Around Baseball 2015

[Spanky99]

Looking up people they went to high school with on LinkedIn and spamming until they get a hit

 

Chris Cotillo?

[Spanky99]

Where's Fatty!!

[King]

[Spanky99]

Spam^^^^

[TheHurl]

What a little dipshit.

 

We should seriously feed him bad data and see if he reports it.

[King]

 

Canada -> Mexico QuarterFinal

[King]

We should seriously feed him bad data and see if he reports it.

 

In for this

[Candy Maldonado]

Why is no one there?

[King]

Why is no one there?

 

Canada - Mexico?

 

Yesterday, the stadium (and atmosphere was insane, lots of chanting) was full for the Chinese Taipei game.

[Candy Maldonado]

That mexican manager look like a pinata.

[King]

lol

[King]

Mfw same color jerseys

[Candy Maldonado]

f*** You Reyes!!

[King]

x2 lol

[43211234]

So many Mexicans in the chat.

[King]

and Tyler O'Neills sister lol

[King]

rip canada

[Maahfaace]

I wonder what it would take to pry Ken Giles away from the phillies now that Amaro is gone. He'd look good in a Jays uni

[BTS]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/john-coppolella-on-trading-andrelton-simmons-and-more/

 

John Coppolella might be dumn:

 

“We feel there is an argument to be made that we may be better in 2016 with Erick Aybar because he’s one of the best hitting shortstops in baseball with a career .276 batting average. We finished 30th in baseball in runs in 2015 and 29th in 2014, so we need to find ways to improve our offense. Erick is a good step in that direction, but we need more. We also feel that both Sean Newcomb and Chris Ellis have a chance to impact our club at the Major League level in 2016, so they should also help us have a better season with a potential huge payoff in future years.”

 

“The New York Mets reached the World Series this year and, with all due respect, they didn’t have an impact defensive shortstop. There is a value to defense, but sometimes you see such spectacular plays from some defensive masterminds that you forget about other deficiencies in their games.”

[L54]

I used to envy my friends who are Braves fans. Now I just feel sorry for them.

[Laika]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/john-coppolella-on-trading-andrelton-simmons-and-more/

 

John Coppolella might be dumn:

 

“We feel there is an argument to be made that we may be better in 2016 with Erick Aybar because he’s one of the best hitting shortstops in baseball with a career .276 batting average. We finished 30th in baseball in runs in 2015 and 29th in 2014, so we need to find ways to improve our offense. Erick is a good step in that direction, but we need more. We also feel that both Sean Newcomb and Chris Ellis have a chance to impact our club at the Major League level in 2016, so they should also help us have a better season with a potential huge payoff in future years.”

 

“The New York Mets reached the World Series this year and, with all due respect, they didn’t have an impact defensive shortstop. There is a value to defense, but sometimes you see such spectacular plays from some defensive masterminds that you forget about other deficiencies in their games.”

 

There are so many layers on top of what GMs say publicly. Kind of hard to judge

[EMK19]

Not surprisingly, the two teams that took this Premier 12 tournament the most seriously are in the semis and look the strongest, Japan and Korea. They face again in the semis and it should be a really interesting game... Shohei Otani starts again for Japan and Korea has quite a few hitters that will/may see the MLB next year (Park, Dae-Ho Lee, Hyun-Soo Kim, Ah-Seop Son, etc.) and are really strong offensively so it should be interesting to see if Otani shuts them down again as he did in the first game. It's scary good how good that Otani kid looks at only 21 years old...

 

As for Canada, win 5 yet lose 1 and we're now out of the tourney... lol. I hate single game elimination when it comes to baseball...

[Boxcar]

There are so many layers on top of what GMs say publicly. Kind of hard to judge

 

Well the deal didn't make a lot of sense,so what he's saying here matches up pretty well as far as reasoning goes.

[Atothe]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/john-coppolella-on-trading-andrelton-simmons-and-more/

 

John Coppolella might be dumn:

 

“We feel there is an argument to be made that we may be better in 2016 with Erick Aybar because he’s one of the best hitting shortstops in baseball with a career .276 batting average. We finished 30th in baseball in runs in 2015 and 29th in 2014, so we need to find ways to improve our offense. Erick is a good step in that direction, but we need more. We also feel that both Sean Newcomb and Chris Ellis have a chance to impact our club at the Major League level in 2016, so they should also help us have a better season with a potential huge payoff in future years.”

 

“The New York Mets reached the World Series this year and, with all due respect, they didn’t have an impact defensive shortstop. There is a value to defense, but sometimes you see such spectacular plays from some defensive masterminds that you forget about other deficiencies in their games.”

 

Good god. Shapiro better work the phones. Get Shelby in toronto

[GD]

Good god. Shapiro better work the phones. Get Shelby in toronto

 

He isn't very good

[Dr. Dinger]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/john-coppolella-on-trading-andrelton-simmons-and-more/

 

John Coppolella might be dumn:

 

“We feel there is an argument to be made that we may be better in 2016 with Erick Aybar because he’s one of the best hitting shortstops in baseball with a career .276 batting average. We finished 30th in baseball in runs in 2015 and 29th in 2014, so we need to find ways to improve our offense. Erick is a good step in that direction, but we need more. We also feel that both Sean Newcomb and Chris Ellis have a chance to impact our club at the Major League level in 2016, so they should also help us have a better season with a potential huge payoff in future years.”

 

“The New York Mets reached the World Series this year and, with all due respect, they didn’t have an impact defensive shortstop. There is a value to defense, but sometimes you see such spectacular plays from some defensive masterminds that you forget about other deficiencies in their games.”

 

I was just going to come post this. Derping pretty hard.

[KingKat]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/john-coppolella-on-trading-andrelton-simmons-and-more/

 

John Coppolella might be dumn:

 

“We feel there is an argument to be made that we may be better in 2016 with Erick Aybar because he’s one of the best hitting shortstops in baseball with a career .276 batting average. We finished 30th in baseball in runs in 2015 and 29th in 2014, so we need to find ways to improve our offense. Erick is a good step in that direction, but we need more. We also feel that both Sean Newcomb and Chris Ellis have a chance to impact our club at the Major League level in 2016, so they should also help us have a better season with a potential huge payoff in future years.”

 

“The New York Mets reached the World Series this year and, with all due respect, they didn’t have an impact defensive shortstop. There is a value to defense, but sometimes you see such spectacular plays from some defensive masterminds that you forget about other deficiencies in their games.”

 

I don't hate the idea of trading Simmons for Aybar and prospects in theory. It's a lot of faith to put in Albies but if the other prospects are good enough, the trade could be a win and setup an interesting young core. The problem is that the team that owned Aybar didn't have the prospects to make a trade like this work. I think the Braves liked Aybar and squinted a little too hard at the other pieces to convince themselves to pull the trigger.

[Atothe]

He isn't very good

 

He starts making real money this year?

[Laika]

Well the deal didn't make a lot of sense,so what he's saying here matches up pretty well as far as reasoning goes.

 

Yes, I suppose. I was talking more generally. GMs will reference AVG and RBI to placate to casual fans; most of the time teams have nothing to gain and something to lose by being open and honest with the media about their thoughts and strategies.

 

Specifically with these comments he's responding to fans who overwhelmingly hate the trade.

 

Internally it probably has to come down to them not valuing defense like most people do, so he's not lying there.

[KingKat]

 

Internally it probably has to come down to them not valuing defense like most people do, so he's not lying there.

 

I was going to play devil's advocate here and argue something along the lines that you get a truer measure of value from someone who provides value on offense than from someone who mostly provides it on defense since D is noisy as hell but Aybar's offensive value is a lot murkier than I first realized. He's coming off a dreadful season and doesn't project very well at all. I don't hate the thought process here but the valuations on basically everyone involved seem really, really off.