08-27-2021, 07:18 PM
I do think there's a potential for a log jam in our rotation next year. We have Gray for at least 1 more year and a club option for 2023, we have Gutierrez putting out solid outings each chance he gets, Tyler Mahle being his consistently consistent self, Wade Miley has a club option for 2022 that we may want to pick up considering how well he's pitched this year and then obviously Greene and Lodolo are coming up any time now.
Castillo would obviously be an upgrade over all of those players except for maybe Gray in 2022, but if we were offered something juicy for his services, it'd be harder to turn it down now given how well our minor league pitching has been developing.
At the same time, you don't really want to rely on the minor league players to come up and immediately be star players.
I could go either way with this. It's a risk regardless. Maybe it'd be best to hold onto him and then, if Greene or Lodolo is just killing it at the break in 2022, trade Castillo then.
Castillo would obviously be an upgrade over all of those players except for maybe Gray in 2022, but if we were offered something juicy for his services, it'd be harder to turn it down now given how well our minor league pitching has been developing.
At the same time, you don't really want to rely on the minor league players to come up and immediately be star players.
I could go either way with this. It's a risk regardless. Maybe it'd be best to hold onto him and then, if Greene or Lodolo is just killing it at the break in 2022, trade Castillo then.
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