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He will not be on an innings limit. He's 29 and has 86 big league starts - those guys don't typically get limited coming off TJ. Tampa only controls him for 2017 anyway so they won't give a f*** about his arm.

I would flip him with Rosario too. That might be prospect fatigue. But aside from that I'm not surprised. He was young, but a .688 OPS is still a turn off. Dansby and Gleyber have a lot more shimmer.

Cobb's spot to lose. He's such an incumbent.

Boxy, but he just picked him up off waivers at the end of 2015. I doubt he kept him over anyone valuable.

I'm considering trading Sean Manaea. If I can turn him into two MiLB assets that I really like, then I'll pull the trigger.

ZiPS has absolutely no utility. Perhaps worse - negative utility? It is trash. So bad that it is essentially misinformation.

I like Wright more than Kazmir I think

You're right about Fangraphs. Longenhagen seems great. Five pillars. BP is still a staple. Their scouts are very good, even if you haven't learned their names yet. They get the benefit of the doubt as a scout factory until they start to fail. Their Eyewitness Reports in particular are great. I don't value their rankings very much at all. Love the player pages though and minor league game notes.

2080 is doing 1-2 hour podcasts and discussing like, 15-20 prospects from each system in depth. It's pretty good content.

Keith Law's list and prospect opinions are always good for a laugh, but definitely not worth any money. The four pillars are now BP, BA, MLB.com, and 2080.

The funny thing about "avoiding questions" is that Shatkins reveal more information in every radio hit than AA did his entire tenure. The State of the French Fries was just filled with hollow, meaningless answers from AA and shallow, meaningless, placating promises from Beeston.

Yes. - Great value for Tampa. - Not bad for LA considering context. - LA might have informed reservations or concerns about De Leon. - Tampa has so much pitching depth this year! Wow! And a very strong top end. That's pretty much it.

I'll take your word for it I guess

Minor league signings are always good!

Dinger is an Alpha Top in fantasy trade negotiations

Well it is a 7x7 that uses both Hits and Average as scoring categories.

Just to put a nail in it, the compensation will be pick 40b. I don't think there is really a functional difference between 40b and 20b and I was of the opinion that compensation was not within the spirit of the rule, so my inclination will decide which way the pick falls. What we've done here, essentially, is a set a two-tiered precedent. In the future we will probably apply this as follows: A) When any objective keeper quality player dies, the owner will get 40b. When an exceptional or very valuable dynasty asset dies, the owner will get subjective compensation based on our previous rule. Will A) apply to a player who is, say, 31 years old? Only the future caselaw will tell us. How will we decide whether a gray area player falls within category A) or category ? Again, only the future caselaw will tell us. I eagerly look forward to adjudicating this complex, evolving area of Baseball Dynasty law. Citations: TheCatsAss v DDL (Council of Darrells) [2017] DDLR 1 TheHurl v DDL (Council of Darrells) [2016] DDLR 1 Boxcar8 v DDL (Council of Darrells) [2015] DDLR 1

It typically just depends on when I and other admins have time, since there is some manual work with roster input.

I think we normally do cutdown deadline for a Sunday night, second or third week of Feb. Waiver draft starts like 24-48 hours after that deadline.

wow child out of wedlock? edgy

2 years away from being 2 years away. Yawn!

Archer Cobb Odorizzi Snell Andriese De Leon Schultz Faria Guerrieri Hu Honeywell Austin Pruitt Chase Whitley Hunter Wood Burch Smith? Enough depth to survive even a nightmare injury season too

GRATEROL NOTES >>>>>Catcher: Juan Graterol There can be feel-good stories on the All Out-of-Position Team, particularly since all of the MLB catchers this year were actually catchers. I’m sure Juan Graterol is a lovely guy, but he's not really a major league-caliber catcher. And yet ... Way back in September of 2005—still the Allard Baird era—the Royals signed Graterol as a 16-year-old out of Venezuela. Before long, it was clear that he was pretty much a non-prospect. He spent six years in the lowest levels of the minors, at one point almost splitting what limited time he had between first base and catcher. By the end of 2011 he'd yet to play more than a couple months above Low-A despite being 22 and had just finished a dismal season in which he hit .195/.255/.235 in 58 games. There would have been no shame in throwing in the towel. Graterol decided to persevere, and he was rewarded with a .301/.338/.393 season at High-A in 2012. It was still a long way to the majors, though. Graterol hit minor-league free agency after 2014, and at age 25 he only had seven Triple-A games to his name. He joined the Yankees and became their organizational catcher, spending time in Charleston, Tampa, and Scranton. He was on the move again at the end of 2015, but so was a higher-up who liked Graterol. Former Yankees executive Billy Eppler became the Angels’ general manager in October of 2015, and a few months later he invited Graterol to spring training. The team decided to stash him at Triple-A Salt Lake City, one step away from the majors. And after 11 years toiling in the minors, he caught a break. Geovany Soto was placed on the DL with inflammation in his knee. He tried to come back a few times during the season to no avail. So that bumped Graterol up the depth chart and actually gave him a brief cameo with the Angels in July, though he did not appear in any games. With Soto still unavailable in September, Graterol was recalled to be the third catcher. It said more about the state of the Angels in 2016 that Graterol was a major leaguer, but it was true nonetheless: "I even surprised myself," Graterol said. "I really made it. Wow. This is unbelievable." Graterol’s first career at-bat was on September 2, 2016, about 11 years to the day that he signed with the Royals. He doubled off Arquimedes Caminero. >>>>> ANAHEIM – Geovany Soto’s injury was Juan Graterol’s opportunity. The Angels placed Soto on the disabled list on Monday with inflammation in his left knee, a condition that cropped up just a day earlier. In order to take his roster spot, the Angels recalled Graterol, a 27-year-old Venezuelan who had spent 11 years in the minors without playing a game in the majors. Graterol, who got the news of his promotion on Monday afternoon while with the Triple-A team in Iowa, did not even make it to Angel Stadium until the second inning on Monday night. After watching his first game as a member of a big league roster, he stood in the clubhouse still in a daze. "I just feel great, amazing," Graterol said. "I feel in shock." Graterol was hitting .292 with a .331 on-base percentage at Salt Lake City. Manager Mike Scioscia wouldn’t commit to how much playing time Graterol would get, but presumably Jett Bandy will get most of the starts. Still, Graterol's wife and daughter will be traveling from Salt Lake City to see Tuesday's game, hoping to watch him finally play in the majors. "I hope I can play," he said. "If not, I'll just wait for my moment." Graterol, who originally signed with the Kansas City Royals as a 16-year-old, spent most of his career in that organization. He eventually moved on to the New York Yankees, where Angels GM Billy Eppler was the assistant GM. Eppler brought him to the Angels this winter. Graterol said, throughout it all, he never doubted he'd one day get the call he finally got on Monday. "I just wanted to keep doing my job," he said. "Whatever happened, someday I would have the opportunity." The Angels recalled Graterol instead of Carlos Perez, who has been in the majors most of the past two seasons, becaue they want Perez to continue to play every day at Triple-A to get his swing right. “He’s starting to get comfortable in the batter’s box and we want him to keep doing that,” Scioscia said. “We want him to keep moving that along and then we can re-evaluate.” Perez had five hits, including two homers, in his first 17 at-bats at Salt Lake City. As for Soto, Scioscia said he probably hurt his left knee compensating for his right knee, which he had surgically repaired two months ago. The Angels are expecting he can return as soon as he’s eligible, July 31. This injury probably reduces the chances Soto will be traded, but it is still possible.

Can you wipe your own butt?

I would rather sign Hank Conger. Maybe he could find the framing skills he had not too long ago. He's also flashed decent BB and power skills at the plate, and is only 29. It doesn't seem like there is anything else out there. Hundley is a nightmare defensively, Hanigan is 35 and probably cooked, Clevenger seems terrible... Thole, Salty, Navarro, Brayan Pena. Nothing!