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  1. I have one more SP than I want to protect, and would like to move one (likely Gio, Chen, Wright, Kennedy, or Gsellman) in a deal for an improvement on Kendrick or Valbuena at 2B or 3B, or for a 1B. I have picks/prospects to facilitate a deal. I also have two of Bedrosian/Baez/Rivero/Givens/Ziegler/Biagini available for waiver or MiLB upgrades (or as additions to a bigger deal).
  2. Ha, I didn't know GD was working a deal with you. I just happened to message him out of the blue at like midnight last night.
  3. It was close last year: 4.5 games. I've downgraded by replacing Cabrera with Tim Anderson and Keuchel with Gsellman and Cotton, and you've downgraded by losing Ortiz. I think we're still close enough to make a $20 bet fair.
  4. Dallas Keuchel and Asdrubal Cabrera to GD for Yadier Alvarez, Jharel Cotton, and Robert Gsellman
  5. I don't think LA would give up Urias and Pederson for JD.
  6. 2016 - present Moderator: BJMB.com * moderated vibrant message board with iron fist * banned dozens of trolls per week * dealt with Spanky99
  7. Let's not get carried away here.
  8. I don't even know how I'd get through the work week if this forum disappeared.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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?
  13. 5/82.5 + a 1st round pick + a full NTC is an enormous commitment for a player like Fowler.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. You seem to focus a lot on K-rate. Why does it matter?
  17. I think some of the 5M they gave last year is going towards his 2017 salary.
  18. 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'?
  19. "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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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