Laika

Unregressed

There are probably many more efficient ways to get a mediocre, plodding, platoon DH.

Why the hell would you want Montero?

Hey guys, I have NHL.com firewalled at home for no specifically real reason. Can somebody please check how many points and games played David Clarkson has? Also, what's his contract again? Thanks!

I love this. I remember calling for it immediately after the Posey injury.

yessssssssssssssss Amaro. I love that you exist.

Yeah but I think I traded him and Pat Corbin and Anthony Cingrani for Alex Gordon. So I smarted my way out of that mess.

Talk about throwing s*** at the wall. Hart is probably the only one who would project for anything close to league average production, and he's coming off major surgery. LoMo I like a little bit and I'd take him over Smoak, but they both probably play at replacement level. Montero might as well retire.

So three of my bats just became Mariners within a week. Cool. Renaming my team to Handsome Jack Z's Butt Stallions

Ce n'est pas une limite

One one hand, these specific quips might have merit. On the other hand, the number machine is far better at interpreting most of the relevant numbers than any of us.

Wow, what is Steamer thinking in regards to Gardner's D? His UZR/150 career in the OF is +23. Is that a f***ing glitch? lol

Yes. Probably a lot more. Hard to quantify specifically but it could be worth mentioning. Then again, you'd have to mention it every time you talked about the Jays hypothetically adding any wins, which might become monotonous.

First that, then I'll move to Japan for some reason.

Edwin is worth about twice as much as Price. http://www.breakingblue.ca/2013/12/09/asset-vs-asset-price-and-edwin/

Actually I said I'd sell my team. Fatcow is free to buy his way in with real money if he wants!

Kevin Pillar at number nine seems reeeeeeaaaaaly dumb. John Stilson has big teeth.

Haha, I was just looking at the start to Cano's career and it reminded me a lot of Rasmus' (just looking at WAR). Age/Cano/Colby 22 0.2 2.6 23 2.5 4.0 24 4.8 0.5 25 0.1 1.1 26 4.0 4.8 Obviously it doesn't mean anything. Well, I guess you could argue that Cano demonstrates what Colby's ~98th percentile 4 year projections might look like.

Homer is on the block?

A team with a win projection in the mid to high 80s should be willing to spend a lot in order to cross that 90th win mark. The value of these marginal wins is immense. I'd like to see them spend money, not prospects (assuming than an overpay is necessary, I'd rather them overpay with money). Tanaka or Garza to fill the team's biggest need, and then something like Mark Ellis and Youkilis to provide offensive depth. I think they can win 90 with that team. Youkilis can DH against lefties, cover 1B and 3B, cover a full DH role. Mark Ellis is the starting 2B. I'd probably cut Izturis, just eat the money, and make Goins the backup 2B/SS. Would need another Kawasaki type in Buffalo though for when Reyes gets hurt. They could maybe DFA Mouser and send him there, but he'd probably prefer to be released. Some team might even claim him if Toronto pays some/most of his salary. Alternate to Youkilis would be Mike Morse, if he'd take a non-guaranteed starting role (which I doubt he'd be interested in). I'd be very pleased with something like that. I think it would be spreading stupid on top of stupid to put this team together and then stop investing in short term wins all of a sudden.

Guys like Rasmus are basically why projection systems exist. He's probably not a 130 wRC+ player, but he's also not a 90 wRC+ player. 3 wins and a 110 mark sounds pretty flipping reasonable for a 2014 guess. He could also hit 40 homers and drop 6 WAR, or he could strikeout 40% of the time and quit baseball. Who knowwwwwwws. Extremely volatile skill set offensively. But the defensive chops make his production not so volatile (even when he sucked in 2012, he was a 1 win contributor).

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I'm thinking they'll go Walker + Franklin + smaller piece for Price, and then TB might flip Frank immediately. Seattle is looking for bankable wins, I doubt they'd be overly interested in Gose.

I wrote this about the Cano signing: click Some might be interested.

I feel like the best financial decision for both Cano and his famous agent would be to have him take substantially less money to stay in New York, if that indeed ends up being the choice. \ There's a lot of personal brand value to having Cano in New York and in pinstripes. There's also a lot of risk in him going to Seattle. You could slap a not-insignificant dollar value on that risk.