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Originally Posted by O.city
I'm not the biggest price fan, but he came up in conversation today with some friends.
Personally, with our ability to locate pitching I'd be hesitant but it's either way.
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What is this team's greatest strength? Starting pitching.
Why would you pay a significant price to bolster the team's greatest strength when there are so many other glaring weaknesses, like 1B and a legitimate LH bench bat.
We still need another LH reliever, as Scroate isn't trustworthy and Siegrist has a bad reverse platoon split. Theoretically, they could do that with Cooney/Lyons, but I doubt that Elder Choate gets bumped.
Lynn, Lackey, Martinez, Garcia, Wacha
If healthy, Lynn, Lackey and Garcia will certainly start in the postseason. If the org has a brain in their heads they'd start Martinez as the #2 or #3, but we'll see.
So you have to ask yourself this from a playoff perspective: what is the marginal value between David Price and Jaime Garcia/Carlos Martinez? Is it likely to make more of a difference than having a legitimate 1B or a LHR who can actually be trusted against lefties?
I don't think so. For other teams, sure, but not this one.