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  1. davell
    He didn't say anything about it happening this offseason or next. He just said he "can't wait" for the day. You're right, Kyle. He obviously meant doing this 4-5 years in the future.
  2. davell
    That has NOTHING to do with anything. The initial post I responded two(which has since been edited) mentioned he can't wait til we trade our 1st and 3rd ranked prospects for an over 30 guy. There's no way in hell thats happening this offseason or even next, in all likelihood. Hell, probabky not the one after that, due to how good our system is and likely will be. If we were already a good team and a 37 year old stud pitcher(like Schilling was) were available-I do think (and hope) we'd give up a package that likely was close to the equivalent of Pierce Johnson, CJ Edwards, and Jeimer Candelario(value-wise) for that guy.
  3. davell
    If they ever get around to winning, they might get more slack. Yeah, because with a capped 110 mill type payroll and what they inherited, its easy as hell to turn that into a winner quick. Right it'll be another failure by Tom Ricketts What an oddly late response. Do you or do you not think Theo has had the ability to spend freely under Ricketts to this point?
  4. davell
    You're comparing trading two top 30 prospects, one likely a top 10 guy versus trading 3 guys that weren't top 100 guys. Sorry, but there's a gigantic discrepancy in that. And you know it.
  5. davell
    That "#1 prospect" wasn't even top 100 in BA (Hanley was though at #19) and Fossum had graduated in 2002 ETA: In fact, none of the 4 ever appeared on a top 100 in BA. Maybe in a few years, none of our prospects will be either? Just admit your previous post was completely useless and a failed troll job.
  6. davell
    Deal has not been announced yet and now there are reports there may be a snag and it may just fall through.
  7. davell
    I am absolutely dying to have a true "ace". But its very hard to argue with the strategy of high ceiling, high floor position player in the 1st, followed by tons of pitching in rounds 2-10, especially when they're taking guys with good stuff and throw strikes. God, I hope McLeod is teaching someone the ropes, because I can't see him lasting more than another year or two, if we're lucky.
  8. davell
    Thats not what ANYONE here thinks will happen. I'm talking about your literal trade proposal. I'm not trading Javy AND another one of our big 3 for a single player in MLB not named Bryce Harper or Mike Trout. Much less anyone over 30. I fully suspect we'll be trading for a bigtime player or two, maybe even as soon as this upcoming offseason. But its not taking THAT type of package to make a big move.
  9. davell
    Javy is going to make Puig look like Jeter from a class standpoint. I'm anticipating his first walkoff homer against the Cards, where he calls his shot, flips his bat to their dugout, grabs his crotch the entire walk around the bases backwards, followed by a the Randy Moss crapping on home plate, with whoever's on deck handing him toilet paper to wipe with.
  10. davell
    We hope. I'm waiting for the day that everyone is pissed that the Cubs traded away the #1 and #3 prospect for an expensive past 30 player who will be "the guy" to get them deep into the playoffs. Can't wait, actually. It means that they will actually be good. Did B2B steal your account. Because unless we're trading for Harper or Trout, your scenario has about the same chance of happening as Theo quitting and Hendry taking back over.
  11. davell
    Javy IS that guy. The one we're going to love and the one everyone else hates, but wishes like hell he was on their team.
  12. davell
    Arguello mentioned that Daytona has had 18 rainouts this year, after 16 last year. His silver lining was they had 15 combined in 2010 and 2011.
  13. davell
    6 walks per nine? No thanks. Payano is a lefty that can hit 97. He's a guy that has 2 plus pitches, if he learns to command them. Which he had at one point, before adding velo. [expletive] the stats, I'd take him over Ramirez, without the other player, if I had to do it that way. Archer is a righty, but he struggled before breaking out, its what I see with Payano.
  14. davell
    That is so true. I honestly think he'll be a september '14 call up at the very latest at this point though. Even with a conservative FO like ours. Jed has already said he hopes some of these guys are playing on the big league club at some point in 2014. Guys I expect to see by September of next year: Javy, Alcantara, Hendricks, Villanueva, Szczur, Loux, Vizcaino, and Neil Ramirez, if he's the PTBNL. Obviously, we'll see Olt, Grimm, and Cabrera.
  15. davell
    Honestly, I think I'll take that statement back. He would have been dealt, along with Almora for Justin Upton.
  16. davell
    Javy single in his 3rd AB.......He'd be in the major league lineup tomorrow, if Hendry were still here.
  17. davell
    Candelario HR. When his power shows up, he's going to skyrocket up lists.
  18. davell
    Javy walk in second plate appearance.
  19. davell
    This is definitely a part of baseball I'm not well versed on, but here's my first question: Does a team have first right to stay when their contract is up? Or is it pure musical chairs? I mean, I'm sure we've been asking around both the Carolina and California leagues, so are hush-hush type deals being made now? I'm asking because I can't imagine any team actually wanting to go to the FSL, thinking of it as an upgrade. Basically, do we have to hope other teams have falling outs with their affiliates or is this something we can make happen on our own?
  20. davell
    I was excited about both. I was excited about both as well. He's living up to his part of things, lets just hope Ricketts does as well.
  21. davell
    I don't consider it tough at all. We've got plenty of flexibility, since we have lots of guys we honestly don't care whether they're here or not. I'd drop the 1st group, add Alcantara, and we're at 35. Even if we add 2 catchers, we've still got the second group to take away from.
  22. davell
    Personally, I think that last group of 5 points our FO in an even better light. Reddick has battled wrist problems this year, but I consider him fairly solid myself. The Pads are counting on Kelly for their rotation moving forward, Kalish hasn't stayed healthy enough to get a full read on yet, and Westmoreland had multiple BRAIN surgeries. The only one that has flamed out is Anderson, at this point. Its not like anyone should put blame on Westmoreland.
  23. davell
    We've got Baker, Sweeney, Gregg, Guerrier, and Navarro dropping off as FA. We've also got Putnam, Bogusevic, Murphy, Ransom, Gillespie, and now Neal. This isn't even counting guys like Dolis, McNutt, Bowden, Rondon, Sanchez, and Sappelt that most wouldn't bark too loudly about, if they weren't here all of a sudden. Then factor in who has to be added, which is Alcantara and possibly Paniagua and Ben Wells, depending on their contracts- a 40 man crunch isn't an issue this offseason thankfully.
  24. davell
    Right now, my gut tells me that Rodon, Hoffman, and Beede will all be considered elite. Same with Trea Turner. As far as HS kids go, I'll say Jacob Gatewood, Alex Jackson, Tyler Kolek, and Touki Touissant(who's stock has currently dropped a tad). But there are plenty more on both the college and HS side that can make themselves elite.
  25. davell
    Ramirez is an injury risk and not the key to this deal. I'd take the upside on a couple of those names. Its kind of the equivalent of taking 2 top 30 types in the lower levels or one top 15 type higher up but with red flags.
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