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Spanky is MAD that someone doesn’t like the leaves
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Drugs are bad, kids
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I’m not sure what to tell you man. I saw last night that he was Canadian and it surprised me. Maybe I’d read it before and then forgot because I didn’t give a s***?
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Caught me. I often lie on the internet about not knowing things.
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I literally just now realized that Jordan Romano is Canadian. It all makes sense now.
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If either of those guys had trade value they would have been traded by now. And I understand his point, I just don't think it makes any sense. There's currently 1 spot open on the 40-man. So the team has 39 guys they like more than Romano/Bergen. As soon as they make one more acquisition, which is going to happen, someone is getting punted off the 40-man. Obviously in a case where they had added Romano or Bergen, they'd be be the first to go when a 40-man spot was necessary. I still think we see 2-3 guys on the current 40 get DFA'd before April. The team is going to dip into free agency for a few players. There was clearly no chance in Shatkins' eyes that Romano or Bergen were making it through the offseason on the 40, whether they were lost in the Rule V or via a DFA between now and April. It all makes sense if you just assume that the team thinks Bergen and Romano suck. Bergen's numbers actually look good, but I can't believe the bellyaching over Romano. This guy was just a league-average pitcher in AA at 25. He's the kind of fungible replacement-level arm you can find on the scrap heap at will.
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I think it's pretty easy to defend selecting Pompey and Urena over Romano and Bergen. You just have to believe that neither pitcher is an MLB-calibre arm, which the team pretty clearly believes.
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The 40-man is currently at 39 players. Presumably they'll make at least a couple of additions via free agency. Obviously they made the determination that they have no interest in Romano and Bergen on the 40-man. We saw them use one of the spots those two would have taken up on Luciano, and we'll surely see the other taken by someone else in the near future. What's gained by adding two guys for a few weeks when you know you're going to be DFA'ing them?
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There are at least 4 guys ahead of Wander Franco that shouldn't be IMO
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Did you read this specific exchange?
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You're upset that there are too many posts on a message board that's getting like 80 posts a day?
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But why would he assume that's what King was talking about, and then call King a liar because he said there was an uptick in fastball velo? And even that table shows a 2-3 mph spike in velo in 2016 relative to the previous two years. It just seems like a completely absurd overreaction.
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Grant, what in the ever living f*** are you talking about?
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Am I taking crazy pills? Morton's velo by year: 2014 = 92.7 2015 = 92.9 2016 = 95.4 2017 = 96.0 2018 = 96.6 King said the velo ticked up in 2016 and was 100% correct.
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Yeah, I don't understand why people think development will stall if he's on the MLB team. Spending a season throwing low-leverage innings against the best hitters in the world, will also being taught by MLB pitchers and the organization's best coaches isn't exactly catastrophic for development. And he at least has an off-speed pitch and control of an upper 90's fastball. It's not exactly a given that he'd get knocked around the park every time he pitches.
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CJ Cron is a pretty similar player and was just-nontendered with a ~5M salary. Smoak at 8M won’t return much if anything. Nobody is paying for average 1B these days.
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He's more likely to be offered back to KC than he is to make the team.
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We took an 18-year old who has never pitched in full-season ball?
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I'm happy Romano is gone. Kinda sucks to lose Bergen though.
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If I expected to be competitive I don't think I'd hesitate much to give Kimbrel 4/60.
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1/2.5 for Bour. The Hosmer deal is hilarious. He's not a better player than Bour.
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I have a deep distrust of fat dudes.
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For some reason I just don’t trust Lynn at all and would not want him on the books come 2021.
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Jesus. Glad we passed.
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King would never troll these forums.
