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  1. BTS
    Who?
  2. BTS
    2016 - present Moderator: BJMB.com * moderated vibrant message board with iron fist * banned dozens of trolls per week * dealt with Spanky99
  3. BTS
    Let's not get carried away here.
  4. BTS
    I don't even know how I'd get through the work week if this forum disappeared.
  5. BTS
    Anyone who paid attention and though that this team was going to continue to improve after 2015 had unrealistic expectations. That was never going to happen.
  6. BTS
    Given the value of the 1st round pick, and the fact that the NTC has some kind of value, the total value of the commitment to Fowler is in the vicinity of $100M. People need to step back and remember that, while he had a fine season, he's a 31-year old who projects to be a hair above average in 2017.
  7. BTS
    I guess you missed the last 12 months? Here's a recap: The team made smart low risk additions (Happ, Estrada, Grilli etc...), and made the ALCS without doing any damage to their long term flexibility. I'm curious to know: of all the players who signed for more money last offseason, assuming a payroll of ~165M, how many of them would you trade Estrada for? How many would you trade Happ for?
  8. BTS
    I wonder what Toronto's price would have been. 82.5 was the price to play CF in St. Louis. Playing RF on turf in Canada would have cost, what, 5/90?
  9. BTS
    5/82.5 + a 1st round pick + a full NTC is an enormous commitment for a player like Fowler.
  10. BTS
    I don't understand why you're looking at it that way. The offense was good last year. They had a lot of good hitters that strike out a lot. The offense was fine, and those hitters are maximizing their skills in the best way they can. If you can improve the offense, you do it. That could come via a 5% K guy or a 30% K guy. Is the team tangibly better off with Nori Aoki than with Brandon Moss? Not likely.
  11. BTS
    He's also at least an average corner defender, and as you say, hits from the left side, which makes him a good fit with Upton and Pearce in the fold.
  12. BTS
    You seem to focus a lot on K-rate. Why does it matter?
  13. BTS
    I think some of the 5M they gave last year is going towards his 2017 salary.
  14. BTS
    Saying that money is not preventing them from filing their needs does not mean that the money is endless. They have a budget. Payroll will almost certainly be within a few million dollars of that budget. What is it you think is happening here? Rogers is all 'blank check boys' and Shapiro just gives them a 'nah keep your money I'm good'?
  15. BTS
    "Upton is due the roughly third remaining on his $15.45 million salary this year plus another $16.45 million in 2017, and the Padres will reportedly cover $17 million of that." This doesn't preclude them from putting the 5M on the 2016 books, though the assumption from people like rr would be that they wouldn't do that. I've been trying to find where a bunch of people heard/read that this was the case, but I can't now.
  16. BTS
    You seem to be under the impression that Mark Shapiro sets payroll. Let me clear that up for you: Mark Shapiro does not set payroll.
  17. BTS
    I remember reading that the 5M was under the 2016 budget, and he basically has no salary in 2017, and multiple other posters also remember reading it.
  18. BTS
    No, you're wrong. If you don't get your guy at the price you want your offer was made in bad faith and Rogers is cheap and should die.
  19. BTS
    lmao
  20. BTS
    I agree with that. I just think that assuming the team made offers in bad faith based on the information available is basically just looking for a way to vent frustration.
  21. BTS
    So you're annoyed at the idea of another team being willing to offer more money to a free agent than Toronto is. Why would that annoy you? It's how free agency works. You place a value on a player, and hope that you can land him. Sometimes you get your guy: Happ, Estrada, Gurriel, Morales, Pearce. Sometimes you don't: Encarnacion (so far), Fowler, probably many others.
  22. BTS
    I'm not sure what it is you're upset about. What has the team missed out on? Sale - the team didn't have the assets Eaton - the team probably didn't have the assets Fowler - signed to play CF for a rumoured 80-90M. What would it have cost to get him to play RF on turf? 90M? 100M? Chapman - signed for 86M in a city he's played in and enjoyed. How high would the Yankees have gone? How much would it have cost to bring him here? 100M?
  23. BTS
    If the whining in this thread is any indication, you're absolutely right. Casual fans don't understand that what was going on under AA was not sustainable, and that maintaining a competitive roster while the old/expensive core hits free agency and/or declines was always going to be extremely difficult. Year 1 of turning the roster over was a resounding success, and I'm loving what I'm seeing so far in year 2.
  24. BTS
    The Yankees had to re-arm because they did what you're advocating doing and things got so bad that they couldn't even win on a 200M payroll. And the Tigers are two years into what will be at least the better part of a decade of irrelevance thanks to Dombrowski. St. Louis is a good example of a team that's had a lot of success operating in a way that Shapiro has demonstrated that he wants to operate here: make low-risk additions and supplement a home-grown core with low-mid tier short-term free agent deals. They don't want a two-year window. They want to compete every year. And a 160M payroll is enough to do it if they don't make irrational free agent mistakes.
  25. BTS
    They've already added Gurriel, Morales, and Pearce. It's not like nothing productive has happened.
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