Giancarlo: "I Do Not Like This at All”

[Erick]

As for the whole "perennial All-Star" thing, I was just quoting Samson.
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Thats what I am talking about,you don't see to many catchers playing other spots. They had Salty,Ramirez,Teagarden.

While having Catching Depth is good in the system,the fact is only 1 can play at a time

Even Cleveland had the same issue,they had Carlos Santana and then got Lou Marson(Top 50 prospect at the time). Does anyone wanna know how that turned out? Marson is now 26 .220 5HR 60RBI as the backup C

You absolutely missed his point despite making it for him.

[Bobbob1313]

Thats what I am talking about,you don't see to many catchers playing other spots. They had Salty,Ramirez,Teagarden.

While having Catching Depth is good in the system,the fact is only 1 can play at a time

Even Cleveland had the same issue,they had Carlos Santana and then got Lou Marson(Top 50 prospect at the time). Does anyone wanna know how that turned out? Marson is now 26 .220 5HR 60RBI as the backup C

You missed the point. Surprisingly!

Catchers have a huge flameout rate. "We have one decent catcher" is not a reason to say no to a guy like D'Arnaud.

[Beef]

That's exactly what I'm talking about! If three highly regarded catchers ended up being crap, can you imagine how only having two would work out?

[tjfla]

1. If they acquire Andrus (which lol if they trade Stanton and can't even get Profar in return), Andrus would just be used as trade bait for more prospects.

2. So it's Yelich/Martin/Marisnick now? Exciting. At least Martin is Cuban so yay.

3. Assuming the front office is actually that stupid to like Brantly enough that they'd pass up on D'Arnaud, they could've acquired D'Arnaud and probably flipped him to Texas for a guy like...Mike Olt who you have in your proposed Stanton deal. You know who in the current deal has enough value to be flipped for a prospect like Mike Olt? No one.

1 No Clue what they do with Andrus

2 Yelich/Martin/Marisnick- Yelich/Marisnick/Ozuna -Ozuna/Martin/Marisnick

3 Marisnick could be dealt for Olt

[tjfla]

That's exactly what I'm talking about! If three highly regarded catchers ended up being crap, can you imagine how only having two would work out?

If d'Araund or Brantly could play 2B or CF or 3B I would have said get him now and move the other one to a new spot.

The point I am making is they are both catchers and one 1 can play at a time,instead of taking a guy who plays the same spot as a young guy who we like,we took a young CF prospect. If we got d'Araund and traded Brantly,we would have gotten a guy not as good as Marisnick for him.

They decided on a Starting Catcher(Brantly) and Starting CF(Marisnick) instead of a Starting Catcher (d'Araund) and a backup Catcher (Brantly) or a Starter in d'Araund and trading Brantly

[Erick]

1 No Clue what they do with Andrus

2 Yelich/Martin/Marisnick- Yelich/Marisnick/Ozuna -Ozuna/Martin/Marisnick

3 Marisnick could be dealt for Olt

1-Trust me, I have "sources."
2-What?
3-No

[Beef]

If d'Araund or Brantly could play 2B or CF or 3B I would have said get him now and move the other one to a new spot.

The point I am making is they are both catchers and one 1 can play at a time,instead of taking a guy who plays the same spot as a young guy who we like,we took a young CF prospect. If we got d'Araund and traded Brantly,we would have gotten a guy not as good as Marisnick for him.

They decided on a Starting Catcher(Brantly) and Starting CF(Marisnick) instead of a Starting Catcher (d'Araund) and a backup Catcher (Brantly) or a Starter in d'Araund and trading Brantly

I know what you were saying. It just didn't logically follow what you were responding to.

[Ramp]

If d'Araund d'Araund (d'Araund)

Travis d'Arnaud


come on.

[Big Z]

If Stanton says give me a contract and ill sign it right now this whole discussion is dead.


As for the hints don't worry I am done talking "trade discussion" on here,ill just message the few people that enjoy hearing it and the rest of u can just cry when it happens

Please include me in this!

Do you think we'd be able to acquire Profar, Martin and Perez in that deal? I mean, a player like Stanton comes around once in a blue moon and he's only 23(?). He's almost invaluable, but if you can replace one very good player with a couple of good/very good players you have to go for it. It's all about winning.

Is the FO mad about Stantons' remarks?

[Mainge]

Marisnick could be dealt for Olt

[Erick]

Please include me in this!

Do you think we'd be able to acquire Profar, Martin and Perez in that deal? I mean, a player like Stanton comes around once in a blue moon and he's only 23(?). He's almost invaluable, but if you can replace one very good player with a couple of good/very good players you have to go for it. It's all about winning.

Is the FO mad about Stantons' remarks?

It's one great young player for one potentially great player and two potentially good ones, for what it's worth.

Key word: potentially

There's no reason to trade Stanton right now.

[Beef]

:-)

[CrimsonCane]

If d'Araund or Brantly could play 2B or CF or 3B I would have said get him now and move the other one to a new spot.

I thought you were telling us what your sources said about the FO's thinking, not your own personal thoughts.

[Erick]

Perhaps he's one of the baseball people that David Samson trusts so much...

[Mainge]

As for the hints don't worry I am done talking "trade discussion" on here,ill just message the few people that enjoy hearing it and the rest of u can just cry when it happens

What is the last piece of news you've broken?