Dr. Dinger

Officially and permanently? That would be a disaster for his dynasty value. Hopefully he can play C at least enough to keep eligibility.

Newsflash for ya: Jeff Hoffman f***ing blows.

It's hard to imagine any team being stupid enough in this day and age to give a contract of that size to a 1 WAR reliever who is one year removed from major surgery and entering his twilight years. He's just not that good, at all.

Lol soon to be 32 year old Greg Holland and his 4.05 xFIP have declined a $15M player option for 2018. Not sure what Boras is thinking on this one, there's no chance he'll top that AAV in FA. He'll be lucky to get 2/$20M.

Creams are for pussies, use a suppository like a man. A real man isn't afraid to shove a waxy pellet of medicine up his rectum.

Usually I've done it by now but I've been busy picking my ass. Someone else can pick up the mantle.

I feel like those rankings are probably very arbitrary outside the Top 5-10.

It's a small sample. No one believes he will be a league average bat. He's going to get the stick knocked out of his hands by major league pitching and be a career backup.

I don't care that he left, I didn't care for him as a manager. I just don't like his uppity demeanor and poor managing.

I hope he has to be a 1st base coach now. f*** that guy.

BREAKING: John Farrell will not return as Red Sox manager in 2018.

You guys, I legitimately keep forgetting that Troy Tulowitzki exists.

To be fair, we really don't know the parameters of the payroll for next year. We can assume status quo, but we are also coming off two straight seasons of 3M+ attendance. Attendance will likely dip back down to ~2.7M or so next year, but if you want to justify an increased payroll in order to maintain attendance, there's an argument to be made. Other teams with lesser attendance support payrolls of $180M+, and that doesn't even factor in Rogers' complete monopoly below-market farce of a TV deal. IMO, this team's payroll should be right up against the luxury tax threshold, and if Rogers says they can't support that then they are goddamn liars.

All I want for Christmas is J.D. Martinez (and a backloaded but reasonable 6 year extension for Donaldson).

Sorry, no he isn't. A 4.05 xFIP isn't "good" by any definition. It's maybe adequate, but I don't see the point in allocating $2M for a mediocre LOOGY. Just let Mayza do the same thing for 1/4 of the money. Mayza is better in every conceivable way, and might actually even be "good"!

Yeah that's the one. She has a weird, affected voice. Like she's intentionally trying to sound more masculine and authoritative.

Would you guys bang that anchor with the man voice? I forget her name but you know the one.

I have faith. Shapiro is the ultimate pragmatist. He'll be cut and we'll sign some extremely un-sexy value play like Jed Lowrie.

Well this is scary and depressing. 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grid_line_regular, align: right].289[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].289[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right].270[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].385[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].559[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].396[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]149[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]2.4[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]32.6[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]0.1[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular rgSorted, bgcolor: #E5E5E5, align: right]5.0[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: rgAltRow] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]2[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular]Justin Smoak[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]158[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]637[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]38[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]85[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]90[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]0[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]11.5 %[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]20.1 %[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].259[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].285[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right].270[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].355[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].529[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].371[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]132[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]-3.2[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]21.9[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]-9.7[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular rgSorted, bgcolor: #E5E5E5, align: right]3.4[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: rgRow] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]3[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular]Kevin Pillar[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]154[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]632[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: 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right]1.8[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: rgRow] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]5[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular]Teoscar Hernandez[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]26[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]95[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]8[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]16[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]20[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]0[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]6.3 %[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]37.9 %[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].341[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].333[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right].261[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].305[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].602[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right].371[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_regular, align: right]132[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, align: right]0.9[/TD] [TD=class: grid_line_break, 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Loup, Koehler, Carrera are easy non-tenders. Even Goins, why bother keeping? He's proven beyond all doubt that he's an atrocious hitter, may as well just let Urena be the utility guy. If we are going to run sub-replacement level garbage out there at the utility IF spot, may as well pay the garbage league minimum. Truth be told, Goins would probably re-sign at league min and report to BUF, I doubt he has any other MLB options out there.

I can honestly say I would not bang her.

She's got a weird nose. It's hard to tell but maybe she got a bad nose job, or maybe it's just naturally upturned.

dat ERA

It makes me upset that Jose Altuve bats 3rd. What year is this? He's literally the perfect leadoff hitter. The Sox lineup looks pretty shite too.

John Lott ✔@LottOnBaseball Re: Vlad Guerrero Jr., Atkins said #BlueJays committed to him at 3B, expect also to give him OF reps.