Ozuna needs to go. Yes he is capable of a good season but you are playing with fire in trusting him to consistently produce them.
Sale… dominating when on, but good god he gets hurt at the worst times.
Fried… had a bad year but should be the #1 priority this offseason. But he won’t.
I honestly would rather struggle offensively next year than lose Fried. Because you are effectively forcing Hurston and all the prospects to grow up really fast to help out strider if you don’t keep him. Because you are effectively hoping for a rental that may or may not pan out like Boyd or Sonny Gray and hinging your season on the back end.
I just think stability in the rotation is far more important at this point than finding long ballers in an already built lineup.
I can’t really diss Ozuna because he was by far our best hitter this year and flirted with MVP numbers for most of the season.
He’s actually had two great seasons in a row with back to back years with over .900 OPS.
I agree Fried should be a priority and won’t and most likely goes to the Dodgers.
Sale was by far our best pitcher but yeah he does have an injury ridden career.
I can give or take Strider and maybe that’s a hot take I dunno.
But he rarely seems to be able to make it even 6 innings before hitting 100+ pitches and I don’t think I’ll ever get use to that from a guy that’s supposed to be an ‘Ace’
I’m not sure about Acuna either because he’s already missed about 2 full seasons and this year before he even got hurt he was giving way less than 100% effort.
But worse than any of that it just feels like our front office doesn’t really care about putting together a team built to legitimately compete for a WS.
The last few seasons have been really frustrating with the injuries and letting Freeman go to LA.
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