Gson
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disagree with all of this drivel..There is no false urgency...there is immediate need. (If you truly want to contend for a division title. If not, just say so.)
We need two corner OFs...unless you are happy with what you watched this year. Or, unless you think that one of Jones, Palacios, or Ka'ai...er...Steven Kwan will step in and immediately provide 2.5 WAR.
We need a catcher. We only have one MLB right now. Presumably, you'd like something other than a 39 yr old career backup.
We don't have $30-40 mil to sign those three positions, so the only way to acquire three significant upgrades is to trade some of our significant prospects.
So its gonna take some of Espino, Valera, Rocchio, Freeman, Arias, and Jones....or it will mean stripping our rotation.
Thats the cost of contention....like it or not.
Of those six, not one can be reasonably expected to contribute next year....by contributing, I mean provide at least 2 WAR. Without a trade, not one can be reasonably be expected to even open the season in Cleveland.
When you have 14 kids who have at least one valid reason to be added to the 40 man, and probably eight more next year...when you have sixteen MIFs rated as at least 40 FV...when you dont have room to fit all of your SP prospects into a rotation above A ball...it is not emasculating the farm system by trading a bunch of them. It's called pruning.
There is no presumption..
How much $$$ we have is unknown.. even if there is a falsely defined budget of some number..
It's not going to take _________ (six names) because it isn't happening..
14 kids... for ten spots.. the best ten stay.. the remaining 4 get exposed & drafted or returned to the system as minor leaguers or elect free agency, if qualified... you don't throw away the top four plus for one good guy to save the four on the bottom even if you have "prospect capital"..
Nothing is more wasteful and defeatist than being included into a dump of four or six guys who worked their asses off in a minor league system to be told the parent club doesn't believe in you.. These are guys from the top of a top 5 minor league system. For one guy, there are better deals..
.. and no plus 30 year old free agents on eight figure contracts..