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  1. SouthSideRyan
    Hendricks's competition for me: can't play the field, can't see, has been dead for 2 years, and is an unproven pen arm
  2. SouthSideRyan
    He may also think the mariners have a nonzero chance of competing his year
  3. SouthSideRyan
    I seriously would put the Cubs at about 29th on Burnett's wish list ahead of the Astros and Yankees but behind retirement.
  4. SouthSideRyan
    I get that, but they're 17 or 18 and being lied to (or at least mislead). either rival programs that actually honor their scholarships are doing a terrible job of communicating the risks of signing with St. Saban's Memorial Hospital, or these players are too hopelessly naive to get the point The latter. You're an 18 year old kid who dominates [expletive] high and bangs the cheerleader, it'll be those other guys that wind up losing their scholarship, sucks for them.
  5. SouthSideRyan
    Wasn't he dead set on going to Pittsburgh? Either way, I'm sure he'd have a wealth of options and don't see why he'd come here. He's backed off the Pirates thing, apparently. And yeah, I'm sure there would be plenty of other teams in on him. But we should use that Tanaka money on something, even if it's not quite as efficient as we'd like. 37 year olds who are good at baseball, coming back for one more year don't sign with one of the worst teams in baseball.
  6. SouthSideRyan
    He's wrong on Cain too. Cain is signed through 2017.
  7. SouthSideRyan
    Petition to autocorrect Solar to Soler
  8. SouthSideRyan
    Forgot about Roberts. McDonald was re-signed to a minor league deal early in the offseason, he's an NRI. Ha, and after looking at the NRI list, we have a lot of AAAA OFers on the list. Obviously the majority will be cut, but you've got: McDonald Coghlan Cunningham Kalish Maier Wells who could snag an OF spot in Iowa
  9. SouthSideRyan
    If I remember correctly he was basically asking for 5 years all at free agent prices instead of 2 years at arb prices and 3 at FA prices. If I had to guess based on that I'd think he asked for 5/75 to 5/80 which is absurd. Figure in two years of arbitration is roughly 12 million that means you're be giving him 20 to 21M a year over the last 3 years comparatively. If Jeff Samardzija gets roughly 12 million over 2 years of arbitration, we have a bigger issue in that Jeff Samardzija died. 3rd year arb players are compared to FAs in terms of contracts. Shark only has one year of "arb prices"
  10. SouthSideRyan
    Does McDonald have a Japan option in his contract? We still need another right handed of don't we? I assumed that would be him or Vitters. If Olt doesn't make the team doesn't Watkins pretty much have to? Although that leaves us with needing somebody to backup the middle if at AAA
  11. SouthSideRyan
    Tony zych becomes a setup man in the bigs by the trade deadline. Cubs draft another position player in 1st round
  12. SouthSideRyan
    So you put a couple seats on the Budweiser ad
  13. SouthSideRyan
    That last bit sounds promising... I remember us discussing that bit from before...like way before. Last spring/summer. Odd that Kaplan would see that when he earlier said that he thinks this contract looks good for the rooftops. Obviously he's going back on that now. and lol at his subtle brag about having gotten into law school and his dad having been a successful attorney. Somebody tell that bald doof that 1. everyone gets into law school and 2. "getting into law school" correlates about 0% with being able to read and understand a contract.
  14. SouthSideRyan
    That was too much word vomit for me to understand who you're talking about, but I would say there were the most profitable team in baseball after 2012. The Astros had like an 8 dollar payroll this year, it's definitely them now.
  15. SouthSideRyan
    For guys in their 30s or a guy whose arm I worry about long-term like Tanaka, sure.
  16. SouthSideRyan
    If the contract really was made cheaper by granting the opt out, then it might (MIGHT) be altering the risk/reward in a positive way for the team, depending on how much cheaper. IF the contract was made cheaper? You think Tanaka for 7 years without an opt-out costs the same as Tanaka for 7 years with it? That all depends on what other teams are willing to do. The Yankees almost certainly gave him the most money, as it was, and might have been the only team willing to give him the opt out, too. Yeah, I saw your earlier post after the fact
  17. SouthSideRyan
    If the contract really was made cheaper by granting the opt out, then it might (MIGHT) be altering the risk/reward in a positive way for the team, depending on how much cheaper. IF the contract was made cheaper? You think Tanaka for 7 years without an opt-out costs the same as Tanaka for 7 years with it?
  18. SouthSideRyan
    You're getting four years of upside if things work out and seven years of downside if they go sideways. You don't see a problem? You're getting seven years of downside if things go sideways regardless. You just said one post up that you don't like going 7 years for pitchers, well there you go, you managed to get him signed to a 4 year deal assuming he doesn't get injured. Send him on his way and let his elbow explode for somebody else. I'm not sure I understand your POV here. Would you be in favor of giving player options in every contract? I can understand if you're saying we should have signed him regardless. But you seem to be saying that giving the player an opt out makes it a BETTER contract. It CAN make it a better contract. If Tanaka opts out after 4 years and declines through years 5-7 or Tanaka doesn't opt out after 4 years. The only way including the opt out makes it a worse contract than the alternative is if Tanaka opts out and continues to be elite through years 5-7. What do you think is the most likely scenario?
  19. SouthSideRyan
    You're getting four years of upside if things work out and seven years of downside if they go sideways. You don't see a problem? You're getting seven years of downside if things go sideways regardless. You just said one post up that you don't like going 7 years for pitchers, well there you go, you managed to get him signed to a 4 year deal assuming he doesn't get injured. Send him on his way and let his elbow explode for somebody else.
  20. SouthSideRyan
    He (and many others) keep harping on the opt out. If Tanaka opts out in 4 years, that means you pulled off the rare feat of signing a free agent and him being worth even more than you signed him for 4 years later. What a tragedy. "Oh, but SSR, what if he's bad and doesn't opt out!!!" Well then you have him for 7 years, the same way you did if you didn't have an opt out in the contract, only you're most likely paying him a decent amount less than you would without an opt-out in the contract.
  21. SouthSideRyan
    It probably would've made me feel better if it wasn't written by Dave Cameron
  22. SouthSideRyan
    Nobody said that. Even in my we're doomed worst case scenario, we'll go back over 100M by 2019. The point is, if Baez and Bryant don't come up and wow, or they're held down to save money, no free agent is going to give a [expletive] that they're both top 5 prospects according to BA next year. They'll look at another 65 win trainwreck and say, so how much are you going to give me??
  23. SouthSideRyan
    Well I'm gonna go drink bleach
  24. SouthSideRyan
    The Astros have a more highly rated farm system and tons of money to spend. Wouldn't you fall down laughing if I told you I was worried about beating them out for a free agent? We're the Astros
  25. SouthSideRyan
    Worst record in baseball. I don't think we'll have that, but 67-95 sounds right on for me.
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