Around Baseball 2018

[Brownie19]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor

 

exactly. swing and a miss Jim.

[Spanky__99]

[Spanky__99]

I guess Mike Elias will also hire Joe Espada to manage then.

 

Likely.

[G-Snarls]

He kinda looks like a lesbian to be quite honest

 

Yale educated lesbian tho

[glory]

Even with a smart front office it will take at least five years for the O’s to be good again. s***** mlb team, s***** farm system, and ignored international market for years. They are pretty much starting from nothing.

[Krylian]

Even with a smart front office it will take at least five years for the O’s to be good again. s***** mlb team, s***** farm system, and ignored international market for years. They are pretty much starting from nothing.

 

Good.

 

f*** the Orioles.

[Spanky__99]

Who do you guys think will land James Paxton? If the Yankees don't sign Happ, I see them going that route.

[Spanky__99]

Astros

 

Hmm... who do you think gets it done, heading back to the M's?

 

Josh James

Cionel Perez

J.B. Bukauskas

Seth Beer/Alvarez

 

Something of this ilk?

 

Edit: For the Yankees...

 

Bird

Frazier

Adams

Florial/Medina???

Edited November 14, 2018 by Spanky99

[Spanky__99]

Well Astros were willing to give up Bukauskas and Stubbs for 2 months of Harper so they probably go in there. Especially since the M's just traded their only good catcher Zunino.

 

M's are pretty dumb and overvalue positional need so they might go for a guy like Myles Straw to play CF and run fast.

 

But there has to be a headliner and there will be a big market for Paxton so maybe Yordan Alvarez is the big piece (also since the M's need a 1B, Evan White might play a corner if he can actually hit).

 

Maybe Alvarez, Bukauskas, Stubbs and Straw. Or maybe Cionel Perez since I don't think the Astros view him as a SP and maybe the M's do.

 

M's can ask for Tucker or Whitley but I don't think that will ever happen. I don't think the Astros would pay that much for a SP when they can just grab a decently talented guy somewhere else and throw pine tar all over him.

 

Sweet, I had 3 of your 4 in there...

[Jimcanuck]

exactly. swing and a miss Jim.

 

No swing and miss. You don't think Duvall could hit 40 at RC?

[Dr. Dinger]

No swing and miss. You don't think Duvall could hit 40 at RC?

 

Isn’t Great American Bandbox even smaller and more HR prone than RC?

[Jimcanuck]

Isn’t Great American Bandbox even smaller and more HR prone than RC?

 

Of course, but i wasnt comparing parks.

[Spanky__99]

Isn’t Great American Bandbox even smaller and more HR prone than RC?

 

Yes, it's why I responded with the ESPN link. I can't see him hitting 40, it's possible, yet quite unlikely. Jim's dumn as another reason to post said link after calling the RC a bandbox, he's already pack pedalling.

[Jimcanuck]

Yes, it's why I responded with the ESPN link. I can't see him hitting 40, it's possible, yet quite unlikely. Jim's dumn as another reason to post said link after calling the RC a bandbox, he's already pack pedalling.

 

Nah, your interpretation of what i wrote was flawed, just your bias showing.

[Dr. Dinger]

Adam Duvall SsssssSSSUUUUUUUXXXXXxxxxx x

 

Xx.

[Spanky__99]

Duvall is just a stopgap, 1 year deal guy ideally. He could be knocking them out at a 40 home run clip in the Jay's bandbox with above average defence and can be moved at deadline

 

This is all a rebuilding team wants from non tenders, really

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor

 

No swing and miss. You don't think Duvall could hit 40 at RC?

 

Isn’t Great American Bandbox even smaller and more HR prone than RC?

 

Of course, but i wasnt comparing parks.

 

Yes, it's why I responded with the ESPN link. I can't see him hitting 40, it's possible, yet quite unlikely. Jim's dumn as another reason to post said link after calling the RC a bandbox, he's already pack pedalling.

 

Nah, your interpretation of what i wrote was flawed, just your bias showing.

 

What bias, lol. I interpreted your comment just fine?

[Orgfiller]

Snell and deGrom win the respective Cy Youngs. I personally wouldn't have picked Snell but he definitely had a solid case, good thing the voters weren't f***ing idiots this time around on the NL side, though I wonder how much voter fatigue on Scherzer's side played a part.

[Orgfiller]

Upon further review I actually really don't like the Snell selection, he almost definitely won it on the basis of ERA and wins. There were several candidates that had a much stronger case. Oh well, at least deGrom didn't get screwed.

[Spanky__99]

There's probably a quality of competition metric somewhere for pitchers but I'm too lazy to look. I don't know if Snell should get some extra credit for facing NYY and BOS six times this year while Verlander and Cole faced them 4 times combined. I feel like quality of competition should be in there somewhere considering Kluber, Carrasco and Bauer have 3.5 minor league teams in their division.

 

I don't know if I would vote for Snell or not but I think the teams you face matter a bit when you only play like 30 games and not 162.

 

VERLANDER... cf

[Abomination]

Upon further review I actually really don't like the Snell selection, he almost definitely won it on the basis of ERA and wins. There were several candidates that had a much stronger case. Oh well, at least deGrom didn't get screwed.

 

I'm okay with it. There were basically 7 worthy candidates, all of whom were spread in xFIP by less than 0.25 points. Verlander probably should have won it based on his ratios and innings, but I don't feel like there was a wrong choice.

[Spanky__99]

I'm okay with it. There were basically 7 worthy candidates, all of whom were spread in xFIP by less than 0.25 points. Verlander probably should have won it based on his ratios and innings, but I don't feel like there was a wrong choice.

 

The more the innings, the more impressive, bro?

[Orgfiller]

I'm okay with it. There were basically 7 worthy candidates, all of whom were spread in xFIP by less than 0.25 points. Verlander probably should have won it based on his ratios and innings, but I don't feel like there was a wrong choice.

 

I feel like if you were going to give it to someone who didn't really have the innings, at least give it to Sale who was far and away the best pitcher of the bunch. Verlander should have taken it on the basis of excellent performance over more innings in a non-AL Central division.

[jays4life19]

I love you Spanky, real talk.

[Abomination]

I feel like if you were going to give it to someone who didn't really have the innings, at least give it to Sale who was far and away the best pitcher of the bunch. Verlander should have taken it on the basis of excellent performance over more innings in a non-AL Central division.

 

Yeah, Sale was excellent too. Like I said, I'm okay with it but probably would have voted for Verlander myself.

[TheHurl]

Bauer coming in 6th is almost as bad as Markakis Silver Slugger. Showing just how disliked he is...he got 1 5th place vote from the 2 Cleveland voters.

 

Overall I didn't think there was a wrong answer for Cy this year. If you believe in volume you vote for Verlander or Kluber. If Volume matters less to to you...Sale, Snell and Bauer were all legit choices.

[BTS]

I love you jays4life19, real talk.

[P2F]

I love lamp, real talk.

[baubau]

baubau loves baubau. truth talk.

[Boxcar]

I don't love any of you and this string of replies isn't helping

 

E: but especially spanky

[P2F]

Trevor never disappoints on Twitter.