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  1. BTS
    Drew Thorpe down 7-0 to the Mariners in the 1st. Dude sucks
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    It's insane how basically every player the team would reasonably be interesting in trading has either been injured or dogshit over the last month.
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    Dipoto is kind of an idiot. No reason not to keep Stanek as the 4th or 5th arm in the bullpen for the playoff run. Especially with all of Munoz, Garcia, and Santos having health issues this year.
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    I think everyone was a bit surprised with the 3/16 contract. But it ended up being tidy business: 157 IP of 3.44 ERA ball, 2.9 WPA and 2.7 fWAR. Then traded with no $ retained for a couple of prospects.
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    Honestly, if they're eating his entire contract that's enough
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    What are the odds he throws like 10 innings and then misses the rest of the year? like 40%? He kind of tanked his value. As have Bichette, Kikuchi, Richards, and Green.
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    Yimi is a pending FA and is just off the IL with elbow pain. I'm actually surprised they got Clase for him
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    Weird trade, in that all of those guys suck
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    I think Atkins would not trade Vlad unless he's getting one of their MLB starters - he's going to make moves with half an eye on 2025. But something like Woo/Montes/Celesten (and $300M to spend on other s***) would be interesting.
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    yes plz
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    I checked who owned him earlier. Very disappointed to learn he isn't still a Red Sox in LoD
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    I feel like Arozarena is going to flame out in Seattle. Safeco destroys RH hitters. He also can't defend and runs the bases like an absolute dipshit.
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    It's cool that basically every player the team is likely looking to trade has completely nuked their trade value.
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    Dylan Cease taking a no-hitter into the 9th
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    If Ross is back in 2025 I’m moving firmly into the Fire Shapiro camp. Ross as been on the job almost a decade. The team is a luxury tax team 9 games under 0.500 with a league worst farm system. It’s completely unacceptable.
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    Did you ever have a record over 0.500 in BORED?
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    Very surprised at how many of you are fine throwing 250-300M at a fat defensive butcher 1B with a career 132 wRC+. He'll be 27 when the extension kicks in. This type of contract, for this type of player, has typically been a sunk cost by like the first third of the deal. I could see if we had reason to believe he was going to be more of a 150-160 wRC+ guy over at least the first half of the deal, but he hasn't been that player and doesn't project to be. Very Blue Jays to get tunnel vision on this one guy instead of focusing on what else competent management (fingers crossed) could do with 300M.
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    If he’s a 160 wRC+ bat going forward that’s a special hitter and someone you want to lock up. The problem is that his career average, 2024 season, and projections are all in the 140 range. He’s a good, useful player at that level, but not irreplaceable. I’d give him Matt Olson or Freddie Freeman money - paying him like he’s a 3-win player or so with a bit of upside to beat that. Everything I’ve heard seems to indicate that he’s looking for something like twice that though. That has disaster written all over it.
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    It's not so much that the fans will understand that he's only worth 3 WAR. It's that letting a 3 WAR player (now - who knows what he'll with another few years of physical decline) go instead of giving him a massive contract should result in more wins down the road, which is really all that matters when it comes to driving fan interest. This isn't a Mookie Betts situation where losing him hurts the team meaningfully on the field going forward. It's Mark Shapiro's job to convince ownership not to let a fear of 1-2 years of fan backlash lead to a 12-year mistake. Hopefully he's up to it. I do agree with you that he won't be traded now, or this offseason. I think they'll ultimately avoid the massive extension. But I also think they'll pay a significant opportunity cost by not moving him now, either getting very little next year at the deadline or walking him to free agency and getting nothing.
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    Has there ever been a situation before where a team couldn't move on from a 3-win player for fear of massive backlash from the fanbase? Maybe like late-career Derek Jeter after he won like 8 rings or whatever? Winning drives fan interest, and extending a mediocre 1B at enormous money based on reputation is bad for the team's odds of winning in the future. Keeping Vlad out of fear of fan backlash is how the team gets saddled with a Chris Davis/Ryan Howard contract - a deal that seems necessary at the time, but ends up as a massive sunk cost.
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    I don't think this fanbase is dumb enough that trading a 26-year old Christian Walker without the defense instead of paying him 200M+ would be so catastrophic to the bottom line that it isn't feasible to do.
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    Yeah. I'm guessing Baltimore is thinking they're not tendering Mullins a QO and paying him ~8.5M next year. Mountcastle is a bit different in that he actually has a bit of value, both this year and next at his likely arb salary. Not really sure who they have tabbed to play 1B vs. LHP.
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