Question of the week: Grade the trade deadline

I was good standing pat, giving the reps to the young relievers and hitters and going all in for 2027, but that's not a popular take so I get why they felt they had to make moves.

But it kind of feels like they were making moves as fan service. Fans were talking about the bullpen so that's what they went at, but the bullpen had started to come into it's own after a half season of tinkering and it seemed more than clear that Ryan was hitting the wall, Ober hit the wall 18 months ago and the young starters were probably close to their inning totals anyway.

This team TALKED about spending money, and sure, 8M is nothing to sneeze at, but it's still only a quarter of what they cut last off season, so the team still took a discount there. If they'd truly wanted to put their money where their mouth was, shouldn't they have gone after one if not two of Gausman, Peralta, Ray, May or Holmes instead of Kremer? These guys went for virtually no player equity.