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KC's a smart team? KC values defense yes, but that really could be the old school view that pitching and defense wins championships. I'm not sold that Dayton Moore believes in Defensive metrics. Which pretty much answers your question. Although Kratz framing advantage over Perez (which is huge) is negated by all the other parts of Perez's game including his ability to block balls and control the running game. And most of the smart teams have solid framing catchers already.

because they have seen all the others that have gone viral.

Billy Butler pretty nice guy

You are treated like any season ticket holder and get first crack at these fantasy playoff games you speak of.

Not everyone liked the Donaldson trade

500 level tickets went up from $10 a ticket to $13 I think. The flex packs guarantee you first three rows up to 24 hours before weekday games, and 7 days before premium games. There is also the 20 ticket pack. With this one you get 20 tickets, you can go to 20 games by yourself, 2 games with 9 friends (actually max of 6 per premium games, max of 4 for the opener). You can also add extra 20 packs up until June 30th. My suggestion would be to get the 20 ticket pack, get 4 for the opener before they go on sale to the public and sell 2, 3 or all 4 (depending if you want to go). You pay for your entire 20 pack that way. Although they are going to the card system this year so you probably can't sell your opener tickets, unless you walk in with the people.

He's 15 and got some...he's told a few people. Like all of his twitter followers.

Kevin Cash...the man that Carrasco gives 100% of the credit to for his turnaround and is credited for convincing the Indians to pick include Gomes in the trade. #20winmanager

Faux Family is a touchy subject for me, you can't judge me on this incident.

I've heard slightly better things. Basically he's a Sean Nolin type, without the change, but a little better control. I think he's a guy that will never wow prospect evaluators because his ceiling isn't huge but he might put up numbers that make you wonder why.

Go back to the old way so there is historic data for the guys that made picks. Just open it up to everyone rather than hand picking like we used to. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av3moDN3hAuQdDFzVGhadWtXRXZpdmdOXzNvT29Ha2c&hl=en_GB#gid=0

I said they could build a better team. I know it's semantics. I've said that I think AA is PR GM, to a fault actually. AA over the past 3 years IMO, needed to be listening to Analytics people. Would smarter signing of sold the extra 7,000 season tickets that the Mets and Marlins trades did...likely not. AA has done a lot of good things as a GM. Building a baseball team just happens to be his weakest area. Maybe that's changed this year.

I can't speak for everyone but there isn't a projection system that shows them falling off the earth. Which doesn't mean they won't fall off the face of the earth...but there are no key indicators for this. So, even if there is an existing injury in every single one of them that is somehow missed, in no way would I fault this FO for making these moves. They all make sense.

And this is different than every other business how? I'd trust smart guys like Nox or NJH to run a business I have as well. Fine let me re-word it. I 100% believe that if Nox was given opportunity to speak to the current Dodgers front office, his opinions would be heard, reviewed, and often pursued. If Nox was given the opportunity to speak to AA he'd be ignored, pushed aside and offered a job paying less than a ticket salesman. Call it bias I just happen to believe this. yeah and that's not a problem at all. and this is probably the reason that the Rays don't have millions of rabid fans. I do believe that the Rays could use some baetter marketing people. I'll be first in line to mention that to them if I get a chance when I'm there in May (although right now the only places I am approaching are the GCL Pirates and Bradenton Pirates, who I hope to present a new social media and marketing plan to). If Nox or JFaS are ever given a sports position and need a marketing person because their math nerdiness will get them hate letters, I'm there for them.

I am biased, I don't like the front office no doubt. But I'm a pretty level headed guy overall (maybe who tends to lean towards the negative in general). I gave AA credit for almost every move he's made this off-season. I love value moves (and I'm old, this isn't the way I've always viewed baseball), Nothing the Jays did from 2011 to 2014 appeared to be made with value in mind. I still think that if you give certain people around here (Nox and JFaS are the two obvious ones) the 2011 Jays and tell them that you have and extra $50M to play with they are going to build this team into a playoff team before this point. Of course JFaS would have been like 15 at the time.

He was given $130M to spend the year before the Marlins/Mets deal and couldn't get the guys to sign, so he decided to keep that increase in his back pocket. So they pursued the same guys (or at least two of them) a year later giving up assets instead of more cash (yes he got Johnson too), it's just a lack of common sense at points. Beest may have been involved but don't think that ownership or Beest made him make that deal.

Snider is one of the biggest fails of this administration. There are reports that from 2010 they didn't believe in Snider. 2010 Snider being traded would have caused a huge backlash as he was seen as the saviour (with me leading the charge) but he was probably a top 100-150 trade chip in all of baseball. Instead they held on until his value was Brad Lincoln. And did you really give them credit for turning Lincoln into Kratz when they had no clue where Kratz's value was?

You can get Twitter leukemia?

I'm up 20 since starting school, which is why I need Flag Football to happen, I just can't captain it

Just because everyone chooses to ignore BTS, Nox and I, it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. I called it a $100M value loss, Nox that it was closer to $80M and a certain member of the TBR FO thought closer to $150M. You also cannot fully judge the prospects by where they end up but their value at the time of the trade. They could have been traded individually and did better than what he did.

It's not the trading. It's that he thought he was a 3B and JPA was a top defensive catcher. There was some horrible horrible horrible (have I mentioned horrible) decision making going on around that time. Keep in mind they had JPA as an internal 5/6 defensive rating and Gomes, TdA were below that.

But every GM Is baseball would have made that deal

He still could have a known quantity at this point with this budget if he spent smarter over the past 3 years years.

This is the BA draft write up for Strasburg. They still come short of calling him a number 1 There's no doubt that Strasburg is the best college pitching prospect since Mark Prior came out of Southern California in 2001. Prior's career illustrates that no amateur pitcher is guaranteed long-term professional success, but Strasburg is the closest to a sure thing that scouts have ever seen. Major league organizations may not see a prospect like Strasburg for another 20 or 30 years, so the Nationals will not let him pass with the No. 1 pick.

If you are going to rank Sanchez over Norris...may as well ignore control completely and rank Tirado