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Yes. Adding what might be 5 wins for dirt cheap to the 2018 team makes things look much, much better. They'd still have most of their offseason budget for other additions.
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We don't really need a lead administrator, we need someone to come in and rule unilaterally when warranted.
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Thx, but there's no way I can do anything like that with this league on top of BORED and LoD. z3r0s would be a fine choice too. He'll need to develop a but of a bossy streak though.
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You have like 10 keeper worthy players. Planning on making lots of additions before the deadline?
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I nominate Dr. Dinger.
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I'm still looking to trade a reliever. My relievers are good. Somebody trade for one.
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Ha, LoD has been the forum's best league since the start of October for sure. Tons of action.
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Somebody make a trade.
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I don't. He'll be looking for the team and city that makes him the most comfortable as a potential long-term home. If he otherwise gets along well with Shatkins and sees Toronto as a viable city, I doubt he'll care too much about the team's 2018 outlook.
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I could see this having a big impact on attendance. Not only is the Trop the ugliest stadium in baseball, but traffic makes it like a 2-hour drive from TB, where most of their fans are. A new park in a better location, plus the perception of a fresh start free of any residual Naimoli stink could turn that franchise around.
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It feels like Oakland is Chapman and a bunch of Ryon Healys. Clearing him inches their defense back towards respectability. They also pick up 6 years of a good reliever and a prospect. I like it for them.
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Ryon Healy to Seattle for Emilio Pagan and Alex Campos. First real move of the offseason.
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What to people estimate the non-25 man costs to be as far as the luxury tax is concerned? 15M or so?
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Archer is under control for 4 years @ 33.7M, including team options. is only 29, and has 4 straight seasons of 3.2-5.2 fWAR and 30+ starts. He's probably worth something like $90M in assets as a trade chip. We'd probably be looking at something like Bichette, Zeuch, and Alford.
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Easy pass on Cain for the money he's likely to get. I think someone will end up paying him like 5/75 for his 32-36 season, and most of his game is legs. I'll take Jarrod Dyson at 2/20 or whatever.
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There have been a lot of rumours about a s***** restrictive/conservative clubhouse culture in St. Louis. Maybe he thinks it's a bad fit? I have no idea what the issue with Boston would be. Dude would put up silly numbers there.
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No way he’d be on the table for JD though.
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All of their other good young pieces are pitchers, unless you're into Swanson. I guess they also have Maitan. I think they'd have a hard time putting the best offer together.
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There's no obvious fit there IMO. The only prospect they have that would interest me in a Donaldson deal is Acuna, and Acuna is too much for one year of Donaldson.
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At least three of those guys aren't even assets.
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The difference between 10 and 20 was 27M. Bigger than the difference between 10 and 5. You can whine all you want about it being brought up, but one thing will never change: AA had a top-10 payroll to work with.
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I don’t even really consider Ross Atkins a real person.
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Jays payroll ranks over the last 4 years as per Spotrac 2014 - 9th 2015 - 10th 2016 - 10th 2017 - 4th (though I think this mishandles Upton) So no, I don’t think calling them a top-10 payroll team is misleading.
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I think it comes down to us disagreeing fundamentally with how impressive it is that he was able to briefly assemble a WS contender on a top-10 payroll. It seems more special than it is because the team spent the previous 20 years being either woefully mismanaged, or trying to compete on a paltry payroll (sometimes both). We’ve seen a lot of bad front offices enjoy short term success with money to spend and prospects to burn. I’m only impressed if you can sustain it.
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I’ll reiterate my issue: the team he built had a 2-year window to win. A collection of ageing vets with nothing resembling upper minors depth to provide cheap wins when those vets leave/decline. I’ll reiterate that I don’t think that’s a desiresble course for a team with their payroll. It looks a lot like what we’ve seen fail in Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, and soon enough, Boston.
