Laika

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If the DDL moved to a free Fantrax league how many of you would HONESTLY quit? The main benefit would be - no more need for a spreadsheet. So much easier to track things, migrate seasons in Yahoo. Administrative burden would go way down. There are also advantages like DTD players being allowed on your IL. Main drawbacks - I don't think the app and website are as easy to use. Some of the more wrinkly owners might refuse to move. The depth of available players might create unforeseen issues? Thank this post if you would support the move. Retweet if you would quit.

Aha. So it's not enough to win the trade. A GM must be so far ahead of his peers that he also wins every trade in context, and a GM must be so far ahead of his peers that he wins every trade emphatically. If Atkins can't win all of his trades EMPHATICALLY, IN CONTEXT, AND IN HINDSIGHT, then he might as well pick up his little balls and go home. Amirite?

I don't think she has a regular contribution schedule. The Counselor just publishes certain legally slanted baseball articles whenever something relevant is in the news.

I thought that at the time but it's hard to in hindsight, given how all three pitchers have performed since the trade.

Yahoo!

but those other names!

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It's already over as far as I can tell. First round knockout for your Toronto Blue Jays, with every single "industry consensus" fan cheering against them.

Mets Twitter is so upset about the trade. It is very funny.

BTS getting clowned by FTD and it's hard to see how he can win, but I guess there's a chance if he can flip all the pitching ratios and some other small miracle happens. silverdone? everyone is cheering for the senior citizen but he is in tough with his pitching strategy having betrayed him this week havok vs. dinger is the match of the week. havok has all the hitting cats clinched and dinger is winning all the pitching cats. this basically comes down to whether or not havok can flip ERA!

Love to see long time Twist and Trouter Brandon Belt behind enemy lines, staying loyal

Patrick Corbin and Yu Darvish got 6 year deals. Cole might realistically be able to get 8 years.

I guess you can see the future? neat

This is why high school righties tend to tumble, even when they have as much hype/talent as guys like Daniel Espino.

Manoah in 2021 is realistic. That's the Stroman timeline. SWR in 2021 is realistic if he continues this precocious trend. Pearson contributing in 2020 is realistic, of course. The context for Stroman/Osuna/Sanchez was very different. That was an older team pushing chips in. This current context is not the same. If they aren't signing decent SP talent to bridge 2020 to 2021, then they'll definitely have to do some Rays-ish things with openers and piggy-backers in order to put up enough competitively pitched innings to have any chance at stealing a WC spot.

I like some of the names you listed. Cole Hamels might be a good target given his age. One year deal? I would be all over Rich Hill on a one year deal. Keuchel might be worth a gamble on a 2 or 3 year deal. Roark, Alex Wood, Kyle Gibson, Wade Miley are all interesting enough mid-level targets of varying talent levels. There are enough options that it would be unacceptable for them to only pursue guys like Nova, Cahill, Chacin, Buchholz.

Ah yes, the one that got away... *checks list of every player Atkins has parted with*... Harold Ramirez.

Weird year for Grichuk. The poor BB and K rates are steady with his career, and AVG and OBP are basically steady with his career. His contact and swinging strike rates are actually career bests but his ISO is down by a grade. Roll in some unexpected negative runs from baserunning and defense and he's gone from 2 WAR to almost 0. I'm not sure what to make of any of it but I would expect him to at least regress to the career means next year. Boring f***ing player either way. I'm not sure if I like Teoscar or him more at this point.

What is the best up to date 2020 free agent list right now? There is one on some sportrac website but not sure if it is solid. I'm not seeing any MLBTR tracker just yet.

Man the SP depth chart is depressing through the lens of trying to compete in 2020. SP 1 - ? SP 2 - ? SP 3 - ? SP 4 - Shoemaker SP 5 - Thornton SP 6 - Borucki SP 7/8/9 - Waguespack, Kay, Zeuch SP 10/11/12/13/14 - Murray, Perez, Murphy, Diaz, Hatch (most are RP or opener-level talents) SRF = not realistic SP depth (RP) Merryweather = not realistic SP depth (injury) Pearson = slide him in wherever you want but he is a prospect with limited pro innings so it's hard to rely on him Then some relevant long men or opener types in Font, Pannone, Gaviglio... Basically the organization has SP depth figured out and accounted for except for like, the three most important pieces, which are completely missing. lol. I don't mind the above players if they are positioned as such on the depth chart, but right now you're counting on Pearson to be like an SP2 and Shoemaker and Thornton to round out the top 3. Gross! There's really zero need for crummy veteran signings (although some minor league ones are warranted). I would welcome some productive opener shenanagins in 2020 if the team can't bring in enough actually good SP. I do not think guys like TJ Zoinks should be given long looks as normal SP, if they have trouble getting through lineups multiple times.

Brett Gardner?

Multiple mid-level SP should be signed or acquired (assuming none of the big fish SP will sign here, although Atkins should sincerely try to sway them). Jose Abreu might be a fit? I think they should bring in a 1B/DH especially if Vlad is playing third in 2020. Bringing back Donaldson is interesting to me... give him 2/45 or something like that. I guess he’ll get a QO though and Toronto really isn’t in a position to lose draft picks

What the f*** did you just say about Brock Stewart?

That's not exactly obvious. Improvements in player development and player projection seem to have made it much more likely that players breaking in (league minimum players) will contribute. Even in San Francisco, Mike Yastrzemski, Austin Slater, and Alex Dickerson have all been as good as Pillar, maybe even better than Pillar. Teams are also rightfully petrified of the downside risk on free agent contracts. Who really knows anymore. It could have been a market over-correction or it could have been appropriate.