This is obviously as premature as the seller thread, but what has to happen before we're buyers and what would you want to buy?
We've got thirteen divisional games before the ASG and we play Houston a bunch plus Detroit and New York so and kind of resurgence would be very hard.
But... What would it take? Getting above .500 would be a pretty big accomplishment in a short amount of time and it would be nice to be able to reward that with a trade to improve the team going forward.
But I don't think that's enough. I think .500 is where the discussion starts. I don't think we want to trade much just to get a wild card slot. I think we'd need to be within five or so games of the division lead. I'd rather not still have to climb over everyone, but if we're above .500 and still in last, is going to have to be a pretty close grouping.
Anyway, we've won four of six including a series against a pretty good Royals team so I'm feeling optimistic.
We've got thirteen divisional games before the ASG and we play Houston a bunch plus Detroit and New York so and kind of resurgence would be very hard.
But... What would it take? Getting above .500 would be a pretty big accomplishment in a short amount of time and it would be nice to be able to reward that with a trade to improve the team going forward.
But I don't think that's enough. I think .500 is where the discussion starts. I don't think we want to trade much just to get a wild card slot. I think we'd need to be within five or so games of the division lead. I'd rather not still have to climb over everyone, but if we're above .500 and still in last, is going to have to be a pretty close grouping.
Anyway, we've won four of six including a series against a pretty good Royals team so I'm feeling optimistic.