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Personally I’m not a fan of locking up younger players long term either. I know that teams love the cost certainty but in many cases the players flop. I think this could be due to various factors. It could be the pressure of a big contract or it could be complacency due to a big contract. I prefer the year to year arbitration process.

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The difference is the Angels are not in sell mode and the Marlins are.

Stanton is locked in for three more years then he has an opt out.

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I could see them being both a seller and a buyer. Trading Lynn and Oh is obvious but we could also see what Carp or Rosenthal could fetch. The buying should be limited to long term assets. Donaldson isn’t a long term asset IMO but Stanton would be.

Here are couple of bold trades:
Send Piscotty, Adolis Garcia, Diaz, Alcantara, and Hudson to the Marlins for Stanton.
Send Lynn, Oh, Leake, and Carp to Yankees for Torres and Clippard.
Insert Weaver into the rotation and call up Marco for the rotation.
Call up Sierra to platoon with Pham or Grichuk.

LF Fowler
CF Pham or Sierra
RF Stanton
1B Voit
3B Gyorko
C Molina
2B Wong
SS DeJong
P

Martinez
Waino
Wacha
Weaver
Marco (Reyes next year)

We give Voit a shot the rest of the year to win the job. If not we go after Hosmer in the offseason.
Also could promote Torres next year to play SS as soon as he is healthy.
Could insert Reyes into rotation or bullpen as soon as he is healthy.

[gscottar]

The Angels could afford Stanton since Josh Hamilton is coming off their books after this year but I don’t know if they have the prospects to make it happen. Having Stanton and Trout in the same lineup would be tempting but they probably will invest in pitching instead. I say probably because you never know when Arte Moreno will get a wild hair.

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More than likely it will be Mejia back to Memphis when Wong returns, not Voit.

[gscottar]

I read an article online today, maybe from Jim Bowden, suggesting that the Cards offer Miami Piscotty, Gomber, and Woodford for Stanton. I just don’t see it happening.

[gscottar]

Since our two biggest needs have been a big bat and shoring up the bullpen why not try to do both with the Jays?

Gyroko, Grichuk, Marco, Alcantara, and Hudson for Donaldson and Osuna.

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Brian, any update on the issue of how to mark a thread “read”? Thanks.

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Donaldson is struggling big time this year so maybe that will drive his price down a bit, and also the fact he will be a FA after 2018.

[gscottar]

Well our offense has been a joke most of this year as well so I don’t mind them trying to get more bats in the lineup.

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How do we mark threads as “read’?

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