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  1. Transmogrified Tiger
    I dunno, it makes sense to me. The game is similarly over whether they get 12 yards or 50, so force them into the lowest probability of a 1st down that you can, with a bonus for it being an incompletion in doing so.
  2. Transmogrified Tiger
    Happ and Suzuki were 18th and 19th among qualified OF last year, You can't do better than that without paying a much higher price(see: Tucker), and Caissie/Alcantara are very much long shots to ever make it to that level, never mind in the next 2 seasons.
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    okay, that's enough babby's first day on the internet for me
  4. Transmogrified Tiger
    Turnover luck hits hard
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    Robertson's ZiPS ERA is the same as Estevez. I know you're a big Robertson fan(I don't hate him myself), but pointing to his 40 year old season as a money-in-the-bank elite reliever option isn't reality.
  6. Transmogrified Tiger
    We are talking about relievers, so no. Or in a best case scenario you can do that for 1-2 years on a 4-5 year deal(and only 1-2 guys per offseason) and play roulette that they're useless beyond that.
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    Also half a run worse than his post-Colorado totals, the point is that a better projection system sees a clear difference. And to Bertz's point he's spent 95% of his career in organizations with stone age pitching development so you'd hope to have a little more you can unlock from him. Not my top target, but I don't see much of a case for the idea that he's on the precipice of severe regression.
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    Gotta be careful about using per 9 stats when part of your point is that he had a particularly good BABIP season. That means there's simply fewer PA in general, his K% was middle of the road for his career, and his HR/FB is impacted by playing most of his career in Coors. Since leaving Colorado he has 2 seasons and over 115 innings with an ERA far under his xFIP, given his stuff it's very possible that assuming a league average HR rate(like xFIP is doing) is not a safe assumption. ZiPS projects him for a 3.76 ERA and 3.73 FIP.
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    I think this is largely people using the terms interchangeably, it's not like there's a reliever of similar caliber with no closing experience waiting to be signed that is being ignored. That said, given the rest of the pen has several players who can easily be leverage/impact guys but have limited experience closing games, I think ensuring your leverage RP addition has some experience in that realm is worthwhile.
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    I’ve liked him going back to his Colorado days, so wouldn’t be bad. He’s got a little of both of Finnegan and Scott’s imperfections in him, and I didn’t realize how much closing he’s done since leaving COL, so yeah sure let’s do it
  11. Transmogrified Tiger
    Scott would have been fun but I've always been a bit apprehensive about the length given his relatively short history of throwing strikes(especially poignant as a closer) which probably will degrade by default with his age. Bring down Finnegan(my preference) or Yates and the pen looks good.
  12. Transmogrified Tiger
    Everyone say good things about the pants so they get rid of the pinstripes once and for all
  13. Transmogrified Tiger
    Bertz put more effort into his rumor update so we'll consolidate there
  14. Transmogrified Tiger
    There have been drips and drabs from local reporters about the Cubs being after a late inning reliever and occasionally name dropping Scott among others in a list, but this seems like the strongest connection between the two of them yet.
  15. Transmogrified Tiger
    I know no one is making a serious point to that end, but Sasaki will only count the league minimum towards the CBT. He's getting a 6.5 million signing bonus, so for CBT purposes that's treated the same as the Dominican 16 year olds that signed this week.
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    The Blue Jays are about to find out the price to buy your wedding ring back from the pawn shop
  17. Transmogrified Tiger
    They don't have Suarez's contract right, he has an opt out after this season that amounts to a 2/16 player option, there is no option on the club side as far as I can tell.
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    I find it very amusing that the Mets just treat money as made up when they sign a free agent but simultaneously act like they will descend into anarchy if they give Alonso a single dollar more than offered
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    We try to have a light touch with this stuff and aren't super aggressive about siloing conversations, but we are going to ask that you do make some effort to match posts to where the discussion is happening. It's not a chat room where all discussion happens in one place. To mul's point, most of the time I've noticed you adding news tweets it's been after there's been discussion hours ago in another place, so a good rule of thumb is to at least check around because based on that history it's unlikely you're the first one sharing it.
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    They took on Myles Straw's deal to do it too? I hope it works but just an incredible scent of desperation for them
  21. Transmogrified Tiger
    I'm beginning to think that Friedman has a vendetta against Toronto specifically and is telling these Japanese players to use them as a patsy for plausible deniability.
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    I will not set aside those feelings and slam the under on Hope being a Top 25 prospect in any publication 24 months from now
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    Wait we have new developments
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    Big week for phallic soccer talk
  25. Transmogrified Tiger
    I think there's definitely something to the idea that Rea is a move meant on shoring up the end of the roster so that no other specific additions *have* to be made for depth reasons. So they can just hunt value wherever it shows up, though I suspect/hope the Bregman stuff is more due diligence and the actual value being hunted is on the pitching side.
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