to another bat for 1B, hoping Naylor re-signs & another bullpen piece.

That I can live with along with bringing back Naylor & hopefully Polanco too.