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Toronto's success identifying starting pitching has pretty much been off the charts: - Bassit just finished up a 3/63 deal over which he made 95 starts and put up 7.3 fWAR - Gausman finishing a 5/110 deal where he's started 125 games in 4 years and put up 17.9 fWAR - Trade for Robbie Ray and he wins the CY in his only full season with the team - Sign Kikuchi for 3/36 and he gives them 5.3 fWAR, and finishes the deal strong enough that he's one of the biggest deadline trade pieces in 2024 - Bring Eric Lauer back from the KBO on a minor league deal and he gives them 105 innings of 3.18 ERA ball - Drafting Yesavage 20th overall in 2024 - Pick up Ross Stripling for cheap. He has a career season with 3 fWAR. Then the team lets him sign a landmine deal in SF that immediately blows up. They've become an organization that you just assume knows what they're doing as far as pitching is concerned. If they've been after Cease for three years it isn't because they like his FIP and WAR on Fangraphs.com. The contract isn't an overpay. Everyone else just underbid.
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I feel like if you're making the decision to spend 300M+ on Tucker, the draft pick compensation isn't really going to weigh in to the decision in a meaningful way. Like, you've already decided that he's a) a great fit for the 2026 team b) someone you think will age well c) someone you don't have concerns about in the clubhouse d) someone who wants to play here and e) someone you're aligned with on contract demands. If you're checking all those boxes and also adding like wins 94-98 or whatever, I don't see how losing picks in rounds 3 and 6 in the draft even moves the needle.
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Hang up the phone
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I think I'd rather have Berrios on the 2026 team, but O'Neill's deal expiring a year earlier makes it enticing
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Baltimore will be after him in January when all the good starters ignore their 1-year offers. Judging by the Ward trade, Basallo should do it.
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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
