Hosmer has a full no trade clause for this season. But Hosmer and prospects for Whit and Kennedy would be something I would talk about it. Hosmer would sell some tickets.

Yikes.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking: Gerrit Cole to Yankees. 9 years. 36M per. 324M total.</p>&mdash; Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1204626053278289920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That was a 1 team race, incredible. There isn’t a dollar value that the Yankees wouldn’t have matched.

Flanny asked DM about Holland returning....he didn’t dismiss it. Back to the future.

Insane

More people going to be buying Padres tickets now that he would be gone?

Why would you ever want Hosmer back while giving up someone like Merrifield in the deal no matter what prospects are coming back?

Hosmer is a career 9.9 WAR player in 9 seasons with 10.6 of that WAR coming in 3 seasons... you do the math on the remaining 6 years. He's ****ing trash.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;d have liked Gausman in KC, so basically the Giants made two deals in the last hour that I would have been thrilled with if the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> did them.</p>&mdash; David Lesky (@DBLesky) <a href="https://twitter.com/DBLesky/status/1204533254797303810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Royals standing there with their dicks in their hands.

“Cheese and Rice! Im getting dern sick and tired of all the complaining. Aw shucks when the development is dern good and ready, we’ll adjust our payroll accordingly. Shut the front door!”

DM

The more this plays out the more I think DM is a bumbling stooge that lucked into a championship because he had years of high picks from unintentionally tanking.

The lack of urgency to up grade the major league team that lost 100 + games two years in a row is malpractice. This idea that it's acceptable to bottom out the way they have is dumb... look at the Rays... the sustained consistency of success and player development... that should be us.

It's simple. DM knows his job is 100% secure, so why make any risky moves when he can take the slow and steady approach and still keep his job almost no matter what? We could lose 100+ for another 2 years and Moore would still not feel the heat. Apparently a single world series wins him a lifetime of goodwill. Meanwhile teams like Boston and Chicago (Cubs) have fired managers or executives soon after championships for not continuing with the same excellence.

And bottoming out intentionally would be fined if we coupled it with trading anyone with value and stockpiling talent like Houston did. But Dayton Moore still refuses to fully commit to the rebuild and ignorantly wants to hold on to the "core" of a 100 loss team.

Boras gets around 5% of that.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Boras offseason scorecard: <br><br>Cole: $324M.<br>Strasburg: $245M<br>Moustakas: $64M.<br><br>Total: $633M.<br><br>Still to come: Rendon, Ryu, Castellanos, Keuchel.</p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1204629107683676160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That right there is a ton of my issue, they are literally choosing to do nothing. It's ****ing ridiculous.