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Has there ever been a case of a team clearly gaming service time clocks for a pitcher?

Come on silvergun!

Nice to see Pillar have another productive year. I wonder if the last 1-2 years is going to end up looking like an outlier when it comes to good MLB vets not making any money. The Brewers are leading the NLC right now in no small part because they've received 7 fWAR from Moustakas and Grandal for like 28M worth of 1-year deals. The Twins are leading the ALC by 3.5 games and have received almost 8 fWAR from Cruz, Gonzalez, Schoop, and Perez on cheap, short-term deals. The Giants aren't going to make the playoffs, but I like that Zaidi saw an opportunity to snag a league average player that was available for free because his own team didn't want to spend 5.8 on a couple of wins, and made a move to get a little bit better. If, for some reason, veterans continue to be undervalued, there's not going to be any excuse to not at least run a close to 0.500 team out there even in down years and cross your fingers that things break right and you sneak into a WC spot. At the worst you have a veteran to sell at the deadline. Fans of all of the 100-loss teams should be pissed that their team sat out a FA market where wins could be bought for dirt cheap.

Waguespack's utility to the team is going to be as a SP who has two years of options and can serve as a 7th starter who gets the call in case of injury. If Atkins does his job this offseason he's not going to be on the team to start 2020, and he definitely won't be relied on to start by the time this team is good.

Bumgarner Cole Gibson Hamels Hill Keuchel Miley Odorizzi Porcello Roark Ryu Strasbug (if opts out) Wheeler Wood Are all interesting to at least some degree, and I think you can make the argument that no team should be more aggressive in the SP market than the Blue Jays. We have the payroll flexibility, the huge need, and a good young core of position players. We should be trying to land a 1/2 and at least another mid-rotation guy.

I'm legit embarrassed at the thought of a new poster reading the last two pages of this thread.

The negative correlation between season wRC+ and number weeks below a 100 wRC+ was particularly illuminating.

I don’t think this is actually a thing that has been demonstrated, but even granting it, wouldn’t Vlad have the “doesn’t come from old money” factor in common with almost every player in professional baseball?

Jim, what in the f*** are you talking about?

ftfy

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/juan-soto-and-baseballs-most-consistent-players/ Fangraphs really needs to find a way to pay actual money for writers/analysts, because things have become hilariously bad.

For every bad starter who becomes a high end reliever a lot of bad starters just flame out of the majors. I don't think it's obvious that Sanchez goes from true talent 5 ERA starter to high-end reliever (true talent 3.2ish ERA?). There are a lot of warts there, and several of them would have to be ironed out for him to be a high end reliever. That said, I agree with the premise of this post of yours: I've posted in the past about wanting to see what he looks like in 1-inning appearances, and have been wanting the team to try him in that role for a long time. I just don't think it's likely that the result is a high end reliever, and I certainly don't think that's his floor.

There are 178 pitchers with at least 200 IP over the last 3 seasons. Here's the full list of pitchers with a worse K-BB%: Tyler Chatwood Miguel Castro Ty Blach Andrew Cashner Dylan Covey It's hard to articulate just how bad a pitcher Aaron Sanchez has been for the last three years. He has no command. He doesn't generate any swinging strikes. He doesn't induce soft contact. He can't stay healthy. He might not run an xFIP over 5 in relief, but becoming a high-end reliever would require sweeping changes across the board - he'd have to suddenly be able to find the strike zone consistently and at the same time hitters would have to start swinging and missing at his stuff. His floor is very much that he's never a contributing MLB pitcher, even in relief.

Is featherD the last team to never miss the playoffs?

We’ve seen his floor for three years now: one of the very worst pitchers in baseball. There’s a chance he becomes a good reliever, but that’s not likely.

lol

I wish you could bump their articles by replying to them.

Aaron Sanchez pulled mid-meltdown in the 3rd inning against the worst offense in baseball.

I spent several years at 215 and then cut back to 185 a few years ago. I'm far from a professional athlete and my entire body feels immeasurably better not carrying around 30 pounds of needless weight. I'm guessing that if anything there's a tendency to understate the negative health outcomes associated with being a fat athlete.

That's such an insane amount of value to give up just because you can't keep yourself in shape.

Man, Vladdy is up to -4.4 runs of UBR and -8.8 UZR. 1.3 fWAR of negative value from baserunning and fielding at 20 years old. His weight is a major, major problem that looks like it's going to cost him significant value over the course of his career if its not addressed. He actually has a very good and accurate arm, but his range might be the worst in baseball for a regular 3b.

That’s ridiculous.

My 4th and 5th best starters in that group

Of all the fake posturing that has been done in this thread, this posturing is the fakest.

Probability of Dinger selling Urshela in BORED this offseason: 100%.