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Kevlar v2.0 posted:La Stella had an OPS of .860 and they couldn't even fit him on the 25-man roster. ...when? B-R says .763, and even then it's only over 169 PA so it's hardly predictive. Kevlar v2.0 posted:Soler would be starting in OF or DH for the majority of MLB teams, but he's a bench bat for the Cubs. For his career, Soler has put up 1.1 total WAR in 765 PA (so just over a season's worth). I'd love to hear which teams he'd automatically be a starter on.
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Yes another corner outfielder is just what we need.
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Nov 8, 2016 22:06
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Neil Walker accepted the QO too. That means the Mets have 5 starting infielders which is a state of affairs I predict will last for at least the first 2 weeks of the season.
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Nov 15, 2016 00:40
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I can see voting for Porcello over Verlander because it's really close, but not putting Verlander on at all just makes no sense unless they're voting Porcello/Happ/Kluber entirely based on ~winz~
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Nov 17, 2016 01:23
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So Britton comes 4th in Cy Young voting but gets more MVP votes than every other pitcher put together? 
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Nov 18, 2016 00:48
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a neat cape posted:I'm an Angels fan so I'm not complaining. I just think it's funny because it has a zero chance of happening in any other sport It's a lot harder to be terrible when you have an MVP-caliber player in any other sport. If Steph was playing for the Sixers last season they'd have won a lot more than 10.
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Nov 18, 2016 01:06
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mcmagic posted:Not really. He was right there with any of those guys while playing GG caliber catcher. Sanchez's OPS from August 3 (when he was called back up) was 1.052. Freeman's OPS from August 3rd was 1.169. Over 100 points of OPS is a big deal.
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Nov 18, 2016 03:38
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Thom P. Tiers posted:Other baseball stats: Cabrera and Cano are gonna be interesting. Cabrera should be an absolute lock, he's 481 away and insanely consistent so should make it late 2019/early 2020. Cano is less certain, he's 790 away so he'll need to be productive for 5/7 of his remaining seasons (though I expect if he gets close he'll get enough playing time to make it). I don't know who's going to be next after those guys though, it might not happen again until Trout. Thom P. Tiers posted:Another edit: God drat Cabrera has gotten an MVP vote every single year he has played baseball my god. Somehow including his debut season in which he hit .268/.325/.468 over 87 games. Since then he's never had an OPS+ below 130
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Nov 19, 2016 01:03
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Hand Knit posted:They have a good chance to have one of if not the best rotation in baseball next year. ...really? Happ, Sanchez and Estrada all had ERAs more than 50 points under their FIPs this season, I'm not sure I'd bet on them being able to do that again next year. Plus now Dickey's gone they need a #5 and this is a terrible free agent class for starters.
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Nov 20, 2016 23:57
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Liriano will be the #5, no? Sanchez Estrada Happ Stroman Liriano? He should do better than Dickey did last season I would hope. Oh yeah I forgot Toronto traded for Liriano. It's not out of the question that if everything goes right for them they could be maybe a top-3 rotation, I just don't think it's very likely.
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Nov 21, 2016 02:59
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bad boy in the boy band posted:It just sucks that it was for a rental, the Yankees made out like goddamn bandits, and they're going to get all those guys essentially for free because Chapman is going back there anyway. So it was a good deal and you'd do it again, but you're still mad because it wasn't a better deal? I don't know if you realize but Cashman wasn't just going to hand over Chapman for a bag of baseballs and a pair of season tickets in the bleachers, if he didn't get what he wanted in return from the Cubs there were plenty of other teams who'd be more than willing to make him an offer.
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Nov 22, 2016 18:12
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bawfuls posted:In case anyone wasn't sure, the Padres are still run by a bunch of braindead imbeciles. Those are the most generic jerseys I've ever seen. All that dramatic buildup just for a white/navy home and grey/navy away.
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Nov 22, 2016 23:58
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Well Segura's just put up a career-best season at age 26 so who wins the trade is really dependent on whether he's figured it out and will continue to be good or whether it's just an anomaly. The two guys the DBacks got have got promise but they're still both pretty young which makes sense for a team which doesn't figure to be contending for a year or two. Judging from their minor league stats Haniger looks like he might be decent and Curtis is basically a lottery ticket.
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Nov 24, 2016 05:06
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Edinson Volquez to the Marlins, 2/$22M. He's 33 and coming off a bad year so I can't imagine he got offered many 3 or 4-year deals. Personally I've never rated him so I'm pretty happy he's coming to the NL East.
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Nov 29, 2016 03:32
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Hell yes. 4/$110 million apparently.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:18
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Intruder posted:Wait, is that less AAV than the contract he just opted out of? He had 2/$47.5M left on his contract, so he's got the extra years and the AAV's gone up a bit. e: by AAV he's now the 6th highest paid player in baseball and the 2nd highest position player.
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Nov 29, 2016 20:26
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Inspector_666 posted:I thought that the Cubs didn't offer Fowler a QO this year to help him find a team? They were expected not to, but no-one really knows if that's just because there was a baseless rumour they weren't going to, or if there was some sort of agreement in place with Fowler which the team then went back upon.
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Nov 29, 2016 22:23
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CubsWoo posted:Fowler to Toronto is looking plausible Are they shopping Pillar then? I feel like Fowler loses a lot of his value if you stick him in a corner, even at Rogers.
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Nov 30, 2016 02:42
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If the rotation stays healthy I don't think it's unreasonable to claim it's the best in baseball, so even a marginal offensive improvement is worth a lot to the team, and Cespedes over Jay Bruce is a bit more than marginal.
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Nov 30, 2016 16:49
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Chexoid posted:Now the Jays are attached to Curtis Granderson, apparently. Watching the Jays always narrowly avoid getting Jay Bruce is like watching those gifs where a giant asteroid barely misses hitting earth over and over. I'd rather keep Granderson than Bruce considering he can sorta-kinda play a bit of center, but the return for him should be better too. Apparently the O's are in on Granderson as well so we'll see if Sandy can swing us a couple of decent prospects.
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Nov 30, 2016 20:19
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Nats have certainly got a hole to fill in CF, do they have the prospects to give up for Cutch? I'm assuming Turner and Giolito are untouchable.
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Nov 30, 2016 23:19
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If Cutch ends up going to the Nats at least there's the silver lining of a Werth-Cutch-Harper outfield being pretty loving bad defensively.
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Dec 1, 2016 22:04
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TOS surgery has an expected recovery time of about 6 months so it's not impossible he could be ready to go by Opening Day or soon afterwards. I expect there'll be a few clubs looking to pick him up, possibly with an incentive-heavy deal.
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Dec 3, 2016 03:25
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Seeing reports that the Nats are in on both McCutchen and Sale. They don't have enough prospects to get both unless they deal Turner, right?
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Dec 5, 2016 17:17
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The Pussy Boss posted:Man I dunno. Melancon is fine, but if you're gonna pay for a premium closer, why not give a 5th year and a few more $ to the super-elite, all-time great reliever? I'm pretty hesitant to call a guy who's only played 6 1/2 seasons top 10 anything. In terms of peak value he's probably up there or close, but he needs to keep it going for a while longer IMO.
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Dec 5, 2016 21:16
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SharkTattoos posted:Cubs season ticket prices are up between 20 and 31% depending on section. I would be beyond pissed if my team jacked up ticket prices by >20% in a single year, World Series or no.
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Dec 6, 2016 17:17
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Poque posted:sure, except that last season all the tickets were snatched up by vendors and sold on Stubhub for 96% higher than face value. And putting up prices prevents this how? If anything it just means the vendors' profit margins will be even bigger.
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Dec 6, 2016 17:25
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Thank gently caress the Nats didn't get Sale. They have to be a shoo-in for Cutch now but, eh, I'll take it.
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Dec 6, 2016 19:16
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N: Dan Haren named DBacks' "Pitching Strategist". V: Can he have control over their Twitter account too?
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Dec 6, 2016 21:22
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Thom P. Tiers posted:The Cardinals keep saying they want to inject EXCITEMENT and ATHLETICISM into the roster for next year so I wonder what black guy they will sign or trade for. Sounds like they're after a Latin player and a black player to me.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:11
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This is at least the third time that Panda's looked really good in the offseason and had people saying "hey, maybe he's gonna keep the weight off and be good now!" If it hasn't happened by now, it ain't ever gonna happen.
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Dec 6, 2016 23:55
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He definitely got even fatter when he got to Boston but IIRC the Giants FO asked him to lose some weight a couple of times - there was some speculation that he felt insulted by that and it was one of the reasons he left SF rather than re-signing there.
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Intruder posted:Good get him gently caress out of the Astros division Moreland has a .716 career OPS against the Astros.
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Niwrad posted:I know people have been down on Soler but I do think he has some value. He's on a cheap deal for 4 more years and still really young. It was just 2 years ago he was one of the best prospects in baseball and tearing up the minor leagues. Just a year ago that he was crushing the ball in the playoffs. The guy has the ability to be a really good hitter and has shown it at times in the majors. The move to the Royals should help too because he can now play everyday and be a DH at times to reduce his injury risk. Some of this is true but he was never one of the top prospects in baseball, at least according to BP, Fangraphs and MLB.com (the highest ranking I can find for him is #25 on the Fangraphs 2013 midseason list). The thing is if the Royals are prepared to accept a part-time corner OF/DH who might put it together next season but might not in exchange for their best reliever then there are plenty of teams who should be able to offer more than that.
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CubsWoo posted:A replacement level corner OF/DH that's under team control for 4 years and will be a steal if he can figure out how to turn his brilliant 2 week periods into an entire season I mean it's not like there's a shortage of young corner OFs who might break out at some point, but most of them aren't owed $17.5 million.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:17.5 million over 4 years for at worst a 4th ofer with a high ceiling is not a bad thing to have. Fair point, but if the Royals aren't going to be contending next year they could have got a couple of AAA prospects from someone and saved themselves some cash. Half a season of Miller and Chapman each got the Yankees much more value than just Soler for a full season of Davis.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:The Royals think they're contending next year. In which case a) they probably shouldn't get rid of their best reliever, and b) if they're dead set on doing so, they should be able to get someone who's more major-league ready right now than Soler is.
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They outperformed their pythag by 8 games last season, and their rotation is terrible. Even in the AL Central Duffy/Kennedy/Ventura/Gee?/Young?? is going to struggle to make .500.
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Rand alPaul posted:I hope this happens so there is a backlash against all the retirement gifts he received and it permanently kills the farewell tour nonsense that has sprouted up in recent years. I hope Baltimore asks for their bullpen phone back.
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If Robles isn't in the deal then Giolito has to be, right? Eaton's surely more valuable than just a couple of low-level prospects.
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