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This kid is good.
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I'm in such a good mood right now I wouldn't even ban you.
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Soto just hit an oppo bomb off a lefty starter.
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I don’t think top-25 is happening by mid season Jimbo
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If you bring up anything close to this again I’m going to give you a timeout from posting.
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Quickest rise through the minors since A-Rod.
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Soto getting his first start tonight.
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Yeah, this seems completely obvious to me.
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What? Why? I don't think he's a 3B, but spending 3 extra months playing 3B twice a week instead of 5 times isn't going to meaningfully change his outlook at the position. Are you drunk right now or something? Because suggesting that the team call him up for meaningless baseball in September and then make up the service time by optioning him for two weeks in 2019, 2020, and 2021 is one of the dumbest things I've ever read on this forum.
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You're dismissing the difference between holding back a player who has never played in the majors, and optioning an established MVP caliber player, and the best player on your WS winning team. You really think that optioning Bryant in 2017 and then again in 2018 would have received the same magnitude of response as delaying his debut?
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Jesus Christ. Imagine the s*** show if the Cubs inexplicably burned 30 days of Bryant in 2015, then optioned him for two weeks at the start of 2016, 2017, and 2018.
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You really believe that a) 30 MLB games in September makes such a large difference in a decision about him as a 3B in 2019 that the it's worth punting a full year of mid-prime service time to acquire that information, and his long term outlook at 3B is significantly altered by his usage over the next 3 months? So playing 3B twice a week in MLB for the rest of the season will hurt his development significantly relative to playing 3B 5 days a week in the minors? You must really be sweating a lat strain or something that takes him out for a couple months, as you'd believe it would derail his entire career trajectory.
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Most prospects aren't good enough that you expect them to be up permanently after their first call-up. Almost all of these guys will spend years being optioned multiple times. Vlad isn't that. Literally trading one year of prime Vlad for 30 days of current Vlad would be completely absurd.
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We have, but I can’t wrap my head around you perceiving all of that as justification for punting a year of service time. If the team is 15 games under 0.500 with zero shot at a WC, you call him up and burn a year of service time for a 30-day 3B ‘audition’? If the team goes on a run and is 10 games over 0.500 in mid June, you still wait until September, then burn the year anyway and call him up?
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I just don’t understand why you’d call him up in September if you wait that long. The reason to call him up now would be that you hope he’s an impact player immediately and can meaningfully help the playoff odds. He probably doesn’t do that in September, and at that point you just have to hold him out the last month of the season and two weeks in April next year to push his service time back. September call up is the one course of action that makes zero sense to me, and yet it seems to be what everyone wants to do.
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Aren't the Panthers an analytics team? And they gave up Marchessault as payment to take Reilly Smith in the expansion draft. The two then combined for 135 points lol.
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BTS replied to Boxcar's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Would definitely listen to a panel of Boxy, njh, Dinger, and P2F. Hopefully this ends up happening. -
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Seems to be the case. Give almost anyone O-zone starts and PP time and they’ll put up 50 points.
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I think tercet would say that the bjmb needs to read this.
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BTS replied to Boxcar's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I think the panel should be Boxy, Terminator and Jim. And also that it shouldn't be a baseball podcast. -
It's objectively embarrassing that an expansion team is this good. It cheapens success. If an expansion team in baseball won 100 games their first year then steamrolled everyone in the playoffs, I'd probably just stop watching. But that wouldn't happen, because despite its faults, MLB is not a mickey mouse league.
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The Golden Knights are going to win the Cup, and the NHL is pathetic.
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2/28 with a 15M team option and 2M buyout. Get er done.
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The team might have to trade for a pitcher if they're looking to compete next year. The way things are going, they project to have a rotation of Sanchez and Stroman. And the mid-tier FA market is pretty thin: Happ Estrada Gio Gonzalez McCarthy Lynn Pomeranz Richards Ross Ryu Would be nice to get Happ signed before the offseason.
