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Luhnow seems to be a spinless piece of s***.

Who's Ray?

I’m getting blackout drunk in celebration. This is fantastic.

I’ll get this in a few hours if nobody else does.

My strong preference is to close a deal with EZe, as I believe Dinger’s proposal improves both teams with minimal pick compensation. If that proves impossible, I’ll respond to you. I’m hoping to get a response soon.

Give me few minutes to work the phones.

Let's get a three-way going.

I've offered to discuss compensation with both of you and both of you think your Ohtani is the most valuable Ohtani.

Reminder to potential acquiring teams that the league is willing to buy hitter Ohtani from you with multiple high 2021 MiLB and waiver picks. Are any Japanese stars coming over next offseason?

Howie Kendrick available for a 2021 pick upgrade.

I guess I just have a hard time seeing Giles sign for markedly below his perceived FA value. The way I see it is this: the Jays decide they have $30-40M to spend on an elite reliever. They have three possible ways to spend it: a) spend it now on Giles on a FA value contract spend it now on Giles at a rate less than the value of a FA contract (Giles accepts less money than he'd expect to earn in the offseason) c) wait until the offseason to make that choice I don't see a realistic situation in which c) isn't the ideal avenue. Clearly a) is a poor choice: you're nuking his trade value, and opening yourself up to long-term risk by extending him a year before you have to make that commitment. would require a pretty team-friendly deal. The team might think Giles is going to get a Will Smith contract in the offseason if he's healthy (3/39). At what point does it even make sense to make the long-term commitment now, rather than wait and see what happens in the offseason? If the team has 40M earmarked for a late inning reliever, they'd certainly be able to land an elite arm in the offseason: Giles, Betances, Hendriks and Yates will be out there, and probably an arm or two that come out of nowhere this season. At what point does it make sense to tie that money up now rather than pay Giles his arb salary, and delay the investment until you have the maximum amount of information on the health and projection of these relievers going forward? I feel like that point is a number that probably won't interest Giles. If you can get him for 3/27 or something then sure, make it happen.

It's not the extension that makes him a valueless asset. Luis Robert is obviously still immensely valuable. It's the extension at free agent prices. Sure, if Giles signs here for less than his market value he becomes an asset. I'm not sure why we'd expect someone a year from FA to sign for tangibly less than he'd expect to receive in free agency 10 months from now though. I just don't understand what people think there is to gain by giving a rich contract to a reliever a full season before you have to.

Meh, their 25-man payroll is 4th in the league at 182M according to spotrac. I don't see how that's embarrassing.

Bad genes compared to the SP/position player master races.

Holy f*** the relievers are ugly.

Is anyone else having a hard time understanding the perception that Daniel Hudson is worth more than like 1-2M on a 1-year deal? The fact that he just got 2/11 is insane to me.

Will Smith is an elite reliever that just got 3/39. I wouldn’t commit to Giles a year before I had to and forego a possible trade return to lock him up for 3/33.

Cool, I've added you as a co-owner of Pendleton4life19.

It doesn't make any sense for the team to pursue a market value extension with Giles. If Giles is dominant again this season, and if the team isn't in contention, then he should absolutely be traded. It's just going to be a FA contract anyway, which will make him an asset without value at the time of signing. Take the trade return, and the 40-50M or whatever and see what comes up in the offseason. If December rolls around and the team determines that the best use for that 40-50M is for an elite reliver, then offer the money to... Ken Giles. Or Dellin Betances. Or Kirby Yates. Or Sean Doolittle. Or Blake Treinen if he rebounds. We just saw this situation handled beautifully with Stroman. Instead of an extended Stroman, we have Ryu + SWR + Kay.

I think last year the cut down was in march. The draft is usually only 70-80 picks.

Regarding the cut deadline, would everyone be cool with making it the last day of February and just adding to the league constitution that it's the same every year?

Pendleton, I transferred ownership of the team to you in Fantrax.

wow, abom still a believer in Moniak

I've already made a very moving and emotional plea to J4L19 to come back to us, so I suspect he'll be joining you.