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I had it to on good authority that he was an elite SP/RP.
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Wow elite SP/RP John Gant has been dropped.
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Took Trae Young
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I know I complain about this every year, but Yahoo only letting you IL players on the actual MLB IL doesn’t work when MLB teams don’t use the IL in September. So playoff teams in keeper leagues are stuck punting roster spots on injured players. The get it right with the NHL, when even day-to-day players can be IR’d. What a terrible service.
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I probably shouldn't have started noted shitbag Spencer Turnbull tonight.
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You got ridiculed for predicting that a mixture of very talented rookies and replacement level trash would struggle offensively and thinking it was worth starting a thread over.
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This has been an absolute embarrassment.
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I took Nikola Jokic
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I don't care when we start.
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There are a ton of names available that they should be in on: Bumgarner Cole Gibson Hill Keuchel Odorizzi Porcello Roark Ryu Strasburg Wacha Wheeler Wood Are all at least a bit interesting. There's also no reason why we should accept them not being in on Cole or Strasburg. They might not want to sign here, which is one thing, but with the current payroll space and roster composition, there should be a 200+M contract offer to Gerrit Cole.
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So 12 teams x 14-man rosters. 168 total players drafted isn't too bad.
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I think moves have to be made to improve the team this offseason. If Atkins is unable to add wins this offseason and the team loses 95-100 games again next year, Shapiro should fire him. The rotation in particular needs to be addressed, and not with a bunch of Clay Buchholz and Clayton Richardses. Give the young positional core a shot at wild card contention if a bunch of them push in 2020.
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I joined, even though I probably can’t name 20 players.
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It’s decision time on a few of the shitbags we’ve been carrying. Travis, Drury, and Maile are optionable but too expensive to keep in AAA, and Urena and Alford are cheap but out of options. Some of these guys have got to go, but I’m guessing a Travis non-tender and Urena DFA are the most likely. Urena in particular has got to go. An out of options Urena is utterly worthless.
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Not sure who has to be added to the 40-man this offseason. I'm guessing Law, Boshers, Travis, Maile, and possibly Drury are non-tendered to clear space.
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C - Jansen (nm) 1B/2B/3B - Shaw (4) 2B/OF/1B - Biggio (nm) 3B - Guerrero Jr. (nm) SS - Bichette (nm) LF - Gurriel (2.5) CF - Hernandez (nm) RF - Grichuk (14) 3B/2B/OF - Drury (arb2) C - McGuire (nm) OF - Alford (nm - out of options) CF - Fisher (nm - out of options) 2B/SS - Valera (nm - out of options) SP - Ryu (20 SP - Roark (12) SP - Anderson (8.5) SP - Shoemaker (arb4) SP - Thornton (nm) RP - Giles (arb3) RP - Bass (1.5) RP - Yamaguchi (~3) RP - Font (nm - out of options) RP - Gaviglio (nm) RP - Romano (nm) RP - Waguespack (nm) RP - Borucki (nm) Also on the 40-Man Billy McKinney (nm) Jonathan Davis (nm) Yennsy Diaz (nm) Elvis Luciano (nm) Julian Merryweather (nm) Patrick Murphy (nm) Hector Perez (nm) T.J. Zeuch (nm) Anthony Kay (nm) Santiago Espinal (nm) Thomas Hatch (nm) Sean Reid-Foley (nm) Thomas Pannone (nm) Rowdy Tellez (nm) Open 40-man spots 0 Projected 26-man Payroll Guaranteed = 8 contracts: 65.5M Arbitration = 3 contracts: ~ 14.7M Near Minimum = 15 contracts: ~ 8.5M Troy Tulowitzki: 18M Total: ~ 106.7M
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Aaron Sanchez and Biagini Traded to Astros for Derek Fisher
BTS replied to Slade's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I guess we're just in a bit of a weird place right now regarding market value of vets making a bit of money, and I'm still having a hard time making sense of it. In the past, Pillar would have been moved for an actual prospect or two and the whole thing would be less blatantly about not wanting to pay 6M for a couple of wins. Now, a 30-year old 2-win player making 6M doesn't really have any value around the league, and teams are just punting those guys for payroll savings. I wonder if this is the new norm or just a temporary blip. We've seen a bunch of playoff teams get big contributions from FAs that signed for surprisingly cheap in the offseason, and guys who were given away for next to nothing because of their salaries (Pillar, Roark for example) have provided value to the teams that were willing to pay them. Free agency, almost overnight, became an efficient way to buy wins. I'm guessing that's not a permanent change. -
Aaron Sanchez and Biagini Traded to Astros for Derek Fisher
BTS replied to Slade's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Pillar would be second on the team in fWAR behind Gurriel, and would be an absolutely perfect 4th OF next season when presumably the team won't want to lose 100 games again. I'm hoping this offseason marks the beginning of a new era in which the team doesn't punt good players for nothing because they're older than 30 and make a few million dollars. -
Zeuch is basically a non-prospect at this point guys. He's a right-handed Ty Blach.
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No. The cap/floor system has made the NHL almost unwatchable. Every year there a couple of teams everyone knows will be elite, a couple teams that everyone knows will suck, and like 25 mostly interchangeable teams that finish where they do based on how lucky they got. The media then makes up narratives to explain why a given team was/wasn't successful. The 2019 Cup Champions were literally dead last in the NHL in January. And it's pretty much impossible to avoid the competitive/non-competitive cycle in the NHL now. In baseball it's always possible to be competitive every year if you make good choices and have financial flexibility. In the NHL perpetual success over the long term isn't really feasible.
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The last few years have been gross. A handful of teams that actually try to make themselves better and pursue free agents, and a bunch of teams completely punting the season. In an environment with two wild cards, almost every team should be taking a crack at 0.500 and hoping things break right and they make the playoffs. There used to be a certain level of shame in fielding an unwatchable 100-loss mess, but that's not really the case anymore. Four teams are projected to lose 100+ games, and two more are projected to lose 95+. There apparently needs to be incentive for teams like Toronto to not view it as a waste to pay decent players in a season where they're probably not going to win.
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If someone offered me Franco straight up for Bellinger in BORED I’d blacklist them.
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My offense is 0-21 today.
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Your team is very good. I think this is pretty much even odds.
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Let’s dance Jimbo.
