Laika

Little birdy told me that the #fancystats think Smoak is very underrated.

Indeed.

Assuming that this Estrada deal opens up the door for a Happ sell-high, then I like everything they've done. 14M for Lind + Happ turned into like, ~5M for Estrada + Smoak. Bench spot made more flexible because your DH is no longer a platoon player. 9M in funds. Now if they don't spend those funds.... Sounds like they are letting Melky walk too.

Good thing it's only November. The dick-nuggets on this message board need to calm the f*** down.

Or hate YOU.

Dirks / Chris Young platoon in LF would be pretty excellent and cheap. Pompey in CF with a Gose / Chris Young platoon as the fallback option. Maybe trade Pillar or Gose if someone likes them, or just store one of them in AAA for depth. (Pillar is worse methinks). Probably have to keep Gose so CF could be covered with absolute defensive competence. Although it's possible that I'm underrating Pillar and he's actually > Chris Young right now. I dunno

Mike Moustakas available on the cheap. Why trade premium assets for one of thehurl's overrated hot corner dudes when breakout playoff star Moose Tacos is available for pennies? I know that lots of you donkeys need a 3B.

Justin Williams comes into the draft as a guy with a questionable hit tool but plus or plus-plus raw. In his first 544 PA he has a measly .110 ISO with 5 homers, but he's hit .351.... beisbol!

You probably could have had him for a beer last night if you weren't being such a big puss

You're up in the LoD prospect draft, kid. Hint - pick _________

Sent him a trade offer by email last Monday. He responded quickly but said he'd get back to me on the weekend because he was very busy with school. Never got back to me on the weekend. Did say, verbatim, "I'm still here".

His UZR/150 over his entire career is almost exactly zero. Not exactly "poor"

Hard to believe a playoff hopeful doesn't want Utley as a primary 2B or even UTIL / 2B backup. Maybe I'll just keep him.

lol, Lupul has as many shots as Buffalo

Pretty much everyone who is the type of person that makes an account and posts on a Blue Jays message board would geef a fawk.

My issue with Smoak is that he never even displayed power in the minors. 31 homers in 1150 PA and an ISO just over .160 is thoroughly sub-par for a 1B prospect, especially a college 1B. So it's not like Safeco f***ed up his power development and his confidence.... Well at least it's not likely. I think he just doesn't have power that plays at first base. The tool isn't there despite the frame.

Oscar had a Canadian passport... hurts all Canadians too.

I think it was Domonic Dunne?

Dinger, BTS, and I have discussed the issue and decided to compensate Boxy for the sudden and unexpected loss of Oscar Taveras. We stress that this does not set a precedent for valuable compensation for all untimely deaths or retirements. It will always be a case-by-case basis. The main factors here are seen as such: 1) the sheer upside and long term value that Oscar Taveras held in a dynasty format like this (talent + age) 2) the utterly unexpected nature of the loss (contrast with a long rumoured retirement, or a sudden retirement in a player's early 30's) 3) the state of Boxy's team 4) the combination of 1) and 3) (relative value of Oscar to Boxy's team). We have decided to give Boxy a first round draft pick immediately following the 'lottery' picks in this summer's MiLB draft, and a guaranteed 2nd overall pick in the 2016 MiLB draft (lottery will occur for picks #1-5 and Boxy's guaranteed pick will be labelled as 1B). The 2015 pick will be labelled as 5B in the spreadsheet. It will technically be the 6th overall pick, so any MiLB pick numbered 6 or greater will be one slot worse. The 2016 pick will not be tradable by Boxy until the rest of the 2016 draft picks become tradable. The 2016 pick will be in addition to Boxy's normal first round pick. If Boxy finishes in the bottom five in 2015 and wins the draft lottery for the 2016 MiLB draft, the guaranteed 2nd overall compensation pick labelled 1B will turn into a guaranteed 3rd overall compensation pick labelled 2B. Please note that Boxy did not approach any of us asking for compensation. He never so much as hinted at it. Also please note that while this 5B pick immediately depresses the value of later draft picks by a small amount, Boxy's MLB team just suffered a rather sudden and catastrophic loss relative to every other team in the league. If your draft feels "wronged" by this unilateral compensation, take a minute to reflect on how your MLB team was just given a sudden leg up on a competitor (using the most liberal possible definition of "competitor"....) On the issue of whether or not this is "fair" compensation, we would argue that very few people in this league would have traded Oscar Taveras for a 6th overall pick + a 2nd overall pick two drafts from now. We are not trying to approximate the value of Taveras here, although that is of course part of the consideration. If you are strongly against this compensation please send a PM to me on proboards. In lieu of a vote on this issue, if a fair number of people privately express disagreement with what we have done here, we might consider changing what we have awarded Boxy. RIP Oscar

Oh so he went after Atlanta... lol. He probably wanted a three year deal or something like that. Who really cares.

Pretty sad when you have coaches bailing on your team every other season.

Crazy to think that if the Cards made the World Series, he'd be alive right now...

Shocked that North would deal Homer for those two prospects. Almora doesn't hit for power, walk, or run - possibly the worst utilization of tools in the minor leagues. Appel smells like a rich man's Deck McGuire.

I think you mean "less".

Lind isn't that good though. In the last 5 seasons he's been worth 2.4 wins total.