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Sourstuff Offseason Plan 2.0: The Upside Down

Version 1.0 Here

The previous version exists in an alternate universe where Paul DePodesta allowed his name to be used in the movie Moneyball. He gets even more famous and never takes the job with the Browns. Carson Wentz gets drafted and the Cleveland Browns win their first 4 games, making a Cleveland three-sport championship the dominant narrative in the sports news stream. Frank Stallone is also dead in this universe.

Anyway, I'm gonna abide the Duncan Morrow structure for this one.

Tender Contract:

Danny Valencia, Kid Khrush, Stephen Vogt, Sonny Gray, Liam Hendriks

Non-Tender/Don't Resign:

-Sam Fuld, Ross Detwiler, Yonder Alonso.

Free Agency:

Ivan Nova (2 yrs, 22 Million)

Chase Utley (1 yr, 8 Million)

Daniel Hudson (2 yrs, 7 Million)

Minor League Deals: Tyler Ladendorf, Henderson Alvarez, Tommy Milone

Trade Proposals:

I forced myself to change this up a bit from the last one:

Trade 1: The Vanishing of Will Byers

Dakota Chalmers + Jesse Hahn for Zack Cozart

Note: This is the crux of all my plans. So when Cozart inevitably gets traded to the Mariners, that sound you hear will be the tearing down of dimensions.

Trade 2: The Weirdo on Maple Street

Marcus Semien for Travis Jankowski + Brad Hand

Trade 3: The Flea and the Acrobat

Kendall Graveman + Liam Hendriks + Renato Nunez + Grant Holmes for Ender Inciarte + Arodys Vizcaino

Note: Inciarte is the Acrobat

Trade 4: The Upside Down

Stephen Vogt + Arodys Vizcaino for Koda Glover + Erick Fedde + Andrew Stevenson

Note: There is an upside down/upside down version of this where Nationals send us Jayson Werth and ten million dollars that I would be fine with if we get to dump Lowrie on them.

Summary:

  1. CF -Inciarte
  2. 1B - Lowrie
  3. 3B - Healy
  4. LF - Kid Khrush
  5. 2B - Utley
  6. DH - Valencia
  7. C - Maxwell
  8. SS - Cozart
  9. RF - Jankowski
Bench - Phegley, Canha or Brugman, Smolinski, Pinder
Starters - Gray, Nova, Manaea, Cotton, Triggs/Alcantara/Mengden/Fedde/Hand/Neal
Bullpen - Doolittle, Hand, Coulombe/Soto, Alcantara/Triggs, Hudson, Dull, Madson - Koda Glover waiting in the wings.

The general idea is that we massively upgrade our defense. SS, 2B, CF, and RF see massive upgrades. The young pitchers can worry less about going deep into games with effective multiple inning guys like Hand and Triggs/Alcantara in the bullpen. The young guns would also have a defense that'll create outs and prevent longer innings. So in a way, it's all in service to Manaea, Cotton, Fedde, Puk (eventually), etc... and their development.

We also cycle out some prospects in separate deals. It's almost like money laundering. I ditch guys I don't like (Grant Holmes, Renato Nunez) and trade them in for upgrades (Fedde, Stevenson).

Anyway, yeah, I hear a butterfly's wings flapping, another timeline is already being created...

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I'll go back in my hole now.