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  1. Clem Fandango
    This seems like some serious revisionist history. It's not. A lot of places said Montero's bat was one of the best in the minors, if not THE best. He wasn't atop the lists because outside of his bat, everything else that goes into begin a top prospect needed a lot of work, IIRC. His defense especially was (and still is, as far as I know) a big question mark, but I'm pretty sure there weren't many people who didn't consider his bat to be MLB ready at the beginning of the season. Obviously there's no way to prove that, but I just personally believe that Montero has the ability to provide some very serious offensive production. Whether or not his defense improves or if he even sticks at catcher is to be determined, but his bat can play at the MLB level right now
  2. Clem Fandango
    Montero's average year will be an .890 OPS, .385 wOBA and 3.5 WAR? That'd be better than Mauer. I was speaking more in terms of basic production numbers, not rates, but even when Jason Heyward was the #1 prospect in baseball, scouts and analysts were calling Montero arguably the best pure hitter in the minor leagues. The guy is going to be an offensive powerhouse. His defense might be for [expletive], but his offense is going to be special. He put up an .870 OPS as a catcher in AAA at the age of 20 and that was a down year for him. The guy is going to be great.
  3. Clem Fandango
    Wright's defense is definitely overrated, but that's about it. Offensively he's one of the best 3B in the game
  4. Clem Fandango
    Cano? Teixeira? Both? Z and Soto are both really good at baseball. Z makes a little too much for what he provides, and Soto is one of the most valuable assets in the game. To be fair, Montero is arguably also one of the most valuable assets in the game. If Montero pans out, he'll be Soto. If Montero pans out and fulfills his promise, Montero's average year will probably be the same as whatever Soto can accomplish at his peak. And he'll be in his early 20's doing it instead of his late 20's.
  5. Clem Fandango
    David Wright is overrated? The guy with the career 135 OPS+ over 7 years who hasn't even reached the age of 28 yet? That David Wright?
  6. Clem Fandango
    That dude is a fat mess... but man does he have a truckload of power
  7. Clem Fandango
    No one has apparently picked it up, and Rotoworld even posted an update about Lee with no indications of a SD deal
  8. Clem Fandango
    I thought the same thing, and just saw this on MLBTR Looks like Webb isn't on their radar
  9. Clem Fandango
    Hmmm... I figured after getting rid of Gonzalez they'd just move Kyle Blanks there and save the money
  10. Clem Fandango
    I keep glancing over the title when I come here and for a split second I think I'm reading "Z traded to Yanks... WOW" and it freaks me out. That being said even though they could easily take on his salary, they won't. Just to have a little fun discussing it however, who else is in their system that's worth a damn besides Montero? Only other one I can think of off the top of my head is maybe Dellin Betances.
  11. Clem Fandango
    He's a huge question mark. He bounced back a bit last year and was good, but he wasn't anything tremendously special, though he does provide an excellent GB%. The question is was this season kind of a fluke year or will he be able to become better than he was to regain his form from a few years back. I don't know. He'd be worth looking into, but if a lot of teams are after him he'd probably cost at least one valuable bargaining chip and I don't know if I'd be willing to give that up for someone you can't be sure on
  12. Clem Fandango
    Pay for all his salary this year and demand Jesus Montero in return...... And get laughed at
  13. Clem Fandango
    It would also give us one more white guy to help bring up the team morale
  14. Clem Fandango
    Please?
  15. Clem Fandango
    Interesting. If he manages to stay healthy at least he'll be in a spacious ballpark to help his numbers out. Sucks his career has sort of fizzled out a bit, he was so damn good for us when we traded for him
  16. Clem Fandango
    I keep thinking there is because this thread keeps getting updated, but it's all lies
  17. Clem Fandango
    Could've sworn I already posted this but now it isn't showing up for me anymore... IIRC he is trending downward and his skillset compares favorably to a bunch of other players who tend to fall off the cliff in their early 30's due to a diminishing skillset and physical limitations because of their size, and he turns 31 next season. For the production he provides now, his contract is somewhat justifiable (if not a little over the top) but by the end of the contract they could be paying a premium price for a not-so-premium player
  18. Clem Fandango
    When your best option to start behind the plate is Francisco Cervelli and you have a 20-year old catcher mashing at AAA in the minors primed to take over for the foreseeable future, you tend to want to hold on to that. That being said, if they were dumb enough to part with him for Zambrano or Dempster, I wouldn't even try and flip him for Greinke. I'd keep him and shop Soto instead
  19. Clem Fandango
    IIRC, he's been trending downward and his skillset compares favorably to a bunch of players who tailed off in their early 30's, which he is about to enter, due to declining skills and physical limitations so there's a chance they could be paying a premium salary for a not-so-premium player in the next couple of years.
  20. Clem Fandango
    Another possible acquisition war with the Nats? First Pena, then Webb, now Garza? From all the names I've heard, they can beat us on Garza if they'd like. Agreed... I'll be a little miffed if they acquire him for prospects that are worse than the ones they've been rumored to want from us though
  21. Clem Fandango
    Another possible acquisition war with the Nats? First Pena, then Webb, now Garza?
  22. Clem Fandango
    New feature developed by MLBTR that tracks all transactions that can be sorted by team, general manager, agency, player, size of contract, type of transaction, etc. It's pretty cool, check it out: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/transactiontracker
  23. Clem Fandango
    I think someone posted them a while back in this thread but I didn't spot them, so I dug them up... Lilly with the Blue Jays 04-06 2004: 4.60 2005: 4.74 2006: 4.52 Lilly with Cubs 07-09 2007: 4.31 2008: 4.14 2009: 3.98 His 2010 combined between Cubs and Dodgers was 4.16
  24. Clem Fandango
    I'd love to see a baseball team on the Gulf Coast, but football dominates and the Gulf coast is already littered with minor league teams. Oh well
  25. Clem Fandango
    It's called exaggeration. People around here tend to read things literally
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