John Becker
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602 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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But they have pretty consistently struggled to build depth beyond.
30 guys.
And then once you get into the dog days of summer and you're pulling from the bottom of your forty man roster and need to call up some prospects.
They don't really have those guys to call up.
I mean, Christian Moore, who was a prospect that they called up, just went down with a thumb sprain and they called up
Um
A twenty-seven year old uh rookie Chad Stevens to replace him who's never really been a prospect.
So they're already sort of angels in in that regard.
Um
Knowing their ownership and knowing maybe the optics of, you know, Ron Washington had to step away due to illness and they might feel some obligation to sort of win for him, so to speak.
I think that if they're um hanging around as they are now, they'll probably buy or at least stand pat, but
It's entirely possible that, you know, with under four weeks, there's still plenty of time to have a stretch that
derails a team season or on the flip side, a stretch like the Blue Jays just had where a team catapults themselves right back into the thick of things.
Yeah, I think Taylor Ward is a guy that's been talked about for at minimum the last two, maybe three deadlines, as a guy that
Um, can maybe not quite anchor the middle of the lineup, but definitely help lengthen a lineup.
Um, he still has, I think, at least one more, maybe two more years after this before free agency.
Um, if they go the will-only sell rentals route, um, which is what they've typically done.
Um, Yon Monkata, if he comes back from injury and looks okay.
Um Kyle Hendricks perhaps is a starter that, you know, as a five and dive guy can maybe help a team.
Kenley Jansen, um, if a team has a closing opportunity for him, knowing that he
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