Chat: 9/7/15 1:32am
Chat: 9/7/15 1:32am
Shouts
<p>Opps, Darn, forgot to login... The Anon just below is me... As for our own free agents: </p>
<p>I would sign Guti to a nice 2 year contract, and start discussing how taxing CF would be for him on the days he plays... I mean it cant be that much harder than a corner spot, I guess the real question is can he still be a gold glover out there... I bet he would love to try! Guti / Miller would be a pretty killer platoon!</p>
<p>I would offer Kuma QO, but hope to reach a 3 year, team friendly deal, but Kuma is not a sign at all cost player for me... In fact if we sign Cuteo or someone else of that caliber I would be willing to just let him walk and take the comp pick.</p>
<p>Lets Go DiPoTo!</p>
<p>OK! Lets kick off the offseason... Here are the two guys I would target HEAVILY in Free Agency... </p>
<p>Cuteo -- Coming of a little bit of a down year, all the attention will be on Price and Greinke, plus there is the Dominican Power Connection. Sneak in and get this guy EARLY</p>
<p>Wieters -- It's time for the Mariners to finally have a real catcher again! Maybe Edgar blows magic pixie dust and SUnino learns to hit... fine he can back up Weiters for a while and the assume the full time role when Wieters has to go to 1b like all catchers eventually have to... You could dumpster dive and hope for bounce back years from guys like Ianetta (I would be ok with this) or Navarro (Meh) or Avilla (blech), but it's not like any of those guys will be cheap... if we want to go cheap just stick with Zuni...</p>
<p>Yep that would be expensive... BUT we have SO MANY of the right pieces in place, NOW is the time to spend! Git r Dun Dipoto!</p>
<p>I fear you are right Matt, but I hope you are wrong. Dunno if Gar has enough magic up his sleeve to restore Zunino's batting mind. If the kid could hit .230, get on base at a .290 clip, and pop 25+ bombs he'd be a tremendous asset.</p>
<p>Just like sweeping the A's before the Strasburg draft to lose the #1 pick... Way to go M's... Pyrrhic would be proud...</p>
<p>None. He was awful on opening day this year. Having played, to that point, 1 game. He's a terrible hitter. Has the talent to be a good one, but is hopelessly, lost and confused. Our catcher on opening day 2016 must not be Zunino.</p>
<p>In thinking about who our catcher is next year, how many of Zunino's hitting troubles improve if he plays 110 games?</p>
<p>I don't really care if the pick is #10 or #11. I'm annoyed the pick isn't protected though.</p>
<p>Based on last years results in the event of a tie.</p>
<p>Recent, not "events"</p>
<p>Rick here: DaddyO, I think you nailed it in your event comments.I am looking forward to seeing what DiPoto does with all this material. Excited, actually.</p>
<p>We're tied with the White Sox...why would they necessarily get the 10th pick?</p>
<p>Damn. There goes the protected pick. Nice job M's, all you had to do was lose one more game.</p>
<p>Larry Stone has a slew of great quotes from Dipoto. On Edgar: "As I said on the press-conference day, I’m glass half full. Edgar Martinez has done a fantastic job. Stud career. The way he talks about a player is very comforting to me. The way he walks through how you hit, how you score runs, makes sense to me. While the glass is half full with most, with Edgar, it’s pretty full.”</p>
<p>Thanks Grizzly. Those 4 themes will prob'ly be the basis for the next sabr post. :: daps ::</p>
<p>Matt, in my Prom Date thread, I wondered aloud/queried about a Deej for Pompey swap. Funny you mentioned swapping out under-performing assets.</p>
<p>IOW...he tore apart Z's roster and Mather, by proxy, for not firing Z earlier. :) Good for him.</p>
<p>I somehow missed this from the Times. Provides a bit more context to Jerry's thinking on the org:</p>
<p>When Dipoto interviewed with Mather, he gave a frank and thorough assessment of the team, good and bad.</p>
<p>“Some of it was hard to hear,” Mather said.</p>
<p>Some of those assessments were the lack of depth of the 25- and 40-man roster, minimal athleticism in the organization as a whole, far too many strikeouts at the big-league level and defense not commensurate to playing in spacious Safeco Field.</p>
<p>GLS...we have guys that other clubs value...just because most of them did poorly in 2015 doesn't mean some of them can't be flipping for other struggling prospects that have tools DiPoto likes.</p>
<p>New GMs love to trade old GMs' prospects. Expect some wheeling and dealing.</p>
<p>CF and C are positions of scarcity in the game right now. Rough break for the M's, as those are two positions of need for the club. This off season will be flush with pitching, though, which is good considering that's what Dipoto has ID'd as the primary concern. It would sure be nice to pencil in Paxton, Iwakuma and Elias for 180-200 innings each in 2016 but that's probably suicide from a roster building perspective. So Iwakuma, one more SP, at least one excellent reliever and at least one OF'r. That's an expensive off season, either in $$$ or prospects. Or both.</p>
<p>but then...Andy Van Slyke converted Ackley from -5 to +15 in the corner position in one ST...so...I suppose it is possible that some intensive work could ease my concerns quickly. I just would not go into 2016 with Miller as the only serious CF candidate.</p>
<p>I think that, if you do, you're punting 2016. He is a -20 run CF right now if he plays full time...his route running is Lastings Milledge bad.</p>
<p>CF is such a difficult position to fill, I thought then (last offseason) and still do that it makes a ton of sense to give Miller some time there. Even if the first year is an adventure for him, the guy has enough speed and enough of an arm to develop into a very capable defensive presence out there.</p>