Source: http://ift.tt/IsN8HP --- Sunday, December 03, 2017
If you’re a Baseball fan, you want tradez now and free agent signings sooner. If you’re a millennial, your attention span doesn’t allow you to think about February because you already lost interest in this sentence when it became longer than a tweet. The fact is, though, as the off-season progresses — and by “progresses” I mean Giancarlo Stanton is still a Marlin, Shohei Ohtani is still a Ham Fighter (do you really need to fight ham? How scary can thin slices be?) , and most of the desirable free agents are, well, still desirable free agents — what is becoming clearer to me is that patience might be a virtue for a team like the A’s. Oakland struck quickly where it needed to, fortifying the bullpen with a relatively small but important deal that brought Emilio Pagan to the A’s, then signing the perennially underrated Yusmeiro Petit. As for other moves that might improve the team, the A’s are still on the hunt for a RH batting outfielder and perhaps a starting pitcher, maybe a catcher. Like a fine wine, most good options for the A’s could get sweeter over time. Stanton’s destination will start a domino of moves, and if he lands with St. Louis then both Stephen Piscotty and Randal Grichuk become very attainable. However, my “Montas, Casilla, and change for Piscotty” suggestion is not one the Cardinals are going to consider now because their outfield situation is not yet clarified. Patience, grasshopper... Another popular name round ...
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