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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I've spoken to this exact scenario already.
Unless you're willing to wildly expand payroll and go get Harper anyway (DeWitt isn't), then you have to view ALL of this through a lens of surplus value. And even if we don't, there are several teams out there that WILL. So guys like Weaver and Kelly have a fair amount of value on the open market.
Again - this is about twice what we gave up for Ozuna and we get the player for half as long. And when the deal for Ozuna was made, he was every bit the commodity that Goldschmidt is now; a 2nd year of control is massive in trade discussions.
That package for a rental player is flash over substance; it's what lazy GM's do when they're out of ideas. And it's an acknowledgement that DeWitt's shooting for 90 wins, a wild-card game and some good luck. He's taking the floor over the ceiling and in so doing he's giving up assets that can contribute to THIS organization (who's taking the innings when Mikolas and Wacha get paid in 2020? Or do you really want to extend them?) or have value elsewhere.
If they sign Harper and Goldschmidt is a part of making that happen - I'll take it all back. But they won't. This is it. They're going to go get Tony Sipp or some other fungible but overpriced veteran reliever, they're going to push for 90 wins and hope the Brewers backslide.
They'll be the 5th best team in the NL again but they'll be older and almost certainly more expensive, especially in the long-term. There's no long-term vision here; just a willingness to keep going for the easy headline in the hopes that the turnstile algorithm keeps churning out profits.
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you hated Weaver and Kelly, fo i really need to go get the quotes of you trashing them? but now they are worth more than a year of Goldy?