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What a stupid post. They were 10th in baseball in positional fWAR (worse if you account for Navarro's framing). Guys like Bautista, Edwin, Melky, Lind, and Reyes delivered this year. They were mostly healthy, and extremely productive as a group. To top it off, the rotation was better than anyone could have expected. Now consider that a quarter of the playing time was wasted on replacement-level talent that was clearly replacement level before the games were played, and I don't know how you can see this season as anything other than an opportunity wasted by incompetence and inattention to detail. There were wins to be added there. Easy wins. They didn't add them.
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Not to belabor the point, but look what guys like Turner and Van Slyke have done from the bench for LA, or what Oakland has done with their great depth. Then look at how the back half of Toronto's roster was cobbled together seemingly without any kind of plan. It's been that way for five years now under this regime.
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Last year the bullpen was the strength of the team, and the one area that didn't need to be improved on heading into 2014. This year, the same cast of characters single-handedly cost the team the playoffs, apparently. There's a lesson to be learned here: worry about a rotation that's 5-deep and lineup/bench that's 12-deep, and support those guys with quality talent in AAA. The bullpen will sort itself out. Or it won't. But it's such a crapshoot that investing in it while having other holes in the roster is a terrible idea. The 2014 Jays were replacement-level at 2B and C. They've given over 1600 plate appearances to Navaro, Kawasaki, Pillar, Thole, Diaz, Mastroianni, Reimold, Johnson, Goins, and Sierra. That's more than 26% of playing time wasted on replacement-level scrubs that the FO should have known were replacement-level. The quickest way to improve is to cut the fat. But they won't.
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lmao
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If Happ, Stroman and Hutch win one more game each
BTS replied to Dick_Pole's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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The Sens board is unreadable. I've been there since like 2005 and post maybe 10 times a year.
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They should. Khudobin is awesome.
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Market inefficiency. I snatch up talented players burdened by phonetically displeasing names.
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I think Darcy Kuemper is going to be the starter in Minny by season's end. At least I hope he is. I've been waiting on him for 5 years in my other league.
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They're more valuable in fantasy than in real life. NHL teams can pretty much choose anyone and be fine, but in fantasy you need 2-3 of the guys that NHL teams have decided to give 50+starts to.
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But ahead of Peralta in the 7th round you have: Swisher Parker Middlebrooks Anderson Weeks Cahill Crawford Howard Rutledge Peralta was like mid-tier for the round in terms of value contributed. That's crazy.
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Heyward, Simmons, Gattis, Upton, Freeman is a really nice core. Five studs aged 25-28. Add in Kimbrel Teheran, Wood, and Medlen and the foundation is there. Can we please hire Wren?
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It's gonna be so fun to roll over 2-goalie chumps.
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I bet Peralta has actually had more value than a lot of 8th/9th rounders since the draft.
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My body is ready.
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Sami Salo = Joel Peralta ?
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Why? The draft was yesterday and and I didn't draft any IR or NA guys. Anyone I wanted on the waiver wire I would have just taken...
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How many keepers do we have anyway?
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I don't. No roster spots.
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lol, Spanky has a claim in on Mrazek.
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I have no idea if this is true or not, but I feel like there might be less attrition in general for hockey players. I had no issues with picking Marleau, and would have absolutely taken guys like Datsuyk, Zetterberg, the Sedins, Hossa etc... and felt pretty comfortable that I was getting 3+ years of solid production even though they're in their mid-late 30s. I really shy away from baseball players in that same age range.
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There are 2-3 guys I'd happily pick up if I needed a tender. Peter Mrazek is going to be stud eventually.
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Or you could just pluck Svedberg off the waiver wire for free!
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I feel like our drafts were similar in that we left some established talent on the table to take a chance on young players with elite upside. I'll need a few of Nyquist, Galchenyuk, Schenn, Smith, Murray, and Lindholm to develop into impact players in order to be pleased with my draft.
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Grant is the worst.
