Off-Season Goals For Your Team?

[BadgerFan]

What are some goals you have for your team coming into the off-season?

 

Brewers

 

Trade Prince Fielder to the Tampa Bay Rays for Wade Davis, and a lower level prospect.

Sign Lance Berkman to a 2 year deal worth about 6-7 million per year.

Trade whatever prospects it takes to land Zack Greinke

Sign Bobby Valentine as manager

 

Defense

 

C: Jonathan Lucroy

1B: Lance Berkman

2B: Rickie Weeks

3B: Casey McGehee

SS: Alcedias Escobar

LF: Ryan Braun

CF: Lorenzo Cain

RF: Corey Hart

 

Rotation:

 

1. Zack Greinke

2. Yovani Gallardo

3. Wade Davis

4. Randy Wolf

5. Mark Rogers

 

 

Bullpen is still a bit iffy, but you have Axford, Hawkins, Loe, Braddock, Jeffries, and Coffey.

 

Your goals for your team?

Edited November 1, 2010 by BadgerFan

[NomarFachix]

Moves

Re-sign Jeter, 3/45

Re-sign Rivera, 2/30

Re-sign Wood, 3/15

Re-sign Thames, 2/6

Sign Lee 5/150

Sign Buck 2/10

Offer Pettitte 1/13, pray that he wants to play again.

Decline Nick Johnson's option

Decline Lance Berkman's option

Offer Vazquez arbitration, there is absolutely no way he wants to get murdered in NY again by the fans/media, take the draft pick(s)

 

 

Lineup

1. Brett Gardner - LF

2. Derek Jeter - SS

3. Robinson Cano - 2B

4. Alex Rodriguez - 3B

5. Mark Teixeira - 1B

6. Nick Swisher - RF

7. Jorge Posada/Jesus Montero - DH

8. Jesus Montero/John Buck - C

9. Curtis Granderson - CF

 

Bench

C Buck/Posada

1B Juan Mirana

INF Eduardo Nunez

OF Greg Golson

DH Marcus Thames

 

Rotation

1. Cliff Lee

2. C.C. Sabathia

3. Phil Hughes

4. A.J. Burnett

5. Ivan Nova

 

Bullpen

Mariano Rivera

Kerry Wood

Joba Chamberlain

David Robertson

Boone Logan

Sergio Mitre

 

 

 

 

Not sure if this is realistic or not... But it's something I would shoot for. We were 2 games away from the world series, so I don't think many drastic moves are needed. Lee obviously helps, and upgrading the catching situation (cut the [expletive] out of Cervelli, I hate his life) is nice. Montero should mash.

[Phightins]

Philadelphia Phillies (realistic version)

 

Moves

Sign Charlie Manuel to an extension. Give him a blank check.

Bring in Juan Samuel or Mariano Duncan to be 1B coach

Release Danys Baez...eat the money, cut the losses

Resign Chad Durbin, 2/9

Resign Wilson Valdez, 2/4

Sign Matt Diaz (if he is nontendered), 1/4.5

If Diaz is kept in Atlanta, sign Jeff Francoeur for something similar

Sign Jerry Hairston Jr. (or someone similar..Nick Punto/Julio Lugo/etc) for 1/3

 

 

Lineup vs RHP

Placido Polanco 3B

Chase Utley 2B

Jimmy Rollins SS

Ryan Howard 1B

Raul Ibanez LF

Shane Victorino CF

Domonic Brown/Ross Gload RF

Carlos Ruiz C

 

Lineup vs LHP

Placido Polanco 3B

Chase Utley 2B

Jimmy Rollins SS

Ryan Howard 1B

Shane Victorino CF

Matt Diaz RF

Ben Francisco LF

Carlos Ruiz C

 

Bench

Brian Schneider

Wilson Valdez

Jerry Hairston Jr.

Ross Gload/Domonic Brown/Ben Francisco/Matt Diaz/Raul Ibanez (I expect a massive OF platoon with the exception of CF)

 

Rotation

Roy Halladay

Roy Oswalt

Cole Hamels

Joe Blanton

Vance Worley

 

Bullpen

Brad Lidge

Ryan Madson

Chad Durbin

Antonio Bastardo

Mike Zagurski

Scott Mathieson

Kyle Kendrick/Justin de Fratus

 

 

OK, so this is a realistic offseason. Obviously the big departure is Jayson Werth. I see almost no way they bring him back, although Ruben seems optimistic. Probably just posturing. Domonic Brown will be eased into a starting role, but I don't expect him to be a full time starter until 2012 when Raul Ibanez is gone. Jeff Francoeur probably got a "WTF" reaction out of most of you, but as terrible of an approach as he has, the man can hit LHP which is all he'd be needed for here. Diaz would be my top choice if he becomes available, though. I also don't expect Raul Ibanez to play much vs. LHP. As for the lineup, I guarantee that JRoll or Vic leads off due to Charlie's stubbornness, but neither of them are anywhere close to what I want from my leadoff hitter. Placido Polanco cannot run the bases well, but he is the closest thing to a "prototypical leadoff hitter" this team has. Plus with Werth gone, I'd love to have the switch hitters hitting farther down in the order to break up the lefties, especially vs. left handed starters.

 

Bullpen is the other big question mark. Romero's option has already been declined, and chances are Durbin and Jose Contreras will want multi-year deals. I'd be cool with giving Durbin 2 or 3 years, but Contreras is a bit old for that. And all of the experienced left handed specialists will likely be mass overpaid (Pedro Feliciano, Javier Lopez, Scott Downs, etc). So clearly the only option is to build the pen from within. Bastardo, Zagurski, Mathieson, de Fratus, etc. de Fratus may need a year in AAA, but I love his arm. Eventually he will be here. Kendrick will either be the long reliever or he will be gone. Can't see him beating out Worley for the 5th SP. I'd like to keep him around for depth, but doubt he goes for that.

 

 

Pipe dream offseason....find a hidden revenue source that they haven't tapped into yet, use that money to re-sign Jayson Werth for 6/108 and Scott Downs for whatever he wants.. Find suckers to take Joe Blanton's and Raul Ibanez's contracts, and then sign Cliff Lee for 6/170.

 

 

 

Sorry for the lengthy read!

Edited November 1, 2010 by Phightins

[fish7718]

Mets

 

Sign Bobby Valentine as manager

Cut/Trade Oliver, he's cancer, I'll admit it's a horrid deal

Start working on extension for Jose Reyes

Non-tender: Maine

Resign Feliciano

Resign Dickey

Work Extension on Pelfrey

Go out and get 1 big FA: Werth/Crawford/Lee and/or QUALITY RELIEVERS

 

What I would like to see next season:

 

Rotation

 

1. Cliff Lee

2. Johan Santana

3. RA Dickey

4. Mike Pelfrey

5. Jon Niese

 

Mejia in minors

 

Lineup:

1. Jose Reyes 2B

2. Angel Pagan RF

3. David Wright 3B

4. Carlos Beltran CF

5. Ike Davis 1B

6. Jason Bay LF

7. Josh Thole C

8. Luis Castillo 2B

 

Bullpen:

 

CL: Francisco Rodriguez

SU: Pedro Feliciano

SU: Dan Wheeler

RHP: Ryota Igarashi

RHP: Bobby Parnell

LHP: Hisanori Takahashi

[Phightins]

Mets

 

Sign Bobby Valentine as manager

Cut/Trade Oliver, he's cancer, I'll admit it's a horrid deal

Start working on extension for Jose Reyes

Non-tender: Maine

Resign Feliciano

Resign Dickey

Work Extension on Pelfrey

Go out and get 1 big FA: Werth/Crawford/Lee and/or QUALITY RELIEVERS

 

What I would like to see next season:

 

Rotation

 

1. Cliff Lee

2. Johan Santana

3. RA Dickey

4. Mike Pelfrey

5. Jon Niese

 

Mejia in minors

 

Lineup:

1. Jose Reyes 2B

2. Angel Pagan RF

3. David Wright 3B

4. Carlos Beltran CF

5. Ike Davis 1B

6. Jason Bay LF

7. Josh Thole C

8. Luis Castillo 2B

 

Bullpen:

 

CL: Francisco Rodriguez

SU: Pedro Feliciano

SU: Dan Wheeler

RHP: Ryota Igarashi

RHP: Bobby Parnell

LHP: Hisanori Takahashi

 

My old friend Andy Martino (now Mets beat writer for NY Daily News) says not to expect any "major signings" for the Mets.

[fish7718]

My old friend Andy Martino (now Mets beat writer for NY Daily News) says not to expect any "major signings" for the Mets.

I don't expect em, those are my goals. I expect us to just sign some small players, and save up for next off season when we have a lot of our contracts clearing.

[Phightins]

I don't expect em, those are my goals. I expect us to just sign some small players, and save up for next off season when we have a lot of our contracts clearing.

 

Honestly that is probably the smart thing to do with a new GM. Give Alderson a year to get a sense of things, and once the bad contracts are off the books, let him put his stamp on the team. Probably means a 4th or 5th place finish this year though.