Let's make a deal. I am switching to organization teardown in preparation for rebuild mode. What does that mean? It means that essentially my entire experienced major league roster is available for the right price with the sole exception of John Pottle who will never play for another team if I can help it despite his high salary and early decline. He's my buddy. So here are some blurbs about some of the guys you could definitely get. I will be keeping my younger guys who only recently debuted. The ones who are straight up on the block are the guys I didn't draft. I like the guys I drafted, I'm weird that way. But almost anyone is available for the right offer.
Cheslav Zamorov (
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Zuleide Rainha (
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Pio Seixas (
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That's right, folks, three BONA FIDE WBA SUPERSTARS are available for the right price. Get in while the getting's good.
Oh, and as I'm telling everyone so we're all on the same page, I gave up a 1st, 2nd, and 4th round pick plus a solid (not superstar) prospect for Rainha. So that's the baseline I'm looking at for whatever deals may happen.
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