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  1. I don't think they'll pay the money for Votto, or Stroman for Inciarte, so close to 0.
  2. Yup. There's a big difference between 135 and 165, and I could see it being anywhere in there.
  3. Well, the Dodgers have Seager, Pederson, Urias, De Leon, Maeda, and Kershaw as a young-ish core, which is quite a lot better than Toronto's. And the Mariners and Tigers are examples of the type of team I hope that this is for 2-3 years until they've assembled a sustainable core. Turning this roster will be delicate, and very difficult if payroll isn't well past 150M.
  4. They've already added some nice pieces to the prospect pool: Zeuch, Bichette, McGuire, and Ramirez in and nobody of any consequence out. There may not be any stars there, but that's some nice improvements to the prospect depth in a year where they also made the ALCS.
  5. I think they should keep doing what they've done for the last year: keep adding wins where you can without borrowing from the future. The team is going to have to find a new group of cheap core players, but I think this management team can do it without piling up losing seasons.
  6. You can do this with a lot of teams. Red Sox: 37 year old Ziegler, 41 year old Uehara, 36 year old Hanigan, 41 year old Ortiz I think that, the 'oldest team in baseball' argument aside, it's a legitimate point that the players the team relies on are old. The list of players on the team who you can reasonably project close to 2 wins, are younger than 32 in 2017, and who have more than two years of team control: Travis (26) Pillar (28) Osuna (22) Sanchez (24) Stroman (26) With nothing on the way from the minors in the next two years unless you really like Tellez and Pompey. I think there's definitely a very concerning lack of young talent on the team and in the upper minors.
  7. Literally everyone knows drinking and driving is dangerous, including people who do it. Lack of education isn't the reason for the behaviour, and neither is being a selfish scummy bag of selfish scum.
  8. To be clear, I'm not condoning drinking and driving. I'm advocating empathy in lieu of lynching when someone makes an understandable mistake.
  9. You guys are all still 15 to me.
  10. This might surprise you, but I actually wouldn't make a value judgement on someone who got in an argument with their spouse and took their car out for a spin while over the limit. It's objectively unproductive, but it's also an understandable response to a serious stress. I don't think you really understand how much your actions are dictated by your genetics and experience, and how much a stressful event can cause you make irrational choices.
  11. I didn't want to go there, but yeah. Someone who isn't even drinking age who was raised not to touch alcohol calling a guy scummy and selfish for having drinks and taking his boat on the ocean is just too much.
  12. No, but it should prevent you from getting on your soapbox and making value judgments about how someone reacted to a situation that you can't possibly relate to.
  13. Yeah, I'd probably do it. But I think the value is still a few million $ in favour of LA. I don't know if the difference is Barnes, but it should be something.
  14. There is absolutely nothing selfish or scummy about Fernandez responding to a serious argument with the mother of his child by having drinks and taking his boat out. It obviously wasn't the best way to blow off steam, but the self-righteous indignation is just too much. You have no idea what he was feeling at the time, and the outrage is completely unproductive. Especially from someone who, frankly, can't relate because they're 18 years old and were raised in a very conservative environment. It comes off the same as a 300-pound shut-in condemning Tiger Woods for cheating on his wife.
  15. Yeah, I actually like Ethier a bit. I still think you'd project him at around a win, and cross your fingers that he's healthy and gives you 2. Would you do Smoak for Ethier straight up?
  16. Ethier + Barnes for Smoak is really the only framework I can see working. Smoak is an 8.4 M sunk cost. Ethier is owed 20.5M for one year and will probably project at like 1 win in a platoon role, so he's worth like -12M. A straight swap of the two has the Dodgers picking up like 4-5 in projected surplus value, so Barnes evens that out.
  17. Ha, weren't there a bunch of people outraged about the mother in the whole Harambe incident?
  18. With all due respect, aren't you an 18-19 year old who has spent his entire life under the watchful eye of parents who are at least middle class? I ask because you often come off as really judgemental on topics like this, maybe overlooking the idea that not everyone has the same experience as you.
  19. I get a kick out of the black and white internet mentality in which people are defined by their worst mistakes. Actually I don't, it's really sad.
  20. Trading with the Dodgers makes me nervous. Their only catcher next year is Grandal, who tends to get hurt, so it seems like a great chance to break Barnes in. If they don't want to do that, why not?
  21. Please no Jeff Mathis. We're finally rid of that parasite Thole. Replacing him with Thole v1.1 would be so unsexy.
  22. Cleveland is going to pick up his option, without question.
  23. Maybin would be nice, but I think Detroit will pick up his $9M option.
  24. There isn't really an argument for him winning last year, unless your issue is with requiring a CF, LF, and RF to win.
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