I see the O's going for Fedde instead of trading their better prospects (Holliday, Kjerstad, Basallo, Mayo, etc) for Crochet.
Something like Norby, Beavers, and another piece or two feels right.
There’s no reason they can’t try to sign Crochet when he is a free agent. This team will not be very good the next 2 years. He seems to want to bet on himself. Unless he’s taking a team friendly deal now (he’s not) cash in on him now and try to get some long term help. Maybe their philosophy (aka possible new owner haha) on signing pitchers will be different then.
Since Seattle needs help on offense, maybe we can package DeJong or Pham, someone with Robert. Neither of those two are bringing back anything of significance by themselves anyway.
Looks like everyone in their infield is hitting terribly.
Edit: and their outfield is bad ha Pham works in a platoon with Raley.
Is this draft expected to be great where picking 10th in the first round but first in every other round wouldn’t be as terrible as it feels picking 10th instead of 1st?
I think poster meant more you won’t get multiple from top tier for him. You can get a top tier piece and a couple from next tier though. Thats a deal where “you can pencil guys in for the future” for sure.