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I keep Kepler over a few of the guys you're keeping. The rest seems fine to me.
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Still no bites on Asdrubal. A reliable SP4 type is all I'm looking for here. Can be an old guy.
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I'm craving baseball so f***ing bad right now.
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Omg omg
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How soon after yahoo opens do we usually do the waiver draft?
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Meh, let each league do their own thing. I don't think we have to reconcile DDL compensation with LoD compensation. Also, I'm tired of discussing the value of a guy who died.
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Not sure how I feel about assigning a waiver pick. People have proceeded all offseason as though the top waiver picks have a distinct value based on the 1-2 guys projected to be available. I don't think you can mess with that now by giving a pick at he very top of the waiver draft. To me, 20b MiLB is the solution that provides the most value while stepping on the fewest number of toes.
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If you're going to go the compensation route, I think it has to be a pick at the end of the first round (MiLB), because if it's any later it's not worth anything anyway and there's no reason to even bother. So given that the 'compensation' side appears to have won, I vote for pick 20b.
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Nah, he was a DDL MiLB pick. Dinger was joking though.
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I traded for Shawn Tolleson before the 2016 season. I hope that POS finds his way out of baseball.
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We need to find a place to put the league constitution now that the site is dead, but we use the DDL constitution, including the following rule: Ultimately our interpretation is that compensation is intended to help a team stay afloat in the event that they lose a franchise building block and have been crippled by it. Nobody wants to haggle about the appropriate compensation in the event of tragic deaths, and it's largely unnecessary in cases where a team's long term future has not been hindered in any significant way. Considereing that value for Ventura consistent with what was provided for Fernandez would be essentially irrelevant to the team receiving it, we don't think there's a reason to go down that road.
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Spittin and I have decided that there won't be any compensation for Ventura. To date, the only compensation has been for Fernandez, and we don't want to set the precedent of compensating owners in every situation in which a player dies. Also, the compensation for Fernandez relative to his trade value was pretty small, and similar compensation for Ventura would be a nearly irrelevant asset anyway.
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f*** yes.
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I want to know how any of you nerds even know who this apparently s***** AAA backup catcher is.
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wat when?
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Agreed. For me right now the best options are Smith, Romo, Blanton, or Holland. I'd easily take any of them over the best lefty.
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The fact that Feliz, at 29 and coming off a good year (albeit cut short by an arm injury), only got 1/5.8 should bode well for getting 1-2 of those guys on reasonable 1-year deals.
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For reasons I've already stated, I vote for no compensation.
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Yordano Ventura has passed away after a car accident, RIP
BTS replied to fatcowxlive's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I'm sure he had life insurance too. -
Would still like to build a deal around Asdrubal Cabrera for a SP.
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Yordano Ventura has passed away after a car accident, RIP
BTS replied to fatcowxlive's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Dinger, you'll appreciate the honesty of this title: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/yordano-ventura-and-andy-marte-have-died/ -
As I understood it, the intent of the rule was to give owners some hope of not being set back years in the event that a franchise cornerstone died tragically (which I agree with - we do this for fun, and losing a Fernandez or Taveras is crippling, on top of being very sad). I never thought those decisions were precedent for attaching a compensation value to every player that dies. It sucks that it happened, but if we're being realistic, it's not crippling catsass' team to the point where he's set back by it. Most likely outcome is that it doesn't hurt his team at all.
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I dunno, if Ian Kennedy was killed in a hate crime against gingers I wouldn't expect compensation, and he's better than Ventura. I always saw the compensation as a way to help people who suffer a franchise-crippling loss.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't think mediocre assets require compensation. Yordano playing to projections makes him a borderline keeper. I think compensation should only happen for hugely valuable assets.
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Still no financial details on the Valbuena deal?
