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https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1767223517559259527 Doesn't sound great! Intruder posted:Counterpoint: eventually he'll be willing to play for cheap enough someone will pull the trigger
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Bauer's been out there long enough and is a toxic enough guy absent the culture war stuff (or things that are perceived as culture war I guess) that I'd be surprised if he signs anywhere. It isn't like he was an ace in MLB last season anymore either. If he signs in '24 he's 6 seasons removed from putting up front line starter numbers. There's a ton of risk that he's not that guy anymore and if you're signing that clowncar poo poo to be a back of the rotation guy, what are you doing?
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1767223517559259527 I forgot how little he played for in Japan so yeah you're probably right
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Mar 11, 2024 18:58
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You have to go off his recent numbers too and they uh weren't good.
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Penisaurus Sex posted:Bauer's been out there long enough and is a toxic enough guy absent the culture war stuff (or things that are perceived as culture war I guess) that I'd be surprised if he signs anywhere. 6 isn't right, he's 3 seasons removed from winning the CY and put up very good numbers for the Dodgers for half a season I just know I want him to stay out of the league so if no team wants to touch him then great!
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Mar 11, 2024 18:59
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Yeah, Bauer is toxic as gently caress in a way other abusers or whatever aren't. Anyone half way intelligent knows its not just dealing with his past, its dealing with what he says and does in the future because he's too arrogant to shut the gently caress up. Then when you consider he's probably past his prime and he was widely regarded to have been basing a lot of his success on sticky stuff. There will always be assholes who want the rear end in a top hat but baseball teams are companies and some lawyer or scout or someone will stop it I think.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:03
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Intruder posted:6 isn't right, he's 3 seasons removed from winning the CY and put up very good numbers for the Dodgers for half a season I ignore 2020 and his '21 season was good but only pitching half a season matters, and 'good' is not worth the headache of dealing with him -- even if you can get him to shut up and stay of media spats (you can't). I'd be shocked if he's back in MLB again.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:04
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It sucks to think that Bauer could be the exact shithead he is but with the ability to not tweet about it all the time and he'd probably be on a team. So keep tweeting, Trev
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Mar 11, 2024 19:07
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Yankees might panic and pay Snell though.
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, Bauer is toxic as gently caress in a way other abusers or whatever aren't. Anyone half way intelligent knows its not just dealing with his past, its dealing with what he says and does in the future because he's too arrogant to shut the gently caress up. Then when you consider he's probably past his prime and he was widely regarded to have been basing a lot of his success on sticky stuff. There will always be assholes who want the rear end in a top hat but baseball teams are companies and some lawyer or scout or someone will stop it I think. The sticky stuff is a good point. Hell, there were even all those articles written about how by signing Bauer you're also getting exclusive use of his Secret Formula or whatever
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Intruder posted:It sucks to think that Bauer could be the exact shithead he is but with the ability to not tweet about it all the time and he'd probably be on a team. So keep tweeting, Trev Yeah we've seen plenty of times over that being a proven abuser isn't disqualifying of teams being interested in you so long as you still play baseball well. But you gotta play the PR game and say you're sorry then put your head down so the team can minimize, and Bauer's ego just absolutely would never allow for that. Teams know he's gonna run his mouth any time and every time a mic gets shoved in front of it and nobody is interested in running constant interference for that. Whatever team signed him would have to deal with every manager and GM presser turning into a bunch of questions about [insert dumb poo poo] Bauer spouted off this time.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:12
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Plenty of guys have just vanished in recent years, presumably because their performance didn't justify the controversy.
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Still wondering what the hell is gonna happen with Urias. First guy to get hit twice for domestic violence with the second incident being particularly bad and visible in the public eye. Arguably would have been a Top 3 free agent pitcher this year but I haven't seen his name pop up at all and I don't even know if MLB has formally levied a suspension or not. Dude may just be history in the league which would be a shocking and sudden fall from grace for an ace SP who was set to hit FA at age 27.
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mcmagic posted:Yankees might panic and pay Snell though. Now that...that would be a disaster. Please do it.
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Sydin posted:Still wondering what the hell is gonna happen with Urias. First guy to get hit twice for domestic violence with the second incident being particularly bad and visible in the public eye. Arguably would have been a Top 3 free agent pitcher this year but I haven't seen his name pop up at all and I don't even know if MLB has formally levied a suspension or not. Dude may just be history in the league which would be a shocking and sudden fall from grace for an ace SP who was set to hit FA at age 27. I think it's about contrition and keeping your head down and not being a problem. Urias might not be able to do that, or his situation might make that impossible. But we've seen shitheads come back to baseball over the years after time away, as long as they can perform and present that sort of image the public expects for a person looking for redemption. Bauer, as an instructive example, cannot do that. Even aside from the vague 'you don't want him in a major league clubhouse/he can't fit in a major league clubhouse' stuff that's been roiling around for months once a return to MLB seemed possible for him, if you cannot play the media game you can't be in MLB.
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I think the math on shitheads has also kind of changed as we've moved more and more into the social media era. Like Aroldis Chapman was almost a decade ago when he committed his crimes. Which isn't a long time ago but kind of is a lifetime in terms of that tech. And while I don't think teams necessarily will pass on every rear end in a top hat for bad press, I think now its much harder to control that press making it a tougher decision to stick with the rear end in a top hat. Especially with someone like Bauer who like you can't trust not to lash out on social media from any backlash he gets. In fact you can probably count on it. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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Popete posted:The great thing about spring training is you can completely write it off as meaningless when your team looks bad and simultaneously declare that Matt Shaw is going to win the MVP this year It will be hard to Matt Shaw to win NL MVP this year when it should clearly go to Owen Caissie
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FlamingLiberal posted:https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1766871976092512577?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA Poor guy just always looked over matched in MLB. He was great in AAA, got shelled in MLB and was just never the same.
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Popete posted:The great thing about spring training is you can completely write it off as meaningless when your team looks bad and simultaneously declare that Matt Shaw is going to win the MVP this year Matt Shaw isn't even on the 40-man, but yes he is a LOCK for MVP this season. 
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FlamingLiberal posted:https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1766871976092512577?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA Just me, or does he look exactly like the "worst person you know made a good point" guy but with hair
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Just me, or does he look exactly like the "worst person you know made a good point" guy but with hair he looks like someone that would fit the meme but he doesn't look anything like the guy in the picture
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Bregor posted:It will be hard to Matt Shaw to win NL MVP this year when it should clearly go to Owen Caissie Also not on the 40-man, but also a LOCK for MVP this season.
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I’d be happier about our #2 pipeline ranking if our most exciting prospects weren’t position-locked. Cmon Cade.
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Poque posted:I’d be happier about our #2 pipeline ranking if our most exciting prospects weren’t position-locked. Cmon Cade. Shaw's gonna get 3B when he comes up, Morel looks abysmal there and is almost certainly destined to live at DH. We do have way too many goddamn OF's though, lol. No way all of PCA, Cassie, Canario, Alcantara, and Davis are all still Cubs by the end of the year unless there's just a comical cavalcade of injuries. Some of these guys are getting moved, probably for pitching.
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Poque posted:I’d be happier about our #2 pipeline ranking if our most exciting prospects weren’t position-locked. Cmon Cade. I think the only positions that are 100% locked are Mansby and Nico. They can move a lot of the other pieces around and none of their top prospects are plus-plus defensive shortstops anyway so it's not like they're blocking anybody. I saw one spring game Seiya was in LF, which threw me a bit, but I would imagine they might want Caissie or Alcantara in RF if things go well in Iowa / poorly in Chicago.
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Exodor posted:Poor guy just always looked over matched in MLB. He was great in AAA, got shelled in MLB and was just never the same. Yeah, probably because his elbow was injured.
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Snell is a slow starter and has basically missed all of Spring Training so he'd be best on a team that can get by for the first couple of months while he works it out, which probably isn't the Yankees with Cole out and Rodon still bad.
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Sydin posted:No way all of PCA, Cassie, Canario, Alcantara, and Davis are all still Cubs Of those five, I've been the most impressed by Caissie so far.
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Of those five, I've been the most impressed by Caissie so far. He has the loudest tool (power) I think, which is also the most exciting tool in general. PCA’s defense is probably the highest on the scale but it won’t matter if he can’t hit enough to stay in the lineup.
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If I were to take a guess I'd say it's PCA > Caissie > Alcantara > Canario > Davis from most to least untouchable, although Caissie's been making quite the case since last year to be flipped with PCA. Alcantara is meanwhile still a lot of toolsy hype, Davis can't stay healthy, and Canario probably just gets squeezed out past a certain point unless there's a big OF injury or he proves he's a better 4th OF option than Tauchman. PCA's got baseline value solely with his glove and legs, but he's had a miserable spring and I think he's gonna have to prove for longer he can hit in AAA before he gets another look. Caissie struck out way too much in AA last year but did it while putting up eye-boggling batted ball metrics, followed by doing nothing but hitting the poo poo out of the ball this spring. Feels like he could get fast-tracked up, especially since they've apparently been tinkering with having him at 1B as well.
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Honestly if PCA can just figure out how to bunt, that'll be good enough to fix his bat.
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God dammit. The Phillies are really going to keep Schwarber in the leadoff spot this season and watch him hit .186 for the first two months.
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BiggerBoat posted:God dammit. The Phillies are really going to keep Schwarber in the leadoff spot this season and watch him hit .186 for the first two months. Yeah but he'll hit 20 bombs
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Was Schwarber the first player in history to bat leadoff 100+ games with a batting average that starts with a 1?
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Sydin posted:If I were to take a guess I'd say it's PCA > Caissie > Alcantara > Canario > Davis from most to least untouchable, although Caissie's been making quite the case since last year to be flipped with PCA. Alcantara is meanwhile still a lot of toolsy hype, Davis can't stay healthy, and Canario probably just gets squeezed out past a certain point unless there's a big OF injury or he proves he's a better 4th OF option than Tauchman.
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live with fruit posted:You throw out Schwarber's BA like his OBP isn't still good. It's pretty decent, but it does seem like a waste of his true value (the power) to bat him leadoff. They should hit him second, really, he doesn't hit a ton of grounders, so it's not like he's just gonna be hitting into DPs every time. live with fruit posted:Snell is a slow starter and has basically missed all of Spring Training so he'd be best on a team that can get by for the first couple of months while he works it out, which probably isn't the Yankees with Cole out and Rodon still bad. Dodgers, got it. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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