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Gray and Cease coming off the board the last two days while Baltimore is sitting on like 2 MLB starters
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It's a massive coup. The more I think about, Cease is clearly the most desirable arm on the market factoring in age/durability/skill/not being an ******* who deliberately crosses up your catcher
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Agreed with this. The rotation is already 6 deep. They can also add interesting depth on minor league deals and ST invites. Tiedemann is lurking. Focus on other areas, and if SP looks like a need at the deadline address it then. Focus should be on a middle of the order bat + high leverage bullpen arm.
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I love that this team really only targets rubber arm guys who they think have a good chance of staying healthy. Atkins probably hasn't even checked in on Michael King or Ranger Suarez. Cease also happens to have premium stuff, which is cool.
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I don't know if you follow hockey, but everything happens in like 2 days at the start of the offseason and it sucks. Baseball fans have to deal with a 5-month offseason, and the fact that free agency lasts until spring training is a feature not a bug IMO
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This is the dumbest argument on this forum in recent memory, and I hate each and every one of you for participating in it
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Yeah. Honestly, Rendon at the time his contract was signed looks like a better signing than Kyle Tucker does right now. He's a year older, but his 3 seasons before free agency were 5.5, 5.9, 6.8 fWAR. Tucker hasn't ever hit 5 fWAR. 7/245M was not an outrageous amount of money for a player that age and caliber. The only angle you can really use to criticize LA is that maybe better due diligence would have uncovered evidence that he's actually a massive scumbag? But IIRC he didn't have that reputation publicly, and was actually considered a character guy coming off the WS win. The ultimate landmine. Possibly no evidence that that he even was a landmine.
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It’s insane that it took this long. Only a deeply unserious organization would have let Rendon stick around until now
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Easton Lucas released and going overseas
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Example of a bad post IMHO TBQH
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To be fair, you often make bad posts though
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You need to just not give a f*** and roll with it
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Didn't realize Dick Fitts was so highly regarded
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Nevermind, just saw that they owe him 41M for one year. Surprised St. Louis got anything
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Not really expensive for the Sox
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Interesting move. Texas doesn't have an obvious replacement at 2B.
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Mike Elias is talking about the QO compensation as a consideration in the Ward/Gray-Rod. Most likely they'd just end up paying a 33-year old 2-win corner OF 23M in 2027. Elias cited Ward as a potential qualifying offer candidate heading into free agency, “so that could change that equation a little bit” in terms of “the mismatch in the amount of potential team control.”
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Manoah non-tendered by Atlanta lol
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The thing about Gallen is that his stuff has fallen off to the point where he doesn't have a single plus pitch, and is basically throwing slop. He looked like Dan Kremer out there this season. Teams will have to believe they can get his stuff back on track, which is probably a tougher sell than gambling on health for someone like Woodruff.
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Agreed - I've grown to like the slow offseason. Baseball is better than every other sport, and there's news/drama to follow literally year round. The 5-month offseason would be miserable if everything happened in a couple of days at the start of November.
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Committing this early to a pitcher is a desperation gamble that poor teams like TB do to try and squeeze an extra year of control or two from elite prospects, with obvious downside risk. Toronto can afford to go year to year with Yesavage and then just pay him when he's a year or two from FA with an intact UCL.
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Baltimore's mismanagement of their OF is hilarious. Two years ago we were talking about their insane depth, now they have: Ward (2.2 projected fWAR) Cowser (1.6) Beavers (1.2) O'Neil (0.8) Taveras (0.4) Kjerstad looks like a complete bust. It's one of the worst OFs in baseball, they're paying like 30M for Ward and O'Neil, and they evaporated 4 years of Gray-Rod to do it. Refusing to move guys like Cowser/Kjerstad and Mayo when they could have been used to land someone like Crochet and then watching all of those guys bust while Crochet puts up CY seasons in Boston should be a fireable offense. Mike Elias is absolutely terrible at his job.
