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1) Angels 2) Marlins I think trying to actually build a team around Trout and Ohtani is the best use of this thread. And Marlins just because it would be amusing to me.
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We should replace our hitting coach because we need someone who works well with youngsters, and who has shown that he can get results. Give Balsey at least another year, because even if his philosophy didn't exactly match with ours, he brought what we had up, and in the end that's what you want.
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Oct 5, 2018 14:29
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bewbies posted:There is a view of our farm in the pic dump I put up earlier. I'll upload the entire game file later today so you all can get way into the weeds. To save money and reward being good, I think we should Promote Burkhart and then Hire Treanor to the minors. I dunno if we want to promote people up the ladder or whatever but however it's done, hire Treanor to fill the gap. Mueller would be nice and all but I think we need to consider the financial side of everything and the money we don't spend on him is money we could put into player development or draft pools.
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Oct 5, 2018 15:37
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The fans will get over it when we use that money to extend an actual good player
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Oct 5, 2018 18:47
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Definitely B If we want to keep Mejia down for Service Time Fuckery (we do) we should sign Willians Astudillo to catch. If Donaldson or Beltre will come on cheap deals they could give us a popularity boost and be trade bait around the deadline I don't know who Yonathan Daza is and he doesn't have a player page but his ratings bear a look as a possible cheap CF to back up or replace Margot. Same with Reymond Fuentes. Esteban Quiroz as a corner OF falls in here. We need a shortstop pretty badly IMO, Galvis' defense doesn't appear to be offsetting his horrible performance at the dish. Eduardo Escobar might be worth a look (but also might be too expensive). My eyes have started to glaze over by now so I'm not sure who else might be a good sign there.
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Oct 5, 2018 19:34
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New proposal see how expensive it would be to pry Ohtani away from the Angels 
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Oct 5, 2018 21:24
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TheFlyingLlama posted:if we need a short term C what would kurt suzuki cost on a one year deal? 
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Oct 5, 2018 21:41
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TheFlyingLlama posted:look man I'm not sure trading for ohtani to have him catch is a good idea, but I guess I'm willing to try it? IcePhoenix posted:If we want to keep Mejia down for Service Time Fuckery (we do) we should sign Willians Astudillo to catch. Inspector_666 posted:Sign Astudillo no matter what. Make him the marquee player. Pay him for life. John Wilkes Booth posted:I vote B and please sign Astudillo.
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Oct 5, 2018 21:45
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TheFlyingLlama posted:oh right the fat catcher. I guess fat meme guys are more fun than someone who might actually be good so w/e Good news, Astudillo is both 
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Oct 5, 2018 21:57
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I want Nick Bitsko in the draft (probably not with our first pick). Our first pick should be someone who is probably close to being ready (a year or two) at a position where we will have a spot open (either because the player currently there is JAG or because we have a player who will be gone via retirement or contract expiry). We're not really in a position to be picky about which position outside of a few. Every pick after that should be some form of BPA.
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Oct 6, 2018 23:54
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Option C, we may only be 7 games back but there are still five teams between us and that spot. Gurriel should definitely go for the best available package. Eovaldi I would trade if we can get a top guy that will be with us by opening day 2021. Preferably a pitcher. Wilson is between the two for me. If we can get a really good package or individual back then I'd trade him, but 6m isn't really a lot for a great closer and it won't be hard to trade him at 6m if we decide to go that route. If you can find someone to take Santana without us sending much cash or a meaningful prospect then I'd get rid of him. I would call up FTJ and Bradley. Plus depending on how well they play we could make a run at the Wild Card even after all these trades. Also, 44 dingers before the end of July is hilarious, even if it is the PCL.
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Oct 7, 2018 19:38
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Extend the coaches, it's probably the overall talent level that's causing the bad rankings, I think they're doing well with what we have. Keep Andy Green, firing him means paying out his contract PLUS whatever we pay the new guy, who will cost at least as much unless we go with a complete unknown. Cut Diekman Combination of B and C, call up FTJ after we get the extra year of control, super 2 be damned. FA Targets: We need a SS (Cordoba is more of a utility guy IMO) and there are some good options. Didi Gregorius is the best option by far but may be a pipe dream. Still gotta shoot our shot though! Pitching: Our bullpen probably needs a little boost (though we may have prospects that can help). Preston Claiborne and Connor Mullee look like they might be good value. Tim Mayza might be a good LOOG. Also I probably don't need to mention Chris Sale, Justin Verlander (who I'd probably pass on due to age), and Gerrit Cole but hey 
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Oct 8, 2018 03:21
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ALL HAIL THE CUBE CATCHER Who else is available as a hitting coach? Treanor would be perfectly fine to call up IMO but maybe there's a better, more major league "ready" guy that we can sign instead. I don't think Urias will ever be as good as Whitley so I think a lot comes down to if we want to trade a 22 year old who will probably be acceptable at 2B at least until his (probably inexpensive) arb runs out for a 30 year old 2B that could be a perennial all-star, but we have to start paying him now because he's hitting arb this off-season? The one upside to his age is that if Whit starts breaking down we could just let him go because he's still on one year arb contracts for the next three seasons (unless we extend him). For pitching, I'd go after Sale above Cole but I'd definitely try our best to get at least one (within reason). And we may as well kick the tires on Paxton as well, maybe the cost in prospects won't be terribly high. I think with a couple big additions (and FTJ is one already, probably) we might be able to contend for a WC this season.
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Oct 8, 2018 05:12
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Definitely go after Paxton if we don't have to give up anyone critical
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Oct 8, 2018 19:10
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BIG MAPLE Because honestly this solves all three of our problems outright.
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Oct 8, 2018 20:43
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bewbies posted:note: Maple wants 7/133 to extend. This might be in the real of possibility depending on how much money we make this season.
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Oct 8, 2018 21:06
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 that's a hell of an off-season for us! I wanna take a look at the team page to see what we've got go-    Oh well, at least we've got the cube catcher. Let's see if we avoided any other big inj-  
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Oct 9, 2018 01:31
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bewbies posted:The Bad Probably hard to hit with a ruptured Achilles My vote regarding Paxton is obviously for Royce Lewis
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Oct 9, 2018 01:42
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Float Eovaldi and take an offer if it's good. He's currently our fifth starter anyway.
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Oct 9, 2018 04:27
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Coolguye posted:i don't even pretend to follow baseball why is this thing so compelling Because it's basically a spreadsheet game
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Oct 9, 2018 23:32
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Coolguye posted:r u sayin im a spreadsheet nerd I've seen your posts in the Stardew Valley thread
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Oct 9, 2018 23:51
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bewbies posted:2020 NLDS: San Diego Padres vs Washington Nationals  
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Oct 10, 2018 00:32
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Option A - never pay for relievers in OOTP
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Oct 10, 2018 16:11
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bewbies posted:Happy to, but how exactly do I do that? Urias is 3*. Bradley is 3*. Cordoba is 2.5*. A 3.5* prospect (or two) sounds pretty nice. And we save 18m now that we can use in FA to a much bigger impact or to extend our guys.
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Oct 11, 2018 03:32
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bewbies posted:Will do and good idea! Did we get a decent offer on Trenien as well or nah? Anyway, for LHR you can probably find one for cheap with a little digging, unless they've vastly changed the game between this iteration and 18. I used to fill out my staff with minor league FAs or minimum-ish contract guys all the time. e: oh, and do some combo of B and C IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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Oct 11, 2018 14:15
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All aboard the Mejia train
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Oct 12, 2018 05:07
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bewbies posted:also take a look at Mike Trout's first half, god drat Jeeeeesus. Also holy moly we have the entire starting outfield for the NL
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Oct 12, 2018 14:49
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bewbies posted:Bryce harper meanwhile has settled fairly nicely into the realm of "alright, i guess" So just like real life
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Oct 12, 2018 15:48
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bewbies posted:Yep sure is. There's a "greed" stat also. 
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Oct 12, 2018 19:41
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Fire Green for putting Matton in to blow TWO CONSECUTIVE GAMES (I had to double check when I looked at game seven because he did the exact same thing in game six) instead of using Wilson in at least game seven (game six has deniability since he pitched three innings in game 5). Replace him with that Chubb fells, we've been doing a pretty decent job with our youthful coaching gambles, may as well keep going back to the well!
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Oct 13, 2018 16:45
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Oct 13, 2018 23:44
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Wilson isn't worth a QOrickiep00h posted:Or let him walk, hope we can find some more bullpen arms, and sigh plaintively at the first round pick we don't get. I don't think he makes enough as a FA to get us a 1/2 sandwich pick
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Oct 14, 2018 00:40
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rickiep00h posted:I'm just repeating what (I'm pretty sure) bewbies said. oh, I assumed OOTP would have updated the QO rules, my bad I still don't think he's worth the QO. Unless they massively changed the way the game works (lol) relievers aren't super hard to come by if you do some digging.
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Oct 14, 2018 00:52
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Urias is in arbitration and we might have trouble keeping him past arb, I'm not so sure we should be trading away a prime candidate to replace him. And having another guy on a rookie contract in a couple years will give us a few more million for extending the rest of our OF. Definitely go for the reliever. 6m/yr is acceptable for one or two elite guys.
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Oct 14, 2018 20:11
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Inspector_666 posted:Get Clevinger and Shaw. 
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Oct 15, 2018 23:16
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ldragon posted:So for those of us who don't speak baseball, what is so special about this guy? baseball scouts use a 20-80 scale to rate things basically this dude has A+ stuff and both his pitches are one of the best versions of that pitch in all of baseball (which helps even more), and he has good/great control with great movement (which, again, makes pitches harder to hit).
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Oct 16, 2018 00:25
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Niwrad posted:Is the reason they suggest bullpen because he only throws 2 pitches? Looks like his stamina is halfway decent. Yes, because any starter with only two pitches is going to get loving murdered past the second or third inning
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Oct 16, 2018 00:48
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Julio Cruz posted:As always, Bartolo is the exception that proves the rule. Bartolo threw a fastball, slider, and changeup
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Oct 16, 2018 02:07
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Is there no market for bradley in a trade?
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Oct 16, 2018 22:16
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bewbies posted:Also here's a tactics/rules question: how exactly would we use a guy like Wallner? Like, say he starts a game at 1B...could we move him to pitch an inning in the 7th and bring in a 1B for the exiting pitcher, then move him back to first after his inning? I'd need to see an updated player page for him to know for sure if it would work out but I had a guy similar to him in an online league I was in a few years ago and I DH'd him against righties and benched him against lefties (he had a pretty big split), and set him as my #1 setup man in the bullpen. I think he ended up with ~140 games played by the end of the year so pretty good overall.
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