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Originally Posted by Matty81
I am a bit shocked that they pay that kind of price for Happ, who has a way better pedigree as a starter than Charlie V, Laffey or Cecil and then stick him in the pen... Hopefully he gets put into the rotation quickly, otherwise why give up 7 players. Sure none of the prospects are really amazing but 4 of them are very solid B prospects. Not the kind of price to pay for a guy if you think he's Brian Tallet 2.0
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It's one of those things that you can't single out any of the starters we are currently using as they've all been semi decent lately and yank them because you got a shiny new toy. It instills some confidence in Villaneuva Cecil and Laffey to keep up the good work, while shoring up the pen which was drastically needed, and provides a good quality replacement if any of those guys start to suck.
Musgrove's potential is to basically become what Happ is now, a 4th/5th starter or long reliever.
Woj is not likely going to make the majors with any kind of success
Perez is hurt too much, has no power and isn't hitting all that well and is 4th on the depth chart behind Jimenez, D'Arnaud and JPA.
Rollins is replaceable
So even though we gave some stuff up, we didn't really. Plus we have so many starters that we are doubling them up and that runs you into trouble because once guys start getting moved up like Snydergaard Nicolino etc then you'll only have a couple spots available for your next wave of guys like Norris/Comer/Smoral to fill in and each of those guys has a lot more potential than Musgrove. This was going to happen, especially with how many good guys we've got starting at the lower levels.
Next year, we will likely draft another starter or two in our top 5 or 6 picks anyway that'll likely have a similar upside of Norris or Smoral etc instead of being a B guy like Musgrove. I'd personally rather have spots open only for elite prospects on the farm and get as many of those kinds as possible.
The Jays are a better team today, and will likely be able to keep Lyon for less than 4 million which isn't a big deal, and have control of the other two guys for years as well, both of which you could see a longer term contract being offered to. Say like with Happ, you could likely see a 3/24 with 2 or 3 options at 10 mil per if he comes in and starts and performs decently.