sneakypower

hey tree did i ever tell you what a good friend you are *elbow nudges* *bobs eyebrows*

his isolated slugging is 40% below projected levels, not sure how you missed / neglected to mention that...

in this [expletive] offensive climate, .250/.290/.400 with +5 2B defense is still like a purely average starter go bring up Kolten Wong's (edit: Wilmer Flores's!) fangraphs page and have a hearty chuckle at how stupid this sport is right now

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Fowler CF Schwarber LF Bryant 3B Rizzo 1B Castro 2B Montero C AJax RF Russell SS Arrieta P is my assumption

mentally i know we've got the guy with the 0.80 or whatever 2nd half ERA going, but emotionally i'm just here like http://i.imgur.com/4jr35kO.gif

no can do- too whiffy still too whiffy

he's actually out for a while with a knee injury so maybe that wasn't the best example, heh but the point remains!

Same could be said for baseball too. It's not about the talent up there, it's that you don't have to worry about another team stealing the guy you want. no, it's about talent that's my point, though; i'm no NFL scout, but i don't see much if any difference between Ronnie Stanley (top-5) & Jack Conklin (20-25) / Nkemdiche (top-3) & DeForest Buckner (top-15) / Treadwell & Ramsey... There's a big difference in talent from top 5 to 15-20 in every draft ever. Ronnie Stanley has top 5 OT in football potential, much higher upside than Conklin. Nkemdiche has as much talent as any interior DL has had since Suh. Buckner (who I like a ton) is really good too, but not in that same class. Conklin can easily be argued is a better player currently, and i put a lot of stock into that i just don't know about mythical upside; Clowney had a bunch of gushing hyperbole and JJ Watt was thought of as a high-floor solid performer, wasn't he? what does that matter? football seems more about winning your individual battles on every down for most of these players and you don't get much perspective on that with physical measurements it's like Henry Anderson slipping to day 2 (or 3 was it?) because he doesn't look the part, or Aaron Donald not being ideal because you want DTs taller...these guys KILLED it in college- i don't know if these points are germane to the discussion, but i guess that's why i'm agnostic to there being a big talent gap anywhere in the top half of the 1st round this year

and i saw his contact rate (was pushing 70), now i'm a believer, i couldn't leave him if i tried

not sure why it's kind of silly, but anyway Rizzo leads MLB in win prob. added, and Bryant is 3rd; it's a big reason why #weareamazinggood

Same could be said for baseball too. It's not about the talent up there, it's that you don't have to worry about another team stealing the guy you want. no, it's about talent that's my point, though; i'm no NFL scout, but i don't see much if any difference between Ronnie Stanley (top-5) & Jack Conklin (20-25) / Nkemdiche (top-3) & DeForest Buckner (top-15) / Treadwell & Ramsey...

ok now you gotta do a poop emoji for downvotes

i'm betting that's the last we'll be seeing of Scobee in an NFL uniform

this isn't a draft i care about picking atop all that much; i think similar talent shows up at 15-20 as does top-3

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they should be able to, but they've never shown much of a skill at doing so, unless in possession of a coveted SP to offer up at the deadline

ok i surely underestimated your desperate insistence to expel Wood, because selling off a cheap, 3-win player to do so never even entered my mind as a possibility

i don't think it's that they're out of favor, it's that teams really covet good starting pitching at the deadline and are as a result willing to part with guys if that's the price of doing business like, i don't think Beane exactly gave up on Addison Russell

And whadda ya know, we can add an actual top starter, because turns out spending 25M in starting pitching depth is unnecessary. do you pay attention to anything? i've advocated for Heyward about as much as anybody besides that annoying godzilla guy

Strop, Rondon, Grimm, Ramirez, Cahill, Richard, Rodney You may complain that some weren't "bargain bin shopping", but they are: FA pickups, smaller trade pieces and Rule 5 picks. That's pretty much bargain bin defined. What they've been awful at is signing relievers during the offseason and developing relief pitchers from their own system. the first four of those guys are terrible examples those were the spoils of white flag sell-offs; who is the immediate contributor we're going to give up to get these smaller trade pieces? Castro, maybe? that'd go over well...

At that price? meh. You've always liked Wood more than he deserves. You've always disliked Wood more than he deserves he's given us something like $25m in surplus value the last 3 years, and he's been worth $10m this year, just going by replacement value - a threshold that's mostly eluded us in RP bargain bin shopping (Soriano, Hunter, Medina, Coke, Russell) I appreciate what he's done this year. He's essentially been lefty Strop (in generally lower leverage situations). But I wouldn't be excited about paying Strop $6-7M, either. what's the alternative? more Coke/Soriano/Russell flyers? we're pretty awful at those in-house graduation? the cupboard is pretty bare there, too it may be worthwhile to recall that $4.5m on the FA market gets you a pitcher coming off arm injury and a 6.49 FIP / 4.58 xFIP / 4.68 ERA...

At that price? meh. You've always liked Wood more than he deserves. You've always disliked Wood more than he deserves he's given us something like $25m in surplus value the last 3 years, and he's been worth $10m this year, just going by replacement value - a threshold that's mostly eluded us in RP bargain bin shopping (Soriano, Hunter, Medina, Coke, Russell)

smh people talking about cutting Wood like they never noticed how godawful we are at finding RPs in FA...i'll keep the guy who's 2nd on the team in RP WAR thanks

so just give Jhoulys Chacin 1y/4m or whatever, sign Bud Norris to a minor league deal and this stupid problem is fixed, cool