Free Agency losses and Potential Adds

Using Spotrac as my tool to show who is a free agent, we have these players set for free agency

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Player	Position
Maldonado	C
Brantley	OF
Madris	OF/1B
Neris	RP
Stanek	RP
Maton	RP

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Our 26 man on the opening day would look something like with zero Free Agent adds

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#	Position Player	Position		Pitcher	Starter/Reliever
1	Diaz	C		Verlander	SP
2	Abreu	1B		Valdez	SP
3	Altuve	2B		Javier	SP
4	Bregman	3B		Brown	SP
5	Peña	SS		Urquidy	SP
6	McCormick	LF		France	SP
7	Dubon	CF		Whitley	SP/RP
8	Tucker	RF		Martinez	RP
9	Yordan	DH		Sousa	RP
10	Meyers	OF (B)		Montero	SU/RP
11	Salazar	C (B)		Graveman	SU/RP
12	Kessinger	UTIL (B)		Abreu	SU
13	Singleton	1B / DH (B)		Pressly	CP

Whitley will be on the roster if he is uninjured to start the season. He is out of options and we aren't going to drag him along for all these years to give up at the end.

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Now, to round out our 40 man currently we have

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Player	Position
Bielak	SP
Blanco	SP/RP
Dubin	SP/RP
Gage	RP
Mushinski	RP
Kuhnel	RP
Paredes	RP
Hensley	UTIL
Julks	OF/3B (allegedly)

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That's 5 options available for our 40 man through free agency or internal promotion.

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We also have 3 guys on the 60 day IL right now who will eventually take 3 spots (or get DFA'd) when they come back

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Player	Position
McCullers	SP(?)
Garcia	SP
Ortega	RP

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That leaves us 3-7 spots if you assume Singleton, Ortega, Paredes, and Kuhnel are expendable

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We realistically need a defense first backup Catcher that could kind of mentor Diaz through his first season as a full time starter. We definitely need some bullpen help, and while we may be able to get away without adding SP, I think we need at least 1 proven pitcher.

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Money is obviously a question, but I've seen estimates vary depending on what source you look at for our "cap hit" BUT if Crane is trying to keep us a championship contender, we almost have to spend through the first bracket this season, meaning 256.9999 MM payroll.

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I'm going to go with the $235MM dollar that Rome tweeted about as a reference point.

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That leaves us about $22MM of wiggle room for external options to fill out our roster spots.

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Here are some guys that we could grab multiples of in that price range (estimates by Spotrac)

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Player	Position	Estimated AAV (MM)
Paxton	SP	$9.3
Brad Keller	SP	$4
Severino	SP	$11.7
Giolitto	SP	$11.9
Lorenzen	SP	$9.2
Austin Hedges	C	$4.3
Victor Caratini	C	$3.1
Phil Maton	RP	$4
Matt Moore	RP	$3.5
Luis Garcia (not ours)	RP	$2.2
Brad Hand	RP	No Value Listed ($2-4?)

Those are our biggest areas of need, and Neris could still opt in, but I doubt he will unfortunately

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Finally here are a few names that I'd personally like to see the team push for that may be out of our price range, or require some trades to free up room

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Montgomery	SP	$18.5
Dave Roberson	RP/SU	Unlisted ($5-8?)
Lordes Gurriel	OF	$14.5
Isaih Kiner Falefa	RP	$6

IKF is just a joke on here, unless….

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There are also a few prospects not on the 40 man that I didn't list here, but this list is long enough, and there are guys on this sub better at projecting prospects than I am, so I will leave potential up and coming prospects up to them to talk about who could make the opening day roster and help fill out our 40 man roster.