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  1. XZero771679666304
    Commonly used in some circles, but mostly reviled stupidity.
  2. XZero771679666304
    Rays run with a Red Sox collapse. Also a Braves run with a Phillies collapse in the NL the same year, IIRC I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Rockies in 2007, when they won 21 of 22 or something down the stretch.
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    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 It seems pretty clear that the thinking is that being a Boras client, Bryant is extremely unlikely to sign an early extension, and as such, extracting every bit of team control possible is the prudent thing to do. Soler is on a guaranteed major league contract anyway, so there's no reason to keep him down (unless I am mistaken).
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    wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  5. XZero771679666304
    If they were going to pull him for that, why wait until after he took the field again?
  6. XZero771679666304
    what witch hunt? poor tom being poor tom more like it. a conservative slum lord behaving like one. Yeah, it's pretty despicable.
  7. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, just about everything they said about the Cubs was the opposite of the truth.
  8. XZero771679666304
    It is indeed.
  9. XZero771679666304
    How was there room for Sammy's boombox?
  10. XZero771679666304
    This is true, but Hamilton has been less than great as an Angel. He's certainly more valuable (at least potentially) than EJax, but is he 10-15MM/yr more valuable? Probably not, at this point. I'd rather keep Jaxon and spend that money on Lester/Scherzer.
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    Josh Hamilton Not even close to equivalent deals. Hamilton is at $23M/30/30 through 2017. Josh Hamilton doesn't suck though. As impossible as this sounds, he and EJax have very similar fWARs over the past two seasons. If the Angels sent enough money to bring the money closer to equivalent, I'd be in favor of that potential deal, though.
  12. XZero771679666304
    They shouldn't sign him for next year because they aren't going to be good until next year? This is why I don't listen to sports radio. They shouldn't sign him for next year because they aren't going to be good until at least 3 years from now, according to that quote. Yeah, totally misread that. It's what I get for multi-multi-tasking.
  13. XZero771679666304
    They shouldn't sign him for next year because they aren't going to be good until next year? This is why I don't listen to sports radio.
  14. XZero771679666304
    And most indications seem to be that he will be nowhere near as good as either (this is obviously tricky to predict, but those translations were less than inspiring, to say the least). Though I can't imagine he'll get as much as Abreu. I'd probably feel different if he was a SP, but while it would be nice to sign him, I just can't feel like this is a "must get" target at this point.
  15. XZero771679666304
    I'll believe it when I see it.
  16. XZero771679666304
    Man, that ball was obliterated.
  17. XZero771679666304
    Elbow inflammation and teams figure Texas has no interest in dealing him, I guess. Yeah, I can't imagine they are the least bit inclined to move him.
  18. XZero771679666304
    Yeah, the assumption that they can trade Castro and Russell will just slide in and replace or improve upon that production is one of the flaws in Sulley's argument. I mean that's certainly possible, but counting on it at this point is foolishness. Everything that needs to be said (Castro is only 24, great contract, lots of trade value) has been said multiple times now.
  19. XZero771679666304
    3 of those are struggling (Rizzo, Alcantara, Baez), Valbuena has been hurt and Coghlan has cooled off over the last 2ish weeks. So it's not that surprising we have struggled scoring runs in roughly that same time frame. And when Valbuena has played recently, he's been terrible. And it really seems like Rizzo's approach as degraded over the last couple months. Perhaps his great weekend in Arizona coming off the break put him in a more aggressive mindset, but he's definitely not taking the some kind of ABs that he was in the first half.
  20. XZero771679666304
    Harsh.
  21. XZero771679666304
    Not going to lie, I mostly checked out when he tried to quantify Harper's value using RBI and runs scored.
  22. XZero771679666304
    advanced approach, power, defense, and athleticism go a long way. although now i see people disparaging a prospect they love in order to try to be right about something. for shame. Literally nobody did this. Somebody needs to confiscate your supply of words. Clearly it was taking a huge dump on Addison Russell to suggest that a prospect (albeit a very, very good one) in AA should not be assumed to have a floor that is equivalent to an established, quality major league player. Someone is being disparaged here, and it isn't Addison Russell.
  23. XZero771679666304
    That is not a logical fallacy. The question is should the cubs do it if it is an option. Some seem to think they should not. Others think they should. No team is trading for Hamels when they can add a guy for just money. He's not getting dealt prior to those guys coming off the market. you are making huge assumptions about other teams' budgets. Hamels isn't cheap, either. Ostensibly, any team trading for him is going to have to have large budget. Or an attractive enough package to persuade Amaro to eat a bunch of money. And again, they're not going to trade him to another team without running it by the Cubs first. The case that the Cubs should pursue a trade for Hamels as a first priority for risk of losing the opportunity is weak, at best.
  24. XZero771679666304
    That is not a logical fallacy. The question is should the cubs do it if it is an option. Some seem to think they should not. Others think they should. No team is trading for Hamels when they can add a guy for just money. He's not getting dealt prior to those guys coming off the market. It's possible that a team might, but it's extremely unlikely.
  25. XZero771679666304
    they wouldn't throw both at the Phillies, but one would make sense. The Royals traded the top prospect in baseball for a lesser pitcher who was the same age as Hamels is now. I could see the Dodgers offering Pederson and the Phillies jumping on it. They might do that trade, but almost certainly not without calling the Cubs first. Of course, Amaro is a buffoon, so who knows.
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