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    Get Chatwood up, Cole is dog horsefeathers tonight
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    That was a dick shot but great to see we have no plan of attack against a young hitter once again. Good job advanced scouting.
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    Get fucked Almora
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    Extend that man
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    Yup. 4-6 is also probably “fine.” Face Bauer, Gray, Castillo and Nola. It’s technically a 4 city trip with no off days because next Sunday vs the Pirates they play at the LLWS. But let’s do 6-4. If we want to win the division it has to be better than 4-6 and 5-5 The Reds are a losing team, the Phillies are 26-34 thier last 60 games and the Pirates are in a total freefall right now. The same time we are playing this trip the Cardinals are playing the Pirates, Royals and Reds for 9 to get back winning and the Brewers just got right sweeping the Pirates.
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    I'm going to guess this is just some weird Joe logic where walking into a clubhouse with home jerseys hanging makes them feel like they are at home and thus play better. I can't see them being able to actually wear them in the game. Wait did I say Joe logic? I mean Edith logic. You are right, Jordan clarified that they aren't wearing the whites today. Should just play skins, refuse to put on the cursed road jerseys
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    I don’t see that being the case. He’s likely more valuable to us than what he returns. Even if he only costs like $29 mil the next two years total on options. 1B aren’t valued that highly and then we’d have to replace him with some clod like Matt Adams or Mitch Moreland. I’d be surprised if Rizzo returned much more than a Cishek level RP, a top 100 but not top 75 prospect and a lotto ticket A ball prospect. Just give him 4/60-80 with 1-2 option years (either team, mutual or vesting based on performance benchmarks). But if 1B aren't valued highly, why pay more than we have to for these cheap option years instead of waiting until he's a FA? We'll know more of what he is by then anyway. I love Rizzo, TOOTBLANs be damned, but given how inflexible the team has been with the payroll, would rather spend that incremental money on actual holes on the roster. I’m fine with that too, but there should be an opportunity to extend him for a relative bargain in the next two offseasons if both sides are rational with where the team options are at money wise.
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    Holy horsefeathers that is dumb. Murton would’ve been a really good player had he been around a smarter organization and/or was coming up now in the launch angle/juiced ball era. He was basically KB like at the plate from 05-07. It’s also hilarious we got him because Hendry just spoke up on the conference call finalizing the Nomar trade and said we’d take him at the 11th hour when there was confusion which of the teams he was going too and they didn’t have time to sort it through.
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    Yup. 4-6 is also probably “fine.” Face Bauer, Gray, Castillo and Nola. It’s technically a 4 city trip with no off days because next Sunday vs the Pirates they play at the LLWS. But let’s do 6-4.
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    He has 2, $14.5 million team options left. He’d be signing a 2/51 extension essentially while getting his options guaranteed. Idk, that seems pretty fair. For a guy who’d have to wait until he’s on the wrong side of 30 (he’ll be 32 as a FA and turns 33 during the year of his first FA year) and plays a position that typically doesn’t get paid great as guys hit 30+.
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    I just don’t think the return is anything special. I think you’re looking at the Goldschmidt trade +/-, controlled but flawed pitcher (Weaver), top 100 but not 75 prospect (Kelly Who was 85), and then you probably get one more prospect who’s a lotto ticket or low ceiling/high floor guy for the extra year.
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    I don’t see that being the case. He’s likely more valuable to us than what he returns. Even if he only costs like $29 mil the next two years total on options. 1B aren’t valued that highly and then we’d have to replace him with some clod like Matt Adams or Mitch Moreland. I’d be surprised if Rizzo returned much more than a Cishek level RP, a top 100 but not top 75 prospect and a lotto ticket A ball prospect. Just give him 4/60-80 with 1-2 option years (either team, mutual or vesting based on performance benchmarks). I'd move a more long term valuable internal candidate like Contreras to 1B if Rizzo was traded, or someone like Schwarber, who would hopefully benefit by playing a less defensively challenging position. But that would suck if he doesn't have much value with two ridiculous team-friendly years left. Carlos Santana had like two years and $17 mil left each year this offseason and basically went in a salary swap deal and some nominal prospect/other stuff movement, even Goldschmidt didn’t return much in his final year (a back end starter off a bad year) and Carson Kelly (85th overall prospect by Fangraphs this year). I just don’t think you’re getting a worthwhile return on Rizzo to even consider it, though I’d agree Willy/Happ/Schwarbs would be the route I’d go to plug 1B.
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    I don’t see that being the case. He’s likely more valuable to us than what he returns. Even if he only costs like $29 mil the next two years total on options. 1B aren’t valued that highly and then we’d have to replace him with some clod like Matt Adams or Mitch Moreland. I’d be surprised if Rizzo returned much more than a Cishek level RP, a top 100 but not top 75 prospect and a lotto ticket A ball prospect. Just give him 4/60-80 with 1-2 option years (either team, mutual or vesting based on performance benchmarks).
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    Yeah I’m definitely in to do something like this vs waiting until he’s a FA and having to sign him to like age 36. Juice up the options (and guarantee them) and then get him to sign on for 1-2 additional years after. Seems like a win win for everyone.
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    Time for one of those old time series where we whip our Dongs out for a whole series in Cincy and lay waste to them. Get this road nonsense back on track.
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    Holy horsefeathers the Pirates are horsefeathering miserable
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    Almora probably doesn’t have 5 batted balls as hard or harder than the 100+ ones for his career.
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    He did. Then he strained his oblique, came back too soon, and all that other stuff I already posted about for you happened. So that made him bad for 50 starts? The injury, mechanical issues and his home park all played a role in the numbers being bad. This isn’t hard you imbecile.
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    He also compiled those numbers pitching in Coors Jr. compounded with an injury at some point and mechanical stuff. It’s not hard to see where the bounce came from. Did he not pitch in Texas any of those first 32 starts with the Rangers when he had a 3.00 ERA? I’m assuming you’re talking about his first full year in Texas in 2016 since he made 32 starts then. He had a home ERA of 4.40 and road ERA of 2.40 in 2016. 4.52 vs 3.52 home vs road FIP. So yes it’s almost like getting out of that joke of a stadium, coupled with getting healthy and tweaking his mechanics led to the numbers improving.
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    He also compiled those numbers pitching in Coors Jr. compounded with an injury at some point and mechanical stuff. It’s not hard to see where the bounce came from.
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    Nice scoreless inning by Pedro, and the breaking ball looked good. But he needs that 95-97 on the FB to come back to be a guy we can trust. The 93 or less on the FB isn’t gonna cut it.
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    That would make sense since as of last year, I think, every stadium has the Statcast tech/infrastructure in it. If you go to a game there’s like a 3x3 black box behind home plate usually on the facade of the second or third deck and that’s the Statcast “box” (guessing other measuring tools are around the park too but that’s the most visible).
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    I have no idea how K-Zone classifies a pitch or if it just piggybacks off Statcast. I don’t really even know how Statcast classifies a pitch but I’m guessing it’s some combo of spin rate and movement? Anyways, that pitch Underwood was throwing reminded me of Harden’s vaunted “Splunker” pitch that was some combination of a sinker/2-seamer/split/change.
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