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Miami Marlins rebranded again. http://news.sportslogos.net/2018/11/15/our-colores-miami-marlins-unveil-whole-new-look-and-logo-for-2019/ I like it. A bit of classic baseball, a bit of Miami Vice, a good tie-in to the team's past logos and colours. A lot better than the garish orange/yellow/blue s***.

I don't mean you specifically, I mean you collectively.

How did you even get into this?

Sounds sick.

what's this?

I wish we could somehow read his future internal reports. "To say that Rowdy Tellez is slow or a below average runner, as the consensus of our professional scouts opine, would be to use the literary device most commonly referred to as 'euphemism'. Rowdy's foot speed by any statistical measure ranks him in the 1st percentile of all professional baseball, that is to say, in a sense that is entirely not literal, he is as slow as they come."

I don't think you people are recognizing how significant this hire is - I think the signal that this puts off about the organization is absolutely tremendous. It's very telling.

If the Fringe Five dies my Deep Leagues draft research will take a hit.

This was buried in the Guillermo Martinez promotion article but is pretty fun news IMO. https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-promoting-guillermo-martinez-new-hitting-coach/ "Meanwhile, the Blue Jays have also started revamping their pro scouting department with Fangraphs writer Carson Cistulli announcing that he is joining the staff." For anyone who doesn't read Fangraphs, Cistulli is almost certainly the first classically trained poet and formally educated creative writer to transition into pro scouting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_Cistulli I believe he started off with Fangraphs doing creative writing on the now defunct "Notgraphs". More recently he has been running the Fringe Five articles, where he scours the minors for players with intriguing stats or stories who do not appear on normal prospect lists. Essentially, it has become an exercise in creative prospect evaluation - an appropriate blend of his background and his inclination for sabermetrics. The funny thing is how GOOD the Fringe Five articles are at identifying actual f***ing talent, which makes this formal career transition make a lot of sense. I am so happy . Hopefully Toronto starts acquiring a s*** ton of Fringe Five type talent, like such as Josh James, etc.

Very common political move for a Fascist regime to do. Look at all of the White House employees who have "resigned" under Trump!

I think that was Dinger. I laughed out loud at that too. How does someone from anywhere in North America think platoon is pronounced like that?

First thought is to comp the deal for his new teammate, Kevin Gausman, but it appears that Gausman is worth significantly more on paper.

Contract dump for a 3.75M cap hit? This trade seems reeeeeeeeeetarded. Pearson is like 25 years old. He'll probably get plopped on a line with Crosby at some point and score a ton of goals.

Duvall would be controllable through 2021 so if they sign him and he has a big year there would be no urgency to move him.

Duvall is actually a +5 baserunner (total) and +7 defender (OF, UZR/150) in his career. Teoscar is a -2.5 and horrendous -11.4. So, Duvall is different because he is actually an outfielder and not a total baseball instincts disaster. Also he's white and Nationalism is really popular with the kids right now.

^ players I would consider owning

A Hall of Fame career ruined by the Toronto Blue Jays. The organization should be ashamed.

He should. Being the first openly gay GM is great for the sport!

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I feel like Org is very down on Correa to pull the trigger on that, which makes it surprising that he turned down my Machado for Correa + offer a couple of months ago

Not that I do think he'll bust, but if any of the current elite prospects is going to disappoint a la Moncada I would bet on Tatis being that guy.

I was too premature with the pikachu meme!!!

Thinking about the sad tale of Garrett Richards. The Angels, through injury mismanagement, will have lost 4 seasons of him. Well, it will be like 28 starts or whatever scattered across 4 seasons with no real positive effect on their ability to compete - basically 4 lost seasons if you assume had he been healthy he would have stayed in LA. Yikes. He was 28 when the elbow popped and if he even gets healthy this time he'll be like 32 at that point - his career taken away.

Yeah I think this is way more likely. The team can tryyyy to get options like in the Scott Kingery pre-debut extension but I doubt it would happen.