re: DAT Off-season Thread: YWCHA Edition

JRey gimme dat traffic update

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What’s the forecast on Hunter Brown’s role going forward?

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Sunny Skies with lots of shoving. Dude will start out as the #5 guy in the rotation and end up #2 by season's end.

LMJ will finally move to the pen.

Playoff pen rotation (in no particular order): LMJ, Abreu, Stanek (if he's not traded), Pressley -- man, that just absolutely shortens games. Will put all the pressure on opposing hitters to be aggressive early in the games.

Haven’t read the whole thread yet but first 2 pages mentioned wanting to resign Montero….no thanks for me

Someone is gonna offer him relatively big money for a reliever over ~3 years. I don’t think it’s worth using our limited funds on that

My recommendations/predictions (probably not worth a dam)

Free Agents:
Yuli-will be offered 1 year deal, same $$. Will turn down if anyone else out there offers a 2 year deal
Brantley-gone
Montero-gone
Diaz-gone
Castro-retires
Vazquez-Astros will make an offer but someone else will get by overpaying

Pending Options (likely all free agents):
Verlander-offer 2 year deal for similiar money now ($20-$25 mil per year) but don't seriously pursue
Will Smith-gone...we hardly knew you
Mancini-gone, especially if Click is gone

Astros need to save their $$$ to sign Yordan & Tucker to long term deals. I would not be surprised nor sad if Tucker ultimately walks

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They locked up Yordan during the season

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I wouldn't mind locking him up longer, but I know that's not the usual strategy.

Bregman too.

I like LMJ and used to think him as closer would be cool but the problem is he's a slow starter. Philly aside he always seems to give up a run or 2 early in his outings. In the pen he doesn't have that luxury. I love JV but I'm a realist, I also know he's tight with Crane. I'd rather go into next year with the 6 man rotation again.

1. Valdez
2. Javier
3. LMJ
4. Garcia
5. Urquidy
6. Brown

What if Whitley gets things together? That would be amazing.

Maybe I'm a cockeyed optimist but if done right this team just reloads at a few positions and is a force the next several seasons.

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Brown will be in the rotation in 23.

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As he should be.

GOATlander (assuming we sign him and hopefully we do IMO)
Frambaw
Javibaw
LMJ
Brown

Urquidy and Garcia still in there Idk if you trade one and keep one as a 6th or trade both. I'd be fine trading one for a good 1B like Walker or something.