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Combine that with Oakland signing Lazarito for 3.5M and the two top talents are already off the board.

While he does beat his FIP it's usually by .4 or .5. I"m not about to believe in a guy whose current babip is .040 lower than any other he's ever had in his career and whose strand rate is also the highest of his career. When the numbers start evening out I suspect he's a 3.2-3.5ERA pitcher which is nice, but I suspect they want value like he's a young top of the rotation pitcher and he just isn't. Yeah, like Tom said....why is this a bad thing? Outperforming his FIP is an actual skill when he's done it in every year of his career, it's not a luck thing. I also don't know how you can say he's a 3.2-3.5 ERA pitcher when he's only been at the exact bottom of that range in his 1st year of the 3 of 4 strong years of his career. He's 25 and a top 25 pitcher in baseball. I like him because he's under contract (mistakenly said arb eligible after next year), he's a top 25 SP, who's young, and durable and could conceivably get a little better with Bosio. Would be a good guy to have in place when Lackey is a FA/retires and insurance in case they can't/won't pay Arrieta in a couple years. While I'd rather give up the type of package it would take to get Fernandez or Carrasco or Gray, I don't know that any of those guys will come available. I never meant to imply that outperforming FIP is a luck thing, especially when given years of the same results. All I'm saying is that at some point I don't buy it being totally legit either. When a guy is sporting a babip that much lower than any other babip in his career and while his LD% is down, he's giving up more hard hit balls this year.

Actually he's a 4 WAR pitcher by RA9WAR and rWAR, and is almost at that already this year. As a pitcher who has beat his FIP his whole career spanning -750 innings and 3+ seasons, I am inclined to go with either of those over a FIP based WAR like fWAR. These trades tend to come with another piece, the teams trading for the ML rarely get just that guy, and I suspect that will be the case here too even if it is not Vizcaino. While he does beat his FIP it's usually by .4 or .5. I"m not about to believe in a guy whose current babip is .040 lower than any other he's ever had in his career and whose strand rate is also the highest of his career. When the numbers start evening out I suspect he's a 3.2-3.5ERA pitcher which is nice, but I suspect they want value like he's a young top of the rotation pitcher and he just isn't.

wow that sucks with a likely draft coming in 2017. No last chance to splurge.

Way to choke

Make him at least throw one god damn strike

WIllson with a horseshit at bat

same damn pitch every time, how hard is it to figure out?

Terrible at bat by KB

Travis Wood is either not so fast or he got a really bad read

Please no fake rally, I can't take it after that 7th inning.

WHy in the hell is Montero hitting for Almora?

and Heyward continues to be almost entirely useless when he's not in the outfield.

Way to ruin the at bat ump.

Ok Javy, don't get all crazy aggressive to try and make up for it. Just give us a good AB.

Absolute implosion

Only pitch he has is that splitter and half of them end up 5 feet short of home plate. On to the next washed up former closer.

Good thing we tried to get that extra batter out of Peralta rather than just use Strop.

Giving up hard contact just about every batter.

Happy to get out there with only 1 run. Hopefully Lackey is done.

Man, Lackey went downhill quick.

Baez suddenly sitting with a good looking .272/.314/.461 line.

Letting your young potential ace lefty go 100+ pitches with a known bone spur. Terrific coaching.

Was a change up no?

God I love Javy.