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Maicer Izturis falls under the same category for me. -
I see that a lot like a saw the Melky signing after year one: a zero-risk gamble on a guy that you would have projected to do well, but that didn't work out. Those are the moves it's ok to whiff on.
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Ironically, that's pretty much what I was doing while posting earlier.
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And we've hit the nadir of our value.
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As this was happening I thought to myself "GD would do this".
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I think a lot of people have probably underrated them a bit. Projections don't really handle defense or elite bullpens as well as we'd like them too, and pythag records wouldn't give them full credit for their pen. I would have said all year that there are probably 5 better teams, but I think I would have been wrong. Ned Yost is dumb though.
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http://www.hardballtimes.com/royals-royals/ Very good article about the Royals' FO. It calls it one of the best in the game and suggests that if the Rays or A's had built their teams similarly the nerds would have been a lot quicker to praise them.
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I'm posting while working and listening to a podcast. The results are not good.
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Mods, plz delete thread. Thx.
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Holy s***, I'm dumn. Nothing to see here. I was actually sitting here confused at why you weren't making sense.
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In favour of Cleveland. Cleveland wins. Toronto loses. Carrasco was clearly worth more than Stroman.
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I meant heist in favour of Cleveland. There's a serious gap in value between Carrasco and an injured Stroman.
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Of course. Why was that stupid?
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How can you say that without knowing the +? Obviously Stroman for Carrasco would be a heist for Cleveland, but with enough added it could swing the other way.
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Wow, Shapiro pushing all the right buttons. Four great moves.
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Remains to be seen, but that will probably end well for him.
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Tsuyoshi Wada back to Japan. I always thought he could have been a good back-end starter but he never really caught a break.
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I remember when people said that about Friedman, then he crushed it last year in LA. If you have smart people making decisions, they're not going to turn into mouth-breathing idiots when given more resources to work with. They'll take more risks, and the failures will be bigger (see: Brandon McCarthy signing, maybe), but there's no reason to think they'll just abandon the skills that made them effective on a smaller budget.
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Yes. People arguing otherwise is consistently annoying.
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Whoever ran his drafts seems to have done good work, and the team had a healthy prospect pipeline, but for the majority of his tenure he was ineffective at assembling a cohesive 25-man roster with capable backups in place to round out the 40-man. Buying wins efficiently is not a demonstrated skill of his, and that's critical if you're going to win on a payroll less than $150M.
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More specifically, he didn't want Mark Shapiro as his boss. I doubt he would have cared about the President title if Rogers brought in someone with a business background.
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I'm sure it will happen, just maybe not in the next couple of years.
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Another interesting tie is that Beeston and Loria know each other very well, and Beeston recommending AA to his old buddy might go a long way.
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AA operating under a $50M budget will be an absolute s*** show.
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I accept this.
