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Originally Posted by Kasi
Uh yeah I’m pretty sure people and most fan sites were pretty doom and gloom about the starters. Go back and look at when Pearson came up and struggled. Matz had come off his hot start and was struggling, Stripling was being shelled and they had Kay, Zeuch and Thornton all starting and struggling. Lots of articles came out about the Jays only having two starters and that no one was going five innings much less six. Anyway things were pretty dire back then but then Stripling got better and Matz mostly rebounded.
I’m fine trading for a mid level bullpen piece to stabilize thing but I don’t want them to spend anyone in their top 15-20 for that. Maybe something like what they have up for Walker last year, but this time for a reliever. But I don’t want them to touch the top ten for anyone like that.
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That's a pretty specific period as Pearson only had 1 start. It was also a wtf is going on week or two with spot starts and openers. But I get what you are saying.
I think the pen is a different beast though. As no one knew what to expect coming in. They performed better than expected for a couple of weeks and then it all went to ####. And any reasonable person(outside of a Mets fan) wouldn't want to trade a top prospect for pen help. There's lots of other capital. But it should be pretty obvious that health or not this team needs some support at the back end of games.