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rickiep00h posted:I, too, cast a vote for bringing the RAIN. Also keep CK.
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Well, we signed Juan "Rainmaker" Ibarra. He was ready for pro ball. He started in rookie ball. He finished in AA. His line across all 4 leagues: 58 GP/256 PAs. 302/447/475. 3.8 WAR. 59 SB, 5 CS. That'll do, pig 2022 Playoffs We finished 113-48, .702, 1st Place, NL East  Welcome to the big time, Daniel Cerda. He missed 40/40 by a couple of dingers, but put up nearly 11 WAR. He was the 9th most valuable defender in baseball by def efficiency (this is an OOTP-only stat that actually sort of works) along with top shelf hitting. He definitely rode a sky high BABIP (.331) but that...may be close to where he lands for his career. Big Tuna put up his now-standard 7 win season along with a league leading 50 dongs, and Jonathan India put his disaster of a 2021 season behind him with a 233/317/795 effort with a plus, plus glove at 3B. Nico Hoerner and Esteban Ochoa overcame slow stars to put up reasonable efforts, though El Gran Dolor was lost for the year in August. Finally, Spencer Jones put up one heck of a rookie season. He slashed 225/326/475, and hit 27 dingers in only 373 ABs. He'll probably never hit 300, but I can see a 900 OPS season in his future. Meanwhile, as a pitcher:  He chucked a rock solid 177 IP, with a cool 208 Ks. Sixto Sanchez seems to be ready for another Cy Young (god drat that K/BB ratio), and Yu Darvish enjoyed a good but not great resurgence. Carter Rustad was a nice surprise, giving us a solid 100 IP despite missing some time with arm problems, and Dirty Jamie Callahan was once again the league's best reliever. We had some disappointments in the bullpen (Riley Ferrell and Ian Gibaut, I'm looking at you) but Craig Kimbrel was a nice midseason addition that really stabilized things. I was mistaken - he's here for another year at a reasonable $6.8m. League batting leaders:  League pitching leaders:  League fielding leaders:  We'll start the playoffs against either the Padres or the NYMETS. Both teams are very good.
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Apr 25, 2019 22:45
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Jesus Christ Cerda  I assume he won the MVP?
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Apr 26, 2019 00:19
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What happened to Trout? Did his head fall off? 95 games?
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HBP, broken elbow  We have an agreement in principle for an extension with Cerda. It is...expensive. 10/300. It buys out his entire arbitration and 3 years of free agency. We're paying probably a $20m premium up front, but by the time he's 27, $30m a year for him will be a HUGE bargain...if this year was the real deal. Do we give him the mega deal? That will likely be our entire budget room for the next season.
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Apr 26, 2019 14:07
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So long as Jeets doesn't require us to dump him right away I say go for it. We're still relatively cheap for a couple years yet. I'm sure we can make the space.
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Apr 26, 2019 14:35
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I'm slightly concerned about BABIP but he's fast as gently caress so it's probably legit for the next couple years... Does a Cerda extension interfere with our ability to Keep Big Tuna
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We won't know for sure what our budget will look like for next year until after the series, but chances are good we'll have to cut SOME salary as we have several guys due arb raises. Decisions will have to be made. I'd like to think Jeets learned his lesson about how trading away good popular players actually isn't usually a good policy (just look at our attendance numbers early in the season) but you never know. Numbers-wise though, we'll definitely be able to keep Big Tuna if that's what we decide to do. That being said, Cerda still has a full six years of arbitration ahead...we're not up against the wall on extending him, by any means. He's just going to cost a whole lot more if he puts up a couple more MVP-caliber seasons.
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Apr 26, 2019 15:52
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i'm torn because I want to see if this poo poo is a fluke or not... but if it ain't there's no time like the present. eh gently caress it PAY THE KID edit: big tuna is a True Marlin for Life
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Apr 26, 2019 18:43
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Man Cube Catcher has really fallen off a cliff.  Extend because gently caress Jeets.
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Sydin posted:Man Cube Catcher has really fallen off a cliff. He didn't come up until he was 26, which isn't terribly late, but he's a big guy and eventually playing hard is gonna catch up. I do kinda wish he'd have managed another year or two of eliteness, but ah well. I think he's a free agent after this year? Next? I don't remember our arb schedule.
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Apr 26, 2019 20:02
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threaten jeets with choosing between paying the kid or rebuilding the dinger machine  also agree that tuna should be a marlin for life if we are able to
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2022 NLDS: Miami Marlins vs New York Mets Game 1 Game 1 Log Game 2 Game 2 Log Game 3 Game 3 Log Game 4 Game 4 Log Game 5 Game 5 Log bewbies fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Apr 28, 2019 14:24
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2022 NLCS: Miami Marlins vs Los Angeles Dodgers Game 1 Game 1 Log Game 2 Game 2 Log Game 3 Game 3 Log Game 4 Game 4 Log Game 5 Game 5 Log Game 6 Game 6 Log Game 7 Game 7 Log
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None of the links are working for me E: Now they are working fucking love Fiona Apple fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Apr 28, 2019 14:43
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loving love Fiona Apple posted:None of the links are working for me Try the earlier games
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Well, that wasn't close. This is another big offseason for us...lots of big decisions to make. Jeets weighed in: We have a few options available to get down under the team budget, which is $146m for next year. We need to cut around $10m, no matter what. Any room to sign any free agents will have to come from cuts elsewhere. We can make up the difference in any combination we want. VOTE Issue #1: Money Cut the scouting and player development budgets. Right now, we spend about $9.5m on scouting, $14m on player development, plus around $9m for the draft and IFA signings. Trade away some salary. Pretty simple: we trade out some quality MLBers who are starting to get paid in arbitration for younger, cheaper guys. Team salary list is here, look at the 2023 numbers for where we can cut. Possibilities include Cube Catcher, Jamie Callahan, Craig Kimbrel, Brett Sullivan, Esteban Ochoa, or Jimmy Herget. We could also trade...Cerda or Big Tuna, but...probably shouldn't. We only have one QO free, agent, Byron Buxton, who wouldn't resign with us. He...shouldn't be qualified. Other than that, I think all of our arbitration guys should be offered arb. Issue #2: Coaching Don Mattingly is out of contract. He'll extend with us, but for no less than $1.8mm a year. I think he's a known quantity around here by now. Do we extend Donny Baseball or hire a new manager? Here's a shortlist of potential new hires: Paul Molitor has a couple of manager of the year awards under his belt, but hasn't been in the game a while. He's a matchups guy, and is very laid back. He wants $1.5mm Ozzie Guillen is another old timey baseball man, who likes to yell. He'll whip the clubhouse in shape, but might rub some guys the wrong way. He wants $1.2mm Aly Gonzalez is a 31 year old baseball prodigy coming out of Venezuela. He's a peak stathead, but isn't much of a player's manager, and might struggle with big time clubhouse management. He did amazing things in Venezuela, but that's a long way from the big leagues. He only wants $930k. Tim Bogar is a long serving assistant ready to make the jump to the head job. He's a saber guy through and through, and is a player's manager. He wants $1.3mm. To help in making your decisions, here's a quick prospect rundown. We still have the #1 system by a mile. Luis Avalos is a 1B/3B/COF, probably a year away, but he's #3 overall. He's a minus glove but the best young bat in baseball. Juan "Rainmaker" Ibarra is the #8 prospect. He might be ML-ready this year as a 19 year old. Plus plus glove and speed, solid contact/OBP bat. Paullo Schwab is like a less exciting Rainmaker but is still the #12 overall. More pop in the bat, less speed/glove. Luke Leto is #20 overall, 19 year old 2B/SS/3B with an excellent all around bat and some speed. At least a year out. Carlos Perez is no longer looking like the potential star we thought he'd be when we drafted him, but he's still #127 overall. Looks like an elite defensive C with 20 HR potential. He could potentially be ready to play in the bigs this year, but don't expect an OPS north of about 750. We can trade any of these guys also...our farm system might need some rebalancing. Also of note: for some reason, Mike Rutter, who was looking like an elite RP and was a top 10 prospect, retired after the season at the ripe old age of 20. bewbies fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Apr 28, 2019 15:00
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get my boy Tim Bogar as manager and i hate to say this but we gotta trade  and poo poo let's also get rid of Kimbrel
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:get my boy Tim Bogar as manager I'm on board with this. Kimbrel's failure cannot be tolerated. (Also dear god I hope we get ANY return on Astudillo.)
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Apr 28, 2019 18:20
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Go for Aly Gonzalez in the ultimate sink or swim position
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Apr 28, 2019 20:59
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 Here's what I got, kid. For Willians Astudillo, we've got Jamie Sutton. First round pick last year, ML ready righty RP. No idea why he was being held down. 99 mph heater and 80 slider. Dominant in low A last year (45/4 K:BB). D'Shaun Knowles. ML-ready 21 year old OF. Plus glove in both corners, decent glove in C. 30+ SB potential, 850 OPS potential. Lazy, though. Kameron Misner. ML-ready 24 year old OF. Average glove in both corners, but 900 OPS potential. Great all around hitter, 300/400/500 kind of guy. Raymond Torres. ML-ready 22 year old C. Plus glove and arm, could be solid OBP hitter with a little bit of pop. 275/350/450 kind of potential. For Craig Kimbrel we've got: Durbin Feltman. Fireballing 25 year old righty RP. 80 curve. Devin Mann. 25 year old 1B/2B who crushes baseballs, 40 HR potential. Middling glove at 2B, and injury prone. Logan Gilbert/ 25 year old SP with good stamina and 4 plus pitches. Has a ton of talent but has been injury prone. I think we should also look at dealing Brett Sullivan - not because he's bad, but because $5m+ is ludicrous to pay for a roughly replacement level catcher. Between FA, Rule 5, and our system, he's very replaceable, and some team will offer something of value thanks to his potential. Tommy Henry is a 25 year old control-first starter. Has ML potential, but isn't there yet. Well that...that's about it. At least he's free. If we trade all three of these guys, that frees up about $26m. That'll fund the team for next year and give us a little bit to play with in free agency.
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Apr 28, 2019 21:03
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Sutton or Torres for Astudillo Feltman for Kimbrel, Gilbert if we want to take a chance with his injuries.
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Apr 28, 2019 22:01
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I'm not liking this Jeets fella Sutton for Astudillo, Feltman for Kimbrel, and hell, might as well get the free pickup while we're at it.
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We signed Tim Bogar to be our new manager, and Mike Matheny as bench coach. We also had an abrupt opening as our old assistant GM retired unexpectedly. Lo and behold, Billy Beane just left the A's front office. We asked, he accepted! This is a rock solid front office group. For trades, we got: Jamie Sutton Durbin Feltman Tommy Henry we gave Willians Astudillo (so long! we'll hire you as a coach someday!) Craig Kimbrel Brett Sullivan We have about $25m to play with in free agency, but have exactly ZERO dollars for next year, which means any salary we take on this year will have to be offloaded one way or another next season. We don't have any real holes outside of catcher. Pete says Carlos Perez is as good as he's likely to get. He could be a 280/240/450 kind of hitter, with top class defense behind the plate, which isn't bad. Should we go after a proven FA catcher, or hope for gold in Rule 5? There's nearly always a replacement level C in rule 5 (that's where we got Sullivan). Here's the free agent list. We could also consider trading one of our elite 3B prospects and/or CF prospect Paullo Schwab. We could use more good young arms in the system, but we'll almost certainly be downgrading in terms of ranking. Luis Avalos is an elite bat (#3 overall prospect) and Luke Leto is a plus bat and plus glove (#20 overall). We have a solid young 3B and an elite CF prospect in RAINMAKER. Also I enjoyed Pete's description of Big Tuna's personality 
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(note: I meant to do this last year, but I forgot) Big news on the MLB labor front. After extending the existing CBA for one year, negotiations between the MLBPA and owners broke down. The MLBPA voted to strike if a new CBA was not signed by 1 December. It is currently, Monday, November 28th. The owners are having a meeting, and are finalizing their formal proposal to the players. We get this message from Jeets:  The owners meeting seems to have broken down....owners have factionalized and are now at an impasse. With one owner abstaining, the vote is currently tied at 15 to 15. We are the deciding vote. Basically, the two proposals in play look like this: Proposal A: The Soccer Model This proposal looks a lot like European soccer, but with a draft. The key points to this proposal: - No salary cap - No IFA bonus cap - No revenue sharing - 5 years of team control (2 years at league minimum, 3 years arbitration) - 10 year maximum contract - No free agent compensation - Teams can sell players using posting system - Larger visiting team gate share (20% ---> 40%) - National contracts tied to market size (ie, teams get paid proportionally based on viewership) Proposal B: The Hockey Model This proposal basically looks like the NHL's CBA. Basically, giving up 3 years of team control in exchange for a salary cap. (note: there is not a salary floor function, but this probably won't be an issue as there isn't a collusion function built into the game) - Salary cap tied to revenue (will likely start out in the $165mm range) - Low IFA bonus cap - Expanded revenue sharing - 3 years of team control (1 year at league minimum, 2 years arbitration) - 7 year maximum contract - No more Super 2 - Cash compensation for qualified FAs - Equal national media contracts What do we recommend to Jeets? Right now (note: we have truth data on this) the league made $160m in profit on $7.4bn of revenue. Both proposals would increase league profits to around $600m...at least until the new player market values set in. In exchange, players will be getting paid much bigger at a much younger age. (note: I honestly don't know how either of these proposals will go long-term, which is part of the appeal.) How do we tell Jeets to vote? bewbies fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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Apr 30, 2019 19:37
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Proposal B: The Hockey Modelbewbies posted:- Salary cap tied to revenue (will likely start out in the $165mm range)  
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Apr 30, 2019 19:49
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bewbies posted:
who the gently caress did the players union kidnap to get these offers what the hell
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Apr 30, 2019 19:54
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I have to go with Option B. It hopefully fixes some poo poo for us as the loving Miami Marlins, the weirdest small-market team in a big-market market, as well as helping the players get out from under the thumb of ownership. It will make budgeting and roster construction a nightmare, though. And I'm not a fan of salary caps, but it seems like a necessary evil for us, part of the Evil Empire, in order to give the players some level of control over their own destinies and to keep the Dodgers from loving us over due to TV contracts and the Pirates from loving everyone else as balance tax leeches (since everyone is now a balance leech.) edit: Hopefully the players kidnapped Jeets.
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Option B so we can see the baseball analogue of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, rather than watch the Yankees become Real Madrid.
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Apr 30, 2019 21:49
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Only commies vote for salary caps. A.
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what % of league revenue is the cap set at for B?
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iospace posted:what % of league revenue is the cap set at for B? 70%
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May 1, 2019 00:53
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bewbies posted:70% That's actually drat high. B, hesitantly.
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May 1, 2019 02:30
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Gotsta be B full socialism baybeeeee
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I propose a mix of A and B where we use the first two points of A and all the rest of B
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IcePhoenix posted:I propose a mix of A and B where we use the first two points of A and all the rest of B Jeets tried proposing it and as he was speaking a bunch of Pinkertons took up a line at the back of the room glaring ominously at him
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Option B sounds okay.
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I'm in the B camp.
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OPTION B goes into effect after Jeets slowly, cautiously, raises his hand. For the 2023 season, the salary cap is set at $162m, based off of a projected average income of $232m. 172 days per service year 3 years to free agency Cash compensation for qualified FAs Arbitration after 1 year No more Super 2 25% of revenue shared LET CHAOS REIGN We now have around $11m for free agents, and ab it more room for extensions. I honestly don't know what will happen for teams that are over the cap. bewbies fucked around with this message at 22:30 on May 2, 2019 |
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