Laika
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Sure he does. He has almost as much experience working in baseball as AA has years on the Earth. He's been the GM of a Canadian team and two other teams in the AL East. Before that he was a director of player development, and in the middle he dabbled in amateur athletics and owned and operated a sports academy in Mass. and was owner/president of some summer collegiate team. He's more basebally than most Presidents, but teams vary widely on top end organization. Some teams have a pure business dude in the President role, others have a former GM and a true baseball guy. Others split the role - the Cubs have a President of Baseball Ops (Theo) and President of Business Ops. With the Blue Jays, it makes sense to have a guy with a ton of GM experience in different organizations in the President role. They don't really need a pure "business" guy because there are already countless suits above the team in the ownership group.
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AA doesn't really have the resume to be a team president.
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Yeah I think that was Pentecost's estimate, was it not?
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Yeah it would be DoubleD for a ptbnl. Trea Turner was already dealt.
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Hey guys this kind of feels like the Dickey trade when all of the smart Blue Jays fans were like "lol no way they'll get d'Arnaud AND Syndergaard, maybe JPA and an arm" but then the worst case ontario happened
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Smoral is basically just Norris but still in the cocoon.
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lol @ 6 months for a torn labrum.
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Man, probably closer to 18 months. Pineda tore his labrum in March/April 2012 and didn't get back into a game until June 2013 (14 months or so). But even then, hiccups are common - the Yanks shut Pineda down for shoulder soreness in early August of 2013. It basically took Pineda 24 months to get sort of healthy.... and you could argue that he's still not right since he missed 3 months / 87 games last year with a shoulder strain. I think you can basically forget about Stilson ever being a big leaguer.
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Well to be fair he listed non-prospects Hutch and Stroman who are already above average SP. That only leaves 1-2 more from the entire list... so not unreasonable. Cardona is a complete write off at this point.
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TJS is like a Bar Mitzvah for pitchers. A rite of passage. Tirado is very likely not even a AAA caliber arm but scouts like his s*** so he's worth mentioning still. maybe.
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That lady was a brick, lol.
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And there's more, too. Clinton Hollon, Taylor Cole, Alberto Tirado, Angel Perdomo.... some other pure RP prospects. so many arms
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Watch more baseball.
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Guys, Navarro set up down the middle because he had no idea where the kid's curveball would go. He probably didn't even have a location in mind. The pitch was garbage. You hangy, Ortiz bangy almost every time, unless he's literally never seen you before. Give Navarro 100% of the credit for that K for simply calling the correct pitch type.
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This seems like a philosophy question. Is nothing something?
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He can hang curveballs? Cool
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You'd open at your worst case scenario? Dumb dumb
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Probably 70-80% of whatever you budget is at the time, assuming there are 1 or 2 people left with enough funds to bid you up.
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secret hand-tabulated snail mail league
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no.
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Toronto Kevin is Amaro. I'll be AA or Jack Z.
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That's cuz he's a huge pusso who can't set lineups and make adds in the clutch
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And in the mirroring baseball league he owns Trout, Harper, and Stanton. Basically, he made these leagues, stocked them with his real life friends, and then charged everyone an entry fee before ripping off all of the people that only he knew were rubes. Now we're all stuck in a cycle of perpetually playing second fiddle to a fantasy sports sociopath.
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Look, kid, you got lucky. Stay humble or someone will come along and humble you.
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Keep Tulo.
