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JACOB ANDERSON WILL BE A FIRST DIVISION STARTER AND KYLE DRABEK WILL HAVE A HIGHER PEAK THAN ERIC STULTS but yes agreed

Yeahhh you probably should have proof read this just a little.

That was the twilight of his career, though. His defense couldn't have been what it used to be.

Yeah, I don't care how long it takes, just as long as we end up with the necessary players.

My high school team has one offensive play and one inbounds play and we wouldn't have f***ing dribbled it off of our foot. Christ. That was just horrifying by all parties. The reffing, the coaching, the playing, all of it.

Um... 0.1? Really? Jesus f***. That is some horrifying refereeing.

Really? Run the exact same inbounds play again after it didn't work the first time? Brutal. Just two brutal attempts by Derozan trying to create his own shot.

So painful /s

you wrecked it

LMAO, no. Bonifacio, playing to his career means in baserunning and fielding, at second base, requires a .287 wOBA to post 1.5 WAR in 600 PA. That's 91 non-context adjusted wRC+, or 9% worse than league average. This would require a 13.75% increase in Bonifacio's offense, and a 12.4% increase on Bonifacio's steamer projection. He's also posted a full season of 109 wRC+ ball, for whatever that's worth. Averaging and extrapolating Goins' fielding projections out to a full season, and doing the same for his BsR, along with 2nd base positional adjustment and replacement runs over 600 PA, we get about 3.1 win value added without his offense. To get to 1.5 wins from there, he would need to "provide" his team -15.95 runs from his offense or so. To be worth -15.95 wRAA, a .280 wOBA, or an 89 non-context adjusted wRC+ is needed. Goins posted a 62 wRC+ last year. That's a 43.5% increase in offensive talent from last year, just to be worth 1.5 wins. He's projected for a collective 65 wRC+. He's 24% short. Anything less than 89, and his value just goes down, and Bonifacio continues to be the better option. If he posted his 2013 .267 wOBA, he would be worth, in all, a grand total of .7 wins above replacement. Conclusion: Bonifacio is the better option, Goins isn't a starting level 2B, and you don't understand wins above replacement. excuse any math errors there was intense rounding used in the above mathematics

What a game.

Lmao, nice.

To clear out salary? Maybe.

Yeah, I feel like literally every other team in the league could have beaten that, without putting too much thought into it.

Please. If the O's and Jays are the front runners then I think we have a good shot. The O's can't possibly be an appealing destination for FA's right now. They'll probably find Burnett's left ear is slightly larger than his right ear at the physical and nix the deal and try and sign him to an MiLB deal.

The Kalfus meme has been wrecked for me

You say this like I'm not one of the ones who started this, lol.

Don't, it's a Kalfus bot.

That's probably our ideal route right now, actually. E: Barring an acquisition.

Literally the best thing I have ever read.

Burnett, Jimenez, Santana, Masterson, Shark, Bailey, probably some others I'm too delirious to remember. I don't just mean in FA. Attainable period.

I can accept it. It's baseball, s*** happens, s*** doesn't happen. What I look at is that we took the initiative to improve where we needed it without getting tunnel vision like I kinda thought we had. If we come out of this with Drew + SP or two I'm gonna be pretty happy. We still won't be in great shape, but we'll be better.

Exactly what I was gonna post. AA nearly making two great deals that just didn't come to be by unfortunate circumstances, combined with AA's waiting game working out really well (there are 6+ pitchers who are attainable that would be huge upgrades and now Drew as well), are actually giving me some optimism he has some idea of what he's doing.

NJH gonna get banned again

IP ban please.