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  1. NorthOf49
    Yeah I haven't talked trade with Hurl since the offseason. I'll send you a quick PM, GD.
  2. NorthOf49
    I sent your co-owner Hurl a Proboards PM by the way. Do you negotiate as well, or just set lineups?
  3. NorthOf49
    I've been checking in on McHugh every so often. He could really be something. The first round pick is a reasonable ask, haven't decided if I should go for him or not.
  4. NorthOf49
    M's win! Rodney with the save.
  5. NorthOf49
    We want them to end the series as close to each other as possible. Can't afford to have a central team join the wild card race. So, Cleveland taking these next two games.
  6. NorthOf49
    Escobar's more of a back-end guy. I agree that the Red Sox did well by the way, just saying it's not like the Red Sox got a couple big future assets. They got some useful arms. No, it's going to happen. The Mariners or an NL team will do something crazy.
  7. NorthOf49
    Escobar was Baseball America's preseason #2 Giants prospect, but he's not that anymore. Back-end profile. -- Price is going to get moved. He's been too good recently and there are too many desperate teams not to trade him.
  8. NorthOf49
    Neither Hembree or Escobar are very exciting but they're major leaguers. I think Peavy will come up big for the Giants. Good trade for both sides.
  9. NorthOf49
    It's always hard to evaluate range on TV but that looked like a great play. Well done Reyes.
  10. NorthOf49
    Bautista, wow. Feels like forever since we've had a three-run home run early in the game to take the pressure off.
  11. NorthOf49
    Yeah I don't like the "come back to me when you're ready to accept something so I can beat it" approach. If everyone dealt that way nothing would ever happen. And it suggests that you're holding back your best offer. When I negotiate I just tell the other owner what I think we should do and how I value the players who could be involved in a trade. Then I ask what they think of those players and the trade structure I've proposed. If we can agree on the valuations and that a need exists for both parties, we work towards finding something acceptable. This has worked well and avoids the possibility of either owner getting outraged by an offer.
  12. NorthOf49
    Wow I love the Verlander buy. Matt Moore hasn't even been great when healthy in his career, certainly not in a K/BB and OBPA league. I don't think he's a premium asset at all, really. Verlander may never be a true ace again, but he's still probably a league-average or better pitcher going forward and is as durable as they come. I like this trade for FTD on both a short- (get Verlander's ROS innings) and long-term basis (betting on a rebound from Verlander). The three-way makes sense for all three teams IMO. Spanky did well to get two good/great young pitchers for an aging star. It's hard to trade for young major leaguers but Spanky found a way. I like that he did that instead of just getting prospects. I think Dinger's flipping of Chris Archer to get an outfield upgrade was warranted. While Choo doesn't seem like a star anymore, I still like as a 2OF because he gets on base, hits at the top of a lineup and has some pop. BTS traded a pitcher from his deep stable of pitchers and got a hitter that he needed.
  13. NorthOf49
    Thank the Lord!! This weekend is too nuts to cram into AB. Tonight we have Lester vs. Price and Gausman vs. King Felix on the docket. Four aces.
  14. NorthOf49
    Because you ensure that your best per-inning pitchers are used while the game's result is being decided. You're going to want to use your closer and set-up man in the game, that's a given. You don't want to save them until a high-leverage spot later in the game since that opportunity may not come. So get them out of the way first, then play the rest of the game situationally. If two lefties are due up in the fifth, go to Cecil and postpone Stroman's appearance.
  15. NorthOf49
    Called strikeouts aren't nearly as meaningful as swinging strikes from a predictive standpoint though. It's turned into a bit of a meme at this point, but swinging strikes are how relievers butter their bread. Every elite reliever generates an elite swinging strike rate. Two innings is obviously too small a sample to care about in any context, but I have a hard time saying an outing is studly if it didn't include a swinging strike.
  16. NorthOf49
    You're probably saying that based off of unadjusted stats like ERA though. Jeff Francis has a career 95 FIP- and was an effective major league starter through 2012.
  17. NorthOf49
    Gausman and Bundy plz
  18. NorthOf49
    Neither have I. I'm in a weird spot where I'm waiting for my prospects to mature and don't have any expendable major leaguers. Haven't engaged in any trade discussion recently.
  19. NorthOf49
    Both his strikeouts were looking and he only induced a single ground ball. Let's not act like he just turned water into wine.
  20. NorthOf49
    4.29 xFIP today ... 4.31 on the season! It's only baffling if you look at imprecise stats like ERA.
  21. NorthOf49
    Speed kills! Haven't written that in a while
  22. NorthOf49
    On my phone haha.. took a couple minutes to bang that out
  23. NorthOf49
    That second part was just a general statement lol. The Padres did as well as u can expect and the Yankees did what they needed to do.
  24. NorthOf49
    According to who, you? He's a relief prospect. You can't criticize the Padres here IMO because they've been shopping Headley for a while and needed to trade him; this is the best they could get.
  25. NorthOf49
    Portland would appreciate the team unequivocally.
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