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  1. davell
    I thought it was a joke from the beginning. Kiley has always been very good in answering questions from Raisin. Pretty sure he knows who Raisin is at this stage.
  2. davell
    I'd rather go after Choo than Ellsbury personally, due to pricetag. Worst case scenario on Choo is what? 5/75ish? With my guess being he gets 4/60. Re-sign DeJesus as well as a 4th OFer/insurance on Lake and get a RH backup/platoon type to go with Schierholtz. We've got enough bodies to fill out an IF, just need a backup C.
  3. davell
    Yeah, I'll go as far as to say he's not going to graduate. He's only 2 months older than Javy, I'll completely understand when he's ranked over Javy. Still wouldn't trade Javy for him though.
  4. davell
    Same here.
  5. davell
    9th overall by Hoyer/McLeod out of HS. Backed out of deal at last minute from most reports. Was considered a potential overall top pick but shoulder issues and a still high asking price caused him to drop outside the top 10 rounds as a college junior. Supposedly has his stuff back now. Could wind up back in top 10, if he does.
  6. davell
    Personally, I applaud their sticktoittiveness.
  7. davell
    Because when he's given free reign to spend, the trades will happen too, just on a grander scale. As for this trade, I hope they give Strop the 9th, he deserves it. Arrieta has as much ability as anyone in our rotation, other than Shark, I think Baltimore is really going to hate this deal.
  8. davell
    I still don't understand it. Presumably, if we just wanted to save money but he did have trade value, he could have gone before the waiver deadline. So this either means the Cubs FO is stupid, the amount of money they needed changed since July 31, or DeJesus had no value. I don't remember when he came back, but wasn't it just a few days before the deadline? Possible there wasn't a market for him at that point. A few weeks later, Cubs could look at it as saving the 2.5 mill means more than possibly not having him on roster next year.
  9. davell
    Or we severaly underestimated Ricketts need for cash. We'll know more if the Nats trade him in a few days, I guess.
  10. davell
    At least it'd be less up-front money, so that could give us a better chance, I guess.
  11. davell
    Today sucked all around.
  12. davell
    Postponed now.
  13. davell
    All I know is after hearing Hoyer say money was a major reason for making the deal AND not even mentioning anything positive about getting something in return, my hopes of getting back a decent prospect went to 0%.
  14. davell
    It appears as if its just a claim and we let him go for the savings in money. The Nats claiming him was odd, my guess is they are playing our money shortage against us and have him back on waivers to try and legit trade him in the hopes someone sees value at 6.5 next year. To us, the monetary savings must have meant more than the shot at getting a C+ type prospect over the offseason. Then wouldn't that just be called a waiver pickup, as opposed to a trade for a PTBNL? I honestly don't know how that works. Muskat mentioned a PTBNL or cash considerations, so maybe it is just a claim.
  15. davell
    It appears as if its just a claim and we let him go for the savings in money. The Nats claiming him was odd, my guess is they are playing our money shortage against us and have him back on waivers to try and legit trade him in the hopes someone sees value at 6.5 next year. To us, the monetary savings must have meant more than the shot at getting a C+ type prospect over the offseason.
  16. davell
    I hate the fact we've not heard a single mention of whats coming back. Which does make it sound financially driven. This isn't on Theo and Jed, its purely on our owner. Hopefully our thoughts will be proven wrong over the offseason, but I doubt it.
  17. davell
    Interesting move, I don't see us giving him away. He's a luxury as a 4th OFer for the Nats, but my guess is they can find 400 AB's for him next year. I'm guessing the PTBNL is a guy on their 40 man that wouldn't/didn't clear waivers or hasn't been put thru yet. I'll guess its Nate Karns.
  18. davell
    Hoffman is clearly ahead of Beede right now. McLeod DOES evisently love Jackson though. Personally, if things were held tomorrow and we've got the 4th pick, I'm hoping Kolek gets past the White Sox.....
  19. davell
    Its really amazing we've amassed THIS much power coming thru the system.
  20. davell
    They are going to break him. doesn't pretty much every japanese pitcher go through this? not saying it's defensible, but they don't all break down because of prep abuse. I think its been much worse in this case than any of the others. I think Daisuke threw 200 pitches in a game or something like that. This kid threw like 600 pitches or some crazy [expletive] in a week.
  21. davell
    Now Zach Cates is looking like another intriguing relief option. Went 3, gave up a hit and a walk, K'ing 6. Hitting 96 now that he's coming out of the pen.
  22. davell
    I think best case scenario may be to trade Castro during next season, if he's playing well. Obviously bringing Javy up at that point.
  23. davell
    It has NOTHING to do with how much money they're making. It has to do with the debt structure of their deal with Zell. Its a very valid topic. what is the amount of the debt payments, and what are they as a percentage of net costs? Obviously, you know thoae numbers will never be released. But its a family trust structure that keeps them operating at a profit and keeps them from putting more into the team, at least until we have renovation money and/or a renegotiated TV deal.
  24. davell
    A couple of days ago, didn't they miss him because he grabbed his interviewer and got him drenched?
  25. davell
    That was my thought too. HE TOMAHAWKED HIS [expletive] HELMET!
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