Laika

Astudillllllloooooooo Toronto should trade for la tortuga

speaking of Robles, Victor Robles kind of sucks. I wonder if he will do the Byron Buxton

holy crap f***! sports!!!!

How many times is TCA going to offer me Nomar f***ing Mazara for Rendon?

My fine friend as a complete and utter rebuttal let me copy and paste what I previously wrote into this website but fivefold It's difficult to think of realistic trade scenarios. You have to really bend over backwards to consider things from the other team's perspective. Derek Fisher was a top 100 prospect a couple of seasons ago for Houston, and an easy/consensus top 10 prospect for them for a couple of years. He hasn't really had that much playing time to fail in the majors because they are so deep. His value is objectively down but I doubt Houston thinks he has negligible value and I doubt they would internally characterize him as a replacement level player. He does not project to be replacement level, for one thing. Fisher objectively does have upside. When Houston acquired Liriano there is a chance their analytics department thought he would be a legitimate weapon out of the pen on their playoff run. The hypothetical negotiation is something like - "we'll agree to Fisher as an adequate secondary piece if you give us our guy as the centrepiece" TL;DR if Houston is in the trade market they are hoping to extract value from Derek Fisher so he is worth examining FWIW Fisher has played at a 20/20 pace during his s***** MLB sample size and has been a positive baserunner and +10 defender. There is legit breakout potential with him. It's difficult to think of realistic trade scenarios. You have to really bend over backwards to consider things from the other team's perspective. Derek Fisher was a top 100 prospect a couple of seasons ago for Houston, and an easy/consensus top 10 prospect for them for a couple of years. He hasn't really had that much playing time to fail in the majors because they are so deep. His value is objectively down but I doubt Houston thinks he has negligible value and I doubt they would internally characterize him as a replacement level player. He does not project to be replacement level, for one thing. Fisher objectively does have upside. When Houston acquired Liriano there is a chance their analytics department thought he would be a legitimate weapon out of the pen on their playoff run. The hypothetical negotiation is something like - "we'll agree to Fisher as an adequate secondary piece if you give us our guy as the centrepiece" TL;DR if Houston is in the trade market they are hoping to extract value from Derek Fisher so he is worth examining FWIW Fisher has played at a 20/20 pace during his s***** MLB sample size and has been a positive baserunner and +10 defender. There is legit breakout potential with him. It's difficult to think of realistic trade scenarios. You have to really bend over backwards to consider things from the other team's perspective. Derek Fisher was a top 100 prospect a couple of seasons ago for Houston, and an easy/consensus top 10 prospect for them for a couple of years. He hasn't really had that much playing time to fail in the majors because they are so deep. His value is objectively down but I doubt Houston thinks he has negligible value and I doubt they would internally characterize him as a replacement level player. He does not project to be replacement level, for one thing. Fisher objectively does have upside. When Houston acquired Liriano there is a chance their analytics department thought he would be a legitimate weapon out of the pen on their playoff run. The hypothetical negotiation is something like - "we'll agree to Fisher as an adequate secondary piece if you give us our guy as the centrepiece" TL;DR if Houston is in the trade market they are hoping to extract value from Derek Fisher so he is worth examining FWIW Fisher has played at a 20/20 pace during his s***** MLB sample size and has been a positive baserunner and +10 defender. There is legit breakout potential with him. It's difficult to think of realistic trade scenarios. You have to really bend over backwards to consider things from the other team's perspective. Derek Fisher was a top 100 prospect a couple of seasons ago for Houston, and an easy/consensus top 10 prospect for them for a couple of years. He hasn't really had that much playing time to fail in the majors because they are so deep. His value is objectively down but I doubt Houston thinks he has negligible value and I doubt they would internally characterize him as a replacement level player. He does not project to be replacement level, for one thing. Fisher objectively does have upside. When Houston acquired Liriano there is a chance their analytics department thought he would be a legitimate weapon out of the pen on their playoff run. The hypothetical negotiation is something like - "we'll agree to Fisher as an adequate secondary piece if you give us our guy as the centrepiece" TL;DR if Houston is in the trade market they are hoping to extract value from Derek Fisher so he is worth examining FWIW Fisher has played at a 20/20 pace during his s***** MLB sample size and has been a positive baserunner and +10 defender. There is legit breakout potential with him. It's difficult to think of realistic trade scenarios. You have to really bend over backwards to consider things from the other team's perspective. Derek Fisher was a top 100 prospect a couple of seasons ago for Houston, and an easy/consensus top 10 prospect for them for a couple of years. He hasn't really had that much playing time to fail in the majors because they are so deep. His value is objectively down but I doubt Houston thinks he has negligible value and I doubt they would internally characterize him as a replacement level player. He does not project to be replacement level, for one thing. Fisher objectively does have upside. When Houston acquired Liriano there is a chance their analytics department thought he would be a legitimate weapon out of the pen on their playoff run. The hypothetical negotiation is something like - "we'll agree to Fisher as an adequate secondary piece if you give us our guy as the centrepiece" TL;DR if Houston is in the trade market they are hoping to extract value from Derek Fisher so he is worth examining FWIW Fisher has played at a 20/20 pace during his s***** MLB sample size and has been a positive baserunner and +10 defender. There is legit breakout potential with him.

It's difficult to think of realistic trade scenarios. You have to really bend over backwards to consider things from the other team's perspective. Derek Fisher was a top 100 prospect a couple of seasons ago for Houston, and an easy/consensus top 10 prospect for them for a couple of years. He hasn't really had that much playing time to fail in the majors because they are so deep. His value is objectively down but I doubt Houston thinks he has negligible value and I doubt they would internally characterize him as a replacement level player. He does not project to be replacement level, for one thing. Fisher objectively does have upside. When Houston acquired Liriano there is a chance their analytics department thought he would be a legitimate weapon out of the pen on their playoff run. The hypothetical negotiation is something like - "we'll agree to Fisher as an adequate secondary piece if you give us our guy as the centrepiece" TL;DR if Houston is in the trade market they are hoping to extract value from Derek Fisher so he is worth examining FWIW Fisher has played at a 20/20 pace during his s***** MLB sample size and has been a positive baserunner and +10 defender. There is legit breakout potential with him.

He might suck but he's more like Jake Marisnick (maybe without CF instincts) than Drury or McKinney. I've seen 60 and 70 scouting grades on the power and speed. Even if the swing and miss prevents him from being a starter there are bench skills there, unlike Drury and McKinney where the peripheral skills don't really exist so if they aren't hitting they aren't big leaguers. He would have to be the third piece or secondary piece in a Stroman deal an all likelihood.

I have a list

Fine, I'll give you a small pick upgrade for Domingo.

Everybody and their mother wants Rendon I'm pretty dumb-founded that you had no interest in those pieces. Seemed like clear upgrades all around. Avisail Garcia in particular is clearly a legit bat.

Your reputation is spiraling around the toilet so I disagree

Honestly depends on the second piece. Houston has some solid dudes on the farm.

That has nothing to do with your immature avatar thing

I got this. I can fix your whole team in one fresh deal. Update: nevermind then

It’s honestly pathetic

Sometimes you mortgage the future to sustain a dynasty. The provincial Libs ran the thing for like 15 years. Nothing lasts forever. Wynne is kind of like Steph Curry. The crowd's reaction to Wynne would not have been much worse than whatever their reaction was to JT.

Who was the fairly recent baseball prospect who played junior hockey? I remember it was super random and might have been a black guy from California. Did I dream this?

Yes. For a college junior, the drafting team loses the right to sign them although I'm not sure if this technically happens on the "signing deadline" or when they return to school. They would be draft eligible again after their senior year. For a college senior, I suppose if they don't sign and don't return to school they would be a free agent, although if they don't sign it's probably because they'd rather not play baseball. For a high school kid that doesn't sign and chooses to attend school the choices are basically: - Go to a four year school and be eligible again after your junior year - Go to a Junior College and be draft eligible the next year (draft eligible every year out of JuCo) - Do the Carter Stewart and go to Japan! I'm not sure what the options would be for the delinquent high school draftee who chooses not to sign, refuses to attend school, and does not want to sign in an international league. I'm guessing they would try to sign an independent league contract for a year and then might be a form of free agent???

He read all of your posts and quit baseball

I heard a prospect podcast compare Daniel Espino's "bad" arm action to Bumgarner's and I thought that was pretty coooool

- I doubt it - What a remarkable thing to even say! Are you a Ford volunteer or something?

Cesar Puello was hitting .390/.500/.683 for the Angels with 0.9 fWAR in only 12 games. They DFA'd him today. Tough!

The fans generally don't even care that much either. Ask any actual Raptors fan and they will tell you that if Kawhi leaves they'll still love him forever. There is a soft assumption that this was just an amazing fling. Pleading for him to stay is like begging the girl you meet during your week in Spain to fly home with you forever. Agreed embarrassing.

Kyle Tucker alone would be so overly sufficient that Houston would probably stop returning Toronto's phone calls. Derek Fisher is a toolsy player who they would definitely let go because of his demonstrated bust potential. Imagine if Billy McKinney had a black guy's name and some black guy tools but was actually still white and maybe not any better. They have at least a dozen intriguing pitching prospects to deal. I think several other teams would go harder for Stroman though (Houston's pitching depth is not bad and Stroman is not the Ace injection that a team like Houston will really be looking for).

Yes - MLB rule 4 signing deadline. I think that is July 12th or 13th