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Sinclair, are you kidding me

The Royals are gonna have their outfielders combine for like +50 UZR, 150 steals, and a .275 OBP

Descalso can't play defense anywhere either. If you think the swing changes mean he's a better candidate to put up a Descalso 2018 or La Stella 2017 season for a difference of a million bucks that's fine, as is the 'stale in the clubhouse' theory to keep folks on their toes, but they're pretty similar players.

Aaron Miles hit 19 home runs in over 3000 career plate appearances. Descalso hit 23 home runs across 821 PA in his 2 years in Arizona.

Without Russell, Descalso is at best the 4th best shortstop on the roster.

Updated for signing Descalso

If money is tight, I don't really understand why you trade away La Stella and sign Descalso.

FWIW it's not just BP that thinks they're at opposite ends of the framing spectrum: http://statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php I'm not going to claim hands-on knowledge of Grandal, but he had a league-average CS%(28% to 34% for Willson), and from a WP/PB perspective Grandal looks at worst similar. Yes, you'll lose Willson's arm keeping runners honest, which isn't insignificant in a rotation with Lester and Darvish, but in this scenario you still want Contreras catching 40 games or so, and you can time them up to minimize that risk.

This. Also Brantley is a -11 CF, hasn’t played there since before he got bonitis, and he’ll be 32 by Memorial Day. Also he has bonitis.

Richan being that high on the list from such a tools-friendly outlet as BA is definitely interesting.

Fun thing is they aren’t really mutually exclusive. Out Russell for anything Happ and Chatwood for the best reliever you can get Zobrist for the best reliever you can get In Harper Grandal Descalso Tulo It would depend on the exact AAV for Grandal/Harper and the contracts of the relievers(who aren’t specified but can’t be an afterthought), but that most likely fits under 246.

Daniel Descalso is good at drawing walks. End transmission

If we’re talking solutions, I don’t know if I shared this here: - If you spend ~2 months on an MLB roster, it's a full year. No more of this partial accumulation stuff that hurts everyone from Kris Bryant to journeyman relievers. - Give minor leaguers a living wage you dummies. They'll be more productive and it costs less than a single win does in free agency. - I'd have the luxury tax set to reflect that players are receiving a set percentage of revenue each year, even when you consider the public facing numbers that share has declined, so that's an easy enough starting point. - Then I'd say that all player spending falls in that bucket. No draft or IFA restrictions, so if you want to spend 75% of your money on amateurs, you can do that. This removes the incentive to tank while still giving teams an option to optimize talent for future seasons when they're clearly not good enough today. - Any teams not spending at least a certain percentage of the tax threshold aren't eligible for revenue sharing. - I'd either drastically shorten the service time til free agency(e.g. 4 years), or introduce some form of restricted free agency during arbitration years. Lots of ways to go here but they need to fix the problem of most free agents being post-prime while actually allowing player development to be rewarded and not creating an EPL environment where the rich scoop up every valuable target. - I'd also try to raise the minimum salary a fair amount, but that's a high risk move and there might be better ways to achieve the goal of young players making more earlier(maybe 2 renewal years, 2 arb years, then FA?) I would hope and expect that would result in more money going to players than there is today, and among the players that you see less going to 30+ players and amateurs while more goes to young players producing at the MLB level. That would also hopefully help the incentive problems that teams currently have when they aren't championship caliber. I'm sure there's a million unintended consequences of such a setup, but we're dealing with a fair amount of bad unintended consequences now so I'm not going to be afraid of them either.

Worth noting, Lillis-White spent his AAA time at Salt Lake, which has Coors-ian park factors. Even when you include his time in Mobile/AA: Home: 35.1 IP, 5.09 ERA, .753 OPS against, 35 H, 50/20 K/BB, 4 HR Away: 36.2 IP, 1.96 ERA, .539 OPS against, 27 H, 48/12 K/BB, 2 HR His whole-season numbers are also impacted by a single outing where they left him to mop up a game and he gave up 6 runs in 1.2 IP. After that April outing: 66 IP, 3.00 ERA, .613 OPS against, 51 H, 92/28 K/BB, 6 HR

Off the top of my head, Roederer and Hoerner on the offensive side, Marquez, Estrada, and Little on the pitching side.

Did they know they could have gotten a much better deal than that on a gently used Tyler Chatwood?

- Have P5 teams only schedule each other - Ensure everyone is playing the same number of conference games - Expand the playoff to your comfort(8-12 teams) I'm not super well versed in CFB financials but I assume this is a mild money-loser(fewer total home games offsets paid guarantees to minnows + improved attendance in home games against P5 schools), but if UCF can play in the 'best' non-P5 league and not make the playoff when undefeated 2 years running, I get motivated for them to just drop the charade.

So if we indulge this, the Padres make a lot of sense for Russell as a landing spot. The Indians and Red Sox are a little less clear considering they have both been rumored to be slashing payroll. Maybe Quintana and stuff for Kluber makes sense for the Indians, fill 2 holes for the price of one? Maybe the Cubs are poking around the JBJ rumors about his availability?

Is this from Harper's perspective? Because knowing the company he keeps that would mean one of those videos teams make that happen to have a woman with exposed ankles.

Also can be interpreted as "we know Muncy is a mirage so we're getting him a platoon partner and getting a real second baseman too"

how much do you think the penalties are for exceeding the tax threshold

Blame for not having money to sign Harper is like 90% Theo/Jed and 10% ownership, and most of that 10% is the unlikely possibility they pulled the rug out from the FO after picking up Hamels. Ownership could almost certainly spend more, but they’re also on pace to drop about 260 million in luxury tax payroll and penalties, which given the aggressive moves to stay under the tax by other major markets may give them the #1 payroll in MLB by opening day.

That makes a lot more sense than picking up Hamels option and then realizing they don't have any money left in the bank without dumping salary. I haven't double checked how tight 2020 might be recently to know exactly how likely that outcome is though.

Isn't Tulo a bit of a McCann/Lester style leader/weirdo? If he can still physically fake it at SS that might be worth a go.

I can see Zobrist being a part of some type of 'turn a paperclip into a mansion' series of moves. For example, if the return for Zobrist meets or exceeds the cost to get Cesar Hernandez, then that's basically a free 5 million. Happ and Bote's presence also make it easier to replicate his expected performance for less if that's the route you want to go down.