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We can't get both. Yeah, it'd be awesome. But there are more teams in the market, than there are closers. And I can't really see either of those two deciding they'll take a set up role, when other really good teams need them at closer.
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Yeah, Hudson is intriguing too. Plenty of non closer(for us anyway) type of arms out there.....The question is how many guaranteed contracts do we add to the pen? Currently, the pen looks like this.... CL Edwards? SU Strop MR Rondon(if he gets healthy this changes obviously) MR Grimm MR Pena Swing- Zastryzny LOOGY options- Rosscup, Leathersich MR Candidates- Patton, Johnson, Rosario, Rivero This doesn't even look awful, as it is. If you add in Montgomery, it looks decent. My guess is Monty gets about 15 starts and is out of the pen for half the year. I think we'll definitely add a lefty of some sort. If Monty is pen bound, I guess I'd see us add a lesser type. If he's starting, then I could see an upper echelon type. We'll be getting a closer. That's almost a definite, I guess? Unless they DO want to give Edwards a chance and address it at midsesson, if it becomes a need? I think they'll add a righty middle reliever too. But definitely a lesser guy, IF they add a closer. If they don't add a closer, I could see Ziegler or basically anyone..... So, I say we're adding 3 guaranteed contracts. Closer, right handed MR, and a LOOGY.....
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I hate that Chapman makes more sense from a baseball perspective than Jansen does, due to the pick. Oh well, its still an easy choice for me. Plus, it wouldn't surprise me if Jansen's cutter outlasts Chapman's velo anyway.
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Cleveland's experiment with "sabrmetric football" will fail and there will be a backlash. Theo will spend the next 2 years figuring out the market inefficiencies of the game and take over the Bears in 2019. After the super bowl win in 2021 he will become mayor in a landslide, providing him more than enough time to bone up on his public speaking ability to run for president in 2028, at age 55. Sounds good. Prefer 2032 though, so he can fix the Bulls.
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horsefeathers. We're not trading Javy. If we DID? It'd definitely be for something that's already established. Not some poist hype guy or even true prospects. This is real baseball, not a horsefeathering video game. But why won't we trade him? Hmm. 1) His potential is still immense. And the year to year improvements are certainly there. 2) He's phenomenal depth if Addy ever misses time. He plays SS, Zobrist moves back to 2B and the loss of an elite player doesn't cause us to skip a step. 3) Defense. Our pitching is built around run prevention, as much as anything. We have bats that'll win us a ton of games, even without elite D or pitching. But the addition of the D helps turn the pitching. Lose our best defender and our pitching gets worse. 4) We have other, far less important players, like Soler, Almora, any prospect, to move for pitching. AND keep the D in tact.
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Yeah, I think I've done an about face on paying for elite relievers. Don't really want to lose our 1st again, but I'd gladly do it for Jansen at that price.
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I remember Boston catching some horsefeathers for hiring him, as a 28 year old, Ivy leaguer. The meatballing was pretty strong. I wonder what kind of looks you'd have gotten if you had told all the idiots that hated the hire, that that kid was breaking the Red Sox streak, winning a second title, then going to the Cubs and breaks their streak too. He's horsefeathering 42. Seriously, what's his motivation now? There's nothing left that can come close to what he's already done.
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So based on the declining monetary figures, signing Brett Anderson as a flyer for 6 mill or less IS interesting. I guess that'd be the upper end of what I'd spend on him, but in THIS market, I'll be surprised if he doesn't approach 10. Depending on how our OF shakes out, Angel Pagan at 6 mill or less on a one year deal seems like a great value. Drew Storen lost 2 MPH this past year, but he's still interesting. Mike Dunn is a cheap, but decent pen arm. Jerry Blevins is a decent option too. If those guys are only getting a year, I'd prefer them to the multi-year commitments its taking for the Brett Cecil's of the world.
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Yeah, they've taken it down for some reason. I'm guessing they're changing a few things? I'll make sure to update it when they put it back up. [tweet] [/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet] In the meantime, here's a few other lists.
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A 2 or 3 seed? I'd say beating two teams on the back side of their first back to backs of the year, along with beating a horrible team in NJ and Orlando.....Sorry, I'm not seeing it. I see a 38 to 46 win team, based on health. I'm glad they didn't rebuild, since they got Wade. But this isn't doing anything but postponing things from getting worse soon.
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Same here and I'd really hope we'd pay that price to hold onto him too. I think the Jansen price is a bit light too.
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[tweet] [/tweet] I'm sure most have seen this already. But its a decent gauge on player prices, for when we inevitably start trying to predict signings and fitting them into the payroll. Its also got a pretty decent list of relievers, so we can use it to piece things together that way. Or, we can use this as a signings thread for guys not lucky enough to have been chosen by us.
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I dont know what the slash lines of 2B and SS were this year but with Javys defense I still think he would be an average starter by putting up those stats in the MIF with that D. Its not like hes an elite LF.. he does it in 3 very demanding positions. Im willing to be proven wrong but my off the hip guess is there is a lot of weak hitting MIFs right now, coupled with my opinion that Javy is by far and away the best glove at 2b right now, and elite at 3b. League Avg 2B: .270/.329/.425 wRC+ 101 League Avg SS: .262/.319/.407 wRC+ 92 Javy Baez 2016: .273/.314/.423 wRC+ 94 At 23 and with the jumps he's made from 2014 to now, these numbers are just fine, especially with the defense.
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You can dream on Rosario. He was once a relatively decently thought of SP prospect. Has had some injuries, but throws mid to upper 90's out of the pen. He likely was a goner in the Rule 5.
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We activated Brooks and Rosscup. DFA'd Beeler, Federowicz, and Acevedo, and added Jose Rosario to the 40 man today, which sits at 34 currently.
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"This guy here is dead. Well, cross him off then."
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.176/.267/.252......That was the 2015 slash line of David Ross. Anyone have him slashing .229/.338/.446 this year? Becoming a true fan favorite? Hitting a homer in Game 7 of the World Series? Getting invited for a guest spot on SNL? horsefeathers. I love baseball.
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Color me very surprised. The farm could use a nice influx of talent. I'd much rather keep Dex than add a 1st round supplemental pick.
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He's getting 3 years from someone in this market.
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Possible. But if he was being an ass, I doubt we'd have handled his exit in the way we did. I'm not saying he was being an ass, but he could still be upset, and be professional about it publicly. Maybe a handshake agreement with Theo to decline the option? Obviously I'm very much speculating here...[/quo Oh, I think there was definitely a verbal agreement being referenced by the press release.
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Possible. But if he was being an ass, I doubt we'd have handled his exit in the way we did.
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Wait, what? You think we turned down the 12 mill option on Hammel, to give him a 17.2 mill QO?
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I think its classy of the org to handle it this way and yeah, we're bypassing up a bit of value we'd get back via trade. But it'll come back tenfold in the long run, with guys taking discounts to come here. We ARE a model organization.(so great to say) Hopefully, we didn't tell Dex the same thing. That said, losing Hammel's money off the books tells me its more likely we'll bring Dex back, or sign a closer, maybe both. It also tells me we must have an idea of some trades for starting pitching. Because there's no way we go into the year with Monty as our surefire 5th guy. We'll bring in some guys to compete or to just bump him back a year before he's a starter.
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Like him or not, thats pretty horsefeathering cool.