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  1. davell
    We kind of have a thread on this in Transactions as well, but it depends on whether he'll allow us to trade him firstly. Secondly, I'm wondering how much a 2 or 3 year deal for him runs? 2 for 20 or 3 for 30 sounds reasonable, I suppose, but he's really getting up there in age, so the 3rd year could be a sticking point for me anyway. I think you trade him, if possible, because unless Garza is on the market, he's as attractive to teams as anyone else, except maybe Peavy and Wandy.
  2. davell
    Over/under this line for LaHair at the break? .275/.360/.525 with 15 homers?
  3. davell
    Since we're wagering guesses, put me down for about six grand of Will's signing bonus.
  4. davell
    You guys do understand that unless you're trading LaHair to Toronto, Tampa, or a very select small group of other teams, you're looking at trading LaHair for something resembling a Ben Wells/ Jae Hoon Ha type package from another systemright? Or Dae Run Rhee and maybe a Marconi Hernandez, if we get a true upside type guy back. Sorry, I'm holding out for more here. Power is hard to come by and cheap power is even scarcer. Two top 10 guys from a decent system, we're in the ballpark at least.
  5. davell
    I'm actually starting to sour on Appel and Zimmer a bit personally, so if we wind up taking Correa, I'm on board totally. His upside is huge and we could find plenty of high upside pitching with our supplementals and second round picks.
  6. davell
    I think Vitters winds up as a decent bat, who plays a little 3B, some 1B, and some LF in the majors. A guy that finds his way to 350 or 400 at bats over a season. Probably puts up a Jefferson Franceour type line with a little less power.
  7. davell
    Well doggy.
  8. davell
    I'm buying in at this point, I guess. Goldstein, Law, Callis, Badler and anyone else I've seen asked about him all think he's going to hit. I'd love to trade him, but I'd want a worthwhile package in return. Because if this guy can and does produce a mid. 800's OPS for a few seasons, there's quite a bit of value there, especially since it'd be coming from a league minimum salary.
  9. davell
    What kind of return do you think is a bare minimum, in order to deal him though? Personally, I think having an above average bat with a below average glove in LF for the league minimum is fine, especially with us paying Soriano for the entirety of LaHair's cheap years anyway. I'd love to deal him, but the MLBTR article mentioning 2 top 15 type prospects from a system isn't enough for me.
  10. davell
    But Athlon had it right. They said Marmol was worth 9 bucks and Wood was worth 2. They literally stumbled uponit. But they nailed it nonetheless. Actually, Marmol may only be worth 3.50. Pretty sure both of them see the Loch Ness Monster everytime their name is called though, so they've got that going for them.
  11. davell
    Said who? Athlon Fantasy Baseball Magazine.
  12. davell
    Go on a little win streak and it makes me think we've got a chance for some reason. That said, since it's obviously unlikely as hell this team makes a run, at least Dempster has pitched his ass off bigtime. He could very well bring us back a very solid return.
  13. davell
    Punk is damn good, but I don't want to see him and Cena again. My guess is Punk and Bryan give us the best match we've see since Shawn and Bret.
  14. davell
    Law has a new top 100 out. His top 10, in order, are Buxton, Correa, Gausman, Zunino, Fried, Appel, Almora, Zimmer, Giolito, and Courtney Hawkins.
  15. davell
    I've never booed at a game. I'll certainly get pissed off and loose with some of the filth, flarn, flarn, filth at my house, but booing? Nah. Maybe when I was a kid I may have booed Nikita Koloff for being a mean Russian.
  16. davell
    Me either. Never played one inning of a baseball game. And I hear it all the time from a couple of meatballs who are absolutely braindead when it comes to the sport, but think they know everything because they played High School baseball 20 years ago. I did play basketball, ran track, and played tennis in high school, tennis in college. I hope that if I ever pull the "I know more than you because I played it" card, someone punches me in the face.
  17. davell
    Awesome evasion of the filter, by the way. And I totally agree. But I really hope we take as much possible advantage as possible next signing period, especially if we're going to be a good team and the following season's pool is much less.
  18. davell
    I think there is a hell of a lot of "armchair athlete" going on throughout the sports fandom world. I have a couple of people I still am in contact with from High School and college that have become legends in their own minds at this point. One guy, in particular, was at my house a few years ago and we had a basketball game on and I heard him telling stories about his High School basketball exploits. He was my backup PG and saw maybe 5 minutes a game, tops. You would have thought he had played a decade in the NBA and he was so stupid to say these things because I was standing next to him. It hit him mid-story that he figured out there was someone there who knew he was lying and he stammered through the rest of it quickly, walked away, and went back to yelling about how Kevin Durant was way too thin and would never be able to get off his own shot with any consistency. Oh, the dude works for NASA, by the way, so he's probably fairly intelligent outside of the sports world.
  19. davell
    My guess is we'll skirt as many rules as we possibly can here. Seeing that the top 6 bonuses at 50,000 and under don't count against our cap and same with signings under 7,500 helps us out a decent amount honestly. As the article says, it gives a team the ability to get to 3.2 mill rather easily. Then, if you take the under 5% penalty, it puts you around 3.5 at least. I was all for spending whatever and taking the max penalty, but since next year teams will all be operating off of different pool amounts, it doesn't make sense, with us likely to have a rather high number to begin with. If anything, NEXT year is the year to go "all in" especially with the possibility of a draft coming soon.
  20. davell
    Depending on money, I'd be perfectly fine with signing Gonzalez. That said, I'd want to sign him, hope he pitched well, so maybe he could be dealt. If he's signed at this point, is he eligible to be dealt by the deadline?
  21. davell
    I was looking up current fWAR's of some of our guys, since Kyle posted LaHair is already at a 1.9. Shark is 1.2, Castro is 1.3, Demp is 1.0, Garza is 0.9, Stewart is -0.1, Volstad is 0.7, Maholm is -0.1, Barney, DeJesus, and Campana are all at 0.2, Soriano is 0.4, and Soto is 0.0. My questions are with as unlucky as Stewart has been, how is he THAT bad currently and how is Volstad even remotely close to Garza and Dempster?
  22. davell
    http://ht.ly/1jyCtH Excellent read on how teams may be trying to play the system and find loopholes.
  23. davell
    I think it's the first positive thing Gammons has said about the Cubs since Theo got here. Either way, I would have posted that no matter who said it.
  24. davell
    I'd be shocked if that's the case. My guess is they either gave him a few days off or he's banged up. They sat him out 3 games or so a couple of weeks ago as well.
  25. davell
    Gammons said on Twitter a scout told him a comp for Shark is a healthy Josh Johnson. 98 MPH FB. Great tilt to slider. Filthy split. 91 MPH cutter.
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