Abomination

Looks like low BB will be a key for him. He really struggled with that in the minors and briefly in the majors. Hopefully he has that sorted out.

How well did he pitch in the DWL?

Hard to complain about a 1 year deal. I don't particularly want him overall, but I'd easily take him over Happ.

We can throw in Romero

The Mariners are probably the best fit for him by far.

Morales is a 1 - 1.5 WAR player who turned down the QO at 14M. He's probably worth under 10M (although teams tend to pay a little more for power). Drew and Santana both seem to have some medicals that have scared everyone away. I mean heck, even the Yankees with massive holes on the infield won't touch Drew.

Studying makes almost all university questions pretty easy.

I believe this is in my proposed changes for the BBDL

I think pretty much everyone did, but I'm not positive.

Probably shouldn't quote the post containing it either lol

Some interesting things: 1) When talking about 2nd base depth, he kind of talks up Diaz and Getz more than Kawasaki. Might be more that they've surprised him though. 2) Sounds like he'll likely deal some out of options guys in the last few days of camp. 3) Neither Stroman or Hutch have any innings limits. Said Stroman threw 126 + 25 fall league + extended spring (probably another 25 to 30). 4) Says Jenkins has looked very good with increased velocity. 5) Apparently quite happy to get Dan Johnson (one of the FO guys has been pushing to get him for years).

Why don't you guys just allow people to move guys to the NA/DL slots and continue the draft in the original order until those extra vacancies are full? Then you can do whatever and there won't be a mad dash to add people, etc.

From my admittedly smaller sample, it actually seems like power as a whole may decline, but not home runs. The decline comes from doubles and especially triples (probably related to the decline in speed).

I posted a chart before, but here's the raw data (this was just a spreadsheet test of some vba code, which is why it's so raw). I believe JFaS found something similar. The sample size is a little small on the tail ends, but like I said it was just a quick dirty test that was unusually interesting to look at. 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Uhhhh, you might want to read what the op wrote again (not to mention taking note of the person in the thread who asked for the park factors).

I would do that in a heartbeat.

Stroman also isn't on the 40 man is he? Some value to not further adding to it until needed.

Pretty misleading, but the two biggest things I take from that is that Happ may not be 100% (let's face it, a DL stint for him might be the best possible thing for us right now), and that Dustin is feeling fantastic even though he's had trouble finding the strike zone so far (love the upper 90's stuff).

Looks like Gillis is already at the golf course rofl

Apparently Halak to Washington. Sucks for me in WTP though if he's going to be the backup.

Sportsnet seems to still indicate Moulson is in play. You sure about that?

He probably has, but on the flip side if I remember right players tend to increase their walk rate and decrease their strikeout rate as they age as well.

It seems like speed is in general the largest factor in decline for position players (although at some point players also lose bat speed). Guys like Ortiz don't get any value contribution from their wheels anyway.

I think you keep everyone we currently have who has at least 2 more arbitration years, and trade everyone else (unless they're having a really bad year and have more than 1 year of control left). I know some people will disagree on that (there's some people like Cecil and Delabar on that keep list), but the reason I say that is because I think the return they'd bring can be maximized by holding onto them a little longer. Basically it would mean trading Buehrle, Reyes, Bautista, Dickey, EE, Melky, Morrow, Lind, Rasmus, Happ, Janssen, Santos, Izzy, Navarro, McGowan, and if AA bought off a witch doctor, Romero. Cecil could be maximized by moving to the closer's role for a year, then traded at the 2015 deadline or following offseason. Do the same with Delabar but advance it a year. Someone will pay for 'dem saves.

I don't think Dickey usually has the good knuckler going until late in the pre-season. Takes him a little while to get a good feel for it (at least consistently).