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Sanchez only has 34 AAA innings, and 100.1 innings in AA/AAA. His peripherals were terrible at those levels too. I think it's pretty dumb to just give him a spot on the team because he throws hard and his ERA was shiny in the bullpen last summer. Also, if they keep him down in Buffalo for a couple of months they effectively get another year of control out of him, I think (because his service time will be less than 3.000 years after 2017).

robo-burn! Lrn 2 scrape, noxage.

I don't see how the bullpen helps him become a starter. He'd just throw 90% fastballs, with the odd stupidly gigantic curve. The guy needs to throw more pitches to work on his fastball command, and keep trying to come up with an average third pitch .

Best thing to do is give Estrada a chance, let Sanchez start in Buffalo, and if and when Estrada blows chunks, then you call up Sanchez. Giving him the job out of the gate would be stupid. IMO. He's clearly still got a lot of s*** to work on.

So our two old-school power rankers basically nailed it, I guess.

SPRING 7.2 IP 4 K 2 BB 1 HR 17 groundouts 3 flyouts Stats are meaningless but there they are. At least the GB rate is extreme (needs to be since he can't miss bats).

Bautista is not allowed to get hurt.

Didn't realize that every non-playoff team had a small chance at McDavid. Exciting! I like it.

Wasn't kidding! Dude is desparate.

To the curator of the spreadsheet - I'm getting BTS' 1st waiver in the deal

I did on Yahoo!

deal

wow, 97% me? very ineffective if that's the case

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+ there's the fact that he swung the bat like Yuniesky Betancourt last year. Just a gross player from multiple angles.

Some people have the rather ugly habit if completely ignoring any messages or trade offers that they don't like. The trick with jaysblue is to send him a lot of really s***** offers and annoy him to the point that he'll grace you with a "lol no" reply.

Cool now project playing time. Craig is worth about as much as Carlos Quentin. You should just admit defeat and drop him for the dogs (and Kat) to fight over.

Just fireballing here but maybe they weren't lowballs. Maybe you're highballing.

Watching Dinger pretend that Allen Craig has any value has been rather fascinating

Well if the D-Bags don't really have any designs in competing this year, then what's the point of plugging a hole with some fat Mexican on a 1 year contract?

Maybe sparks Navarro trade. Probably not though. Before this, if Navarro bumped Gosewich to backup and Hernandez off the roster, it would have meant returning Hernandez to Tampa. Now they can DL Hernandez for some time and have a couple of months to evaluate both Navarro as the starter and Gosewich as the backup.

Ignore math and reason for a second. Let's just throw names on the wall and see what's pretty. Bautista ----> Pillar Donaldson ----> Valencia Martin ----> Navarro Stroman ----> Norris/Sanchez Three position players who are replaced by junk. A pitcher that is replaced by a top prospect. What's the biggest delta, kiddo?

Yeah, Donaldson, Martin, and Bautista would all be probable ~4 win losses in a full season. Stroman currently is something like a 2-3 win loss, depending on if someone else gets hurt. If all you care about is entertainment though, then he could definitely be thatoneguy.

Well, I guess it's more of a back-end issue than a depth issue. They have one shut down guy (Cecil) one setup guy (Loup) and then about a dozen that you would project close to replacement level. You could certainly call it a depth issue if you want. The depth at the back-end of the bullpen is lacking. They could use more shut down arms for sure. The problem is, it's extremely, extremely inefficient to acquire guys that would project as shut down arms. And the optimist would say that shut down bullpen arms come out of nowhere every year. They rise from the ranks of the "replacements" and cement themselves as really f***ing good. Remember when Andrew Miller was a sad failed prospect? When Dellin Betances was a lost cause that couldn't throw strikes? Who saw Pat Neshek turning into an elite reliever? But, the pessimist would say that banking on that happening to your team is a terrible idea. Maybe bullpen arms are so random that the Blue Jays have actually got it right this year by acquiring a bunch of intriguing minor league guys to fill it out. We'll see. In the team's defense, some of them have been really effective in recent memory (Lopez and Delabar).

Dickey is the best. He's the only one who really deviates from sports interview cliches.