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My god that's a lot of calories.
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If ifs and buts were candy and nuts we'd all have a merry Christmas
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At least you have a dominant contender to show for it.
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I wonder at what pitch count a current manager would get call from the front office ordering him to remove the starter. Like, if Gardenhire tried to trot Fulmer out for the 11th inning 140 pitches into a start, he’d certainly be overruled
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Of course it wasn't a 0% chance of him earning his contract. Generally, I'm averse to $100M long-term contracts for oft-injured 30-year olds though. Projecting the future is hard, but avoiding obvious potential landmines like that is a good way to remain perpetually competitive.
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Nah, I just processed. Also, you need a new team name.
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Are you cutting anyone to make room for him?
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Tulo was acquired as a 30-year old struggling after major hip surgery who couldn't even stay healthy in his 20s, and yet was owed $98M through his age-36 season. It was an obvious landmine of a contract, and a clear a case as you'll see of mortgaging the future to win in the present.
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Its gut punch after gut punch for Ottawa fans. Five years ago they watched the most beloved player in team history, and a future HOFer, play out his last year in another jersey because they wouldn't pay him a fair price. Now they're watching another HOFer, and a generational talent at that, leave at 28 years old. The CTC is going to be empty this year.
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This really sucks. Watching a generational talent leave because of mismanagement from the owner down
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Anybody have recommendations for places to stay in Boston? I’m catching the jays there next weekend.
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Yeah, the team cut payroll and let him rebuild for 3 years
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Payroll under JPR topped out in the middle of the pack in MLB - 16th in the league was the highest, I believe. Payroll has been towards the back of the top-10 in baseball every year since 2013, topping out at 5th in 2017. And that's with an actual investment in the draft and international markets, which didn't happen before. The JPR years were certainly dark, but a huge part of that was Godfrey being terrible at his job and ownership not investing in the product.
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Looking at the Ryan situation, he was entering his age-30 season and was coming off 3 straight seasons of 2.5+ fWAR. Signed for 5 years, 47M. Would have been analogous to the Indians giving Kenley Jansen 5/80 or something last offseason.
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The AJ Burnett contract worked out very well. The Ryan deal not so much.
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He most certainly did say that.
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Yeah, sure. But I don't think many GMs would have made the playoff in his shoes - he was given the impossible task of winning in the ALE on a small budget without being allowed to tear it down completely to amass talent.
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I meant it in the sense that I think there's a good chance his replacement would have been worse at the job than he was. He certainly had his warts, but I think he was mostly competent at a time when there weren't many GMs who would have had even the modest success he did given his constraints.
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I'm sure he oversold his ability to compete on a small budget in order to get the job. Reality is that we could have done a lot worse during those years than the JPR front office, especially if you don't speculate about how much more some generic replacement would have convinced ownership to spend on prospects.
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I think she writes good baseball articles. She's just not the kind of person that fans should be expecting insight from in a chat. IMO there's a place for softer content like that at Fangraphs if it's well-written, and her articles are well-written.
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I still think JPR did a good job with what he had to work with. He assembled some legitimately good teams under a payroll that was completely dwarfed by Boston and New York, and was asked to compete in an environment with only one WC. Those same teams in the NL would have probably won multiple division titles. He wasn't given any money to spend on the draft or international free agency.
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The only current chats that are informative are Sullivan's. I don't really think Rowley or Jaffe know that much about baseball, and Sawchik is too busy hedging and giving caveats that his responses are meaningless. I guess McDaniel's could be good, but they're so snarky and condescending that the cringe factor makes them unreadable. I do think Rowley is a gifted writer though.
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Holy crap the Royals have a wRC+ of 48 start of June
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I’ve become concerned about the viability of a Melnyk-owned team surviving in this market. So high.
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Everyone seems to be saying that Heiskanen is off the table. If that’s true, Dorion should not be talking to Dallas
