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Nah, the rumour according to Morisi, is they're trying to move Andrus. Yet, in this circumstance Profar or Odor make sense.

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#RedSox trade Anthony Ranaudo to #Rangers for Robbie Ross.

 

WTF? Guess Ranaudo's stock has fallen so much that they traded him for a reliever who has also fallen out of favour in Texas (he was the #4 prospect for the Red Sox, and was dominating AAA).. plus, it also gives them depth in Pawtucket, as Ross has options remaining. It could also mean Drake Britton is heading for a DFA or trade..

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So Steve Adams made a remark in his chat today (http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/01/mlbtr-live-chat-112.html) about Dalton Pompey's makeup, saying "have heard less than glowing things about [it]". Anyone know what this is referring too? It's news to me.

 

I've heard he's confident but doesn't really enjoy the game. He plays hard but he can get too down on himself which I guess means he goes into longer slumps? I don't know what that really means in the longrun.

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WTF? Guess Ranaudo's stock has fallen so much that they traded him for a reliever who has also fallen out of favour in Texas (he was the #4 prospect for the Red Sox, and was dominating AAA).. plus, it also gives them depth in Pawtucket, as Ross has options remaining. It could also mean Drake Britton is heading for a DFA or trade..

 

Ranaudo is 25 and isn't the big deal. Ross is 25 too and he achieved a good performance 2 years ago.

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Ranaudo is 25 and isn't the big deal. Ross is 25 too and he achieved a good performance 2 years ago.

 

True. But will he make the opening day roster, especially with Drake Britton out of options, and Brandon Workman likely getting a bullpen spot unless he wants to start(good lord no..)

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Wow seems O's get Snider for next to nothing

 

Which is what Snider is basically worth. Outside of last season, his numbers were unimpressive, plus he's basically a platoon OF against right-handers with questionable defense in the OF, as Jays fans may remember.

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One of my friends went to HS with Stephen Tarpley. That's literally all I know about him.
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Well f***. GD do you remember how you changed your screen name?

 

Ask a mod. Tbh, LB sounds pretty lame, I would either keep it or change it to a variation of the name but people can still recognize you.

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One of my friends went to HS with Stephen Tarpley. That's literally all I know about him.

 

I drafted Tarpley #LOD. He's good.

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Random late night off topic thought: how the f*** did the 1979 Athletics win 54 games?

 

They were pretty bad?

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Random late night off topic thought: how the f*** did the 1979 Athletics win 54 games?

 

79 wRC, negative baserunning and negative defense. Don't think we'll see a worse overall team again. I mean the late 70's Jays teams were horrible...but at least their D was league average. I think the A's might have been worst in the league in all three. And that was with Rickey Henderson on the team, okay he wasn't exactly Rickey yet.

 

Made the playoffs just two years later though

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They were pretty bad?

 

No, they were historically bad. They were so bad that it should literally be regarded as legend. How did they even win 1 out of every 3 games?

 

79 wRC, negative baserunning and negative defense. Don't think we'll see a worse overall team again. I mean the late 70's Jays teams were horrible...but at least their D was league average. I think the A's might have been worst in the league in all three. And that was with Rickey Henderson on the team, okay he wasn't exactly Rickey yet.

Yeah, I was looking at this last night. It was Rickey's rookie season, and ended up being the only season of his life in which he was a below replacement level player.

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No, they were historically bad. They were so bad that it should literally be regarded as legend. How did they even win 1 out of every 3 games?

 

Wasn't that discussed in Moneyball? That baseball is built that even the worst built team is going to beat the best teams occasionally as there are so many lucky factors within a single game.

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No, they were historically bad. They were so bad that it should literally be regarded as legend. How did they even win 1 out of every 3 games?

 

IIRC, their win total is pretty close to the estimated win total of an entirely replacement level team.

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IIRC, their win total is pretty close to the estimated win total of an entirely replacement level team.

Exactly. They were well below replacement level. -10 wins from the batters alone, not a single reliever over 0.3 wins (their best reliever was worse than Todd Redmond) and they had a total of 0 starting pitchers with an ERA of less than 4.

 

It's probably the worst team of all time by a fair margin, and with a 54-108 record, they seem to have actually gotten fairly lucky.

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