Stepping Razor wrote:

So you guys want an extra year to insure you fuck over the new GM's even more then they are already? That's not very manly or sporting of you.
I'm actually going through the same thing is real life in little league. Text me if you want to know the skinny. I can say, like this, you can either be flexible and aggressive, or be flaccid and let someone else steal your thunder, or in this case assets and momentum.
Remember we have strike/lockout looming too.

It's not at all that. If someone is not filling out their  roster, or only filling it out with bums, they are hurting themselves in the long run.  But I'll use my team for example. I traded Marcus Semien and Teoscar Hernandez, both guys who if left unprotected for 4 rounds, would very likely get drafted even as older gentlemen. With advance warning about an expansion draft, I wouldn't have traded those guys. I would have waited till after the expansion draft and if I still had them, then I would have tried to trade them for youth at other positions.

So it's not at all about screwing the expansion teams. It's about moves I would have made as a GM last year, that I wouldn't have made last year, I would have instead waited until this year.  Just like the couple closers I traded. I could have held onto them, knowing they likely would get taken in the expansion draft and I'd be ok with it, or if they didn't get taken, then I could trade them for the younger players I now got in return.

Maybe Teoscar, Semien is fading. You are fortunate you got something for him.

I see your mouth moving, but all I can hear and visualize is loading the new GM's with trash......lets take at your first saved:. 
Contreas
Tork
Lindor
Vaughn
Colson
Bellinger
Ohtani
Volpe
Cam Smith
Rushing
Roberts
Yamamoto
Gilbert
Daiz
Cease

Meat on the bone
Ward
Vest
Kirby
Castillo

Just one exercise. That not included more protected later in the draft. And without over analyzing. Starting pitching and not ready for prime time or over prime players. Who knows, maybe this might fix stashing away on minors?

Wait another year? Had I not had the stones to bring it up, it would have been another year, in addition to wait another year. I say fuck that! Let the kids play

The sting is like a bee, not a wasp. To get new blood its worth it.
 

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Stepping Razor wrote:

For shits & grins, lets take a look at who I would save:
Kurtz
Marte
Neto
Turang
Cower
Frelick
Elly
Julio
Bulter
Wilson
Ford
Crochet
Miz
R Suarez
Pivetta

Meat on the bone
Salvi-productive but old
Polanco-ditto
Ozuan-I think I dropped him, if not, ditto
E Saurez-hurts, may waiver my mind or trade, depending if staying with Seattle.
Either Salvi or E Saurez gets picked. I can then protect the other.

JAG SP's, set up dudes, and waiver wire guys after that.

Just like the pros, roster turnover is a way of life. You guys want to be like old school 1921 owners keeping guys forever lolol
 

Not that I care particularly but in this scenario, my guess is one of the new owners would take Misiorowski rather than Suarez or Salvi.


But I'm curious, what about waiting a year to expand is going to fuck new owners. If anything it will benefit them because more young players will likely get called up.