Hairyducked Idiot
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Travis Wood is a nice pickup. Snarky poll withdrawn (figuratively).
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I'm happy with Wood for Marshall. Any real prospects would be traderape.
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Thank you very, very much.
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I'll take the under on that. I don't think people are really taking in how bad his 2011 peripherals were and how amazingly fluky his BABIP was. He's a 240/290/390 hitter at this point in his career. And that's assuming his age-35 season doesn't get even worse.
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Am I going to have to be the first person to suggest that the prospects we get in this deal could be sent to Boston as compensation for Epstein? It's practically a tradition at this point.
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You have to admit he's a fairly decent candidate, with marginal stuff and what has been mixed results so far. It's not like he and Clayton Kershaw have the same odds or anything. Fangraphs places his fastball at 90 MPH and his K/9 is 6.99 for his career. It's not brilliant stuff, but it doesn't seem marginal to me.
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Is that WAR likely to remain that decent if his K/9 stays that low and his BB/9 stays that high? I guess what I'm asking is whether there was luck involved in that 1.1 WAR he posted last year and is he a good bet to keep that WAR despite such mediocre numbers? That WAR is based on his FIP. It is adjusted for his peripherals.
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Garza has obvious value. Marmol, Byrd, Soto all have non-zero value imo. And Dempster and Zambrano could probably rebuild their value with decent starts to the season.
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Why would you think Wood is going to wash out? Other than the fact that anyone can wash out? I guess since I think Randy Wells is going to wash out, Wood-hate is fair game.
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What if 2011, where Wood had a 4.06 FIP, is what he'll be doing forward? Then I'll be happy to be slotting him in the back of our rotation for a long time.
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Semantics. Their value is that you don't have to waste $5 million on some veteran not-terrible player to do the same work. The value on that 5M not terrible player is having a much better idea what they're bringing. For next year's 68 win extravaganza who gives a [expletive] about being certain what Wood's doing for us. But down the road, yeah I'd like to be confident that this guy is going to matter at all rather than be non-tendered when he reaches Arb 2. I think that's a bad way of looking at it. Properly adjusted AAA stats are just as predictive as MLB stats.
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Semantics. Their value is that you don't have to waste $5 million on some veteran not-terrible player to do the same work.
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The idea is that you spend around it. You put up with Darwin Barney and Travis Wood so that you can afford Prince Fielder and Yu Darvish. In theory, anyway.
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Tyler Colvin always sucked outside of the brief 2010 that fooled us. It's not hard to look back in hindsight and see what a fluke that was.
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Five years of a cost-controlled, adequate starting pitcher. I really, really like this deal. Edit: Also I replied in this thread without actually seeing that this exact point had been debated for a full page. I feel shame. You've always reminded me of Kent Tekulve in that manner. GR's about to go all Jedi Knight on me.
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And by using those players in those spots, we can use our leftover money to sign really, really good players. I said "can," though, not "will."
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Teams are getting super-stingy with their prospects. We might have been able to get some higher-ceiling low level guys, but personally I love guys who are ready to contribute with 0 or 1 years of service time. Those are highly valuable assets.
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Trading Marshall to a key divisional rival pretty much seals it.
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Five years of a cost-controlled, adequate starting pitcher. I really, really like this deal. Edit: Also I replied in this thread without actually seeing that this exact point had been debated for a full page. I feel shame.
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I have a few adjectives for it, and none are synonymous with "classic" or "hilarious."
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If we're going to do it, I hope we just *really* do it. Garza, Marshall, Byrd should all be gone by next trading deadline.
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He has an adequate ability to miss bats. career swinging strike rates Travis Wood: 7.1% Randy Wells: 8.8% Okay, rephrased. He strikes people out.
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If they can live up to their drafting and development hype, then that will far outweigh this bad offseason. But it's still a bad offseason.
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It was BS to hide the fact that he was planning on tanking 2012. I wonder if Epstein was really just getting burned out from the pressure in Boston and Ricketts sold him on the job by telling him he didn't have to try for a few years.
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one of the OF has to be on the way out I assume. Soriano/Byrd/DeJesus with Reed Johnson backing up and Jackson in AAA.