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  1. Tryptamine
    Nice Outing for Skulina. Nice to see only 1BB.
  2. Tryptamine
    Well, you don't draft a guy like Marco Gonzalez and worry about arbitration/super 2 considerations. He's also only coming up for one start as Joe Kelly is about to come back and Carlos Martinez has the other hole filled.
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    Maybe I'm wrong, but Alcantara looks a lot like young Deion Sanders in that picture.
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    I have to wonder if today might be the beginning of the end for Blue Jays rumors. Brett Lawrie breaks a finger and Bautista is getting an MRI on his leg. If both of these guys are going to miss significant time I can't imagine they'd still be willing to part with a big package for Jeff.
  5. Tryptamine
    35 year old Victor Martinez just hit his 19th HR which puts him on pace for 43HR. The most HR he has ever hit in one season is 25 back in 2007. His last 4 seasons totals are 14,12,20, and 23. I'm not sure who I'd rather drug test first, Martinez or 33 year old Nelson Cruz who is on pace for 51HR after never having hit more than 33. That 33HR season was back in 2009.
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    Maybe the plan is to do that and then have him work on some things with technique catching-wise in the offseason. Personally, I'd just throw him in LF and let him rake his way up. Why dont we want a catcher who can rake? Isn't that much more valuable? Yes, but catchers take much longer to develop compared to other positions. Holding him down in the minors for an extra year or two so that he might be able to catch is hardly worth it.
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    I may be wrong in the future, but I really kind of wish Steele's money was given to Gilliam. There's been some really glowing reviews lately.
  8. Tryptamine
    Sounds like Viciedo with more pop.
  9. Tryptamine
    Cease is the last really big fish that can be expected to sign. Gilliam was never going to happen and McLeod pretty much acknowledged as much.
  10. Tryptamine
    God I really hope they don't do something foolish like drop 20M+ annually on him.
  11. Tryptamine
    Starlin goes 3/5 with 2 doubles and 2 RBI and Hollandsworth still complains about him in the post game show. Chicago media really is the absolute worst.
  12. Tryptamine
    I want Joey Gallo on this farm just so we can form a monopoly on power bats
  13. Tryptamine
    Would he go to Kane County just because they're in a playoff race, or does that not even matter because he signed so quickly?
  14. Tryptamine
    John Baker 24SB given up with 1 CS. A solid 4%. What exactly is his purpose?
  15. Tryptamine
    I wonder if things aren't going well on the Cease front. I really didn't expect Steele to get near 1M.
  16. Tryptamine
    Worst in the MLB in basestealing efficiency and they've got to be close to worst in the league at throwing out runners. Absolutely horrendous.
  17. Tryptamine
    There's no way anyone would give enough.
  18. Tryptamine
    The same reason the White Sox liked Carlos Quentin, for example. Premium prospects who underperform are sometimes fixable with new/different instruction. This would seem especially applicable in Ackley's case because 1) he was a really good prospect with great peripherals 2) he's only been with one pro organization 3) the mariners developmental prowess is...questionable 4) he has the type of approach the front office likes. It's not a slam dunk, a similar thought process is what brought Ian Stewart to Chicago, but if you're going for undervalued assets(and if the Maholm and Feldman trades are any indication, they are), Ackley is a pretty good choice as a target. For me if we're taking a significant risk on a player it has to be Hultzen. At this point I think it's about 50/50 if he ever sees the majors, but I'd rather gamble on his upside than Ackely personally.
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    I like him and Gohara quite a lot. However, I don't like any of them as much as I like Dan Norris.
  20. Tryptamine
    I am really starting to like Sanchez less and less as the big piece in a trade. At some point he needs to actually translate his elite stuff into results. He hasn't shown any improvement and the walk rate has actually gotten worse this year. This all might be tolerable if you're putting up a Crick like K/9, but he's not even striking out 8 per 9 innings.
  21. Tryptamine
    Shelby Miller too while we're at it.
  22. Tryptamine
    So currently Valbuena is sitting with an .855OPS and after today's game, likely on pace for around a 3.8fWAR. Does Theoyer give any thought to an extension or do they just dump him after arbitration?
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    I'd place a significant wager on Christian Villanueva being moved before 2015 opening day. As far as Valbuena goes, we'd never get equivalent value back. He's on pace to put up nearly 3.5fWAR and he's doing it on the cheap. I'd want the kind of prospect no one would give back for him. Someone like Jorge Alfaro or Rubby De La Rosa.
  24. Tryptamine
    The demand to call him up is going to get crazy in another month or two. If they wait until June 2015 people are going to be going ballistic.
  25. Tryptamine
    What the hell is Machado's problem this weekend? He drastically overreacts to being tagged by Josh Donaldson and causes benches to clear Saturday, and Josh Donaldson to get beaned in the same game, and now on Sunday he hits A's catcher Norris in the back of the head twice on follow through, the second time knocking him out of the game. He then proceeds to strike out and fake swing/throw the bat towards 3B. He's got to be facing a decent length suspension. http://m.mlb.com/video/v33552351/oakbal-tossed-bat-starts-altercation-in-baltimore/?partnerId=as_mlb_20140608_25584196
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