Most of mine and Bryce's ideas have been built on a general re-tooling of the team (or even a near total reboot) But what if we want to make a big run for 2015? What would be a good plan of attack?
Well, the answer to that is to analyze where we need improvement. 2b,CF,starting pitcher all come to mind.(as we lose 2 starters). Here's an idea on how to do this within our budget.
Offer Santana the QO and pray he turns it down.
Trade Justin Upton and Walden to the Red Sox for Cespedes, JBJ and Victorino (they get rid of Cespedes who they can't make a QO to and clear Victorino off the payroll opening up their OF to the guys they want to play, and apparently Cespedes isn't well liked there)
Trade BJ and TLS to the Blue Jays for Mark Beurhle and we throw in $15m over the next 3 years
Sign Justin Masterson on a one year $8m deal with incentives that can push it to $15m if he performs well (contingent on his passing a medical review that includes and MRI) if he's healthy he could view a 1 yr deal as a chance to re-gain some value.
re-sign Boner Face for 2 years $6m
bring in Jhonny Gomes 2yr $6m
non tender Meds and Beachy and bring them back on reduced incentive laden "make good" deals
Keep Gattis for one more years
Peraza gets every chance to win the 2b job
Rotation:
Teheran
Wood
Beurhle
Masterson
Hale
Lineup:
Peraza-2b
Heyward-rf
Freeman-1b
Gattis-C
Cespedes-LF
Victorino-CF
CJ-3b
Simmons-SS
bench:
C-Beth
Gomes
Boner Face
Goose
Terdo
pen:
Kimbrel
Carpenter
Simmons
Shreve
Medlen
Russel
Varvaro
that team would score a lot of runs, pitch fairly well and the bench is much improved. I think it could make a solid run at the playoffs.
