Laika

Feb 15th cutdown Feb 22nd start waiver draft

Thanks. processed on the spreadsheet.

Pretty sure you'd tell Vlad Jr. to suck eggs if you can sign Moncada.

I dunno. You sold Danny after 52 innings.

Says the Salazar non-believer.

Wow, Cody Hodgson has 7 points in 48 games... hard to believe how much I liked him when he was first drafted / in the WJHC.

When did that Donaldson deal happen? In hindsight it's the worst but in context, probably not.

k leave now

Want to join the DDL as the league secretary? You would do a lot of the admin duties + maintain trade history for the league, and in exchange you would get absolutely nothing, ever.

We really should keep track of trade history...

To The War Puigs: Julio Teherán Archie Bradley 20th overall MiLB To Twist and Trout: Clayton Kershaw Damn. TCA might still have PTSD from that trape.

Every list had him top 10 overall entering 2014, and top ~30 entering the previous two years. He's still absolutely a top prospect. Just 22 years old.

That blows. You could've had Utley for a song, you know...

It doesn't crush his value. Hurts a bit, but more for the loss of flexibility, not because 3B is that much deeper than 2B or anything. 2014 trueAV MLB wide was .261 for 3B, .259 for 2B. Basically the same. The gap was a bit larger the two yeas prior, but in 2011 2Bs actually outhit 3Bs. It's not what it used to be back in the golden days when 3B's were just 1B's with arms, and 2B's were just shortstops with noodles. He was also pretty adequate at 2B so there's a decent chance that he'll get enough games in there at some point, if Wong gets hurt or sucks or whatever.

Franco does suck donkey nuts, and since he's Dominican that qualifies as a racial slam as well (bonus points to Boxy). Although, if there's ever to be a CIF prospect that could hit .257/.299 in AAA and then turn into a fantasy relevant player, it's probably the guy with a low K rate, 60 raw, and nobody productive blocking his path to playing time. Bradley gets a mulligan on 2014 for me since he dealt with injuries. I think people are sleeping on him a bit right now. Near elite velocity + other plus pitches + has shown before that he can K guys. But, IIRC it was al elbow strain this past year so maybe he'll get cut sooner than thehurl would like.

I just don't have the time to do that right now. Too busy with s*** like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popov_v._Hayashi

Re-Announcement: I've set the league up as a keeper league this year. Select whichever of your 20 keepers are on your Yahoo imported end-of-year roster from 2014. Doesn't matter if it's 2 or 20 - we will manually add the remaining after the keeper deadline (if this doesn't work for whatever reason, we will just manually add all rosters). Feb 15th at midnight is keeper deadline. You should have your 20 selected in Yahoo and posted here or on ProBoards before then. Rule 4 draft starts on the 22nd. We'll still do 12 hour windows I think. You can post your cuts now if you want.

Forgot about Burnett. He looked like a huge bust but the Pittsburgh bounce-back made him worth / nearly worth the contract --> 12.4 fWAR would probably have been worth something approaching 80M in that time frame. Agree that I'd name Buehrle and Burnett (+ inflation) as the lower and upper limits.

James Shields is 33 years old this year. There's basically no precedent for a 33 year old pitcher getting something around 5/$100 unless you go back to Mike Hampton. Can anyone think of the biggest contracts given to pitchers aged 33 or older in their first year of the new deal? Cliff Lee - 5/$120 for his age 32-36 seasons (vesting option for age 37) Adam Wainwright - 5/$97.5 for his age 32-36 seasons. Cliff had three 6.5+ fWAR seasons in a row before his deal. Waino went 5.3, 5.6, (missed year), 4.1, 6.3 before his deal kicked in. Shields has never had a 5 WAR season, but in an 8.5 year career he's had 7 years between 3.5 and 4.5 fWAR. He's also the most durable looking SP in the league right now, more or less - pitched the most innings in baseball since 2007 (regular season) and the only SP with more starts is Verlander, who is kind of broken. The durability is a plus but the "wear and tear" is a negative. If he's a durable, 33 year old SP that is very good but decidedly not great, then what he is, essentially, is a sexier version of Mark Buehrle. If all we look at is fWAR (or RA9-WAR) and IP, Shields and Buehrle are almost twins. Buehlre got 4/$58 from Miami for has age 33-36 seasons. 4/$60 + some market inflation should be Shields' floor, assuming the market didn't overspend greatly on Buehrle (we've also seen lesser talents like Ervin Santana get something close to the Buehlre deal already this offseason). And as a "sexier" version of the same Buehrle type of talent, Shields can make a strong case for more money. A 5th year might be a major point of disagreement though between the Shields' camp and potential negotiating teams. But, if a team comes out and give's Shields 75M for four years of work, I'd say that that's basically his market value right now.

I could see him getting something barely better than the Garza contract. Maybe 4/60

It's weird and super rare that a 5'8" guy can have clean mechanics + throw with plus velocity as a SP. He's a unicorn!

Hmmmm I think Lindholm is quite good. Nice rebuild trade for Gourd, even if Baertschi is a bust (likely) and the second rounder isn't worth anything.

The impression I've been getting from him for the last few months is that he just doesn't really like interacting with most of the people on this message board anymore, including a chunk of LoD people. Can't really blame him.

Silvergun has been booted from the league for tardiness, and he will be replaced by an algorithm written by JFaS which is called: Computerization Hellbent On Darrell Extermination. CHODE Not the best name/acronym choice, IMO.

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