BPCelio Offseason Plan

By BPCelio

9:59 AM CDT on October 24, 2020

PREAMBLE

"Get set up for your attack run"-Garven Dreis

ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE PLAYERS

Nomar Mazara: NON-TENDER
Carlos Rodón: $4.5M TENDER
Lucas Giolito: $2.5M TENDER
Reynaldo López: $1.7M TENDER
Evan Marshall: $1.3M TENDER
Adam Engel: $1M TENDER
Jace Fry: $800K TENDER
Yolmer Sánchez: NON-TENDER

CLUB OPTIONS

Edwin Encarnación: DECLINE
Gio González: DECLINE
Leury García: $3.5M EXERCISE

OTHER IMPENDING FREE AGENTS

Alex Colomé LET GO
James McCann LET GO
Jarrod Dyson LET GO

COACHING STAFF

Here’s a first: Pick your manager and pitching coach, with any elaboration.

Manager: AJ Hinch
Pitching coach: Whomever Hahn and Hinch agree on

FREE AGENTS

Marcus Stroman 4 years/$85 Million, 5th year vesting option with $5 Million buyout, AAV of $22.5 Million
Liam Hendricks 3 years/$48 Million, AAV of $16 Million
Joc Pederson 4 years/$60 Million, AAV of $15 Million
Yolmer Sanchez Minor League Deal

TRADES

NONE. Save ammo for deadline

SUMMARY

Payroll: $146.6 Million (plus Yolmer's minimum salary)

GOALS: Balance out the lineup, put pressure on young starters to preform, make bullpen even tougher. Pederson is greater than the hopes of what they thought Mazara might be. Pairing him up with Engle in RF is good cot damn business. Stroman adds a frontline starter with greater playoff numbers than Bauer. Giolito, Stroman and Keuchel will match up with any team in October. With only 2 spots in the rotation; Dunning, Kopech, Cease, Rodon and Lopez have no margin for error. They can pitch in Chicago or Charlotte. Pressure creates diamonds or burst pipes. Hendricks levels up the Closer. Throwing Hendricks, Bummer and Marshall at the end of games...MERCY!!!

And rolling out another high caliber rookie for the 4th straight year, we get Andrew Vaughn splitting time with Abreu at 1B.

At bottom of roster, the Braintrust will need to figure out what to do about backup C. Do they focus on defense to compliment Grandal. Do they sacrifice that for more offense?. Garcia becomes the Super-Utility guy he was always meant to be. Sanchez over Mendick in my book and of course Engle.

BN C/TBD, OF/Adam Engle, IF/Yolmer Sanchez, IF-OF/Leury Garcia