2014 MLB transactions

[Guest]

geo should love it in northern california

Lol.

[jersey cubs fan]

geo should love it in northern california

Lol.

they got that special northern California sensimilia that blends well with a Kentucky blue for maximum golf/bejeezus stoning potential.

[RynoRules]

Dunn to A's for Nolan Sanburn:

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-adam-dunn-trade-talks-20140831-story.html

[UMFan83]

Dunn to A's for Nolan Sanburn:

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-adam-dunn-trade-talks-20140831-story.html

 

Dunn on the A's seems like something that should have happened years ago

[JennieGarthAlgar]

I'm positive Billy kicked those tires once or twenty times.

[SouthSideRyan]

De La Rosa extended for 2/25. Seems really cheap

[Guest]

He'll be 34 and has an ERA/FIP in the 4.3-4.4 range, it's not that cheap.

[SouthSideRyan]

Getting anyone decent to a 2 year deal seems cheap to me.

[Cubswin11]

Getting anyone decent to a 2 year deal seems cheap to me.

He's 34 and like you said, decent. Seems like 2 years is pretty fair/reasonable/realistic.

[Guest]

For reference: http://espn.go.com/mlb/freeagents/_/type/dollars/position/sp

 

6 SP got more than 25 million in guaranteed money last year

6 SP got > 12.5 million AAV

8 SP got > 10 million AAV and less than 3 years

[SouthSideRyan]

Look at the comparables, old guys bounce backs or mediocrities

[jersey cubs fan]

Look at the comparables, old guys bounce backs or mediocrities

and only free agents, not extensions

[Cubswin11]

Look at the comparables, old guys bounce backs or mediocrities

De la Rosa is 2 of those

[Guest]

Look at the comparables, old guys bounce backs or mediocrities

 

What do you think De La Rosa is?

[SouthSideRyan]

A guy who'll be 35 at the end of his contract who has put up better than average ERAs his last 5 healthy seasons.

[Little Slide Rooter]

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/10/pirates-designate-jose-tabata-for-assignment.html

 

Sure, I'll bite.

[Tryptamine]

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/10/pirates-designate-jose-tabata-for-assignment.html

 

Sure, I'll bite.

 

Not sure I even like him more than Coghlan or Ruggiano.

[Guest]

 

Which seems to belie that it's likely to not work out that way.

 

The fact that teams never have this many of these types of assets?

 

Obviously there's been plenty of collections of amazing prospects over the year. Is this the mythical greatest of all time? I have no idea, but it just seems unlikely that all of these guys will pan out to be amazing players. Baseball is brutal like that.

 

They don't need to. And if ours is not the mythical greatest, it's somewhere in the conversation. For a ton of reasons, teams just don't end up with these things.

 

I mean, take what most believe to be our two safest bats in Soler and Schwarber alone (some would say Bryant belongs there over Schwarber but the K issues freak me out), add to Rizzo and Castro, and that could very well be enough to have the basis of a pretty good lineup. The standard nowadays isn't that high.

 

wtf, how is Schwarber one of our safest bats? He has 135 professional ABs, none above high A

 

haha dumb ass

 

 

(i'm not serious i just like [expletive] with SSR)

 

 

 

maybe i was off on soler though