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  1. davell
    Appels' last 5 outings: 42 IP, 5W, 61K's, 0.64 ERA, 0.60 WHIP.
  2. davell
    Chris Anderson with todays' WTF line: 6IP, 11H, 9R, 8ER, 0W, and 10K's.
  3. davell
    Appel went 9, 4 hits, 1 walk, 10K's. No runs, 3 HBP.
  4. davell
    What counts as a win here? Every other team gets public funding and we were looking like we were heading that direction too, until the Joe Ricketts crap came out. For that reason alone, its already a loss, isn't it? Negotiating win against Tunney? Thats not a win for me. Beating our chest because we're the business that keeps everything else booming and they're allowing us to fund everything ourselves while capitalizing bigtime from us? Sorry, but the minute the 150 mill public funding waived bye-bye, the chance for a win waved bye-bye too. Most teams can manage to get help, but we couldn't. Loss.
  5. davell
    You named 8 guys in that post and 4 of them were either here from Hendry or were acquired from Hendry pieces. I don't know why just because we've chosen to go down this route, people have to change what they were saying 18 months ago about the status of the franchise. I think that the team Theo inherited had bottom 5 talent, top to bottom in MLB. Now, I do think Theo will get slightly more credit for our system than he likely deserves, because most of the talent Hendry left behind was very, very far away. Of course, the development of these guys could be somewhat different as well between the two regimes. But, the talent we had at that point was so far away, most of it was untradeable.(at least for full potential value or even remotely close to it). But, top to bottom, I think we had a roster without a lot of upside and not a lot of tradeable pieces(due to age partially). I think I remember looking rosters up and only seeing the Twins, Indians, and Astros as being definitively in worse shape than us.
  6. davell
    There were rumors he wanted 6 mill last year, I don't think a bonus has been floated yet this year. That said, if we decide he is the best player, I could see us offering full slot(last year was 6.2) plus our overslot(490k), and possibly even take 10k college seniors in rounds 7 or 8 thru 10, in order to scare Houston away.(430k to 620k). That way, it would basically tell Houston they need to pay slightly over their 7.2 slot amount for the top pick. And considering how far off Houston is, I honestly see them using the same strategy they did last year(4.8 to Correa). At this point, I think I'm happy with either Appel or Gray, so if we get either for under slot, its a win-win.
  7. davell
    Alcantara gets the start at SS today.
  8. davell
    We're highly leveraged and appear to be using profits to eventually fund our renovations, which cuts into the payroll, made easier due to what we were left with, post-Hendry. Making it much easier to claim a rebuild was needed. And now its basically running neck and neck with our new TV deal. Stars aligning at the absolute "perfect" time just doesn't seem to be a coincidence to me. My thought is Ricketts is a version of a more responsible Frank McCourt. A guy that bought a team and saw future help financially on the way, just had to ride it out til it came. Ricketts will make it to that point, when McCourt obviously couldn't.
  9. davell
    Well, Hendry left nothing. I think you're overstating things though. Our medium term rotation needs are strictly replacing Garza. We could go into next year with Shark/E-Jax/Wood/Villanueva all set, Vizcaino as a,legit possibility, FA options, and trade possibilities, with Baker, Feldman, and Garza all being options too. Its not a ton of work though. A TOR guy is needed. About 20 teams in baseball can say the same thing. And quite a few of them need more than just that.
  10. davell
    I expect Melton to get re-signed this offseason. Honestly, if Emery lets Tillman and Jennings play out 2013, it likely is for the best. I doubt either has as good of a year as they just had and will be cheaper then, than now, if we want them back.
  11. davell
    With the new CBA, I think the one year deal bargains will be out there every year. As for our current direction, it appears(at least I hope) that we're trying to give Jay as much as possible, so we can make a truly informed decision on him next year. He'd have to be pretty horrific for me to decide I don't want him here longterm though.
  12. davell
    If Baker(obviously a huge if) can come back and show he's healthy, he could conceivably replace Garza, if we deal him, or figure he's never going to be healthy. If not, you've got question marks all over the place. The best FA will be Hughes, Johnson, Hammel, Halladay, and Haren. Overseas, we may see Takada get posted and we likely will see Suk Min Yoon come over from Korea. That said, maybe we'll have Appel, who could become a Garza for us as soon as 2015. Or trade for Price, which would be ideal.
  13. davell
    Cards give Wainwright 5/97.5 extension. If we try to extend Garza at any point, he should definitely come in under this.
  14. davell
    Probably can't afford Moore at this point, but that'd be great.
  15. davell
    I don't understand why profits from the team being used for those infrastructural upgrades is a bad thing. Other than the fact that people are mad that they aren't spending out of pocket either to upgrade that stuff or on payroll...but I don't really expect them to. My reason for not being totally on board with it is they knew going in what they had. They knew what they paid for the team and knew what it'd basically cost to upgrade the park. For now, if this is why the teams' payroll has taken a dive, its at the expense of the park. I know not everyone can have a Guggenheim Group as owners, but I wish like hell that we had gotten a group that was able to spend on both simultaneously. Obviously, I'm fine with the rebuild, but it didn't necessarily HAVE to be this way, depending on our owners financial positioning.
  16. davell
    I've got no issue at all with Ricketts making money. Saying all the profits would go back into the team though, was a [expletive] stupid thing to say. Because it will be brought up time and time again. If profits are being used for the renovations? Fine, I guess. But it makes me think Ricketts bit off more than he could chew, in buying the team and the reason we don't have more money to spend, is because Ricketts isn't equipped to be a true large market owner.Unless extra revenues and the TV deal fall our way.
  17. davell
    According to AZPhil, he's pretty sure Dustin Harrington, Ty'Relle Harris, Paul Hoilman, Nelson Perez, and Jay Jackson have been released. The following also have disappeared, may have been cut as well: Carlos Martinez, Elicier Bonne, Jason Barken, Matt Spencer, and Scott Weismann.
  18. davell
    Thinking strategically, if we do get Torres......Lets say he costs 2.2 mill. Early estimates had us with an IFA budget of 4.7 mill. How would you go about using tge rest? Do you sign a pair of million dollar bonus types? Do you spread it out much, much more than that? I'm really talking myself into hoping we go after Perez. He's obviously got the size to be a potential beast. And it actually seems that recently, the true high end Central American arms have found immediate success in the US. Heredia, Sanchez, and Osuna coming to mind, off the top of my head. That said, I wouldn't dare shoot the rest of our wad on one guy, but if he could be had for 1.5, it'd give us a mill to spread around over 5-6 other guys. Same theory applies for me with Ho as well.
  19. davell
    Yagyu at PSD found a Spanish article on Torres and Hrubes translated it for everyone. The scout mentioned Franklin Barreto(last years prize) as a comp. Said he's likely to make the majors in 4 years. He can hit and has what should translate to 15-20 homer pop. Averagish defensively at SS, but with good movement. Sounds good to me. Seems like yet another upside type with a higher floor than most.
  20. davell
    I don't care if we just go with McCown myself. But what I definitely DO NOT want is to spend as n early round pick on a QB. By the way, we're going to have to cut a guy or two, or at least do a restructure with someone. After adding those 7 guys, we're not likely to have enough room under the cap to sign our picks. Much less signing a backup QB, Idonije, and/or Louis. That said, if we CAN do those things, we will have enough depth to go BPA for sure, if we didn't already.
  21. davell
    I'm perfectly OK with picking up Adams, but see no reason at all not to put him in AAA(.306/.385/.450 in 86 AA games last year and turns 26 in May). Torreyes did enough in my mind to warrant a promotion to AA.
  22. davell
    After asking about Jones, I saw a couple days ago he's going to start the season on the PUP list. Really don't see him as a 2nd rounder now. He could very well be there in the 4th.
  23. davell
    Supposedly Houston wouldn't go over 6 mill for Appel last year. If he IS who we truly think is the top guy, no question, then I've thought about that scenario too. We could offer slightly more than Houston's slot of 7.2 by using our entire 5% money, plus taking 10k college guys in rounds 7-10. I can't see Appel wanting to be in Houston to begin with and I also think they're still likely to try the quantity approach. They know they've got a damn head start on Rodon next year as it is. I could see them taking Bryant at 1. Give him a 4.5 mill bonus and use the savings like last year. However, if Appel DOES go 1st, then we should get to underslot at 2, no matter who we're taking. Unless Gray is the consensus guy and the Twins or Rockies(sadly, can't remember who picks 3rd) pulls the same scenario on us.
  24. davell
    I didn't realize this in mentioning our leverage with the 2nd pick, but last year only 1 of the top 5 picks received slot(slightly more actually). Correa at 1, got 4.8 out of a 7.2 slot. Buxton got 6 off of a 6.2 slot, Zunino surprisingly only got 4 off a 5.2 slot. Gausman received 4.320 off a 4.2 slot, but Zimmer got 3 off a 3.5 slot. We paid over slot for Almora at 6, Fried got slot at 7, Appel obviously didn't sign, Heaney was 200k under slot at 9, and even Dahl was 100k under slot at 10. Picks 11, 13, 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 29, and 31 signed for slot. Only Giolito, Seager, and Marreo got over slot outside the top 10, while picks 12, 14, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 28, and 30 all went under slot. I'm very hopeful that because of this, we can get a McCullers type guy fall to us in the 2nd, that we'll be able to give out a 2 mill+ bonus to, in order to get him signed.
  25. davell
    Diplan is up to 94, according to the DPL website. For 16 and 6'0, 160, thats awfully impressive.
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