coolhandluke121 wrote:I hope so. With Thornburg, Nelson, Fiers, and Peralta, you should be able to patch together a decent rotation without three slightly-better-than-mediocre "proven" vets who are each making 8-figures. There's no guarantee Lohse, Garza, or Gallardo will be better than the young guys anyway. Lohse has a career ERA+ under 100, Gallardo has been trending in the wrong direction for 3 years now, and Garza has some elbow issues as well as an established track record of being only slightly better than average. Some of that money could be better spent elsewhere.
Put them all on the block and see who you get a decent offer for. If for some reason a team really wants Yo, so be it. If they want Garza, let them have him. Lohse has been the best in the last 2 years, so maybe he'll be the one to fetch a decent offer. They all have roughly the same expected value for me, so I could care less - although it is close to their last chance to get some value for Lohse and Yovani.
I'm guessing that they don't trade any of their SPs, at least in the offseason. They can keep Nelson either in the bullpen or in AAA to work on a third pitch, since odds are that you're going to need 6-8 starters over the course of the year because of injury. They want to win next year.
If the first few months are a disaster and they're clearly out of it by the deadline, then for sure Gallardo and Loshe will be available.