Abomination

Sent you a PM.

There's at least 3 guys I would take over him if he were eligible, possibly more. I like him too though.

Fairly open to ideas, but it would have to fit into the framework of my rebuild (ie, not older players, this year doesn't matter for me). Hell, willing to offer up the #1 pick if someone has a prospect I like more than the pick.

The out is on Pillar. Not scoring is on Pearce.

Promoting Challenger Baseball by panning the camera to a few select kids in the crowd... someone may not have thought that one through.

So picks 21 and 22 are still available if anyone has interest, as well as other players.

I got half way through a re-write of the BBDL sheet, which I was hoping we could use for this league as well, but Google keeps changing the underlying scripting. So far they haven't broken anything major in the existing BBDL sheet, but it would have affected things I was trying to add (like automatic draft sheet additions, etc). I'm worried about adding additional complexity, because it increases the chances of things breaking. I now think the best approach is to write a web app to deal with it rather than using Google Sheets, but I just don't have the time to do it atm.

I know I discussed the pick with someone, but I don't think I traded it (starting to get mixed up between all the leagues). It's still listed as mine on the sheet.

Picks 21 and 22 are available if anyone is interested. Cecil (holds) and Casilla (saves) are also available if people need bullpen help.

The contract is a thing though. I mean, it's basically what, 2 free years of Judge, plus 3 arbitration years, for 3 years / 100M of Trout? Judge likely will come back to Earth some, but that's a massive chunk of money, plus 2 years, to exchange. They'd be far better off keeping Judge and offering 3/100 to JD Martinez or something (not that he should cost anywhere close to that), or saving it for Machado or Harper.

I doubt the Yankees (or any other team) would give up Judge for anything right now.

We need to get Dermody up here, and actually give him a real look. He's dominating down in AAA, and Loup can't seem to pitch to lefties. It's like Dermody must have taken a dump in Atkin's corn flakes or something. Everyone else has been on the shuttle but him.

Smoak for Clint Frazier! Yeah, I know it's not happening.

Trading all of they guys like JD, Osuna, Sanchez etc (unless you get ML talent in return) isn't a retool. It's a rebuild. That's not necessarily bad, but I think it's clear that management has no desire to do that. I could understand Happ getting moved (he'd probably net a good prospect in return), and he's older. Liriano and Estrada, given that they're free agents at the end of the year, would be good targets to get some salary relief on. I doubt we'd get anything useful for them, but keeping Biagini in the rotation would have some value for us longer term. Bolsinger would probably produce similar results as well (albeit with much less upside), so it likely wouldn't hurt our competitiveness this year much. We could always go for something less conventional too. Verlander is likely available for example. While his contract the next two years hurts (a lot), maybe you can find some kind of fit there, especially if the Tigers are willing to package him with someone in another area of need in exchange for taking the whole salary and maybe some lesser prospects. JD Martinez, for an unlikely example, would look really nice in LF for the remainder of the season. Someone like Joe Jimenez would look real nice in the pen too.

As for this year, depending on the cost Jed Lowrie would be a really nice addition. He's apparently very available, controllable for next year if we wish, and is pretty versatile. His bat is up and down, but so far this year, it's been up. Decent defender.

Nothing necessarily wrong with dumping salary. It can open up other opportunities elsewhere.

You should trade him while this outing is fresh in your mind

I'd love to be all over Otani. I don't see us being involved in the other big name free agents though.

I'd like to know what the new metrics say about it. Fangraphs, etc don't use them to my knowledge, and the flaws in their approach should be well known by now. BsR has the same flaws. Certainly we should expect some decline in the legs though, and he doesn't have the bat to make up for it.

Neither of those relievers have quite the same profile (bigger questions about both, either in terms of command or whether they could handle closing), but would I trade a Guerrero or Bo for Osuna in Washington's position? Yes. I wouldn't be happy about it mind you.

Actually, one number that jumps out is the vertical movement on sliders. Over the last 5 years, it was 1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5. Most other pitches don't seem to really be affected. Velocity on the slider has ticked up slightly over that time, but I'm not sure it's enough to account for the difference. Interestingly, this coincides with a big drop in Tulo's ability to hit the slider.

I wonder if the changes to the ball is also increasing pitcher velocity?

There's a number of studies that the ball used in 2016 and 2017 is a lot different that before that, but maybe not a big difference between this year and last year.

I'm not sure he's wrong. If anyone can tell a difference in the balls, it's going to be a pitcher. Now whether that's causing the blisters or not, who knows. Speaking out and bringing recognition to it will certainly get people looking into it. It's not like he's attacking someone specifically.

Jose Reyes is clearly the correct answer for the Mets. Kidding, Syndergaard all day long.