1 minute ago, Khani1 said:

If Skubal is headed to the Dodgers, it doesn't really matter what we do unless we dip into 500 milly payroll which won't happen. They will probably win the next two world series unless they have a lot of major injuries.

And Tucker is supposedly going there. Screw the MLB

Hopefully this turns into another Cristopher Sanchez trade

Alonso to the Orioles

1 hour ago, Diehardfan said:

And Tucker is supposedly going there. Screw the MLB

Frankly the Phillies should see if they can get skubal. Use miller and painter as prospects involved. Then use luzardo as part of the package if you aren’t going to extend him next offseason and he’s gonna walk. At that point you’d have Sanchez, wheeler, skubal. Potentially could try extending Ranger at that point.

Figure out everything else later. This is gonna collapse anyway in 3 years. At that point can trade Sanchez and skubal and cash in on prospects.

Lmao at the comment

The McGarry thing is odd.

There must be either a medical or off field reason why they didn't protect him.

23 minutes ago, iladelphxx said:

The McGarry thing is odd.

There must be either a medical or off field reason why they didn't protect him.

I’m surprised with what crap they had at the back of the pen last year they didn’t at least give him a shot. I’m guessing they probably thought they could find guys they liked better rule 5 in developing.

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’m surprised with what crap they had at the back of the pen last year they didn’t at least give him a shot. I’m guessing they probably thought they could find guys they liked better rule 5 in developing.

Or they are just an incompetent organization only able to throw out big contracts to people

Padres front office is a Fing disaster. Why would you trade what you did for Mason Miller and then a couple months later want to deal him. Not likely getting close to the prospects you gave up for him which imo was an overpay

50 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Padres front office is a Fing disaster. Why would you trade what you did for Mason Miller and then a couple months later want to deal him. Not likely getting close to the prospects you gave up for him which imo was an overpay

Their owner died before last season and his brother inherited it is now trying to sell the team.

42 minutes ago, iladelphxx said:

Their owner died before last season and his brother inherited it is now trying to sell the team.

The owner died in December of 2023. The brother John took over last February. So John had to sign off on making the deal for miller as they made that mason miller move before the trade deadline. if you were trying to sell the team and cut costs then it was better to keep those cheap (extremely high ranked) top prospects rather than trade them for miller and then try to recoup. Especially considering the padres bullpen wasn’t their issue at the deadline