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DarthMurph
The Dodgers can stomach the 11 million dollar hit and have a need. They have tens of millions invested in broken starters coming off the books.
BlueSkyLA
Those contracts are going to be at least partially insured against injuries, so for all intents and purposes, Billingsley, Beckett and Maholm are already off the books.
Joe Covert
The D-Backs would be better off trading Hill, Montero and Trumbo for a starting pitcher. Moving Owings to second and keeping Gregorius at Short is the solution. Inciarte (LF), Pollock (CF), Peralta (RF); Lamb (3B), Gregorius (SS), Owings (2B) Goldschmidt (1B) and Tuffy (C); Having Pennington, Marte and Pacheco as your infield and outfield backups. Having said all that, the best thing Gibson or the next manager can do is run out their starting eight position players with regularity and that doesn’t been every three days.
ChiefIlliniwek
I don’t think that the case can be made that Tuffy is one of your 8 best and Montero isn’t. Unless they’re going full-rebuild, and it doesn’t seem like they are, they’re not trading Montero to play a career backup at catcher.
I don’t know how much you’re going to get by dealing Hill at this point. And Trumbo, while able to be traded, would fetch more if they could demonstrate he was healthy and recovered.
Skaggs and Santiago would certainly make the pitching staff look better. But given the absence of a time-machine, they’re going to have to figure out a different way to get better.