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  1. BTS
    I can't believe how awesome it is to go from that clown Beeston to a guy who talks intelligently about the market value of a win. If payroll hovers around the top-10 the Jays could become a perennially competitive team.
  2. BTS
    There were ways around that. Spending on posting international talent, for example. Moving assets for free agent contracts was a terrible strategy.
  3. BTS
    It would be absolutely shocking if an offer is made to Price.
  4. BTS
    I am?
  5. BTS
    I defended the Melky signing after the abysmal first year too. There's a huge, huge difference between signing players to free agent contracts and trading legit assets for players on free agent contracts. If Josh Johnson were signed to a 1/14 deal and fell apart I would have had zero problem with the decision. I would have also had zero problem with Buehrle being signed as a free agent.
  6. BTS
    The Ryan signing and his draft record were both awful, granted.
  7. BTS
    Exactly.
  8. BTS
    Hard to blame him for either though. Both fell off a cliff as soon as they signed.
  9. BTS
    Winning in a loaded AL East with no second wildcard and an uncompetitive payroll was a ridiculous task. Him and AA worked in two very different contexts.
  10. BTS
    Ricciardi was a good GM. You were like 5 when he left.
  11. BTS
    Almost every player on Clevelands's roster was either drafted or acquired as a prospect. What killed him was that Cleveland's payroll hasn't left the bottom-10 in 13 years, and often sat bottom-5. He was basically given Friedman's TB mandate. If Rogers is going to have payroll in the bottom-5, he's probably not going to be very successful. But AA wouldn't have been able to function in that context either.
  12. BTS
    Rentals in general are inefficient wastes of assets.
  13. BTS
    Shapiro needs to make splash with an 8-year Donaldson extension.
  14. BTS
    It's very possible that these guys just don't like each other. They've had a business relationship for 6+ years now. One, or both, could have been aware they wouldn't gel. I highly doubt this has anything to do with one meeting.
  15. BTS
    I'm in Toronto mid-November. Can you host?
  16. BTS
    No, it isn't. He said the shine of the trade was lessened by the fact that the money didn't actually get reinvested into the on-field product. He didn't blame that on AA.
  17. BTS
    AA probably had free reign to to whatever he wanted under Beeston, who probably couldn't have named 10 players outside of Toronto. I'm assuming he hated the idea of being second in command when it comes to actual player decisions.
  18. BTS
    f*** yes. Hurl, we're back buddy.
  19. BTS
    O2...
  20. BTS
    You can also lol at the fact that he probably lives in the Midwest.
  21. BTS
    Works for St. Louis
  22. BTS
    Huge outing from Cueto to give the pen a rest. Looking good for KC.
  23. BTS
    Thought it would be interesting to take a quick and dirty look into the Marlins trade 3 years later because it's come up a lot over the last few days. Assuming a flat 7M/win over the three years because it's close enough. In Buehrle = 8.4 RA-9 WAR, 43.5M salary = 15.3M surplus value Reyes = 6.2 fWAR, 48M salary = -4.6M surplus value (through 2015) Johnson = 0.4 fWAR, 13.8M salary = -11M surplus value Bonifacio = who cares Buck = who cares total surplus value acquired = about 0M. Out Escobar = 5.6 fWAR, 15M salary = 24.2M surplus value Alvarez = 4.2 fWAR, 6M salary = 25.2M surplus value Desclafani = 3.3 fWAR, 1M salary = 22.1M surplus value Marisnick = 2.4 fWAR, 1.5M salary = 15.3M surplus value Hechavarria = 1 fWAR, ~4.25 salary = 2.75M surplus value (with pretty dubious defensive metrics) Nicolino = who cares Mathis = who cares total surplus value traded = about 90M + whatever Alvarez, Desclafani, Hechavarria, and Marisnick accrue over their remaining years of team control. So probably a net loss of value in the $100-150M range.
  24. BTS
    You're suggesting that objective evaluation of past moves should be thrown out the window because the team had a 93-win season?
  25. BTS
    That doesn't really mean anything.
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