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  1. No, she turned those down. Her ideas were better.
  2. Very unlikely that any will be better than Bo Bichette. Moreno has a realistic chance to be better but it's a pipe dream for all the others. Bo is a super stud. Top 20 asset in baseball right now.
  3. Pretty nuts. Tony LaRussa publicly shamed him for swinging 3-0 then Mercedes spiralled into ineptitude and depression before getting demoted and retiring, all within like one month, and after having a historic debut month.
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    Doubt
  5. The return in his third deal (Kirk and SWR) would actually be fair for the whole crop (Gallo + Gibson + Kennedy) but it's still probably not the type of deal Toronto should be doing at the start of their competitive window.
  6. Bo is good enough. None of the other guys are going to better than Bo defensively. There are some younger shortstops who might have plus gloves: Leo Jimenez, Rikelvin De Castro, Estiven Machado. But they are not going to be here any time soon. Maybe when Bo is getting expensive.
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    NHL Thread

    I've read that before. You can probably just sort by team Corsi and get a rough idea. Also you can just scope staff directories for windows into the front office. Carolina has these: Senior Developer, Hockey Operations Kevin Kan Data Engineer Matt Walter Data Scientist Margaret Cunniff A team like the Ducks has literally no positions on their staff directory that seem advanced.
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    Legit have never heard of like eight players they picked. Wow.
  9. What is this even supposed to mean? Sounds like meaningless doublespeak. If you propose a trade and the other person wants to do it but you refuse to adjust your roster to accomodate, that's a pure welch. A true welch. A welcher's welch.
  10. Welchers are worse than anti vaxxers, Jim. Absolutely no character.
  11. Well I am definitely not worried that they might be thinking of mortgaging the future.
  12. Boston had an above average offense last year. There were like two players who had down seasons. JDM sucked and Devers wasn't amazing.
  13. Red Sox might just be better? Offenses are similar. Jays might be better on balance because of the huge gap between talent at first base, second base, and centre, but Red Sox probably have the better player at like 6 positions and they have the better two way position players. Better pen.
  14. And it's just demonstrably false if you look at their drafts. They have selected their fair share of high school players with high picks. Pitchers and hitters.
  15. This is a Steve Simmons article in the Sun, designed to take an unsupported cheap shot at the current regime. There is nothing of substance in the article. He probably talked to one jaded scout fired by Toronto a couple of years prior. The way drafts work is that every pick will have an advocacy group within the org. The pick may be hotly debated. Bottom line is that the Blue Jays picked Bichette. Objectively, picking him over Woodman would have been a mistake because they got Bichette lower.
  16. He's been a cross checker since he left Toronto. Pretty big step down the ladder. That's like going from managing a restaurant to bussing tables. The Bichette and Biggio draft was a positive conclusion to a pretty bad overall draft record.
  17. That amount for Tiedemann is such a small and specific number under slot. It makes you think they already have it all mapped out.
  18. Not quite. Zeuch was 2016. AA left before 2016. But Brian Parker was scouting director in 2016 for the Zeuch pick. Parker was fired two months after that draft. Shapiro and Atkins basically let the old scouting group complete the 2016 draft and then purged the department. And thank f***ing god they did.
  19. Just noticed that Daniel Hudson is having an elite season. Kind of funny how he got lucky and faked being a closer for a while and was actually just an average to replacement level reliever... And now at 34 he's for real.
  20. Thing about changeups is it's all about consistency. Lots of guys can flash an okay changeup but if it sucks even 20% of the time it's useless. If Zeuch had a good offspeed pitch with any consistency he'd have a better minor league k rate, basically.
  21. Zeuch never showed good secondary stuff so I don't think he has the bag to be a good reliever. He is suited for one thing and that is chewing up innings with groundballs
  22. I have many viable SP. Could do a two for one trade with two of: Kyle Hendricks Trevor Megill Zach Thompson Drew Smyly Kwang Hyun Kim Jameson Taillon The P I get has to be clearly the best in the deal. Open to other ideas. Could also move Dylan Moore for a pick.
  23. Well you might be Muslim but Connor is a Muslim Douche. Different sect
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