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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    How many interested teams does it take to get something for a guy?
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    If I had to guess, I'd say neither one of them end up with any trade value. But in alternate universes where each gets 500 PAs in the majors this year, I'd bet on Vitters coming out looking better. And even in the majors: BB% 5.8% 6.4% K% 26.8% 30.3% Lake was hot and Vitters wasn't in their brief MLB stints, but Lake was also absurdly lucky and Vitters was pretty unlucky and that contributes a lot to the perception that Lake "showed something" that Vitters didn't. Any problems with Josh Vitters' bat you may have, you have to have the same ones about Junior Lake's and then some. Do I think the difference between them is *that* big? Not really. But I'm rooting pretty hard for Vitters because I think it would be a great sign from the front office that they aren't going to be dazzled by Lake's Neifi-like two-month stint.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I referenced 552 AAA PAs. How much hit tool does he need? The average MLB LFer hit 252/320/399 last year. Average game power and a decent-enough hit tool are more than enough for me to want to see him get a chance. Especially over Junior Lake, whom he was clearly better than at AAA the last two seasons.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    With platoons, a guy might start on opening day even if he doesn't start for the next week, if an opponent happens to have a lefty #1. Are we facing a RH starter on opening day? We open at Pittsburgh on March 31st, and they will presumably be sending out lefty Liriano. Now I'm going to be doubly mad if Vitters isn't our opening day LFer.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    So? It still doesn't mean someone was willing to trade for him. He's just a guy. I can easily see teams waiting to see what comes across the waiver wire in two weeks than giving up something remotely substantial for DeJesus at that point. I can't even see it a little, tiny bit. He's a useful MLB player who apparently multiple teams wanted at his salary. There's no way there wasn't some sort of trade market for him two weeks earlier.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    The only knock you came up with was that he was terrible in 109 PAs in the majors. If you come up with a different reason why I shouldn't want him to win the starting LF job over Junior Lake and Chris Coghlan, I'll respond to that one. The guy has hit 302/361/513 in his first 552 AAA PAs.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    He was back and healthy for eight full games before the trade deadline.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    The people making the decision. We're supposed to be smarter than being dazzled by a great cup of coffee or burying a guy for a bad one. He'll probably pull his hamstring like two weeks from today and make it moot, though.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    But Vitters does? What's the "dream" on him at this point? Solid short side of a platoon guy? To me, that's the epitome of "I don't give a [expletive] if we lose the guy". I'm already planning to be mad when Vitters doesn't win the starting LF job.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    The way I measure this is I think "if I had to lose someone from this list for absolutely nothing, who would upset me the most?" That big pile of low-90s throwing, C-prospect, low-minors pitchers just don't meet that threshold for me yet.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    All of which could have been avoided by trading him two weeks sooner.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not sure if srs but the whole "they don't have the money to start construction right now" angle is hilarious. It's just like "Epstein wants to live out his all-homegrown fantasy." Not serious, unless it turns out that it's true later, in which case I meant it all along.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    How about "We know it's too late to to spend any real money on the project this offseason, so it's safe to stop pretending the rooftops are holding it up"?
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    A bunch of different reporters have said that one of the 40-man spots we cleared today was for James McDonald, which is odd because he got a minor-league deal supposedly.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    And they're more confident now based on what? They actually had a lawyer read the contract. The paypal money Tom was waiting on from selling some stuff on Ebay finally showed up in the checking account, so he could afford a consultation.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Holy mother of mercy, and I thought the Rivera stuff got to be over the top. They're going to rename every stadium in the AL after Jeter.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    ...and he's out of my top 40 Didn't he have wrist problems last year, now that I think about it?
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    The complete turd that was this offseason has made me perversely more excited about this. I'm ready for real things to start happening. The pitching staff, the fifth outfield and sixth infield to clear itself up, hopefully avoidance of injury, Javy Baez leading the Cactus League in HRs.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Jae-Hoon Ha had wrist surgery and is aiming to be back mid-season.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Still no love for Armando "13.4 K/9" Rivero?
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    BP's "Effectively Wild" podcast previewing the Cubs was really good: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22789 Brought up an interesting downside comp for the current organization: The Brewers of 5+ years ago.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Rivero, Vitters, Jimenez
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    "I'm an expert." lol
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    At this point, it will be someone who hasn't been draftedborn yet.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't see why. It's not an unreasonable policy, but it's certainly not the only way to do things. What would be the point of signing a pre-FA player to a multi-year contract that doesn't give the team some benefit on the back end? The only way around that would be one that significantly underpays the player, which I would guess they would allow to circumvent the policy. Well, you could sign them in to a cost-certainty deal through some of their arbitration years. But more importantly, insisting on a club option certainly isn't standard. I'm not saying I have a problem with it, but it's not the only way to do business.
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