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  1. Tryptamine
    Way to risk an unnecessary turnover. It's amazing how fast the D and ST have gone to [expletive].
  2. Tryptamine
    over/under 200 yards for Shady McCoy next week?
  3. Tryptamine
    Implosion
  4. Tryptamine
    If the Bears care about this season, then Cutler has to see the bench.
  5. Tryptamine
    one of Zimmer/Ventura needs to be in that deal to make it worthwhile. Ideally Almonte is there too.
  6. Tryptamine
    He's probably just waiting for Seattle to up the ante after hearing about how he got a 5/75 offer.
  7. Tryptamine
    If the Mariner's front office is as desperate as they appear, Theo needs to find a way to get Taijuan Walker on this team.
  8. Tryptamine
    Assuming both Rodon and Hoffman are gone, I'd want it to be Gatewood/Kolek/Jackson in that order. Beede could drastically change that if he improves his command.
  9. Tryptamine
    10 years is much more the issue than 23-24mil per. Very much this. Also, giving anyone a contract that only your optimistic projections having him be worth is a really bad idea. There's almost zero chance of getting any surplus value from that deal. The goal is not to get surplus value. Then you're not giving yourself any upside. Best case scenario you get what you paid for. There's no reason to give out a contract without any potential upside in value unless that's the one move that helps you win a world series. In Seattle's case, that is most definitely not the scenario.
  10. Tryptamine
    It's from Baseball Prospectus. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22345#.UqCJVrRHDzs.twitter Yeah, my bad on that mistake.
  11. Tryptamine
    10 years is much more the issue than 23-24mil per. Very much this. Also, giving anyone a contract that only your optimistic projections having him be worth is a really bad idea. There's almost zero chance of getting any surplus value from that deal.
  12. Tryptamine
    Bruce Levine ‏@MLBBruceLevine 12m That puts him at roughly 13M a year over those 3 FA years. I think I'd go up to 5/61 which puts him at 15M a year over those 3 years. Anything over that and it's time to move him.
  13. Tryptamine
    Yikes. Even if they make this move they're at least one more bat away from being a contender. Are they going to have any money to do it?
  14. Tryptamine
    No Rosscup? I don't think Rosscup is any good. I just do not trust his control. Raley, on the other hand, I think can be a darn good LOOGY. I don't know about Rusin as a reliever; might be better off keeping him as a 7th-8th starter in Iowa and I'm not sure his stuff is suited to strike out lefties well. I'm intrigued, what makes you say Rosscup isn't any good? 14.65K/9 6.35H/9 give the impression otherwise unless you think he's getting by completely on a gimmicky deception type style like Jon Gaub used to. The walks are definitely high, but even so with his otherworldly K/9 it's not a death sentence.
  15. Tryptamine
    Likely some type of protocol written into every NPB player's contract.
  16. Tryptamine
    Is there anything short of setting fire to Javy Baez in the batters box that could ever get Epstein dinged with a bit of failure with some people? Not when we find out every few months that there was yet another hindrance that we never would have anticipated back when he was hired. We didn't have any clue about 90% of the problems were facing now back when he was hired.
  17. Tryptamine
    No Rosscup?
  18. Tryptamine
    I didn't even know that was a thing. I thought the Yankees were at the point where multi-years of eclipsing the mark increased the additional penalty above the tax and they just wanted to restart that time frame. I remember hearing about it last year, but I'm currently searching for any reference to it now and coming up with nothing.
  19. Tryptamine
    Even without Lamb I love that package. Of course I'm still trying to figure out a way to get Herrera involved in a deal.
  20. Tryptamine
    Correct me if I"m wrong, but I thought the Yankees were at the point in luxury tax where either draft picks or draft budget was going to start being affected?
  21. Tryptamine
    Not a rumor, but one of the guys over at Orioleshangout works for Baseball America and he put together a mock trade that went like this Washington gets Chris Davis and Brian Matusz Cubs get AJ Cole and Eduardo Rodriguez Orioles get Samardzija+Rendon+Vogelbach+Souza Giving up Samardzija and Vogelbach for that would be one horrific trade. A couple mid rotation arms, yay.
  22. Tryptamine
    He was talking about Bubba Starling not Starlin.
  23. Tryptamine
    ABTY7- Kendrick+Starling+Ventura for Samardzija and Russell, make it happen Theo.
  24. Tryptamine
    That's a move I could get excited about. If he's healthy he's a pretty decent bet to be a 3 WAR CFer.
  25. Tryptamine
    So envious of all the moves the As are making. I'm going to end up going full meatball if nothing of note is done over this offseason.
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