I say Scherzer is gone. Yasmani Tomas is a cuban OF with a ton of power.. we need to put the best bid in on him to replace Hunter. We would actually probably be saving money and getting better production. We should sign Asdrubal Cabrera on the cheap to be our shortstop. A two-year extension with Victor would be good, but maybe not ideal. It would be nice to be able to use Miggy at DH and find ourselves a younger productive 1st baseman. Sign Koji Uehara to be our closer. Soria should be the setup man. Nathan can be used as the 7th inning guy. I would like to see us deal Price to the Dodgers in the offseason for Joc Pederson and Julio Urias. Sign Ervin Santana to go along with JV, Porcello and Sanchez in the rotation.
Thomas is reportedly going to get $80 Mil to start, how would he save money over Hunter? And Hunter is providing decent production. It is just he defense that is lacking.
Asdrubal Cabrera??? He is 28th of 29 MLB SS in UZR/150 the last 3 years and pretty much close to last with every other defensive metric. If it wasn't for Jeter, who is retiring, he would be last. No way his slightly above average offense makes up for that.
Koji Uehara will be 40 next year. You want Joe Nathan part2? I didn't want Nathan at 38, so I would say no to Uehara as well.
But, to address the original post. I think Avila and Kelly are safe bets (despite some hatred for Kelly). I think for what he does, DD/Ausmus love those types of guys and he will still have value.
Price might get an extension.
Johnson and Hanrahan are gone
Chamberlain is on a bubble.
Scherzer is gone.
Hunter might stay for less money.
And as long as V-Mart doesn't ask for too much money, he stays. Otherwise he is gone.
They make qualifying offers to Scherzer and V-Mart. And that is it.