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Only 88 pitches through 6, he's also on extra rest I bet they let him go 1 more. Plus he just tied the record for scoreless innings in Cubs history at 33 IP, let him at least try to record an out to break it.

Sliding into first.... [-(

Liriano has 8 k's through 3 IP right now against the A's

So what are Appel's options? Go back to Stanford, or indy league?

He's flying back to LA to have team doctors look at him, so it has to be semi serious. They said he didn't show signs of an injury Wednesday, just that he "twisted" his knee and it swelled up. He's having an MRI over the weekend and an evaluation Sunday, so we will probably hear something by Monday. Anthony Davis is going to take his place for now it sounds like. http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/8160453/los-angeles-clippers-blake-griffin-injures-knee-team-usa-camp-source-says

With both being so young and seemingly a decent ways away and not even playing pro ball yet I'm guessing it's because Law/scouts are a little more familiar with Almora and the fact that they seem to think he has a higher floor and is a slightly safer prospect.

That would be a pretty solid trade, but that tweet seems nothing more than throwing [expletive] at the fall

yes but we need to think of something to top schilling painting his sock red Baez, Castro and Soler will paint their skin white and all change their names to Joseph Smith so Kaplan and the like in the media start to sing praises about them and then we will win a world series.

Padres would probably need to be getting 2 of Lake/Candelario/Jackson/Szczur and probably Lee instead of Gould for them to consider that.

That's pretty cool that they have Almora and Soler rooming together. Will they start off at the same levels once they leave AZ? Or will Soler start a league up? It would be kinda cool fluff/side story if they were able to progress through the minors together and move up the same levels at the same time (assuming both turn out to be studs like we hope for).

I love how the Nets act like the Magic were just being unreasonable....and not that they were offering a garbage package. How do you say no to trading a top 3 player in the leauge for a very average and injury prone center, a guy whose only quality is rebounding and 4 picks somehwere in the mid-high 20's?!?!?!

I just don't see how Dwight doesn't end up on the Lakers now that Brooklyn has pretty much made a trade impossible with signing Lopez.

Is your IFA budget solely tied to your W/L record? Or does it also take into acount revenue/payroll? W/L from the previous year, just like draft position. Good to know, tank away then

Is your IFA budget solely tied to your W/L record? Or does it also take into acount revenue/payroll?

Just have to play at about a .800 winning % the rest of the way to get that 2nd wild card spot! I'm counting on 9 NL teams having monumental collapses. We'd win the division at an 80% clip. 70% clip would put us at 87 wins, pretty much right there. Part of me is still dreaming :D but I'd take finishing with a better record than last year with some young players showing development. I'd be pretty happy with that. That'd would be we played pretty well in the second half. I'd rather we just get the #1 pick and more importantly the most draft pool money than finish around where we did last year and pick somewhere between 6-10 again. If this were a year under old CBA rules I wouldn't care where we pick in the top 10 as it appears we'd have a near unlimited budget and would take and sign multiple overslot guys and since there isn't a clear #1 guy this year I'd be fine with picking around 6 again. But since getting the #1 pick now means you get to spend the most I want to be picking there.

Olney tweeted that the Braves could offer a package for Upton with Prado as the centerpiece. Sure those talks would go far, Buster :good:

Is the AAA all star game on TV (MLBN) anywhere?

Weren't all those guys like 4-6 years older than Vitters when they were ripping up the PCL and also repeating the level for at least a second time through (if not 3rd, 4th or 5th)?

Angels are interested in Greinke, if he becomes available. Add another potential team to the Garza/Dempster list. I think it's getting to the point, with how many teams are interested in pitching, that we almost have to trade Garza with a pitcher like him in high demand and a team willing to/having to pay a premium to acquire him to so many teams in on the bidding.

Sounds like a good deal for the Lakers. :) My bad, it's been corrected. Should have been Bynum to the Rockets :good:

I can totally see it. Let's say they dump Soriano and save $1 million/year, and Garza is traded, Soto is either traded or non-tendered, and Stewart is non-tendered. That leaves $34.17 million in firm commits (including Soler and Concepcion) with Marmol and DeJesus being the only players on the 25-man to show for it. Castro, Russell, Valbuena, Volstad and Samardzija make the team as arbitration-eligible players. $12 million in total seems pretty reasonable for them, probably even a bit high. That gives us 7 players for $46.17 million. The hard part is predicting how many pre-arb players make the roster. This year we ran like 10-12 all year so far. Nobody's really a lock because who knows who will be traded between now and then. Best guess: Rizzo, Wood, Clevenger, Castillo, a backup OF (Campana? Sappelt), Barney (or Valbuena if he's traded), at least three farm bullpen guys (Dolis, Beliveau, Cabrera? I dunno, I'm not good at that part), at least one scrapheap bullpen guy and maybe two of Jackson/Vitters/guys we get out of trades this offseason. That's a total of 12 for about $6 million. That's 19 roster spots already filled up and we've only spent $52 million. We still need a couple starting position players (at least one outfielder, maybe two) and a couple of rotation arms (depending on who we get in the Garza and Dempster trades). If we're not in on the stud FA starting pitchers, and I'm betting we're not going to do more than kick the tires on them, then it's hard to even get to $90 million. tl;dr: We have a crap-ton of positions likely to be filled by pre-FA guys next year. What are they going to do with all the loot?Castro and maybe Samardzija (IDK what his contract is like/when he's a FA) extensions? Still would have plenty left to sign just about whoever they wanted and still be around the $90m range (assuming they don't go out and sign multiple guys out of Hamels/Greinke/Upton/E. Jackson/Sanchez group)

Just have to play at about a .800 winning % the rest of the way to get that 2nd wild card spot!

I'd like that, but I'd prefer a GIDP here forcing Dunn to pinch hit for Billy Butler. Too bad you can't re-enter guys and have Cano hit for Butler

I think we are at somewhere between $105-110m