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i'd rather imagine addison russell in our farm system with those last two omitted You'd rather a prospect than 2 full seasons of sub-3 ERA from starting pitchers?

how hard is it for a "professional" tv guy to look up a dude's numbers He probably did look it up, saw that he had 21 and 33 BBs the past 2 years, and thought "wow... this guy walks as much as Castro does." He probably looked him up and thought "wow...this guy is darker than Castro is."

Is Josh Hancock available?

Don't give Brett any ideas

Rays run with a Red Sox collapse. Also a Braves run with a Phillies collapse in the NL the same year, IIRC Rockies did it too. Went 14-1 to close out the 2007 season(including 1 game playoff with Padres for wild card spot) Then they won 7 in a row to sweep into the world series, only to get destroyed by the Red Sox.

Is Gattis a terrible defensive catcher, otherwise wtf?

I was going to reference this, but it's quite possible Boras has changed his opinon with the way the market has shifted.

Arbitration isn't based on previous years salaries it's based on comparables. Travis Wood received a bigger increase than David Price did in their respective 1st year of arb. The fact that Wood was coming from 520k and Price was coming from 1.25M was irrelevant ETA previous years salary comes into play in that you can't reduce a salary by any more than 20% his previous salary

He's signed through those six years already, though. The last year of his contract is 2020, which would also be his last pre-FA year if he is indeed beholden to the standard service-time requirement. ...unless he was held down til mid-April of next year making his last pre-FA year 2021.

out of curiosity what is the long term difference between him coming up now, and him making the opening day roster? I know less than some others here but I believe the service-time impact is essentially nil between those two scenarios. Correct. Bryant would need to be held down until mid-April to get the "7th" year of control

Again, while Soler is on a major league contract, he can opt into arbitration as soon as he's eligible. There has been no indication that he is not beholden to the standard 6 years of big league service requirement.

It's not even unlikely. It's 100% not happening. They don't explicitly say things too often but they pretty much have explicitly said that. And I still don't understand it. ETA: compared to Baez/Soler that is you don't understand why Soler would be called up before Bryant? I don't understand why they're seemingly playing service time games with Bryant but not Baez and Soler.

It's not even unlikely. It's 100% not happening. They don't explicitly say things too often but they pretty much have explicitly said that. And I still don't understand it. ETA: compared to Baez/Soler that is

16 wins out of 28... wouldn't that be a 69 pace? No? 162/28= 5.8 (rounded up) 5.8x16= 92.8 what a weird way to do it I was thinking the same thing

stfu

The Brewers offense can't be that bad.

I'd much prefer to be owned by a mailbox.

Padres are definitely one of them. I'm guessing the other one is somebody you wouldn't expect...Pirates?

Yeah, I'd prefer the guy with more power who is 4 years younger. At this rate, Tomas will probably get $70-80 million. That's way, way low. Based on Castillo's signing Tomas should break the $100 million mark. I think it's pretty funny that people are declaring this a horrendous overpay without seeing Castillo playing an inning of pro ball. How the hell does anyone know what he's capable of? The ones who can make the best guess are the scouts, and they're the ones who advised Boston to make this offer. They had competition, and they aren't a stupid bunch. I'm not devastated to lose out, but I'm not remotely convinced Boston made a mistake. I disagree with those saying offense shouldn't be a priority, because it's very likely all of our young hitters will take at least a couple of seasons before they emerge as plus offensive players, if they do at all, and it's absolutely essential the Cubs add a veteran everyday player who can should some of the offensive burden. It's fine to approach every FA situation by saying "I'm going to set a value at what I think the guy is worth, and not a penny more" until you get to the fact that you'll never end up signing a desirable FA that way. Sounds great as a rah-rah statement - in practice, it gets you nowhere. The market dictates what a player is worth, not one GMs abstract judgment. What needs to happen is for the FO to decide not what they think every FAs value is and not budge, but to decide which FAs are worth overpaying for and resolve not to miss out on them. It doesn't have to be a lot or the most expensive of them, but at some point it has to be somebody and until it is, you're a small-market team. I'd love to sell you stuff that you want. Real life as baseball fail

PTR would rather lose forever than have to associate with Sammy

Because manpower had nothing to do with the inability to keep the field dry. I thought I heard it was because it was rolled up improperly, which would seem pretty easy to connect to a short staffed group rolling it up. Beyond that, havin a full staff could've rectified the situation far more quickly than what they had out there

I'm not following TT, Wittenmeyer gets word shortly after an embarrassing inability to keep the field dry that the staff in charge of it has seen cutbacks so the Cubs won't have to pay for their health insurance. What's flimsy about it?

Nobody called the Ricketts out for being conservative. Eh, Sulley called him a conservative slumlord, but Vinestal did bring out my favorite tactic, "Keep politics out of the baseball talk!!!, BUT (politics talk)"

Damn, I thought TT used to do ownership approval polls too, but I guess it was just FO and Manager. Kyle did one in March 2013 (Link), and I did not expect it to be as favorable as it was. This was right after the one offseason we kinda tried, so I guess that would skew things.