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  1. Probably worthless but I'm excited so whatever: TomLoxas ‏@TomLoxas 6m This could involve more than just Oakland.
  2. It's got to be Shark, or both. I seriously cannot imagine what an early July deal for both would look like, but I bet it would be sexy as hell.
  3. Supposed to be a 3b long-term, I think. Well, that would speak volumes as to their thoughts on Kris Bryant's long-term position, I suppose. Loading up and shoving guys down the line is never a bad thing. I want *all the position prospects*
  4. It passes the sniff test. That's the type of player we are supposed to want for Samardzija, and it fits Beane's MO of aggressiveness in trades.
  5. OK, I take it all back. I want trades!' I can't even imagine what kind of deal a Beane/Epstein trade for two top SPs would look like.
  6. Bryant's got that Olt-like ability to get under the ball and get it to carry. In contrast with Baez who just murders baseballs.
  7. http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/spongebob-party-hard.gif
  8. It's been their MO for that kind of asking price to stay in place until the last possible minute. Let's see what it looks like on July 31. I could be very wrong, but I'd be stunned to see a team cave on that kind of haul.
  9. Never question VandySportsCOM again!
  10. I really don't like those guys as much as you do. Like *maybe* they can be kind of OK but I wouldn't be surprised if any of them got a Germano-esque shelling either.
  11. I keep going back to Rizzo as an offensive comp. Rizzo was 22/23 in the 2012 season, and he split the year pretty evenly between Iowa and Chicago. He put up an 1.101 OPS in Iowa and .805 in Chicago, and that's roughly in the neighborhood of the drops we've seen from just about everyone graduating from Iowa to Chicago lately (except Junior Lake, for some reason). Bryant turns 23 next January and has an 1.138 OPS with a higher K-rate and much higher BABIP than Rizzo did. He's also had less time as a pro so I think he has more room to improve quickly than Rizzo did, so I kind of want to just call it all a wash and expect an .800 OPS from him in his first year too. With average-ish 3b defense, that's roughly a 3.5-4 win player.
  12. Saw that. Basically said its not Renteria making the call. My guess is he's gone prior to his next start. I wonder if the plan for Wada isn't just for him to be the DH guy. :( I'm not ready to start the dismantling yet.
  13. We'll be a playoff team next year. I truly believe that. I did one of those back-of-the-napkin WAR projections and even if we did literally nothing this offseason I'd have us at 79-83. Even a Theo special offseason of almost nothing would get us to .500, and even I'm not that pessimistic. Actually making the playoffs? Eh, we'll definitely have a decent chance. But a lot can go wrong and it's really easy to have a good team and finish 6th or 7th instead of top-5.
  14. It's entirely possible I misheard or Sutcliffe misrepeated. Either way, it's not serious that we're actually going to do it. It's just fun to pretend.
  15. No. Sutcliffe said that Theo said that if they win 10 in a row we're buyers. Almost halfway there.
  16. http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100523172400/peanuts/images/a/a0/1107charlie_brown_lucy_football.jpg
  17. Not sure where we'd stuff him On a plane. To another team. So he'd be a flyer? :lol:
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