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  1. dew1679666265
    Sorry, team 1 filled a little before you posted. Team 2 is still available though, if you want it.
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    I've got a football league with openings for 2 owners. It's a 10-team league with 3 keepers each in its second season. Head-to-head, private, free league with pretty much standard scoring. 1 QB/2 RB/2 WR/1 TE/2 Flex/1 D/ST/1 K/7 bench. Myself, CCP and raw are in the league and most everybody else is pretty intelligent at it. Keepers can still be set. Rosters available: Team 1: Dalton Spiller Ballard Megatron Josh Gordon Gresham James Jones Nicks Freeman Kerley Kaepernick Jacquizz Rodgers Joique Bell McCluster Giants D/ST Redskins D/ST Gostkowski Team 2: A Rodgers Michael Turner Alfred Morris Brandon Marshall Marques Colston Owen Daniels Steve Smith DeAngelo Williams Anquan Boldin Roddy White Beanie Wells Lance Moore Brandon Lloyd Broncos D/ST Cardinals D/ST Matt Bryant Lawrence Tynes No draft date has been set yet. Once we get the league filled, we'll take care of that. Any interest post here or PM me. Thanks.
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    It wasn't that Garza was equivalent to Wells necessarily, it was that Garza hadn't been better than Wells yet to that point and that was disturbing given his much better stuff and how much value we were giving. I didn't like it at all at the time, primarily because I was very high on Archer and skeptical of Garza. I'm glad to be wrong. I also remember the reaction on here being pretty mixed at the extremes - most people either loved it (based on Garza's stuff and upside) or hated it (too much question in Garza's actual performance to give up all that talent).
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    The same reason people slow down when they see a wreck - morbid curiosity.
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    I remember that, and it was, in fact, awesome. Yeah, if I were to pinpoint a particular favorite moment, that would be it. Like others have said, though, I'm perfectly happy just reminiscing on having an incredible reliever for multiple years. I'm really sad to see him go. It was the right decision, but I have nothing but appreciation for how good Marmol was in Chicago.
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    He's been here for 2 offseasons and found one each offseason. I'd say just looking at his Cubs track record alone says yes and expanding it to the Boston track record only helps. This has as much to do with other GMs as it does Theo, but I tend to think it's pretty likely that Theo will be able to. There was too much smoke last offseason to think there's simply no interest in Soriano out there, it's just whether the offers match our demands. That's somewhat a question only Theo can answer, but I'd guess there will be more urgency to deal him this year. This is 100% on Ricketts. If he allows the money to be spent and Theo values Choo enough, yes. If Ricketts doesn't make the cash available, no. Unless Choo has non-monetary motivations, if the Cubs (read, Ricketts) want him bad enough, then we can outbid other teams for him. Probably, but I trust Theo enough to believe he can manipulate the roster enough to get a few guys who can outperform their norms for a season. I question whether the totality of Tim's scenario would play out that way, but each individual aspect of it isn't particularly far-fetched. The thing I'm worried about the most, probably, is getting everything to work together to net Choo.
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    Excellent analysis. The only thing I might disagree with (and it may just be a context thing) is that people who question whether we can make the jump are automatically wrong. If they're saying it's not possible to make that jump in wins, I agree they're wrong, but if the comment is "I don't see the right players in FA to make the jump," I think there's still merit to that, even after your very good post. That's the really good thing about our FO, though. If the players are out there, they'll identify them (as long as they're not priced out of our range) and your analysis proves the jump can be made with the right moves.
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    I agree that would help, but management has to find a way to give the manager (be it Sveum or someone else) more than 1-2 good options. I'm just wondering how/if they can do that.
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    The question now is, what do we do to make the bullpen better? Clearly we don't want to hand out dumb, longterm contracts to inconsistent relievers. However, at the same time we probably don't want to rely mostly on unknowns (Fuji types) and minor leaguers. Will there be any consistently solid relievers (ala Bob Howry when Cubs signed him) that we could afford in FA? Is it worth trying to add some young pen arms in deadline trades (i.e. advanced arms that we can be fairly confident will be good)? To me the bullpen is the hardest part of the team to fill because of the scarcity of reliable pen arms.
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    Howry was very good for the Cubs two out of three years, he was just signed one year too long (which is typically the case with FA signings). He was also very good for two seasons prior to coming to the Cubs. There's nothing wrong with occasionally signing Howry type reliever (proven vet on a reasonable deal). He's not comparable at all to Eyre or Grabow.
  11. dew1679666265
    Fan Graphs on Wood: http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/travis-woods-improbable-run/ Thanks. That's a good read.
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    This is an assumption, but it certainly seems like running down dugout stairs and climbing over tarps happen far less than collisions with the OF wall. And players typically have the opportunity to go down the stairs or across the tarp a little slower, whereas they don't in the OF. Again, I didn't bad things didn't happen to first basemen, just that they happen less. We see players collide with the wall on a consistent basis, how often do you see a runner run perfectly into a first baseman such that his wrist jams? Or two players colliding with each other on a short popup? It's not that I'm saying there's no risk at first, I'm simply arguing the likelihood lowers because of the nature of the position. Also again, I'm not advocating the move. I'm simply saying he's probably less likely to get hurt at first than the OF.
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    This is similar to how I feel. I didn't mean to degrade Wood in my post, it simply seemed like people were being a little overly anxious to give Wood an extension. I have no problem keeping Wood for the next few years, I just don't see the point in extending a guy who's pitching the best of his career and hasn't been a consistently good starter in the majors.
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    Could Wood theoretically be a key piece in a Headley deal? I doubt they'd value him highly enough, but if we could make some sort of deal around Wood/Barney (emphasizing team control to a cash-strapped club), that'd have to be pretty tempting. I'm probably reaching, though.
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    While I don't really want to jump into this whole conversation, I'd say it's far less likely a player would get hurt running into the wall from first than from the OF. In the OF you're able to get up to full speed and slam your entire body into padded concrete. At first, most of the time there's not enough room for you to get up to full speed (and you're tracking a popup rather than a hard hit, deep fly ball) before running into the wall and there are typically people who (might, at least) catch you as you flip over the wall. I'm not saying there aren't ways he could get hurt at first, just that it's not as likely there as in the OF. Bill. Mueller. Very true, but hence why I made sure to mention that players could get hurt, just not as likely to.
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    It's the dumb GMs who get excited over ERA and W/L and don't pay attention to peripherals that I'd ideally be targeting. My thinking is the coupling of them not looking deeply enough at his stats and him being still fairly young with team control left (plus if they're in the playoff race and desperate, that's a pretty big plus) would make them easy prey for the Theo regime. I'm thinking your proposed package might be a bit on the high end, but I wouldn't take much less. I'd be willing to settle for guys who project later than the start of 2014, but the return would have to be that much better then.
  17. dew1679666265
    Yeah, I tried to emphasize in the post that I wouldn't give him up for just anything, but if he keeps up his current pace until the deadline, he seems like the exact type of player a team would overpay severely for.
  18. dew1679666265
    I was actually thinking if he can keep up this pace until midseason, he'd be a perfect option to trade. With as much team control as he has left and as well as he's pitching (in traditional numbers), we could turn one limited upside arm into 2-3 pretty good (or maybe very good considering we have Theo) arms. I'm pretty skeptical given his incredible luck so far that he's any more than a decent back of the rotation arm (basically my opinion hasn't changed of him since the offseason) so I don't think dealing him would hurt the ML roster that much and, in the right deal, it would help bolster the minor leagues some. Basically it's a sell-high move with the added bonus that he has team control left.
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    While I don't really want to jump into this whole conversation, I'd say it's far less likely a player would get hurt running into the wall from first than from the OF. In the OF you're able to get up to full speed and slam your entire body into padded concrete. At first, most of the time there's not enough room for you to get up to full speed (and you're tracking a popup rather than a hard hit, deep fly ball) before running into the wall and there are typically people who (might, at least) catch you as you flip over the wall. I'm not saying there aren't ways he could get hurt at first, just that it's not as likely there as in the OF.
  20. dew1679666265
    Somebody explain to me why it's a good idea to extend Wood now. Yeah, he's been really good so far this season, but a lot of it appears to be luck (83% LOB rate! .186 BABIP! .68 HR/9 and a 4.46 xFIP). If the argument is that an extension would likely be cheaper than going year by year with him, then fine. But that seems dubious considering he's having far and away his best ML season ever (SSS) and his traditional stats (ERA and W/L) are incredible and solid, respectively. If it's just purely a financial thing, then I'll trust the board's judgement, but if it's a lock him up because he's a great asset thing, I think we're jumping the gun more than a little.
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    Wouldn't surprise me if somebody creative picked up Tebow and made him into a pretty productive player. Not as a QB exclusively, but I think he's got enough natural talent to be a good football player if used right.
  22. dew1679666265
    If Tiny Richardson can put together a few games similar to the awesome one he had last year blocking Clowney, he could shoot up draft boards. I think Seastrunk could move up boards when the combine rolls around due to measurables. I'm also a big Boyd fan. He and Bridgewater are worlds better than any QB in this year's draft. For those who've followed them at all so far, what are your (very early) thoughts on AJ Johnson and Kurt Maggitt? Any chance either could crack that top 15?
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    I know Tyler Bray is an immature punk, but how do you let that arm go undrafted? I've got to believe somebody will take him.
  24. dew1679666265
    Rambo just went at the end of the 6th. Good pick by Washington.
  25. dew1679666265
    Just doesn't seem like a good fit for Chip Kelly's offense. He's about the worst athlete amongst this year's QB crop. Maybe Kelly is planning more of a Mike Leach or Belichick spread system? Barkley can be a fit, but I'd be a bit worried if I were an Eagle fan. And I think an argument can be made that Bray is a worse athlete. Landry Jones has a strong argument. Good point.
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