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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    My bad. I keep insisting Baez was a No. 8 overall pick, too. Numbers are hard.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    Concepcion comes out for the sixth. IF single, IF single, K. Leaves with his line as 5.2 IP, 2 H, 4 BB, 4 K, no runs yet but responsible for two on base. Not a bad outing. Still hasn't shown what made him a $9 million/MLB contract kind of guy, but he's settling in.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Concepcion through 5: 0 R, 0 H, 4 BB, 3 K. He might be done, thrown a lot of pitches. Sooooo many walks for a kid who was supposed to be super polished.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Astros announcing a verbal agreement with Correa, to be finalized in the next few days. It's nice for them to be able to take advantage of the No. 1 slot pool and get something extra out of the deal in a year without a true No. 1-type player.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Concepcion walked the first two batters he faced, and then retired 11 in a row with 3 Ks. He just broke the streak with a full-count walk where he almost got the called third strike at least once.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Side note: is it the Chiefs' radio PBP guy that posts here sometimes? He's really good. Very polished for A-ball.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Listening online. Dunno why, just in the mood. Concepcion's first inning went BB, BB, FO, K, GO.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd think about it. That's just what players like him cost these days. We're entering a period of rapid inflation.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Crazy" money in this case should be $20 to $30 million. I'd be stunned if any other team was offering more. It depends how many years we're talking. On one hand, there are the big money teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, and Phillies with aging rosters and diminishing farm systems and rarely a top 10 draft pick. On the other, there are the smaller market teams looking to rebuild. The might not stand a shot at competing for the big money free agents, but if we're talking 20-30 mil over 5-7 years, it's just 4-6 mil/year, which is not going to hurt even them. I'm all for doing what it takes to get him, but there's little doubt in my mind that other interested teams have the same mind set. I could be wrong, but I'd be completely and utterly stunned if he's getting a Cespedes/Fukudome "released at the end" clause in his contract. The years don't really matter if he's not.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, but if you've got any hopes of playing pro ball, you may have just hurt them a bunch by pissing off the team that drafted you. It's a professional negotiation. They are low-balling for strategic reasons, they can't be offended if the player plays back at them. Obviously the player has downside risk with this strategy, but so do the teams. They risk wasting a top-10-round pick, and they make all their other signings more difficult with the uncertainty. Given the tight signing window, I don't think many teams want that uncertainty. There's enough downside on both sides that I'm guessing it's easier for everyone involved just to go with slot.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    My guess is that with a few high-profile exceptions at the top of the draft (where there's a lot more money to work with), pretty much everyone signs for slot. If I'm a college senior being offered well below slot, I just wait. The team can't sign anyone for overslot with me still out there. The moment they do, they risk being into the severe over-pool penalties if I don't sign.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Crazy" money in this case should be $20 to $30 million. I'd be stunned if any other team was offering more.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    What's crazy years and money? I could see 5/35, Cespedes got 4/36. I could maybe see as high as 6-7 for 40 being possible. Is he currently 18 or 19? 20?
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think ours has been in for months, and will be 40-50% higher than anyone else's. The Concepcion model.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Herp derp, never mind then. How would fans collude to drive ticket prices below market value? Specifically, how would we assign the tickets if price isn't the mechanism?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    or he's just trying to illustrate that it's stupid to give up on a pitching prospect after one year of crappy major league numbers granted, an extremely rare case like halladay isn't the best way of doing that, but why are you intentionally being obtuse? it's just a dumb example if you're trying to prove a point. "13th round draft pick, who cares?" "OH, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ALBERT PUJOLS??????!!!!!" Your best example is a .702 OPS 1b?
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/yanks_rip_stubhub_for_not_great_pMzrFDWAOsmwiTkHjYgiaP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business I don't see your point. Fans can already get tickets below market value, pretty much at will.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/yanks_rip_stubhub_for_not_great_pMzrFDWAOsmwiTkHjYgiaP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I showed it earlier in the thread: It's really, really awful in CF and C, we've had some negative variance in clutch situations, and we've employed some truly awful bench players.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Our Pyth is going to be like -5 off our actual now. This really isn't "worst team in baseball" bad, which is good, but not good for our draft pick next year.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not a big Magnifico fan. 100 mph is 100 mph but it's a straight FB. There are other relievers I like more. I'm sorry, but based entirely on name, I want Magnifico. I hope he doesn't even have a first name and just goes by that.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    Let's add a 22 year old Starlin Castro hitting like .400/.410/.550 in Iowa to that That's just silly. You took a cool thing and made it silly.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Imagine a very brief nexus where all of our high picks are signed, Rizzo and Jackson are still at AAA, and we add Soler. At that moment in time, where would our farm system rank?
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    He's honorary white, so it's not as bad.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    I think Szczur isn't slugging .400 while getting his second taste of A+ as an old 22-year-old. Maybe I owe Keith Law an apology?
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