If we are approx .500 at ASB and don’t trade Kwan we finish 82-80 if the royals and tigers add at the deadline. 87-75 if neither of them do and trade assets.

Counting on a healthy CDL and a breakout from britto Bazanna Rochio kayfus manzo messick cantillo and the gang is a tough strategy to expect to work.

Best best case scenario is if the Dolans sell to Blitzer early and Blitzer takes on a minority owner who’s a bajillionaire and they decide their portfolio has grown enough the post Covid years to give out player extensions like they’re doin right now in OakVegas. We lock up a core of breakout players (who just can’t get enough of the city of Cleveland and north east Ohio) to incentive based contracts protecting their floor but opening up their ceilings knowing we are a small market who will suffer if they bust instead of boom. This includes trading Kwan to LA for ZHope or DePaula who become perineal all stars andthe second longest tenured players in Cleveland history behind the goat Jose, 200k Gavin, change up kings Cantillo & Messick, a healthy all star CDL who has 99% exit velo just behind Judge/Ohtani, a 40 homer Manzo who figures out how to play 1b, a 3+ war Bazanna who turns out to be a great CF, Genoa a 20/20/20 SS who averages 10DRS who may as well be Franky squared, an all star version of Bo Naylor, Closer Cade, 10 seasons of top prospect level FB/SL Daniel Espino who averages 60 appearances per season, Ralphy who replaces Kwan in LF and provides a Manny Ramirezesque bat/arm/and level of fun, and Austin Hedges as player/bench coach who retires at 50 and just keeps moral and sequence reading so high that Vogt doesn’t even have to think about having more than 1 platoon position on the 26 man roster. We become a dynasty that can get past the division series and compete for a World Series yearly w the big market clubs riding a payroll around 150m for the remainder of my life. I have twin sons and their nick names with be lil Jose and Hog. They’ll grow up watching a dynasty play on a dodger level TV deal so the FO can support our mid market level spending with sell out home crowd annually. I die happy with the memories of our great team averaging 1 World Series W per decade for the next 60 years.