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I was looking at it more from the point of view that I consider Goins to be slightly better than Orlando Hudson was defensively when he was here, and according to Fangraphs Hudson's defense in his final two years here rated at 17.8 and 11.5 (which is adjusted for position). Excluding 2013 which I'll consider a bad outlier for him defensively, Ryan has varied between 12.8 and 19.8 the four previous years. In 2010 and 2012, Ryan hit at 55 wRC+ and 61 wRC+ with 19.1 and 19.8 defense, which worked out to 1.3 and 1.4 WAR. Based on Steamer Goins should be a little higher than that offensively (I really think Steamer's projection of 67 wRC+ is too low, but that's another discussion), and a little lower defensively (not talking Steamer projections on defense, since I think everyone agrees it is too low). I don't think it's a bad comparison provided that he can replicate again on defense the kind of range he showed this year in games.

I really think the Brendan Ryan comp I tried to make is a decent one. Both will probably hit fairly similarly, and Ryan over the last 5 years has been roughly worth 1.5 WAR / year.

I don't want to clutter things up by quoting Angrioter's whole post, but taking a (corrected) list like that and providing some stats for each player along with a short analysis would be a huge draw for our new site I bet it would get picked up by MLBTR too.

Well, ideally neither. I have doubts though that you could easily find a bench player that could match his defense and hit better, especially for somewhere in the neighbourhood of league minimum. Anyone I can think of would be a downgrade defensively (although still mlb average or slightly plus). Players such as Ackley or Espinosa (2013 aside) for example (which I would definitely be on board with for either). Neither are really bench players though. I would rather scenario B if I'm limited to the two choices above.

The range he displayed in game was elite level imo. I can't recall seeing some of those plays being made (and look so fluid in doing it) since Alomar was here. I don't think even a young Hudson could, although he would have been close. The small sample size is plenty to visually see his range and defense being exceptionally high level. It's not enough for us to nail down an exact number or predict a WAR value for or anything.

Yes. He's another plus defender with a below average bat. That's exactly what a AAA depth player usually is. I should mention that the reason I rate Goins as better is that I think he can provide elite level defense at 2nd, not just plus. Otherwise I'd consider him exactly the same.

You might want to read his quote again. He didn't say anything about signing Infante as AAA depth.

I see no reason why Goins can't provide similar value at second to what Brendan Ryan does at short. It would be nice to plug in someone with a better bat, but having him start there isn't a crisis or anything imo. As for preferring to keep him as minor league depth, Jonathan Diaz can provide that depth next year.

I don't think companies or individuals in the states are allowed to transfer money to Cuba, which would nix the posting concept. Could be wrong though.

Ryan signed with the Yankees.

Right now I think everyone is trying to forget about Izzy. He shouldn't be quite as bad next year though (nearly impossible to be worse).

I meant with the url, not the post itself. The date on the post is fine.

The answer is ideally neither.

The font change looks much much better imo. Under the sabremetrics article, I'd suggest setting the actual sections (hitting, pitching, base running, etc) to be formatted as headers, made slightly larger, and with some padding above them. It should make it a little easier to read, and make Google happier in being able to categorize the content. You might also want to make "non blog" articles like this one (which I'm assuming you'll make in some way sticky or permanent) have more defined urls (don't include the posted date for them in the url), so maybe make it breakingblue.ca/analysis/welcome-to-breaking-blue-and-sabremetrics/ or something similar. I'd also suggest getting rid of "category" in the url for other pages.

I think they get some extra perks and stuff too (housing, etc). They certainly don't get much though.

Good initial work! I've been finding out the hard way how difficult it is to properly get a site up for the first time, especially the responsive menu system. In terms of constructive criticism, it feels like the color scheme is a little off, and the content on the front page feels a little cramped (not sure if the two are related). Some of the mouse-over stuff may also be a little over the top and be distracting for people. On the article pages, I would personally choose a different font and maybe increase the line and word spacing a little. I've been playing with the Google font 'open sans' and quite like it, although there's lots of other choices to pick from. The text column should probably be made a little narrower on the full screen desktop setting. I've seen some reports that suggest no more than 10 to 12 words per line (although I think that might be a tad low), as going beyond that affects people's concentration due to being forced to move their heads while reading. If you look at a site like Sportsnet.ca along with many of the news sites, that seems to be how they do it as well. It might also be a good idea to either use a different font or font weight for the block quotes, or put them in italics to help them stand out better. The color of blue in the links on the content could probably be a little darker, maybe closer to the block quote blue bar. Interested to hear what you think on some of the ideas, as I'm trying to improve my skills as well (non sports related sites) so hearing from various sources and opinions is helpful.

But there hasn't been a reference to a green-blooded Hobgoblin yet! Much work still remains. Why do I suddenly get the impression I'm going to be the target of that reference...

If that's true, why are they showing different join dates and dramatically different post counts? Jays4life19 is showing a join date waaaaay before Jays4Life. Or am I getting in the middle of a joke I missed somewhere?

The OP was Jays4life, not Jays4life19

Niemann was outrighted today. He could be an interesting target for the 5th slot in the rotation depending on how his rehab is going. If he fails, we have lots of kids that can step in, and he should come cheap.

Lind has now been "de-Murphisized". He should be fine going forward, as long as managers avoid having him hit vs late inning loogies.

He MIGHT be slightly overrated as a fantasy asset, but irl I don't think he is. The Rangers were mucking with him last year playing him out of position, but he should be an elite level defender at SS with the ability to put up .800 ops while only being 21 at the start of next year. Hard to overrate that.

I don't think it's justifiable. 80M + salary (probably more than 70M) would be the equivalent of paying an unproven (in NA) pitcher 25M / year. Where the money comes from (1 time expense vs baseball payroll) is just accounting tricks. I mean, that's the same as King Felix. Even Verlander isn't that high. Most people seem to feel Tanaka won't be an ace like Darvish. The only reason it makes sense for the Yankees to go overboard like that, is they wouldn't have to pay 40% overage on half the contract since the posting fee isn't counted against the cap, which would "save" them 32M over another highly paid pitcher while helping get them under the cap this year to reset it.

I just can't see any one team giving up THAT kind of quality and volume of high end prospects. If the Jays wanted to though, maybe Reyes + Hutch + Santos + Delabar = Miller + Taveras if the Jays throw in 1/2 Reyes salary. Bautista + ? = Profar + Ogando (possibly). Edwin + Nolin = Walker + Franklin perhaps. Janssen + Cecil probably lands Castellanos. Dickey might get Cowart, who could presumably be flipped to fill 1st or catcher. You could imagine a lineup of Lawrie, Profar, Franklin, 1b, dh, c, Castellanos, Gose, Taveras, and a rotation of Sanchez, Stroman, Miller, Ogando, Walker. It's never going to happen, but it's really nice to think about.

I have significant doubts that the Cardinals could add that much salary even if they were inclined to sell off that many top prospects (which I also doubt)