Laika
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How about they just cancel the winter meetings? Who cares about making them interesting
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f*** off everyone else!!!
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Buddy you've been asleep at the wheel since you were borned
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Watched the video too I will harm myself if Toronto does not get Nick Gonzales and Josh Lindblom
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Couldn't tell you - we kissed hello/goodbye
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I will cream my pants
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f*** the Red Sox have a terrible farm system.
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I had a dream that Josh Lindblom came over for dinner and we talked about his spin rate over spaghetti and meatballs. Can't get this guy out of my head!
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That's a fun hypothetical. Pujols' contract only has two years left but he does have that 10 year "personal services" thing tacked on the end of it and who knows how a trade would affect that. But I imagine that the Angels would basically have to give up Jo Adell to make the value even out.
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The top ~7 on their depth chart were all 28 years old or younger. Hamels just has to eat a bunch of regular season innings, protect the kids a bit and take some of the pressure off them, and not suck. Anything in the playoffs would be gravy but look at what Wainwright just did.
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None of the contracts seem horrible in a nutshell (some might be bad, I dunno) but the cumulative impact and bang-for-his-AA-bucks just seems so underwhelming.
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Yeah that's not great.
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Trade you all my good players for s***** picks then ghost on everybody
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I've watched extensive video of Josh Lindblom all morning long, expertly analyzing his mechanics and repertoire, and I am convinced without any shred of doubt that he is an above average MLB SP, closer to Miles Mikolas than Merrill Kelly. I would bet my life, family, career, and reputation on this. If Toronto does not sign Josh Lindblom I will stop posting on this board and retire from my baseball career, unless he somehow gets an AAV of $10M or more from some other team then it's all good because I was right and they just got outbid by some other team that was hot as f*** for him.
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The stats the last three years are substantially better. Merrill was at 2.0 fWAR in 2019, good for 48th among qualified SP and 67th among arms with 100+ IP. That is definitely closer to #3/4 SP performance. He did not pitch like a number 5. He's about as good as these free agent SP: Gausman, Miley, Martin Perez, Porcello, Hamels, Roark, Bailey, Wood, Gio Gonzalez. Perhaps that's a #5 SP on a 95 win team. Signing a guy like Lindblom to a deal like 2/$8 or 3/$9 or whatever is precisely how you leverage knowledge (scouting and data) to get the rare surplus value deal on the FA market. Toronto should sign him if they think he's any good (they might not). I agree with you though that Lindblom should be signed along with a better SP. There aren't many options in that gap though. If we assume Cole, Strasburg, and Wheeler (at this point) are not realistic options and you are left with Ryu (probably doesn't want to come to Toronto) and Keuchel. Bumgarner might get an albatross contract and is not trending in the right direction. So it's basically Keuchel or bust!
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Merrill Kelly in the KBO 3.86 ERA, 7.9 K/9, 2.5 BB/9, 0.8 HR/9, 1.309 WHIP. Lindblom in the KBO 3.55 ERA, 8.2 K/9, 2.3 BB/9, 1.0 HR/9, 1.19 WHIP * this includes five years - he was much, much better the last three years Merrill Kelly was a boring 2 win pitcher in 2019 Lindblom > Merrill Lindblom > Kyle Gibson? We will see! Please sign him
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The goods on Lindblom: fastball seems to be mostly 90-92.5 but I saw one clocking at 152 km/h offspeed stuff looks sick sign him up
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Sounds like Toronto is out on Wheeler anyway. Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal · 1m Still alive for Wheeler, per sources: #Phillies, #Reds, #WhiteSox. Possible other teams remain in mix; #Angels also have shown real interest. Phillies’ push first reported by @Buster_ESPN .
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Worst contract in team history but you wanted more of the experience. Got it. Someone likes a good paddlin’
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It's still not clear if you think he sucked or if you wanted him to stay. Heh heh!
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AJ Burnett was such a gem. Aged like fine wine too and was excellent until his retirement.
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If you’re bum is still sore about him opting out then just admit it. The fact that you are sour about him leaving seems to invalidate your position that the contract was a failure!
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I’m sorry, but what the f*** is this post?
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Wow that's sad. Absolutely ruined by injuries.
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^ The ones that interest me, at a glance. Varying levels of interest of course and it's all $ dependent!
