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Never said he was. Man players in baseball are far from angels. Machado is a fart, Donaldson is a douche, Bauer is an arrogant worm, all the Astros are cheaters, Acuna is lazy, Hosmer is a retard, Stroman is a diva, and so on. Puig is going to cost someone like $5M. If Toronto doesn't have payroll space for that, or only has that much room, there are bigger problems. The upside with Puig is that he has a 4 win season and helps the team sneak into a wild card spot. It's a high variance roster as it is and Puig would supplement the good side of the variance. The other upside is that Puig has a strong year and is an asset at the trade deadline. The third other upside is that Puig is productive and fun to watch and the spectator sport that baseball is has more spectators in Toronto as a result. Honestly, I cannot even wrap my stupid f***ing head around how somebody can logically end up at the position that the Toronto Blue Jays should not sign Yasiel Puig on a cheap one year deal and should instead just roll with Anthony f***ing Alford. There is not a worse expression of modern fandom than worrying about the team saving a few million bucks, or worrying about the team clutching onto a useless player out of options who projects to f***ing suck. Anyway, Atkins and Shapiro have already more or less signalled that they aren't signing a guy like Puig so it's a moot point. I disagree with them and I look forward to comparing Puig's 2020 production to the Blue Jays OF/DH production.

too much goal post moving and fact manipulation in this post to take it seriously Puig PROJECTS to be about average and he has demonstrated upside above that. Fisher, Teoscar, and Alford project to be below average, bad, and horrendous and none of them have any real demonstrated upside. It's okay to say that Teoscar and Fisher have potential (I agree they do and they would still fit on the roster and get the opportunity to play). There is no reasonable argument for Alford anymore. Puig's "issues" seem so unfairly overblown. He got in trouble for speeding once, missed a team meeting maybe once, and frustrated his managers a few times by running through stop signs, etc. He's not toxic and he has been unfairly maligned. He's also a media darling and an advertising dream who will literally throw hands for his teammates and he busts ass on the field.

Puig is a huge projected upgrade on Alford. Steamer 600: Grichuk 2.0 Puig 2.0 Gurriel 1.5 Fisher 1.0 Teoscar 0.4 Alford -0.3 ZiPS: Puig 1.8 Grichuk 1.4 Fisher 1.2 Gurriel 0.7 Teoscar 0.4 Alford -0.3 Teoscar and Fisher are the types that don't deserve to be gifted starting roles. They should fight for playing time. Alford does not deserve a roster spot. All that signing Puig does is bump Alford from the projected 26 man roster and upgrade the team by at least a projected win. Seems like a no-brainer unless he wants significant money. Teoscar can be pencilled in at DH, or in a DH platoon with Tellez if they have a 5 man bench. Gurriel-Grichuk-Puig-Teoscar are all RHB so Fisher can get a lot of playing time off the bench in a platoon role if any one of them struggle.

Puig should be a Blue Jay. It has to only take like $5M at this point. Last year he had twice that salary and a competing team traded for him at the deadline... he’d be taking some playing time from Teoscar who could just slide to DH anyway, be a good OF insurance policy, and then Tellez gets bumped to AAA where he should be, earning playing time the hard way like his talent dictates. Ugh. Puig!!!

I have trouble putting any real stock into the Hatch narratives. The guy has a huge sample at AA, 53 games, and he has been mediocre. I’d be happy with a decent middle reliever

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and so they shall remain

I don't care about spring training stats. Travis Shaw projects to be decent. Alford projects to be terrible. That +/- was a running total since 2018 began.

Nice. That'll move his +/- to a healthy -45874

We are done and you haven't even started.

Annnnnnnnnd with that Carlos Danger can have Kevin's team if he wants it.

Just Havok to pick and then we are finally done. RIP Waiver Drafts.

Patrick Murphy is blowing people away and touching 98? Were we too low on him??? Maybe he is our Indians Ace; our Clevinger, Bieber, etc. (the umps + his own defense have blown three outs for him)

Nobody noticed? What do you want people to do, give them a trophy for winning a regular season game? Do they deserve a bunch of ink spilled about how they've figured it all out based on one win? They've been a let down all season long. People expected a top 4 team in the conference, not a fringe playoff team. They need to go on a real winning streak to deserve any cookies.

You can plop people onto it now if you want Once these last two owners make their final picks I will put everyone on waivers. Watch your emails around that time for a short memo on our transaction rules this season as we transition to a now true dynasty league.

Okay, I have had enough waiver draft. We have four picks left. These owners can all pick right now. It's a free for all for the last four selections! Twist and Trout -- Burrito Boyz -- Twist and Trout -- Ten Cent Beer Night --

More likely: - One of Bichette or Vlad is not very productive - The OF is a mess for most of the year. Grichuk has a .290 OBP. CF is a black hole. - Tellez gets like 500 PA as 1B/DH and sucks. - Shaw does not bounce back enough to have value. - Someone good has a major injury. - Two of Anderson, Shoemaker, and Roark limp to 1 WAR seasons with bloated ERAs. - Nate Pearson comes up but is not an instant Ace. - None of the value BP signings (Dolis, Bass, Shun) pay big profits.

No chance, but they likely wouldn't have to eat the whole contract. Would Boston really say no if a team swooped in and said they would eat say 70%?

We just do straight 12 hour clocks in the DDL. You are up now. Might as well just pick two guys. If you somehow, some way, snipe Havok you can try again.

The Five Year Plan -- elite sp rp gant Off Daily -- Scott Barlow (insert clever name) -- Joe Kelly Seniors Circuit -- Jaylin Davis The Five Year Plan -- Kolby Allard The New Matt Olsons -- Cam Bedrosian The Eze -- Marwin Gonzalez Twist and Trout -- Burrito Boyz -- Twist and Trout -- Ten Cent Beer Night --

Probably better than Prime Malkin, yes. Lots of his points are McDavid influenced though. It's funny... kind of like Crosby-Malkin all over again.

I think we use the same stats so you could just do rotisserie scores for all the top teams using the past season's raw accumulated stat data and crown the interleague roto champ. I doubt there would be enough interest in actually setting up a new league.

Wow. I mean, Bohm is a solid prospect, but one of those things is not like the others.

I am aware of this. There is a toggle in Fantrax. I figured we would allow it now because we can. In real life the teams can replace the player, right. We also still have an IL limit of 5 for now because the "prevent teams from adding injured players" option is a paid option in Fantrax. I wanted to make the IL infinite but prevent red-flag adds, but alas.

Twist and Trout --> Hansel Alberto, for some reason Burrito Boyz -- Dexter Fowler The War Pigs -- Jake Fraley Ten Cent Beer Night -- Tyler Beede The Butt Stallions -- Drew Smyly Taijuan On! -- Rowan Wick ISO Horny -- Kyle Crick Twist and Trout -- Jordan Yamamoto Twist and Trout -- Yusmeiro Petit The Beach Cowboys -- Nicholas Burdi The True Cardinals -- Roberto Perez The Bryce is Right -- Kurtis Suzuki Saskatchewan 54's (Skip this pick) The Five Year Plan -- elite sp rp gant Off Daily -- Scott Barlow (insert clever name) -- Joe Kelly Seniors Circuit -- Jaylin Davis The Five Year Plan -- Kolby Allard The New Matt Olsons The Eze Twist and Trout Burrito Boyz Twist and Trout Ten Cent Beer Night