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  1. Laika
    White - pen Tiedemann - AAA, not on 40 man Rodriguez - who knows Francis - AAA SP hmmmm
  2. Laika
    He could be as high as 9th or 10th on the SP chart presently.
  3. Laika
    The models like him. Former NC Dinos Ace, Arthur Wesley Parsons, was one of the best pitchers in the KBO in 2021 and for a brief time in 2022. His K/9 was among the elite during such period. In 2023, in 81.2 innings at the AAA level, Arthur Wesley Parsons had a K/9 in the top 4 among SP with at least 80 innings, slotting in behind real prospects Robert Gasser, Drew Rom, and Jared Jones, and above real prospects like Gavin Stone, Joey Cantillo, and Juan Soto trade headliner Randy Vasquez. Steamer presently projects him for a sub 4.00 ERA in relief, while ZIPS thinks he could be an above replacement level arm in a swing-role. The Blue Jays probably think he could be competent arm for ~3 innings if they are desperate. He might be better than a random prospect, like Chad Dallas and Luis Quinones, and he might project better than most of the presently willing MiLB potential signees. He might be able to miss bats, for one turn through the order.
  4. Laika
    sort of shades of the Gurriel deal 7/$22M for a 23 year old vs. 5/$32M for a 27 year old The Cubans are willing to give the team some upside on a longer term deal in exchange for a decent chunk of guaranteed money A bit different from the Japanese/KBO players who sometimes try to just get decent money and the chance to opt out or be a free agent ASAP
  5. Laika
    nice
  6. Laika
    It would be wild He has negative $24M value per BTV. And he's a good personality fit for the organization.
  7. Laika
    Yeah I think they would just make KK the expensive 4th OF But they aren't signing Bellinger
  8. Laika
    I don't see how it makes much sense. It's a push by projections; pretty close to swapping a 2.5 win OF for a 2.5 win OF They'd be turning Springer's 3 year commitment into... whatever Bellinger settles for, probably 5+ years at same or higher AAV They'd get much younger of course and you could argue that they would have more upside, but personally I see Springer as a safer bet to be good in 2024 based on basic stuff like maxEV and batted ball data. And then likely losing something to get out of the Springer contract as he has negative value. So I bet they'd have to take another negative value contract back, or spend prospect capital.
  9. Laika
    I'm not sure the risk reward is proportionate. You can't really measure it by saying most of the time it's a success, because the downsides are near catastrophic. In 2019 Corbin and Keuchel were expected to get like $120M and $90M. Corbin signed for 6/$140M. Good thing he did. Keuchel held out and got like $13M. He had to get pretty lucky and perform highly again to make decent money after that. A less aggressive agent probably advises their player to just take the offer that is 85% of what they want, at some point. The downside is not "catastrophy" like it is with Boras shenanigans. Keuchel was one elbow injury away from leaving something like $70M on the table for all we know
  10. Laika
    Thomas and Ruiz are worth close to nothing. Both could lose their jobs and be bench players in MLB at any moment. I dunno though, for the same reason I wouldn't want to really keep them. I would probably keep Greene and Jones, then just dump Ruiz or Thomas for any arm above replacement level or a draft pick
  11. Laika
    Well, it's true. Acting together is only collusion if it's an affront of... something. This is how words and definitions work. They mean specific things. Anyway, looks like Havok found the specific clause
  12. Laika
    Didn't Boras blow it for a few guys in recent years. Keuchel, maybe Moustakas? Greg Holland something something with the Rockies?
  13. Laika
    Collusion or cooperation? Collusion implies something improper, illegal, etc.
  14. Laika
    Based Hader
  15. Laika
    Yeah, not a chance.
  16. Laika
    But that doesn't stop them from being holier-than-thou and not wanting to work with the guys who get caught
  17. Laika
    Yeah dude, 99.9% of people don't do this s*** at all and if they do they understand it could jeapordize whatever career they have. You are a cretin and you work in hospitality but have you ever donkey punched a girl while she was unconscious? Probably not, right? Majority of baseball players are God, Guns, and Family types.
  18. Laika
    But is Travis Bauer even good anymore? His K9 in Japan was less than during his MLB career. He only won 10 games over there. He is now 33 years old.
  19. Laika
    Lawyer Jim wins another case!
  20. Laika
    They shouldn't really need to sign... any hitters at all, for the foreseeable future. Maybe just a pure CF type if Mullins leaves after 2025.
  21. Laika
    I have the God given right to shame any kink I want! Butt stuff is for THE DEVIL
  22. Laika
    Braves? Absolutely. No, like what the Astros accomplished a decade ago. I don't mean push short term chips onto the table. Finishing touches on the organization would be a better phrase. It's mostly boring procedural stuff, or personnel stuff; having the correct employees, coaches, systems, and processes to allow you to be a great organization rather than a merely good organization. There are a few great organizations in baseball. Dodgers, Astros, Rays (have to be great to succeed for so long with so little resources). And then there are, like FIFTEEN or more solid organizations that jockey for positioning but have certain flaws and varying strengths. Many of these organizations cut off their own heads every once in a while because sometimes being merely good just isn't good enough. The Jays are just somewhere in this big glut of second tier teams, not obviously a better organization than certain front offices that may not have even finished .500 last year.
  23. Laika
    huh anyone with a functioning brain would have realized the possibilities/risks before engaging the first time. it's not like this is 1965 and backhanding a woman is just now becoming mildly unpopular. Bauer has a career-long history of antisocial behaviour. Long before any of this s***, he was being traded by teams that thought he was uncoachable, and getting into fights or disagreements with coaches and other players. if anything, he has a pattern of being a ******** so should be seen as more likely to be a ******** again!
  24. Laika
    Sounds good. He should sign for the George Springer deal at the most, then.
  25. Laika
    Final touches was meant to mean something more like... turn the team from good to great.
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