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Artix posted:Orioles trade Gallardo to Seattle for Seth Smith. Seth Smith is an extreme platoon hitter. He hits right handers pretty well, career .827 OPS. Lefties? Well... .594 OPS. He's a corner outfielder, and isn't a great one at that. But as a role player he's alright. Looking at Gallardo's numbers, it looks like Jerry is hoping for a bit of bounceback and hoping that Safeco helps the guy's numbers.
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Seth Smith posted -7 DRS in LF last year. As a comparison, during his 2015 stint in LF, Kyle Schwarber posted -3. So that's something.
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Excellent that means we have two lefty corner outfielders who can't hit lefties for poo poo. Rickard/Kim was our plan for left field and Mancini will probably take over DH, so I wonder what the plan is for right. E: I'm going to hesitantly say that Smith cannot be as bad as Trumbo was in the outfield, but I'm fully willing to eat those words.
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Seth Smith might be the most boring baseball player in league history.
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Paul Zuvella posted:Seth Smith might be the most boring baseball player in league history. Besides that season where he was the Padres entire offense, this feels right.
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Not that Seth Smith was the glue holding it together (I was expecting him to get traded), but the Mariner outfield now consists of Leonys Martin, and 3 unproven prospect outfielders: Ben Gamel, Guillermo Heredia, and Mitch Haniger. We'll sure win the west with these guys 
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Paul Zuvella posted:most boring baseball player in league history. New Concept Hole posted:the Padres entire offense The two aren't mutually exclusive
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Farewell Seth Smith, aka Dad. https://twitter.com/bobnipotent/status/817433859960672256
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GoatSeeGuy posted:Someone tried that.....nobody showed up and Ron Washington was a stud. Paul Zuvella posted:47 year old Bert Campanaris stole 17 bases lol I am very sad this league wasn't around for Rickey Henderson. Er, change that wasn't to isn't.
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Brandon Phillips is still determined to not let the Reds trade him. Braves had a deal in place in November (Rosenthal doesn't say for who) but he blocked it. Supposedly the Reds have told BP he's not gonna play everyday in 2017, as they are rebuilding and want to play the kids. But he's hit .290 two years running so that sounds like a bluff to get him out the door.
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Twin Cinema posted:Jung Ho Kang was cut from the South Korean WBC team after his third DUI last month. I remember when Jung Ho Kang was cool and good and I was advocating him playing more. 
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Royals fandom is melting down over this trade. I dont get it. Dyson is a 31 year old speed guy with a career OPS+ of 85. I think if Karns can pitch better than Volquez last year we'll be better for it - and that's not setting the bar very high.
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Exodor posted:Royals fandom is melting down over this trade. I dont get it. Dyson is a 31 year old speed guy with a career OPS+ of 85. Fan favorite for an underwhelming pitcher, fans gonna be fans. Seems like a fine but meh baseball deal from what I can tell. e: Well maybe, is Karns inning count because he was shipped up and down to the minors or has he been hurt a ton?
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Grittybeard posted:e: Well maybe, is Karns inning count because he was shipped up and down to the minors or has he been hurt a ton? Had some back issues last year but supposedly fine now. I don't think this deal will matter in the long run but the Royals had a lot more need in the rotation than in the outfield - and if he washes out of the rotation he'll probably be valuable in the bullpen.
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I guess one thing I'm not looking forward to is Bubba Starling hitting .100 when he's called up to play center for a month or two whenever Cain goes down with his yearly injury. But hell, Karns also has 3 or 4 years of team control left and from what I read in the last few minutes he's supposed to bounce back from last year. It's possible the Royals win this trade easily if he's actually healthy and that happens. e: Oops I forgot all about Billy Burns. Poor Bubba is stuck with his poo poo bat in the minors forever. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Grittybeard posted:I guess one thing I'm not looking forward to is Bubba Starling hitting .100 when he's called up to play center for a month or two whenever Cain goes down with his yearly injury. I kind of lost track of Bubba and... holy poo poo he's been even worse than I thought. Then I looked at the 2011 draft and noticed Lindor was picked 3 picks later and now I hate everything.
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Karns was great starting off but fell off the table real quick. He got relegated to bullpen duty. There's talent there but injuries will be a thing with him. On the bright side I guess Seattle is gonna have one of the best defensive outfields again with Martin, Dyson and Haniger. Just an anemic hitting one.
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R.D. Mangles posted:i honestly thought for a second he was put on a ship Now I get it... I had no idea what this was a reference too.
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Dyson, impressed by the Royal Navy, is sentenced to an uncertain future of swabbing and facing certain death at the hands of Napoleon's Navy. "No, sir," says Nathaniel Karns. "I shall go in his stead." R.D. Mangles fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Jan 7, 2017 01:43
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What DL designation do you get for being shanghai'ed into the navy?
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DL- King's Shilling
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Rum, sodomy and the lash.
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Jarrod Dyson sets out to sea, and it is at that moment that he truly becomes a mariner.
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The Pussy Boss posted:Brandon Phillips is still determined to not let the Reds trade him. Braves had a deal in place in November (Rosenthal doesn't say for who) but he blocked it. Supposedly the Reds have told BP he's not gonna play everyday in 2017, as they are rebuilding and want to play the kids. But he's hit .290 two years running so that sounds like a bluff to get him out the door.
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Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner takes on a whole new meaning with this trade
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bewbies posted:When I was pitching competitively Maddux was like the archetype of what all of us wanted to be...no one was going to 8 feet tall with a 140 mph fastball like RJ or be able to whip a curveball like Pedro but hell, some of us could throw harder than Maddux! Plus, mechanics, etc! So the end result is we basically all tried to do everything that Maddux did, the culmination being when one of my teammates stopped wearing contacts and started wearing glasses during games in order to look more professorial. I went to high school with Disco Hayes, whose blog was extremely popular on SA for a lot of the same reasons why Maddux is so popular. He's by no means a physical freak. He got his nickname because his pitches never made it out of the 70s. But he made it all the way to AAA because he's ridiculously intelligent and knew how to outsmart hitters with his pitches. He wasn't even the best player on our high school baseball team by a longshot, but he was easily the best player on our school's chess team.
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seiferguy posted:Karns was great starting off but fell off the table real quick. He got relegated to bullpen duty. AL West good defense bad hitting outfield buddies  Although at least the Astros have Springer
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I went to high school with Disco Hayes, whose blog was extremely popular on SA for a lot of the same reasons why Maddux is so popular. He's by no means a physical freak. He got his nickname because his pitches never made it out of the 70s. But he made it all the way to AAA because he's ridiculously intelligent and knew how to outsmart hitters with his pitches. He wasn't even the best player on our high school baseball team by a longshot, but he was easily the best player on our school's chess team. Your school's chess club actually played chess? Ours mostly played yu-gi-oh and magic.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Your school's chess club actually played chess? Ours mostly played yu-gi-oh and magic. You activated his trap card. 
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Some random Blue Jays fans on twitter are suggesting that Stroman and Sanchez arn't on speaking terms because they don''t follow each other on Twitter/instagram anymore and there havn't been videos of them hanging out during the off season. Sounds like dumb bullshit but it would suck if it were true.
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I genuinely have no idea what Dipoto is trying to accomplish with the Mariners. It seems like every time he makes a trade, it is immediately followed by a story for 'now we need a new X' where the X is the position of the player he got rid of. That player is then replaced by somebody who is not really much better or worse than the one before him. But I did have a drunk guy grab me and yell "we have a leadoff hitter!" the day of the Segura trade because I was wearing a Mariners hoodie, so the Mariners must make their money in the first half by convincing people that they finally have the World Series team!
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Some random Blue Jays fans on twitter are suggesting that Stroman and Sanchez arn't on speaking terms because they don''t follow each other on Twitter/instagram anymore and there havn't been videos of them hanging out during the off season. Sounds like dumb bullshit but it would suck if it were true. also Jays fans are hungry for literally any news about anything at this point
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It would appear that former Angels pitcher Chuck Finley is quite the reader:quote:But one librarian has been fired in connection with a scheme involving the creation of a fake library patron who “checked out” more than 2,000 books over the last year, as first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
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"That's how we Dewey, people!"
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Some random Blue Jays fans on twitter are suggesting that Stroman and Sanchez arn't on speaking terms because they don''t follow each other on Twitter/instagram anymore and there havn't been videos of them hanging out during the off season. Sounds like dumb bullshit but it would suck if it were true. What happened?  I am heavily invested in bromances across all divisions.Speaking of which, https://twitter.com/Noahsyndergaard/status/816463280109563904 https://twitter.com/MattHarvey33/status/817143309957263365 
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