OK, DiPoto LOVES the spaghetti against the wall theory about picking up relievers. In that respect I don't see him paying big for a reliever. He's more likely to get two cheap guys and see which one gets hot. And the 2013-2014 Joe Smith hasn't lived since, well 2014. He's been pretty pedestrian the past two seasons. Is he a better get (being more expensive) than your run-of-the-mill spaghetti? A Chapman would be lot different!
But some of this may depend on MiMo's start tomorrow: If he lights it up and is throwing 94 in the 7th, then we may have to go get an RP.
I would be tickled to watch a Kuma-to-the-pen experiment but you have to get Kuma buy-in AND then we have to pick up a starter.
But I bet that any move we make doesn't give away much of the farm...and isn't "big," unless we're getting a starter...or Chapman. But starters are gong to be wildly expensive and Chapman comes with some downside.
And you will likely think I'm nuts....but if I'm going big I would go really big and sniff around the Angels, politely inquiring just how much I would have to give up for Trout. For that, I would gladly give up Tank and Deej and Martin and all the pretty young things. To make it work on the balance sheet you would have to commit to a true Stars and Scrubs attitude in '17 and '18...no Smith or Lind type signings, for example. (although I would get ni early on a1-yr extension of Lee). You would have to play with the Kivlehans/Romeros/Pizzanos/Robertsons etc in the complementary roles. After '18 Cruz is off the books and then he pays for much of Trout's $34M for '19 and '20.
Smith and Lind are costing us $15M this year...They basically pay for Trout this year and nearly next year. If you traded Lind out for something right now....you could do this financially, knowing that you're going to have $34M for Trout in '19 and '20.
Ask yourself, was Willie Mays worth $34M?