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So many posts. 95% of them about washed up bench players.
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If you average 122 posts per day for the rest of December you can hit 100,000 posts before New Years!
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Not really sure they're looking for value contracts. They were in on Ohtani. They're in on Yamamoto and Bellinger.
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I feel like this forum way overstates the impact that a hitting coach has on mid-prime big-leaguers. Matt Chapman is a 30-year old man with a ton of big league success. He's not out there trying to shoot flares into RF because Don Mattingly is in his hear. Outside of 2022 and the short 2020, his pull rate his been in a 2% range four of the last 6 years.
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We're pretty much perfect trade partners. Polanco is a 2-3 win 3B, but is a 10.5M bench player on the Twins because they have Correa, Lewis, and Julien. Kepler is a 2-3 win LW, but they seem to want to trade his 10M salary and run with Wallner, Buxton, and Castro in the OF. The Twins only have 3 reliable SPs. We have Kikuchi, and the financial resources to backfill Kikuchi's spot.
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jasblue is 100% correct. Kikuchi is expendable to a team with money to spend. And might have value to a team without money to spend. He’s an SP 4/5 making 12M, and a lot of you seem pretty unprepared for the not that unlikely outcome where he walks like 5/9 and puts up a 0.5 win season.
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Well, yeah. But I think the team can do better than Paxton on the SP market. And I think that even in the worst case scenario where none of the other SPs take their money, Paxton in for Kikuchi doesn't really move the needle much either way. I'd expect 1-2 WAR from either. But they also have 150M in cash to deploy in that scenario.
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The team isn't really in a position to be choosy. They have no 3B and the only 3+ win option in FA probably costs 150M. They need an everyday OF, and the only 3+ win (maybe) option probably costs 200M. Swapping Kikuchi for Polanco gives them a 2-3 win option at 3B at 10.5M this year with a team option for 2025. Salary is basically a wash. Only instead of having to target Chapman, they move to a market that includes Yamamoto, Imanaga, Snell, Montgomery, Stroman, Paxton, Montas etc... Even if it's just Paxton they sign, it's Polanco (1/10.5 + 12M team option for 2025) Paxton (1/10?) vs. Chapman (6/150?) Kikichi (1/12) For basically the same projected 2024 WAR
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Polanco is good and the team doesn't have a 3B
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Disaster waiting to happen. The Cubs have a pile of money to spend, holes at the two positions Bellinger plays, and just had him for an entire session. I don’t want to be the team outbidding them for him.
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They’re in a tough spot. They only have 2 MLB outfielders, and the only guy on the market clearly better than Gurriel (probably) is a walking landmine who might get 200M.
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Where are you seeing this?
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I kind of thought he’d be back in Toronto on a deal something like that.
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Yup. I'd happily roster him in DDL or BORED
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Starting to think Bauer is never coming back. If it happens, it's probably going to be this offseason, but there' been radio silence on his market.
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He's a legitimate moron "And in October, Franco posted and then quickly took down a link to a song, Cambio, by Puerto Rican rappers Ozuna and Anuel AA. The lyrics translated from Spanish, referenced “so many friends that I helped, so many girls that I trusted, they were all Judas, you saw it” and also “Everyone is looking for money.”"
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I kind of like what the Royals have cooking honestly. Ragans is a stud, and now has 3-4 solid guys behind him in the rotation. Witt, Perez, Pasquantino are all really fun. Some upside with Melendez, Garcia, and Isbel.
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Finally, Kikuchi has broken his silence
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Exactly the same terms that the poverty Padres declined
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Kershaw just said he feels great and will be back at midseason
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Missed that Castillo Kirby Snell Gilbert Miller Woo Hancock Ray (midseason) Would just be an embarrassment of riches
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They're honestly low-key really solid additions
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