I'm imagining Lee and/or Diaz breaking out to what their promise has been. But it's still speculative. Alvarez was successful immediately (talk about understatement) and Tucker started slowly, but both are Stars now. I'm hoping DIaz/Lee are Tuckering and Hensley/ Brown are Alvarezing.
A couple of hours ago, MLBNet was playing the 1986 playoff retrospective, about 4 hours of it. I really wanted to watch the Angels-RedSox stuff (a totally awesome underrated postseason series), but the minute it tuned in they were interviewing Billy Hatcher and then Doc Gooden. I turned on random South Park episodes instead.
Outstanding idea, probably your best yet! The Stros get Trout, Ohtani and Rendon and the Stros give up Chas and Whitley
You say Stros get Renton like it’s a positive, but that’s probably the worst contract in baseball right now. Unless he gets healthy and turns it around after being ass for 3 years, at the age of 33, which seems less than likely. I guess I could imagine a world where a rational GM that cared nothing about the fans likes and dislikes but merely about getting better duck taped Rendon to Ohtani (they only have him for 1 year where as Rendon has what- 5 years left?) and the winning team of the trade wasn’t who sent back the best talent but rather who agreed to accept the least amount of money back from the angels for taking Rendons contract on.
Eating Rendon's contract would be the motive for the other moves. In that sense, it is the positive. Not his play. It is an old school salary dump to get other quality players. Which is why it won't happen. Probably not. Maybe?
Yes!!! Jim Crane, who wouldn’t give big contracts to Cole, Verlander, Keuchel, Springer, Correa, or Morton, is going to make a trade to acquire almost $500M of other teams players, one of whom is already an albatross. All without a GM in place. And the Angels, who are for sale, are going to trade away their entire roster to bring back…Chas McCormick. And then the Royals will trade away two of their best young players to bring in…Forrest Whitley and Taylor Ward. Literally every single aspect of this hypothetical trade is completely asinine.
I said early on several unlikely things would have to be happening simultaneously. Indulging in possibilities is not asinine, it is fun. You should try it if you have that capacity. It's much more fun than limiting yourself to probability. You won't win the lottery jackpot, but millions play it anyway.
To be fair, he’s been bad the last 2 years, not 3, and that is mostly due to injuries. It’s a terrible contract nonetheless.
If you need to share your RealGM type ideas and want to start an offseason "random trade suggestions" thread, please feel free to do so. I'd rather not sift through them in this thread.
The Astros part is kind of batshit for reasons you said. KC makes no sense either. it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world for the Anaheim perspective with the sale coming into being. The more stripped down the team is the more valuable it is for some people. New ownership would probably love Trout signed for 7 more years and little other money committed. Gives them optionality.
Listen, I get that this is a forum on the internet, and I don't make the rules. That being said, and I know this will go on deaf ears, but do you have to post every single thought that you think? If you must, why not just start a new thread where you can post your ongoing thoughts without cluttering up the other threads. Just something to consider.
Thing is, he already made one... https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/fantasy-lineups-not-expected-lineups.317881/
I'm pretty sure you read Buck's response a little different than I did. Not so sure he was speaking positively about that trade at all.
