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He's trying deflect blame from himself and his front office staff. And it's probably not a lie. But when your bosses give you 'data' that likely also makes the connection to optical tactics that would result from the data, the field manager doesn't exactly have complete autonomy to do what he wants with it. Atkins doesn't come off as a straight shooter, and this kind of communication erodes morale.
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I don't think he'd walk away while 56 Ks away from 3000 unless his shoulder forces the issue. I'm sure LAD would match any offer Texas gives, so he'd have to really want to move home.
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This feels a lot like Atkins throwing Schneider under the bus. There's no way it wasn't strongly suggested to Schneider that Berrios should be pulled early for Kikuchi.
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Willing to discuss retirement conditions as part of a Kershaw trade. Also putting Nolan Schanuel on the block
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Damn, good for him. He looks great.
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You'd have to think at least a few teams would be willing to give up pre-arb talent that would be expected to contribute in 2024. Even if it's just good prospects who are a year or two away, trading him also frees up 25M or whatever his arb salary will be next year. That's enough cash to add a 3-win player. But I'm approaching this from the POV that there's almost no chance I want to be paying Vlad in 2026.
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Not sure I'm really understanding the 'don't sell low on Vlad' POV. He's two years from free agency. How likely is it that two years from now any of you are comfortable giving him a free agent contract? If it's more of the same the next couple of years he's easily replaceable and not a loss at all. If he's 2021 Vlad over the next couple of years, he's getting a mega-contract. But do you want to be the team giving a huge contract to a fat, inconsistent, bat-only 1B who bleeds runs on the bases and is already a bad 1B defender? I think it's basically a choice between trading him now, or trading him in a year. And any uptick in value that comes from a performance improvement in 2024 will be at least partially offset by the fact that a year from now you're trading one year of control instead of two. It's really close to decision time on Vlad.
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3Sp, 3RP, 4P slots would work well I think. There's also no reason why the IP limit can't be increased to 30 or even 35. Even a 7-SP, 7RP roster would easily get you to 35 innings every week. I just looked at all of my matchups this year, and there were no weeks where either me or my opponent had fewer than 35 IP. A problem could arise if/when an owner who starts with a 7SP-7RP roster has some SP injuries and then doesn't bother to replace them. But that should just result in an owner replacement.
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This seems pretty accurate. Every team in baseball (except maybe the Rockies) employs nerds that would would be aware of the TTO effect, and would be aware of stats indicating that pulling Berrios would be the right move. And yet it's basically impossible to imagine TB, LAD, or ATL pulling a Berrios-caliber starter after 3 innings when he's throwing gas. Toronto probably needs better nerds. Or a better leader of the nerds. Or a better liaison between the nerds and non-nerds.
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It's hard to point to more than a handful of transactions that Atkins made that didn't work out. Hard to pinpoint specific reasons why a new GM would be expected to do better. It seems like the team isn't actually at the cutting edge of anything, especially related to development. And not to put too much stock into a single event, but yesterday's Berrios hook seems to be the result of a misuse of analytics. None of the smartest teams in the league pull a starter like Berrios when they did yesterday. Tough situation. They won 89 games even though their franchise payer showed up fat and lazy and didn't contribute much of anything. Things are mostly working. The lesson here isn't what people like Sid Seixeiro seem to want: to hire a Kenny Williams and let the GM and field manager trust their guts.
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I prefer option A. Not a fan of the big bump in value SP/RP guys get anyway, though I’ve taken advantage of it often. I also like the current format of pitchers and hitters having equal weight: 7 cats each.
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GDT: Wildcard (game 2) Toronto Blue Jays @ Minnesota Twins (4:38 et)
BTS replied to Omar's topic in Game Thread Archive
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Are we acting on the results of the poll from a few months ago related to our pitching cats/roster spots?
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So Molly Knight is just going to pretend nothing happened, and not issue an apology to Bauer? There's a big group of emotional, reactionary, and reckless baseball bloggers that owe him a public apology.
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Didn't add it as an option because nobody suggested it when I solicited opinions a few weeks ago, and it didn't otherwise occur to me.
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League homepage for our 2024 season on Fantrax
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Please vote in the poll about converting two SP slots to P
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lol, Dodgers reddit is not convinced that the tweets Bauer showed in that video were real
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Just watched this for the first time. Absolutely vile behaviour from his accuser. Bauer is owed an apology by like 80% of baseball bloggers.
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Chapman didn't fire a gun at his girlfriend. That would be attempted murder and he would have never played again. He fired a gun in his garage within earshot of his girlfriend.
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The odds of Verlander retiring this offseason are 0, unless he blows his shoulder out in the playoffs or something. He's owed 43M next season and has said he wants to pitch into his mid-40s. There's also nothing indicating that Turner isn't playing next year.
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Also, Clayton Kershaw is on the block
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I've renewed the league and waived all unowned players. Everyone is free to make claims on FAs with MLB games played
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Justin Verlander and Justin Turner are on the block. Turner has 1B/2B for 2024.
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