If we add free agents, they need to fit into one of two categories:
1. Relatively young and will still be productive in 2023 and 2024 (Seager, Rodriguez, Schwarber, Story)
2. One year deal gambles that wont impact the franchise long term
Yes. My hope: two starting pitchers and a hitter.
- Syndegaard, maybe, since he is recovering from TJS. He's a gamble worth taking with team options.
- Steven Matz, has never made more than $5 million, and this is only his second productive year.
Those two for consideration, because we know them from the Muts, the organization that chews up pitchers and spits them out, and because I live in New York, where Met-ness is everywhere.
An OF who hits, another Schwarber, since it is easier to find a hitting OF than a SS who hits. Note, of course: Alcides is 34, and the only minor league SS is Antuna.
There are too many holes to fill all at once. Need another starting pitcher, for instance, and maybe Cavalli is The Guy, but he just got promoted to AAA. Maybe Robles will hit like the player he was supposed to be, which would give the Nats another star OF. Maybe.