The official Hot Stove League Thread 2025-26 Offseason

[D-train]

There will always be misses in prospect evaluations. I don't know what that has to do with fans playing pretend GM. You're comparing apples and orangutans.

What off season plans aren't a waste of time?

I don't see off season plans here as any different than anything else posted here in terms of impacting reality.

[GL_Storm]

There will always be misses in prospect evaluations. I don't know what that has to do with fans playing pretend GM. You're comparing apples and orangutans.

What off season plans aren't a waste of time?

I don't see off season plans here as any different than anything else posted here in terms of impacting reality.

That's a fair enough point.

[D-train]

Remember Gabby Gonzales who we traded for Polanco. He absolutely raked across three levels last season.

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[D-train]

Sodomojo really starting to ask wtf is the FO thinking with sitting on all this prospect capital in a go for it season. Great to see. And the one top prospect they do trade is for a project reliever.

https://sodomojo.com/mlb-pipeline-prosp ... kfyt8efbxp

[Donn Beach]

I think it involves the deadline but it's not deciding if you're going for it as much as extending the runway deal with your younger players. It isn't so much making a decision on a trade but delaying a decision into the season. And I think it's been how dipoto has been operating. He's tended to look at the deadline to add a significant pieces. He'll wait until the deadline to add an infield bat

[Sexymarinersfan]

Sodomojo really starting to ask wtf is the FO thinking with sitting on all this prospect capital in a go for it season. Great to see. And the one top prospect they do trade is for a project reliever.

https://sodomojo.com/mlb-pipeline-prosp ... kfyt8efbxp

I'm not an overly huge fan of Sodomojo. Thats not to say I don't appreciate their perspective. I'm ok with trading Harry Ford for Ferrer, especially if Ferrer turns into a Munoz, in which I would've traded Ford for in a heartbeat. Our pen needed an infusion, and so far I like what I see.

As far as our other prospects go, the M's have all the way up until the deadline to go out and make a deal for a bat. I'm still convinced that the M's aren't out on Polanco, especially if the Mets aren't in it at the deadline.

[Captain 97]

Dipoto has a clear pattern that he has established. He prefers to run it out there with what he's got so that he can use the early part of the year to evaluate need. Then he will make trades in season trades to plug known holes rather than trying to anticipate those holes ahead of time and shooting his wad in the off season. I don't agree with it but at least it gives a bit of hope that come July they will be willing to make the moves to pick up what they need to fill the holes.

[Seattle or Bust]

Numbers are almost identical to Kelenic’s 2023.

So you're agreeing with me?

Mhm.

I think last year was fluky. Same with Jo Adell.

That’s quite the reduction.

I think most players who show they can’t hack it 3 years into the league and then have a 3-war mini come out season aren’t going to be legit.

[D-train]

I think it involves the deadline but it's not deciding if you're going for it as much as extending the runway deal with your younger players. It isn't so much making a decision on a trade but delaying a decision into the season. And I think it's been how dipoto has been operating. He's tended to look at the deadline to add a significant pieces. He'll wait until the deadline to add an infield bat

Thanks for the new insights. I had no idea about about his idiotic strategy. Would have been horrible to have Naylor all season last year. I guess he wanted to give Runway to Solano and Tellez....

[Sexymarinersfan]

I think it involves the deadline but it's not deciding if you're going for it as much as extending the runway deal with your younger players. It isn't so much making a decision on a trade but delaying a decision into the season. And I think it's been how dipoto has been operating. He's tended to look at the deadline to add a significant pieces. He'll wait until the deadline to add an infield bat

Thanks for the new insights. I had no idea about about his idiotic strategy. Would have been horrible to have Naylor all season last year. I guess he wanted to give Runway to Solano and Tellez....

Mannnnnn!! Last offseason pissed me off so much! Thats why I'm a little more patient with how our current offseason is going. Its not great, but it could be worse. Locking down Naylor for 5yrs and getting Ferrer are huge. I don't think people realize how good both of these moves were.

Giving Colt Emerson and Cole Young a chance to shine isn't the worst possible idea in the world.