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I was inches from landing Wainwright for Salazar+ when Dinger got mental and offered Fernandez + Carpenter. I wasn't sure whether to be mad or happy. In hindsight, happy. I would have regretted the trade. Also, f*** Dinger. Salazar Harvey Fiers Mondesi #15 (Tapia) #16 (Pompey) for Waino Pujols Fowler I was able to turn Fiers into Fowler into Steve Pearce, who is better than Pujols, anyway.

Ah, the good ol' days when we would talk on the phone until 3am every night <3 No YOU hang up!

How did Dinger end up with Fernandez? Must be something missing from the trade history.

Oh I was definitely going to tell everybody after you accepted/rejected the offer.

Gibby needs to be a better classroom leader "Ok kids, we have a new student in the class today. This is Nolan from Baltimore. Everyone, say hi to Nolan. Hi Nolan! Cito, can you please be Nolan's buddy today and show him around the school?"

boxy traded for a ton of these picks and then botched them

2013 summer draft was weak 1 Gryffindor - Kris Bryant 2 Got Head For Miles - Mark Appel 3 BALCO Pharm Team - Jonathan Gray 4 Georgia Peach- Clint Frazier 5 (insert clever name) - Kohl Stewart 6 Jurassic Kats - Colin Moran 7 SpeedyGose - Braden Shipley 8 The Uphill Gardners - Austin Meadows 9 Twist and Trout - Reese McGuire 10 The Uphill Gardners - Dominic Smith 11 Got Head for Miles - Jose Rafael De Paula (NYY) 12 The Uphill Gardners - Billy McKinney 13 Georgia Peach - Nomar Mazara 14 Gryffindor - DJ Peterson 15 Oppo Taco - Ryne Stanek 16 Butt Stallions - Hunter Renfroe 17 Gryffindor - Trey Ball 18 London Slayers - Eric Jagielo 19 Taijuan On!- Phillip Ervin 20 The Lyon Tamer- JP Crawford 21 The Lyon Tamer -- Devon Travis 22 Taijuan On! -- Julio Urias 23 Butt Stallions -- Sean Manaea 24 A 2nd Leg To Stanton -- Jon Denney 25 A 2nd Leg To Stanton -- Marco Gonzales 26 Oppo Taco - Hunter Harvey 27 B. Inge Drinking - Lucas Sims 28 Georgia Peach -- Ronald Guzman 29 The Uphill Gardners -- Austin Wilson 30 Got Head for Miles -- Phil Bickford -- "Bluejays Future Ace" 31 The Uphill Gardners -- Riley Unroe 32 ISO Horny - Rougned Odor 33 Got Head For Miles -- Rafael Montero 34 SpeedyGose - Cody Reed 35 Jurassic Kats - Chris Owings 36 (insert clever name) - Nick Ciuffo 37 The Uphill Gardners -- Justin Williams 38 BALCO Pharm Team - Jorge Bonifacio 39 Georgia Peach- Matt Wisler 40 London Slayers - Henry Owens 41 Oppo Taco -- Domingo Santana 42 The Uphill Gardners -- Andrew Heaney 43 BALCO Pharm Team -- Cheslor Cuthbert 44 Taijuan On!-- Chad Pinder 45 BALCO Pharm Team -- Maikel Franco 46 London Slayers -- Brian Flynn 47 SpeedyGose - Aaron Judge 48 Jurassic Kats - Eduardo Rodriguez 49 Twist and Trout - Ian Clarkin 50 Got Head For Miles - Tyler Glasnow 51 Triple Hawpe Brewed! - Devin Williams 52 Triple Hawpe Brewed! - Robbie Ray 53 Georgia Peach - Kyle Smith 54 B. Inge Drinking - Tyler Naquin 55 A Wrench In The Plan - Sonny Gray 56 Triple Hawpe Brewed! - Cesar Puello 57 B. Inge Drinking - Rob Kaminsky 58 ISO Horny - Kyle Parker 59 B. Inge Drinking - Chris Anderson 60 True Cardinals - Arismendy Alcantara 61 The Lyon Tamer -- Daniel Robertson 62 BALCO Pharm Team -- Stephen Piscotty 63 Butt Stallions -- Jose Ramirez (NYY) 64 Gryffindor - Victor Roache 65 Taijuan On! - Amaurys Minier 66 Butt Stallions -- Anthony Ranaudo 67 Triple Hawpe Brewed! -- Michael Johnson 68 Georgia Peach -- Zach Eflin 69 ISO Horny - Nolan Fontana 70 A Wrench In The Plan - Miguel Almonte 71 A 2nd Leg To Stanton - Tim Anderson 72 Twist and Trout - Jonathan Crawford 73 ISO Horny - Adam Brett Walker 74 SpeedyGose - Jordan Paroubeck 75 Butt Stallions -- Manuel Margot 76 The Lyon Tamer - Alex Gonzalez 77 B. Inge Drinking - Tzu-Wei Lin 78 The True Cardinals - Hunter Dozier 79 Oppo Taco - Nick Kingham 80 (Insert clever name) - Nick Delmonico 81 Taijuan On! - Elier Hernandez 82 The True Cardinals - Danny Salazar 83 A Wrench In The Plan - Mike Foltynewicz 84 BALCO Pharm Team - Tyrone Taylor 85 (insert clever name) - Max Kepler 86 Jurrasic Kats - Jose Ramirez (CLE) 87 SpeedyGose - Edwin Escobar 88 (insert clever name) - Jesse Hahn 89 Twist and Trout - Oscar Mercado 90 B. Inge Drinking - Corey Knebel 91 Taijuan On! - Renato Nunez 92 The True Cardinals - Travis Demeritte ---- 94 B. Inge Drinking - David Rodriquez 95 A 2nd Leg To Stanton - Ryan Boldt 96 Butt Stallions -- Nick Williams 97 Gryffindor = ) Clint Coulter 98 A 2nd Leg To Stanton - Joe Ross 99 Butt Stallions -- Jairo Beras 100 The True Cardinals - Mookie Betts 101 The LyonTamer--- AJ Jimenez 102 Triple Hawpe Brewed! - Dilson Herrera 103 A 2nd LegTo Stanton - Dustin Peterson 104 Gryffindor - Adam Morgan 105 London Slayers - Tony Sanchez 106 A 2nd Leg To Stanton - Hunter Green 107 B. IngeDrinking - Kevin Plawecki 109 TripleHawpe Brewed! - window lapsed 110 The Lyon Tamer- Zach Bird 111 A Wrench InThe Plan - Trevor May 112 Twist and Trout - Ryan Rua 113 ISO Horny - Henry Urrutia 114 SpeedyGose - Jeimer Candelario 115 JurassicKats - Michael Fulmer 116 Head for Miles - Matt Purke 117 BALCO Pharm Team - Orlando Arcia 118 London Slayers - Edward Salcedo 119 Oppo Taco - Alexis Rivera 120 Jurassic Kats - Chris Okey

You guys seem jealous.

I don't like him anymore

Yeah, huge return for Buff. I love Teravainen long term.

Woah, woah, woah. Stop right there, young man.

If Profar misses another full year with shoulder issues, is he a keep or a cut for 2016?

Poor Jurickson Profar. Surgery again.

It would seem like a wasted opportunity for Toronto to not at least get some incremental defensive upgrade at the deadline. They seem to have a top ~5 offensive team, but a very mediocre defensive one. Not saying they should "go for it", but surely there is some small/cheap upgrade to be had out there. There's not guarantee that they'll be able to score like this next year.

Yea well help better next time you squirrel

Sammy did cut Papi and Imhof. I missed his PM on Saturday.

More scouts can = better information, but only if you're applying them correctly. Getting scouts to new regions is one way that it could help. Maybe having more cross-checkers would help too (for obvious sample size reasons). Dalton Pompey might be one example of how extra scouts could help. How many teams were on the high school kid coming out of John Fraser in Mississauga? It was in their own backyard so it's not fair to say that extra scouts helped Toronto identify his tools, but imagine that Miami or some team way down there saw him, liked him, and took him. Dan Jansen is another cold weather kid. Wisconsin. Some teams just don't have the bodies to scout these places. Why waste a scout in a region where one kid might pop up every year, when you can just park that scout in a motel in Florida that's a 3 hour drive from hundreds of legit prospects? Cross-checking just helps add a little bit of confidence to tool grades that can be pretty dumb/random/hard to grade. If I was running a scouting department all of my underlings would hate me because I'd be pretty strict about keeping them from sharing any information whatsoever, looking up any statistics, or even watching games together. Important to be blind!

guys guys guys jaysblue traded Mike Olt and Matt Davidson for Kennedy and Werth. also, looks like silvergun got some Donaldson payback by sending min spare parts for Lucroy.

I'll send you edit privileges on the Google Doc, North, so that you can help curate the trade history going forward (if you want).

yay! North, you can stay in the league for one more season, I guess.

a masterpiece. mods, please bronze and lock this thread.

Scout - "Aaron Sanchez has trouble with his command" Coach - "Aaron Sanchez has trouble with his command so let's destroy his lower body mechanics and increase his risk of arm injury, all while failing to help his command in any noticeable way"

Correct. They are two different forms of commonly peddled psuedoscience, as practiced. Scouts are like naturopaths. Coaches are like naturopathic surgeons. The former knows much less than he thinks he does. The latter knows the same amount as the former, but he gets to tinker with bodies on top of it.

For every scout that said "Wow, Zach Duke's new mechanics are going to make him a killer reliever", you'd get several saying similar things about different players that would not have come to fruition. ex, "I think with these new mechanics, Ricky will be able to be much more consistent on the mound" "I think Adeiny is one of the elite defensive shortstops in the game" "Esmil's new sinker makes him a good candidate to stick in an MLB starting rotation" How do you parse that information? You can't, really. So the lot of it is more or less junk. You're not going to buy into a scout's opinion that Bautista's new leg-kick makes him an elite power hitter any quicker than the data will start to show you that same thing. If you're willing to buy in immediately, you're going to end up with a lot of turds on your roster at the behest of a scout's whim.

I have no valuable trade block assets but I'll take him!