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Waivers, trades, and Rule 5. Bluntly, everyone is doing the Prospect route these days. We're not gonna out-compete anyone in that department. But wheeling and dealing and making canny moves? That sounds like a fun way to GM. Skill set priorities: Pitching, Starting Pitching, Depth, Speed and Patience, Control. Petco Park is a harsh mistress. It rewards good pitchers and punishes good hitters, so let's play to our strengths. Tactical Approach: Tactical. Sabermetrics is last year's hotness, the new hotness is utilizing a deep and multitalented bench to get the most out of every matchup (this is also why emphasizing Depth is a good idea). Let's use openers. Let's shift all day long. Let's see if we can build an entire roster out of switch-hitting utility men. Pete Ward is a Scouting Director, because grizzled old baseball people are always scouts. He's gonna find us some amazing gems.
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B. Mediocrity and .500 ball will still be an improvement for the Padres. Also I doubt OOTP models the commentary booth but just in case it does sign Don Orsillo to a lifetime deal
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If we're going after fat dudes we drat well better make a run at signing Bartolo Colon
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Oct 5, 2018 21:56
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Grab Salinas, trade for Yuli (lose Maton for the payroll savings), and then see if we can squeeze in Eovaldi
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Oct 6, 2018 02:58
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Bring up the Big Four; stash Bradley until the trade deadline so we have him waiting in the wings if we make some moves. In the draft target a college pitcher, preferably one we can aim to get into a starter role. In the supplemental draft target Best Player Available, without regard to positional logjams; if we end up with a trade chip rather than a starter-in-the-waiting, that's fine, we're planning on focusing on trades regardless.
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Oct 6, 2018 23:11
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International signing period - save some cash, target one young stud, aim for a batter - preferable C/2B/SS/3B since we seem to have more outfielders and 1B than we can shake a stick at anyways Trade Deadline - Option C. Bring Bradley up at the deadline, trade Santana. Keep everyone else, though; see how far we can get.
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Holy poo poo we got Chavis for Santana? That is beautiful, I like Michael Chavis a lot.
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Oct 8, 2018 00:59
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Coaches: Keep our pitching coach, get a new hitting coach. Preferably one that isn't Chili Davis. Manager: Keep Andy Green. He's not doing so terribly! 2020 strategy: B. We're a young team; we could use a season or two of growth and experience before we start making the Big Move. If we find a few Bargain Stars - like we did with Nasty Nate Eovaldi - then pick them up, but there's no need to overreach too soon.
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all right Gerrit Cole, we're getting more players I like because of who they once played for if we can get Mookie Betts we'll have DCB Bingo
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Oct 8, 2018 22:51
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Get Lewis. We're losing Big Maple after this season anyways; if we can get our Shortstop Of The Future for him that's a no fuckin' brainer.
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Oct 9, 2018 02:38
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I am in no way demonstrating my recency bias by saying we should try to trade for Brock Holt ASAP
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Oct 9, 2018 05:24
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Huh, it turns out that if you build a fun exciting team, more people will go watch them. Which means you'll have more money to spend on making a fun exciting team. Go figure.
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Stick with C stay the course the kids are just gonna get better with another year's seasoning, and the owner'll stop being a tightwad once our ticket sales stay strong
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B. Pete needs time to work his magic. Plus if Treinen is having a monster year we can always back out and trade him in the offseason.
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bewbies posted:Will do and good idea! B. Keep the kids on board so they'll be established vets and local heroes to lead the new guys to come.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Lose whoever it takes whenever it takes to make the money work for Meija, even if we're poor $5m is way too low to get worked up about for a great catcher. Absolutely this.
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I am almost as invested in this dumb fake team of Padres as I am in my own preferred team of Boston Red Sox who are actually playing postseason baseball. It is awesome. Nagamatsu's gonna rake.
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Artix posted:That was a pretty good narration, big fan of how it turned out  Man it's extra satisfying to see the Yankees fail miserablyRegarding average age on a World Series contender: the 2004 Boston Red Sox had an average age of 31.6 (Theo Epstein was all about bringing in veteran leadership), which I *think* is the record. Or at least it's the record in all the teams I was able to find in roughly 60 seconds of Googling; I won't be doing more than 60 seconds, because then it feels like work. DivineCoffeeBinge fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Oct 20, 2018 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:I don't think any price is too high to add Dick Lovelady to our team Seconding this. We are all children.
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Inspector_666 posted:Yeah but Severino should have stayed on the Yankees of the East...The Yankees maybe he wanted to go somewhere he could actually win in the postseason. (It's just friendly banter don't hate me)
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Verlander chasing that ring before he retires. Good for him.
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IcePhoenix posted:His player page says he retired at 46 and his stats say he was 44 in his last season which means for some reason nobody signed him to at least DH coming off a season where he was still on pace for 20+ Dingers and had an OPS well over .800 In my heart he spent a couple of years in Japan because he was bored with MLB and also they offered him all the sushi he could eat (still love you Manny Ramirez).
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