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Rand alPaul posted:JD Martinez is really good, is capable of dingering as much as Stanton, and is the biggest victim of collusion this offseason. On one hand I feel like there was probably collusion happening this offseason. On the other hand, I think I saw something like over half the top FAs that were unsigned a couple weeks ago were Boras clients. Like Thom said, given Martinez's age and history it's not really that much of a stretch to say that teams were individually deciding he wasn't worth the asking price. I also think that players and teams were waiting for Darvish to sign so he could set the market, which isn't really that uncommon either.
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ALFbrot posted:I would consider the Pirates a bubble team, in that they're on the bubble as to whether they can be called a major league baseball team My wife got us opening day tickets around Christmas and since then everything they've done makes me want to shove them back into the kiosk.
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Good Dog posted:Look at how fat Votto got. People talk about the Angels wasting Trout but I don't ever see much about the injustice being done toward Votto
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Intruder posted:People talk about the Angels wasting Trout but I don't ever see much about the injustice being done toward Votto 1st Place 2010 - 91 wins - 2010 NLDS (swept by Phillies) 1st Place 2012 - 97 wins - 2012 NLDS (lost 3-2 to Giants) Wild Card 2013 - 90 wins - 2013 NLWC (lost to Pirates) It's been bad recently for Votto, but they have had some chances.
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Mr. Fix It posted:For M's fans it's "Hate all teams and especially the goddamn Mariners, crushers of dreams and destroyers of hope." Forever. I was five when they started. I'm middle aged now, they haven't made the playoffs since my 20s, and I fully expect to die without seeing a title. Baseball is so stupid.
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Arrieta to Philly would be cool for no.more than 4 years
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Scott Boras calls San Diego 'a volcano of hot talent lava' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOFGzEkDr4 A VOLCANO OF HOT TALENT LAVA
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Arrieta to Philly would be a fun way of making sure to continue having an albatross contract now that Ryan Howard is off the books
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mentholmoose posted:Rumor mill is churning that the Phils and Arrieta are in serious talks. The Braves and Mets are hosed if the Phils add Arrieta and still have the money to make an upgrade next off-season.
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https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/965948994705920001 ow https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/965954171563401217 This would be cool, though. I'm ok with losing a late third to get a guy that can hold down the #2 or 3 spot in the rotation for a few years.
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tadashi posted:The Braves and Mets are hosed if the Phils add Arrieta and still have the money to make an upgrade next off-season. Braves even with their stingy budget and bad TV deal will have so much cash to work with next year, and by then should also have mostly figured out which pieces stick in the rotation. Dunno how the Phils are really set up for the long term, but I'm not all that worried about Arrieta too far beyond this next season.
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TheFlyingLlama posted:Jay-Hey was always an above average player based on everything but his bat, but teams look at him and dream of super dinger power. So they continually gently caress with his swing to try to get him to bombs
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His defense has also been elite. Age 23-25 he had three seasons of .350 OBP or higher, which is good! Unfortunately his power has fluctuated so much from season to season and his OBP skills have seemed to disappear.
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the popes toes posted:Scott Boras calls San Diego 'a volcano of hot talent lava' That must make the Braves’ Yellowstone then.
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Ludwig van Halen posted:so uh does this cut down on commercial time? The timer was always 2:00. I don’t think so.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:My hot take: I mean, right, if one is paying like any attention it's pretty obvious there's a ton of red flags towards giving a huge guaranteed contract to someone like JD. The biggest one being that throwing huge contracts at someone like JD hasn't worked out very well in recent history.
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bawfuls posted:I realize I'm late to this, but the dude hit .277/.393/.456 in 623 PA at age 20. His 134 wRC+ that year was the 16th highest of any player in a season aged 20 or younger. Its basically the same season Bryce Harper put up at age 20. This is the reason Heyward has always been viewed with such upside, because it is so rare and difficult for players to hit that well that young. Yeah and he continued to hit well up (maybe not 130+ OPS+ elite, but well above average) until the Cubs irreparably broke him. How did he walk so much his first year and then nothing close since? Also N: https://twitter.com/pedromoura/status/966074731295158272 V: My man.
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Carlosologist posted:Billy Eppler is from the Cashman school of GMing, no surprise he’s all about Dingers Only Is this like FarmersOnly but for unsigned power hitters who can't play defense
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Good Dog posted:Yeah and he continued to hit well up (maybe not 130+ OPS+ elite, but well above average) until the Cubs irreparably broke him. How did he walk so much his first year and then nothing close since? Some coach yelling at him to put the ball in play between swigs of whiskey and puffs of cigar smoke
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Good Dog posted:Yeah and he continued to hit well up (maybe not 130+ OPS+ elite, but well above average) until the Cubs irreparably broke him. How did he walk so much his first year and then nothing close since? This sounds like something Pat Burrell would say in Gyroball's heroic epics.
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I'm getting mixed signals here. Are we on the Heyward train of "Trying to hit a bunch of dingers fucks your swing up" or the Eppler train of "Hit dingers e'ry day"
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https://twitter.com/RobertMurrayFRS/status/966090499974189056 prelude to an Archer trade? I doubt it but the Yankees do move quietly https://twitter.com/nickpiecoro/status/966093271217750022 a three team deal! I like the addition of Drury, he can play 2B and 3B, where there happens to be vacancies Carlosologist fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Intruder posted:I'm getting mixed signals here. Are we on the Heyward train of "Trying to hit a bunch of dingers fucks your swing up" or the Eppler train of "Hit dingers e'ry day" All things considered, Heyward probably should’ve been a cricketer, where his defensive range and throwing arm would be appreciated while at the stumps he could hit fours all day.
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Carlosologist posted:https://twitter.com/RobertMurrayFRS/status/966090499974189056 Why are all these Florida teams bending over backwards to make the Yankees better?
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Luigi Thirty posted:what the gently caress do the Rays have any players left https://twitter.com/mikeaxisa/status/966097007990509568 this seems bad
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Carlosologist posted:Billy Eppler is from the Cashman school of GMing, no surprise he’s all about Dingers Only The Angels are lowering their RF wall from 18' high to 8' high.  The Yankees now have the Judge and the Drury.
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Luigi Thirty posted:what the gently caress do the Rays have any players left You have diet Buxton still I think?
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Steven Souza was a Yankee Killer ™ so good loving riddance.
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Yeah if I was the Yankees I would definitely be worried about Steve Souza in 2018. "Woulda had a ring if it weren't for that darn Souza!", they'll say
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He's a .268/.360/.488 hitter against the Yankees lifetime so yeah, good riddance.
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Good Dog posted:The Angels are lowering their RF wall from 18' high to 8' high. I suppose some office guys did the historical work and concluded, "Yup, this will help us way more than visiting teams," but I'd love to see the data arguing the case.
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the popes toes posted:I suppose some office guys did the historical work and concluded, "Yup, this will help us way more than visiting teams," but I'd love to see the data arguing the case.
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