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mlbtraderumors MLB Trade Rumors RT @JimBowdenESPNxm: AA told @Mlbnetworkradio Jays are unlikely to sign Fielder because they're not going past 5 years for him
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@Jim_Duquette Jim Duquette Source- Nats are the team offering 6th year to CJ Wilson.
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@BJRains B.J. Rains Confirmed that Cardinals hour-long meeting with Pujols' agent Dan Lozano was last night. They talked again today and more possible tonight.
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@Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal Sources: #Marlins may meet again with Pujols' people tonight. #STLCards could be back in touch too. #MLB
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Keith Law's Top 50 players under 25 (Castro 6th)
Have a seat, Neifi replied to UMFan83's topic in General Baseball Talk
Juan Pierre-12 seasons, 6823 AB's, 16 HR Starlin Castro-2 seasons, 1137 AB's, 13 HR Castro has substantially more power and also plays SS which is more valuable then CF. Those two aren't a great comparison. Neither is Matt Szczur, but Law keeps making it. Pierre, Castro, and Szczur: 3 of the slappiest hitters this side of the Mississippi. -
Although the SEC is probing Miami gov't officials--not the Marlins--we can at least hope that the negative PR surrounding the deal and the price of the stadium to the public might dampen the Marlins' brass's aggressiveness in pursuing free agents.
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Perhaps, but not nearly as much, or in as predictable a manner, as most people think. See this article: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-jock-tax/
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I believe that paying over slot in multiple drafts doesn't just result in luxury tax penalties, but can also result in the loss of future draft picks.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/washington-nationals-show-interest-in-free-agent-1B-Prince-Fielder-Cuban-OF-Yoennis-Cespedes-112811
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The results are skewered because the two players are hitting in completely different environments. The results are skewered because the term "most valuable" is ambiguous. I really don't think folks realize they're not arguing over who most deserves the award. They're arguing over which definition should be used. (Or more specifically, how the various factors should be weighted.) Pretty much this. I'm sure most voters recognize that Kemp had the better season, but they probably thought "Without Braun the Brewers don't make the playoffs", and thus, they considered him more valuable. Which honestly, I'm more in favor of. It's the reason Sammy Sosa (1.024 OPS) beat Mark McGwire (1.222 OPS) in voting in 1998, same reason here. There's already an award for best offensive player (Hank Aaron Award), and Kemp will did win that Right; they gave it to the guy with better teammates.
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Exactly. Perfect is not the enemy of the good. Or in this case, the really REALLY good. Not sure why the mainstream media can't realize that.
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When you play in a low run-scoring environment, the runs you produce are more... wait for it...wait for it...wait for it... ... ... ... valuable. Forget it, it's no use.
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Exactly, they'll find new ways to exploit the system. Probably will actually give us more of an edge over other teams than keeping the old system where everyone had figured out the loopholes. I think this hurts the smaller-market teams more than anyone else in the long term. It definitely does. Before, small-market teams could overspend in the draft to obtain what would become valuable assets. With fewer opportunities to overspend in the draft or on IFAs, the least unregulated frontier of where a front office can allocate its dollars is looking like MLB free agents, especially with the elimination of Type B status. And plus, teams still can overspend in the draft; it'll just cost them (even) more money to do so. In other words, a franchise now can only overspend in the draft if it's prepared to REALLY overspend and pay the associated luxury tax amounts. This obviously favors franchises that have the money and the will to pay all these overage costs.
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That doesn't mean that. And even if it did, the ability to neutralize a pitcher's park adds to his value. Exactly. Most players hit better home than on the road; that Kemp hit identically home and the road doesn't mean the park didn't matter. Imagine if he played at a non-pitcher's park as his home park; his home numbers would be even better than they were.
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The award is based on what was accomplished not on a best guess at what their numbers would have been based on conjecture that may never actually manifest itself. Just look how Soriano's HR totals plummeted when he played for the Nationals. If DS is tougher to hit in - tough [expletive]. That's the nature of the game. If you are evaluating for future performance or determining trade value that's a completly different matter - but that's not what this was. That's like taking the Oscar away from Heath Ledger and giving it to Robert Downey because you think he'd have done a better job than Ledger if had he gotten the role. That's not the argument he's making. It's that Kemp's superiority in production to Braun is that much more impressive because it came playing in an extreme pitcher's park. Because Kemp likely would've put up better numbers playing half his games in Miller Park is just a natural consequence of putting the numbers he did in a less favorable hitting environment.
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Fine with Verlander winning if and only if we can go back and give Pedro an MVP for his 2000 season and Maddux one for his 1995 season. Verlander was the best pitcher in the AL no doubt, but he was also pretty meh the last 4-6 weeks of the year, and the difference between him and Sabathia isn't nearly as great as the W/L record or ERA would indicate. I probably would've voted for Ellsbury.
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Kemp should've won, but I don't consider Braun winning to be some kind of outrage or egregious miscarriage of justice. We've had MVP votes that were complete shams and embarrassments to the voting process (Rollins, Pudge, Kent); this isn't one of them. The voters got this one wrong by once again giving to the candidate with the better teammates, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
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FWIW, both Jeff Passan (Yahoo! Sports) and Joe Sheehan (SI.com / MBL Network) have not only heavily criticized the new CBA re: caps on draft and IFA signings, but have specifically noted how these changes will disproportionately hurt the Cubs under Theo's leadership. Passan: Link to full article: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_cba_hgh_testing_draft_rules_112211 Sheehan (excerpted from his paid newsletter):
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According to an article posted today by Dan LeBatard in the Miami Herald, the Marlins may be shying away from offering Pujols more money because of concerns over his age--concerns that apparently many teams around MLB share: Obviously LeBatard doesn't back up his statement with anything whatsoever, but thought it was at least worth posting. Link: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/20/v-fullstory/2510381/miami-marlins-expensive-experiment.html
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Nothing about an extra 1-game playoff between two 80-something-win teams following a 162-game season is "great." Selig is the master of change just for the sake of change. He's basically the Tony LaRussa of pro sports commissioners; just because you make a lot of moves or transactions in sheer quantity doesn't mean you're particularly effective at actually accomplishing anything positive.
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Did MLBTR revert back to a stetchy site once again? Not sure about sketchy, but perhaps just liberal in terms of rendering headlines from the tweets or blog rumblings of local beat reporters, etc. I tend to think that generally speaking, where there's smoke there's fire, so I still check it and HardballTalk fairly regularly (moreso the latter). Regardless, I can't really see Fielder signing with Seattle. Then again, this is a Scott Boras client we're talking about here.
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Would not be upset at all if Reyes winds up with the Marlins and the Rangers are indeed not in the running for Pujols or Fielder. At that point, I'd think our main competitors would be WAS, TOR, BAL, and STL for those two (STL only for Pujols, obviously). I also recall reading on MLB Trade Rumors (I know, I know) awhile back that the Mariners were allegedly interested in throwing a bunch of money at Fielder. Regardless, if Theo and Co. see ANY merit whatsoever to pursuing a long-term deal with either of these guys, the landscape of competing bidders really could not be any more favorable. No NYY, BOS, PHI, or TEX. What more could you ask for. Edited to add that I am assuming that the Marlins would not have the money to ink both Reyes AND one of Fielder / Pujols. New ballpark or not, I'd be floored if that franchise would be prepared to commit upwards of $40 million of its annual payroll to 2 players.
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Lol at a 71-win team spending $20 million on a new President of BO, remaking its entire front office, and then throwing $4 million at an effing middle reliever.
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Just to follow up, Cashman has indeed contacted the agent for Wilson and Oswalt: http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2011/11/yankees_make_contact_with_agen.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed To echo a previous poster, not sure why or how this should surprise anyone. The Yankees have all the resources in the world and a huge need for #2 starter. The Red Sox are essentially in the same boat. If the Cubs are going to somehow nab Wilson, we're going to have outbid the traditional heavy hitters without question.