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  1. Laika
    I find it SO SO SO SO So delicious (Sodalicious) that Stroman got sent to the Mets wasteland and cried about it, while Aaron Sanchez and his 6.00 ERA gets to team up with Greinke and Houston for the best World Series odds in baseball.
  2. Laika
    Wow, guys. Just wow. Trades. Wow.
  3. Laika
    Wow. Aaron Sanchez is the type of guy that Houston could turn into a monster, in some capacity, through pitch design.
  4. Laika
    We would find a way to become happy with the deal, no matter what. That's how my hive-mind works.
  5. Laika
    Franmil has 2.6 fWAR in 634 career PA... that's a present ~50 FV player. Bonus - you can say "make way for Franny!" as his HR call.
  6. Laika
    Yeah Trevor Bauer is a borderline Ace; his ceiling dwarfs Stroman's (HDMH). Taylor Trammell seems wildly overrated by the scouting community. I don't think Puig has any real value in this deal - Cleveland just said sure, we'll take him. Hard to evaluate this trade. I don't think it's a greeeeat return for Bauer to be honest, but with Cleveland competing they want MLB players so it works.
  7. Laika
    At a *third* glance, Allard actually sounds a lot like.... Thomas Pannone!
  8. Laika
    Allard probably has a better third pitch, and certainly has better control + far superior age vs. level points. Hard to say which one is better. I'd take the guy who does not throw 89 mph though if I had to pick.
  9. Laika
    Or maybe Allard isn't a better prospect than Kay. Certainly doesn't have as much "stuff".
  10. Laika
    Martin might be a free agent this offseason according to some twitter randoms. Some obscure rule about him spending time in Japan? I dunno.
  11. Laika
    So the Rangers just got Kolby Allard, who is almost certainly a better prospect than Anthony Kay, for Chris Martin, who is having a good year and likely has a few more years of control but is a f***ing 33 year old reliever with like, zero full MLB seasons on his resume. Stroman trade looks much worse right now lol.
  12. Laika
    Sounds like Ray, Bauer, Bumgarner will all get dealt. We’ll see how the Stroman return lines up.
  13. Laika
    Swish!
  14. Laika
    Wow. Hilarious.
  15. Laika
    Yeah, lol. They can just sign a new Phelps if they want. People who do not think this is a decent move (or that it's just a "lateral move") are exposing themselves as morons.
  16. Laika
    Nice little trade. I think Hatch was in their top 30. Kind of sounds like Biagini, where there are some SP traits but maybe the total package would just work better as a reliever with an unusually deep bag of pitches. The 2019 Contributor: Thomas Hatch, RHP: There are a few pitchers that could help the Cubs in 2019 but Hatch has the best combination of near-MLB-ready stuff and future upside. He’s athletic and fields his position well. My two biggest concerns are the arm action (effort) and the fact he doesn’t always finish his pitches and leaves his shoulder open, which hurts his command. He has the stuff — the potential for three average-or-better offerings — to be a No. 4 starter in the Majors with some maturation.
  17. Laika
    I don’t know... I think you’ll find that my post is pretty balanced. We just don’t know
  18. Laika
    Well.... not sure about that, lol.
  19. Laika
    Yeah, by Atkins' own admission this offer from the Mets was the first legitimate trade offer that they received. He decided to take it four days before the deadline because the other teams did not seem to have that level of interest. But he could have lead the Mets along for a couple more days, played them off another team, and attempted to supplement the offer. That's the difference between getting Kay + SWR and getting Kay + SWR + some third, sort of interesting piece. The risk there is that the Mets turn elsewhere and nobody else matched Kay + SWR. Meh.
  20. Laika
    Yes, that was my unclear point. If Sonny Gray is the most comparable talent traded in recent years, Stroman should have returned significantly less due to less control.
  21. Laika
    You can probably make the case that two of those players were, in context, approximately equal in value to Kay + SWR right now. Not fair to say that SWR is better than all three. Mateo alone was probably more highly regarded than SWR is right now (whether or not that was justified or the industry agreed - who knows). So you can say that Toronto's return is light by one piece... but Sonny Gray had 2 more years of control after 2017 so it's not a direct comparison.
  22. Laika
    Tbf I’ve read that Kay has kind of lost his changeup. We’ll see
  23. Laika
    Giles still dealing with elbow inflammation. At this point, they should probably avoid forcing a trade. Keep him and revisit a deal in the offseason or next deadline.
  24. Laika
    Because Rockies!
  25. Laika
    sure
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