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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
His replacement is way down list of what our problems were/are
I agree. It's north of $40 million coming off the books. Need a good bat at SS and a top quality pitcher this off season with that money.
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They're gonna cite Arenado actually being on the payroll in 2022 (as opposed to the Rockies footing the bill) + raises to Wainwright and arb eligible players as justification to make only nominal 'improvements'.
Those nominal moves will be for guys like Andrew Miller who aren't actually improvements over organizational chaff anyway.
Who they
need is Corey Seager. A left-handed bat with a plus approach who is a solid shortstop and has plenty of post-season experience. He's not quite as good a fit as Harper was 3 years ago, but he's close.
If they dip into the SS market at all it will be for Story because he's older (thus less term) and had a bad platform season, so his AAV isn't likely to be as high as the Correa/Seager/Semien trio.