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Steve Yeakel's avatar

Just like for the position players, my hope for the pitchers is that we take 2022 to find out what we have, and give them a chance to settle in, rather than bring in more veterans to block us from our chance to find that out. And then, in the unlikely event that we catch lightning in a bottle, and realize that one or two "don't mortgage the future again" moves could actually get us into the playoffs in 2022, then make a trade. To me, we already have Mike Minor as the (uninspiring but example setter) innings eater veteran and mentor for the starters. So, bringing in Max or someone for a lot of money - when we do not even know if that would do the trick - and, by doing so anyway - we might lose our chance to keep starting spot open, to find out which of our long list of young starters are going to be the ones we want. On the bullpen side, I would not mind bringing Greg Holland back, to be that veteran mentor. It seems there are some other teams (are there?) that have not felt that they had to free agent sign, or trade for, big name starters or relievers, and have, instead, successfully relied on their own young starters to get the job done, exposing the possible fallacy that it cannot be done without big/expensive names.

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Eli Nitz's avatar

I also believe figuring out what we have is a better option than signing free agents. I don't want to see anyone blocked and the depth suggests we have the ability to find out who our long term answers are even if we have some injuries or poor production. We are not going to the playoffs in 2022. Find out what we have so 2023 we can trade or sign pieces to help make a real playoff run.

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