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  1. Laika
    Very high WAR total occurrences like that tend to be driven partly by luck. Regression is appropriate. He's projected to be the best 3B in baseball and the 6th best position player. Steamer isn't exactly pessimistic on him...
  2. Laika
    New prospect value table http://www.thepointofpittsburgh.com/?p=51 Crazy that OAK would trade ~50M in surplus for Samardzija. Maybe they thought it would be possible to flip Samardzija this offseason for something similar. Or maybe they think they've accomplished that with Semien.
  3. Laika
    And Hanshin. Hopefully Mauro Gomez sold him on how great Buffalo is...
  4. Laika
    gammonsdaily.com give him a chance! Ol' Gammo won't be around forever...
  5. Laika
    no. OF ALL TIME.
  6. Laika
    He needs a better editor on his website, that's for sure. But generally speaking I like how he writes, the way it reads. It's like somebody who knows a lot is just talking to you about a topic. I also really like how he rolls little factoids like that into his pieces. He's just a good story-teller I think and the odd grammatical trip up doesn't really bug me. Lots of baseball writers and pundits can churn out a textbook story about a transaction but most of the time they don't have any flavour. That's why I'll read something by Lott or Griffin from time to time but I'll pretty much never click on a Shi Dividi link.
  7. Laika
    You'd still want Aoki with Saunders here?
  8. Laika
    I like Gammons. He's old and he doesn't know how to twitter but he's smart, a good journalist, and his articles are excellent.
  9. Laika
    Can't read his mind but it's probably not like he'd leave ~12M or something on the table just because he doesn't like Seattle. I'm sure Melky liked the thought of hitting 2nd in front of / playing with Cano.
  10. Laika
    You'd have to assume that the marginal $ for that 4th year just didn't make sense. 3/42 > 4/46, for example. Especially at Melky's relatively young age.
  11. Laika
    pushed by who?
  12. Laika
    Well for one thing, Headley is probably going to get like half that money.
  13. Laika
    It's just based on final standings.
  14. Laika
    Melky's best seasons came when he was 26 and 27 years old. Obviously we don't know for sure that he's done his peak, but based on the performance curve of an average player, his best seasons are likely behind him. The average players peak in their mid to late 20s. That's just our best guess, and anyone's best guess really. It's not absolutely going to be true. The fact that Melky had an excellent looking season where he basically maxed out his hitting abilities, tagging almost everything, and he was still only slightly above average in total value... doesn't really bode well for his future value IMO.
  15. Laika
    They aren't paying for 2011-2014 Melky. They're paying for 2015-2017 Melky. 6 WAR in 3 seasons would be like, an 80th percentile outcome for Chicago.
  16. Laika
    They're still so far from the playoffs though IMO. 2B, C, RF, 3B all suck. Melky and LaRoche are overrated, league average players at best. All of their SP depth is crud past the top 3. All of their RP suck after the two FA signings.
  17. Laika
    Decent deal for Chicago if true. Seems fair.
  18. Laika
    This will probably be the year that Chris Sale's elbow finally explodes.
  19. Laika
    That's not very many years! Pretty surprised he couldn't get four.
  20. Laika
    2009 2010 #scouts
  21. Laika
    He's certainly beeeeeg and strooooong.
  22. Laika
    Every time I've seen Smoak play it's like he's swinging a pool noodle.
  23. Laika
    Yeah he's got surprisingly little pop. Big enough to muscle 20 out of the Rogers Centre, but he's not going to be hitting many second deckers or anything. This is evident in his minor league SLG and OPS along with the MLB ISO.
  24. Laika
    No. In all honestly it's probably just Boras leaking fake Blue Jays interest to the Japanese media in order to increase Toritani's leverage. Maybe all Toritani wants is more money from his NPB team so he hired Boras to fake legitimate interest to cross the ocean.
  25. Laika
    lol @ a mean projection that low. Goins ranked 112th in wRC+ out of the 119 2B that Steamer projects. At least he's projected to outhit Cesar Izturis though.
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