If the window is still open, Dana should be extra vigilant when he walks near it.
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It seems to me he has drafted pretty well.
Yordan and Altuve are untouchable. Brown would take a godfather offer. Everyone else should be available.
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Most recent class looks good. The others look pretty iffy.
With all the drama that his medicals on his ankle caused when he was a FA, itâs terrible irony that this is his other ankle.
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I would listen to offers for Yordan. He could get you a kings ransom
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Yordan shouldnât be untouchable, imo. This team is going to take long enough to fix that either (a) Yordan wonât be here anymore, or (b) heâll be well into his decline phase by then. Trade him now in the middle of a monster season and you can get a Soto-like haul. Wait for him to get hurt (or just closer to free agency) and the return wonât be nearly as good.
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I agree. If youâre going to âblow it upâ then anybody not under team control beyond 2028 should be moved if the price is right. Yordan is a free agent after the 28 season. Teams will pay a shit ton for 2.5 years of best hitter in the game
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And what good did that do Washington?
James Wood, CJ Abrams and Mackenzie Gore are all solid big leaguers and Wood could turn into a star
CJ Abrams (consistent 3+ WAR player, currently having a career year)
James Wood (all-star LF with an OPS almost at .900)
Jarlin Susana (low-level prospect whoâs blossomed into a T100 guy)
Mackenzie Gore (solid innings eater who turned into another prospect haul this offseason)
Four years on, theyâre much better off with that crew than theyâd have been keeping Soto until he hit free agency. Yes, signing Soto long-term would also have been good; he was 23 at the time of the trade. Yordan is 29 and his value is not going to get higher than it is right now.
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I thought he was only 19
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Forever 19
I guess I was approaching this more from the perspective that they just hit the reset button again last year.
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The Nationals problem is that the Soto trade is the only one they got right. Entering the 2020s they also only had 3 tradable assets, Soto, Trea Turner and Scherzer. They let Turner and Scherzer get to the last year of their contracts and then stupidly packaged them together in a trade. If they had traded them in separate deals to different teams, they would have gotten more. They didnât hit on any under the radar trades, which you have to do. All of their prospects, other than the Soto trade, flamed out.
Itâs actually not too dissimilar to where the Astros are right now, except that if the Astros go full tear down, Yordan = Soto, Pena with 1.5 years > Turner .5, Brown at this point >>> Scherzer as a pending FA. Add on Abreu(if he can turn things around), Paredes gets you some real good stuff, Walker if you eat a good amount of the contract can get you some good pieces. Hader can get you something, especially if you eat some of his contract.
If you fully commit, you can get an absolute haul this summer. They wonât though. They will blame injuries and run it back next year and eventually sell those players for pennies because âthe window is always openâ
Sousa to I.L. w/ elbow soreness
Murray recalled.
Never ends
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Just an endless parade of injuries
Apparently Meyers and Pena are very close to rehab games and could be back within a week or so.
Optioning Whitcomb is obvious but the 2nd cadualty could be interesting.
Neither Shewmake nor Nick Allen have options so they will likely keep both which makes the roster infield heavy.
Dezenzo is the most likely OF to go but they could send Cam down or even DFA Meyers if they feel the upside of the others is more valuable than his floor.
No chance Meyers gets dfaâd. There are guys with options to be sent down
What makes the most sense would be
Whitcomb optioned for Pena
Dezenzo optioned for Meyers
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Might try to trade Meyers before he gets hurt again. Someone might give you a reliever for him.