I'm very keen on dumping Yovani (it still hurts my 10 years ago self to write that, by the way), but here's the thing. Maybe we shouldn't stop there. I like Gaviglio and Bergman; for me, they've been the silver lining we've been looking for in all of this, and I don't want them to GO anywhere. (Okay fine, Miranda's solidification is truly the icing on the DL-horror fest cake).
That said, I also I like what Smyly has been and we need to know what Felix now is - just like we did with some of the younger guys.
Felix isn't going anywhere, not on that contract, and neither should Smyly. Let's say we ship off Gallardo AND - why not? - Iwakuma. Which of these players, after all, has the most impact for the '18-'19 teams? Do that and we're still dealing with a mini-jam, going Paxton-Felix (for the name)-Miranda-Smyly-Bergman. You've still got Gaviglio and Moore (forgot anyone else) cooling their jets in AAA, but that leaves you with a competition for the 5 slot and a fail-safe in case of meltdown/injury.
I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't be so quick to ship guys off. (That's DiPoto's thing, after all...) But with these other guys emerging, suddenly I'm not as unwilling to move on from Hisashi as I might have been previously. Am I nuts? (It's quite possible. But if I am... are we really supposed to just demote Bergman/Gaviglio both and forget about 'em until the next emergency?)