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It seems like William Contreras was the best centrepiece the A's could get, but they didn't want him because they have a couple of catchers in the pipeline. So they called around. Esteury Ruiz is really the lynchpin of the entire trade. I think he's a s***** slap hitter. But he's super divisive. There are people who think he is a blue chip prospect. Ruiz is the Kevin Smith / Brett Lawrie of this deal for Oakland; the major league ready position player who they think can be a two way difference maker. Both of the Chapman and Donaldson trades flopped for Oakland largely on the failings of Lawrie and Smith (Hoglund could still salvage the Chapman deal...) If Ruiz flops, this Murphy trade will probably be awful in hindsight. Obviously the A's also got three live arms, but they all have some warts. Maybe one of the arms turns into a mid rotation SP or a bullpen stud and then the thing looks okay in three years even if Ruiz is replacement level.
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Yeah it could have been a leak from Cards people. Little bit of propaganda before they closed the deal on Contreras.
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is your chronic loneliness/horniness a disability? if so, we are all sorry bro
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2022)
Laika replied to Grant77's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2022)
Laika replied to Grant77's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
well i'd like him NOW if he's going to be one of four -
Imagine Tapia as a hitter But he's an elite CF with a cannon arm. And a better baserunner.
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I'm not sure he has the track record to command a 3 year deal at that money.
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One big difference is that JBJ can no longer hold his own as an MLB hitter. There is a big difference between a 75 wRC+ and a 90 wRC+ In this last two years JBJ was worth negative 52 batting runs. Just hemorrhaging runs. He only contributed +13 runs on defense and baserunning in those years. By comparison, Kiermaier has been almost neutral on batting runs over the last 3 years (minus 3.1 runs) which he more than makes up for by baserunning alone. So in theory he can hit enough to make his defense pure gravy. Statcast also shows that JBJ is cooked. He wasn't even above average by sprint speed in 2022. Kiermaier was 93rd percentile.
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Imagine if Tanner Roark couldn't even eat innings. That's Taijuan Walker.
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Okay the Braves also sent Royber Salinas to Oakland Looks like a 70 FB 60 CB relief prospect, maybe two years away. Fangraphs says 40 FV. That makes it a bit better for Oakland, they get another lottery ticket arm.
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Especially Walker, his statcast page is all blue lmao At least Taillon can still spin it
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Bassitt Fangraphs projected deal: 3/$51M actual: 3/$63M Taillon projected: 3/$42M actual: 4/$68M Walker projected: 3/$42M actual: 4/$72M
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They have this weird thing where they NEED to get MLB ready players in the deal
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I feel like they are done with the pen unless they open up room with trades
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By "not too bad" surely you would mean "perfect, sublime, error free, the ideal offseason"
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Not much left to do. Just sign Conforto and tell Moreno to bring 5 different gloves to spring training because he's getting reps in CF and every infield position.
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oh no our dwaft pick!
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Banned Ron for being a stupid troll
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Very easy to see him producing 6 to 7 wins and being worth this money over three years, even if his peak is behind him but maybe the best is yet to come? older guy with a deep bag of pitches. sometimes they continue to get better
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Carlos Danger is going to cum
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I think so Ruiz has like, 6th percentile max EV. He's a slap hitter!
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Yeager + Muller + Contreras + Tarnok This is a weird trade Contreras has substantial value as a good young catcher. It's not often that you see the centrepiece of the trade flipped in a 3-way deal like this. Most of the time the selling team wants to centrepiece and the third team just gets involved to make the rest of it work. Esteury Ruiz SUCKS Oakland is just stupid.
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Baseball teams are just so big. Too many contributors to be buying most of them in free agency.
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Most of these long term contracts these days are probably thought of as just spreading out the $$ Like the Phillies don't think Trea Turner is going to be worth anything in years 9, 10, 11. I bet in their heads it's an 8 year $37.5M AAV deal, with some money deferred...
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Not really Camilo Doval has 5 years of control so doubt they trade their closer here They have some okay platoon OFers but not worth as much as Jansen Alex Cobb is good and under control for $9M this year and $10M next ($2M buyout) I wonder if Toronto could get Cobb and a kicker
