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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Who? The FA market sucks. Abreu is one of a very small number of palatable options, and his age negates at least part of the concerns when compared with the age of all the available FAs.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    That is a big if. How does Rizzo's bat rate as a mediocre at best defensive LF? He's a +12/150 defensive 1b, and he would lose that but gain about +5 runs in value for playing a tougher position. I think it's at least strongly possible that the improvement from Abreu to our other LF options would outweigh that loss.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I like defense, but I'm willing to downgrade two positions defensively if the bat is good enough.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's certainly set up to be his job, but he has literally done nothing that would indicate he should get it. Well, he has more than doubled his July OPS in August, but that is still below 600. At least the Ks seem to have stopped. He's in the mysterious world of no BABIP right now, and disappointingly low power.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    If he ends the year with a BB rate around 4, a K rate below 23%, and improved scouting reports on his OF defense, then I could be persuaded to live with it, so long as we're spending the money to upgrade the lineup elsewhere. The problem is, we can't (or at least shouldn't) run an entire lineup of "not that bad if they are cheap" guys plus Castro and Rizzo.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    If they sign one of the FA OF there's no way they keep both of them. I'd be surprised if they deal Lake, especially with budget uncertainty and the need to have some sort of production out there long term until Almora et al are ready. Why wouldn't they want an outfield of DeJesus/Free Agent/Schierholtz with Lake as the 400 PA bench guy? That seems ideal to me.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not giving Arrieta a starting job just yet, nor are Russell or Parker guaranteed jobs in the pen. I figure one FA/trade pitcher from outside the organization, then one job in open competition among a lot of different guys: Samardzija/Wood/Jackson/OutsideGuy, then a competition between Hendricks/Arrieta/Cabrera/Rusin/Grimm. Hendricks' roster options remaining might cost him the job and keep him in the minors, but you never know. Cabrera has tons of pen experience and Arrieta is an obvious choice for a late-inning reliever. Rusin is a guy whose stuff I think might really benefit from the boost that comes with going into the pen. In the outfield, I'm still not particularly inclined to give Junior Lake a starting job in 2014. A bench role is fine, he'd get plenty of PAs in our platoon-heavy outfield. The infield is what really intrigues me. There's a lot of interesting options, but basically two decisions to be made: 1) Does the front office plan on getting significant internal contributions from Olt and/or Baez in 2014? 2) Valbuena or Barney at 2b?
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Maybe not, but it's so long term that it's not really much of an obligation. What's the projected value in present day dollars, discounted for inflation?
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm probably being a stupid fanboy for saying it, but I'm beginning to wonder if Baez isn't our own version of Stanton, so I'd rather not trade for the older, more expensive version.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Switching to Boise
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Or we could not?
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    These last two innings have made listening on Cardinals radio especially fun.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not that it really matters at this point. It definitely matters.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's the strangest thing. A lot of our talented minor leaguers seem to be improving as the year goes on.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    For a bad team, there sure is a lot I'd like to stand pat on. I'm kind of hoping we focus our money on like 2 or 3 higher-impact signings.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    About three more and we might be out of bullpen range.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    5 Ks in 26 batters faced is at least a tiny bit encouraging. I'm really beginning to think I've been underrating him and he deserves a slightly inside-ish track on a job next year.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    JavyBB
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    That seems less credible to me.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    No. Trust me. It's one of those counterintuitive math problems, but adding $800k to the pool only saves you $800k in total cash. That's why I said "on the market." I meant if he were a completely unrestricted FA.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Didn't stop the tool-less Concepcion from getting $6m. Rivero was a bad reference point, but I still say a guy with Torreyes' success at A+ and hit tool commands way more than $800k in cash in an unrestricted free agency situation.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The discusssions over whether trading Torreyes for $800k in IFA space, which ended up meaning just $800k in cash, was good value, turned into discussions over what Torreyes would get on the open market as an FA. I pointed to Rivero as a 25-year-old middle reliever getting rocked (at the time) at Kane County who got four times that on the open market.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    After the top six, I think he's one of a dozen guys you could justify in almost any order. I really don't see why he couldn't be in the mix for the 5th starter job next year.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm starting to think he's our best bet outside of Cabrera to help in the major league pen in 2014, of all our minor leaguers. Arrieta, Cabrera, Rosscup, Rivero, Vizcaino. There's a ton of potential there for a good bullpen to spontaneously emerge. If that happens, this team contends. In Rivero's last six appearances, he has 10.2 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 4 BB, 20 K.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Armando "I guess he's better than Torreyes" Rivero got promoted to Daytona? I hadn't noticed that. Struck out two in a perfect inning tonight. Arguello said the other day that he showed up with his delivery all screwy early in the year and it robbed him of about 6 MPH, but it was fixed recently and he's been on a tear ever since.
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