I will do my take on this offseason since I am always good with takes and make a conversation happen
@BimboColesHair correct me if I say something that isn't right since I know I can trust your information. Also don't be scared of the length of this!
Free Agents: Bruce, Jackson, Shaw, Santana, Smith, Breslow
Arbitration Eligible: Chisenhall, McAllister, Allen, Otero, Salazar, Bauer, Almonte
Out of options: Crockett, Gonzalez, Urshela, Almonte, Baker, Clev, Merritt, Armstrong
Option year: Brantley, Logan, Tomlin
Now onto My personal plans for the team
Take the options on Tomlin and Brantley since both are no brainers. I mean Tomlin in free agency is worth 7-8 mil and we are getting him for 3. He is a steal even if he isn't in the rotation next season.
Give Santana the QO/also a 2 year contract offer with a 3rd year option. I feel Santana will stay one more year if given the QO
Smith is also another guy who will likely stay, so give him a solid 1-2 year contract. He may be getting up in age, but still is a good guy to have around.
Bauer will get a contract extension while we will sign Salazar to arbitration.
I think Allen will only be here next season
McAllister and Otero will both get arbitration and Chisenhall may get an additional year like we did with Guyer and Tomlin
I will also cut and try to Outright Crockett, Almonte, Baker, Armstrong
With Anderson being added to the 40 man roster, it will be at 32 so I am looking at adding 6 guys to the 40 man roster from our minors/waivers.
Since I am not sure who will be in waivers I will add these 6 players: C Haase, SP Merryweather, SP Kaminsky, SP Shane Bieber, INF Ronny Rodriguez, and RP Josh Martin. Either way I feel we will add about 3-4 pitchers from the minors and 2-3 position players. I thought about guys like OF Papi and pitchers Head, Sulser, Hill and Aviles.
Additional moves, I feel one of Merritt, Salazar and McAllister will get traded. Gonzalez or Urshela will also be traded/let go. Salazar I actually personally want to move to the bullpen and see if his arm reacts the same way. I don't trust his ability to pitch more than 100 innings so I want to turn him into a setup/closer in 19. So we may see 1B/OF Papi added to the 40 man. We will hit the waivers as well to fill out the roster.
Bimbo I think is shaking his head right now if he is reading this, (probably so is Derek and b00bie) but I think Merryweather and Bieber could actually make this team in September as relievers. Martin is just a depth guy since Armstrong will be gone. So tell me which 6 you would choose if you had to choose 6 to dispute who i chose. Something about Bieber makes me think he will be apart of this roster in 19 and because he will be added early, we will have 4 option years for him.
That leaves one spot or two on the roster for a rule 5 player/waiver wire guy and one big free agent to sign, and as weird as it sounds my target is Cain from KC, my offer is a 4 year 15 mil contract with a 5 year team option and a buyout of 5 mil. So a guaranteed 65 mil on him. It is a bit of a gamble but he has been solid for the Royals. Do not get me wrong in the fact that I know Zimmer and Allen are very good defensive OFs, but both are still learning but we lack a RH bat since Jackson left. 18 is the year we need to win and getting a Cain for our lineup will look amazing in my opinion. In 19 our OF will be Allen, Cain and Zimmer. Go ahead and try to get a frickin hit since anything in the air will be caught.
My personal opening day 25 man roster
SP: Kluber, Carrasco, Bauer, Clev, Tomlin
RP: Allen, Miller, Smith, Olson, Otero, Goody, Merritt, Salazar
OF: Brantley, Cain, Chisenhall, Guyer
1B: Santana, EE
2B: Kipnis
SS: Lindor
3B: Ramirez
C: Gomes, Perez
Util: Gonzalez
Lineup: Lindor, Cain, Ramirez, EE, Santana, Brantley, Kipnis, Chisenhall/Guyer, Gomes/Perez
Rest of the 40 man roster:
Pitchers: Anderson (On 60 day DL), Bieber, Kaminsky, Martin, Merryweather, Morimando, Plutko,
Position players: C Haase, C Meija, 3B Diaz, 2B Ronny Rodriguez, OF Greg Allen, OF Zimmer.
Leaving us 3 spots on the roster which internally will be filled by like Papi, Chang, Sulser, Head, but i feel the last three spots will be from waiver wire deals like we did with Goody last season.
That is a lot to read and figure out, but tell me what you guys think. I would definitely like to hear from
@Derek,
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