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OK, so our one offseason FA acquisition was to lock down pitcher
Bob Muncrief down on a 2+1/55 deal. He's no world beater but should offer us an affordable bridge to those who have better chances of being so.
We also consummate the following trade with the Braves.
Buddy Rosar offers us some much-needed defensive heft at catcher, to work in conjunction with bat-heavy starter Andy Seminick.
Peanuts Lowery just gives us some of my much-cherished flexibility around the IF in a backup role.
The squad as it sits on OD may change quickly, as we have a couple waiver claims in. I'll advise of their progress in my first update at the end of May.
We have a fairly solid position player group, but we are back in that dangerous situation where we have very ordinary defence behind junkball pitchers. I expect a lot of 8-6 results and, unfortunately, more that end up 6-8. To go 500 for the year is the goal, nothing more. Higbe will be back, fingers crossed, by mid-May.
At OD, our 550k budget is the next-to-lowest, while our $327k payroll is 7th-highest.