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Westheim · 06-23-2014, 01:41 PM

I hate to say it, but I really have no clue whatsoever how we are going to progress after next season. I don't even know how we are going to progress after THIS season.

I hate the thought to let Green go because of the injury. Yes, we will sink half a million bucks into him sitting on the DL, but he could still come back to push in the last 40-50 games of the year. The baseball gods only know what our record will be like then.

If the team (or what I can claw into and hold together from the team) falls on its face in 1997, then we will probably pull an 88 on this one and sell everything that has some worth to it. It worked wonders the last time. Except maybe... well ... I love Neil Reece. And I think Kisho Saito and Scott Wade should retire as Furballs, too.

(Wade has no trade value to other teams anyway, which again is due to OOTP's blatantly wrong assessment of his value on the number of pitches he throws, which is two. To them he is a 35-year old right-handed reliever who's stuff is not exactly over the top, in other words: you can get him in a 4-pack in the discount bin at Walmart. The guy has some 150-ish career wins as a starter, will you PLEASE value him for that!?)

If Brewer f.e. has a decent year, we could certainly haul two or even three prospects for him, since decent for Brewer means something like .330/.440/.460. If they turn out to be Reeces and O-Mos, the better. I would not feel cheap for it, since after next season, we will have paid almost half of the $9M I dished out in that record contract.

In Mike Crowe and Stephen Buell we would have two guys who would take over certain positions for the minimum right now, but I have already committed $6.2M on O-Mo and I would feel dirty to trade that now.

One guy I should try to move this winter is Matt Higgins, who has not done an awful lot the last two years, and is due to collect $234k from our empty coffers. It's a small amount of money, but you can find a defensively adept infielder with speed for the minimum if you don't bother him hitting .240 (or less). Heck! Conceicao Guerin fits that mold (yet only as a shortstop, the position that Marvin Ingall was pencilled in for with Salazar's departure).

Besides. What kind of team is broken up after playing in the World Series a week earlier? Do we look like the Marlins!?

I can't make up my mind ...!

06-23-2014, 01:41 PM	#906
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,899	I hate to say it, but I really have no clue whatsoever how we are going to progress after next season. I don't even know how we are going to progress after THIS season. I hate the thought to let Green go because of the injury. Yes, we will sink half a million bucks into him sitting on the DL, but he could still come back to push in the last 40-50 games of the year. The baseball gods only know what our record will be like then. If the team (or what I can claw into and hold together from the team) falls on its face in 1997, then we will probably pull an 88 on this one and sell everything that has some worth to it. It worked wonders the last time. Except maybe... well ... I love Neil Reece. And I think Kisho Saito and Scott Wade should retire as Furballs, too. (Wade has no trade value to other teams anyway, which again is due to OOTP's blatantly wrong assessment of his value on the number of pitches he throws, which is two. To them he is a 35-year old right-handed reliever who's stuff is not exactly over the top, in other words: you can get him in a 4-pack in the discount bin at Walmart. The guy has some 150-ish career wins as a starter, will you PLEASE value him for that!?) If Brewer f.e. has a decent year, we could certainly haul two or even three prospects for him, since decent for Brewer means something like .330/.440/.460. If they turn out to be Reeces and O-Mos, the better. I would not feel cheap for it, since after next season, we will have paid almost half of the $9M I dished out in that record contract. In Mike Crowe and Stephen Buell we would have two guys who would take over certain positions for the minimum right now, but I have already committed $6.2M on O-Mo and I would feel dirty to trade that now. One guy I should try to move this winter is Matt Higgins, who has not done an awful lot the last two years, and is due to collect $234k from our empty coffers. It's a small amount of money, but you can find a defensively adept infielder with speed for the minimum if you don't bother him hitting .240 (or less). Heck! Conceicao Guerin fits that mold (yet only as a shortstop, the position that Marvin Ingall was pencilled in for with Salazar's departure). Besides. What kind of team is broken up after playing in the World Series a week earlier? Do we look like the Marlins!? I can't make up my mind ...! __________________ Portland Raccoons, 94 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here. Last edited by Westheim; 06-23-2014 at 01:51 PM.