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  1. sneakypower
    Do other teams still look at Edwards as a top pitching prospect? That'd be pretty sweet if they do. Really interested to see the Cubs' lineup tonight.. Edwards is basically the most unhittable pitcher in baseball right now, so there's at least something there: http://www.fangraphs.com/minorleaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=40&type=1&season=2015&team=0&players=0&sort=11,a
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    well that's not as fun
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    Canadian dollar is 77 cents now, so if he asks for $30M/per, they'll have to go $39M/per, won't they? (i'm probably in the minority when it comes to my lack of total utter desperation for adding a #1 SP, it's just kind of funny to consider) I'm confused. His contract will be in USD, so he'll have more buying power by being in Canada 81 days a year. why would his contract be in USD if he's employed by a Canadian company?
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    this is impossibly dense; the hypothetical with Price added would make it a virtual certainty, and even still, i'll eat a lemon if they miss the playoffs
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    Canadian dollar is 77 cents now, so if he asks for $30M/per, they'll have to go $39M/per, won't they? (i'm probably in the minority when it comes to my lack of total utter desperation for adding a #1 SP, it's just kind of funny to consider)
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    To Dodgers: Wood, Latos, Morse, Avilan, Johnson, Peraza, Arroyo To Braves: Olivera, Paco, Bird, pick To Marlins: Brigham, Guzman, Araujo (source: Jeff Passan) absolutely amazing how valuable salary "relief" from Morse/Arroyo/Johnson seemingly proved to be here; LAD floats about half of the Olivera contract and picks up the tab on a little more dead weight money elsewhere, effectively buying this guy ...at the trade deadline when the price of pitching is through the roof- just unbelievable
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    Tigers required pitching, of which we have none
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    At this point, Kennedy/Gallardo/Leake/Haren are probably the options. with the Hamels acquisition, i really expect TEX to attempt a YoGa extension Mike Leake is the dream now
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    *3 month rental August + September = TWO months. They haven't clinched anything and the Giants are .5 game back which could potentially leave them battling for the second Wild Card spot. they're currently 91% to make it, not factoring adding Alex Wood and Mat Latos and David Price to their rotation and subtracting [file not found]
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    and Peraza would have been on a 7/~40 deal every single baseball pitcher on Earth is a ticking time bomb from an injury perspective...
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    i really think they'll still get Price without Wood/Urias doing the full Rany Jazayerli / AJ Preller transaction rundown with Andrew Friedman's past 10 months would be about the most enraging/depressing exercise for a fan of any other team
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    It wouldnt surprise me if the dodgers give him his 200 million before the offseason either. There's absolutely no way that Friedman gives up Urias. That asking price is nuts for a 2 month rental of David Price. *3 month rental
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    http://img.pandawhale.com/89952-master-strokes-beard-gif-Kill-bdei.gif
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    different information became available: his peripherals have improved, and nobody has panned out from the Jacob Turner/Travis Wood/Edwin Jackson/Tsyoshi Wada/Felix Doubront/Dan Straily?* group *don't remember the timing of that, if Shields signed before the Fowler trade edit: didn't realize how backloaded his deal was - 10 / 21 / 21 / 21, so maybe that's not a realistic option
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    is Olivera worlds better than Peraza in terms of value? i don't see much indication to really think otherwise and evaluators have ranked them somewhat comparably beyond that they give up Paco Hernandez, currently disabled with elbow problems, and get back a really nice rental SP and a [expletive] 24-year-old current #2 starter i'm moderately incensed by this, it just makes absolutely zero sense, whatsoever...John Hart lost a bet / got black-out drunk
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    all the angst here over Hamels should all instead be directed toward how [expletive] paltry the Alex Wood return looks to be he's Sale-lite, and it cost little more than a 30 year-old with 69 state-side ABs
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    amazingly Petco is 17th in P park factor (Wrigley is #4) i keep forgetting about Shields; they should be rightly viewing him as basically a salary dump and if that's the case he's infinitely preferable to Cole Hamels
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    The well isn't dry at all; that's nonsense. And there's always the risk of ultimately regretting giving up a prospect. That's not a definitive reason in and of itself to not make moves to help the team right way. The Rangers gave up their 4th, 5th, 6th, 17th, 29th prospects and Matt Harrison for Cole Hamels. That's like the Cubs giving up Carl Edwards Jr, Duane Underwood, Albert Almora, Jen Ho Tseng, Jeremy Null, and Clayton Richard on a bigger salary for Hamels. No thanks. this is a pretty poor comparison since Texas (pre-trade) had a reasonably superior farm system in all honesty, the closest parallel i can come up with is something like Williams = Baez Alfaro = Contreras Thompson = McKinney Harrison = Travis Wood...or Castro? and then sure, Tseng and a nobody like Null would fit yeah, i'm gonna be a terrible, Theo/PTR-brainwashed fan and say no way in hell do i remotely consider meeting that price for the luxury of paying Cole Hamels market value for 3-4 years
  20. sneakypower
    calm down there, at the very least we're still returning the same full pitching staff that's 4th or w/e in FIP
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    i always love when mojo starts spazzing out because we can't have one of the like 10 players he knows
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    definitive no, i think Hamels was the only shot at that
  23. sneakypower
    the likeliest thing to happen is we approximate the Montero return possibly even post-waiver-deadline for somebody like Ian Kennedy, and do little else
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    Sickels' midseason update: Nick Williams: #26 Thompson: #53 Alfaro: "76-85 area"
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    [tweet]https://twitter.com/JimBowdem_ESPN/status/626557216892424192[/tweet]
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