Laika

How the f*** is "team has discussed player" any sort of news? lmao

Christmas always makes me so thankful for everything that I have. My family, my dog, my friends, this league... Carlos Correa. God bless me.

Yuck, I don't think he's even regarded as a catcher.

I wonder what the best Meso offer you ever rejected from me was...

In hindsight sure. But hard to fault him in context

I don't think Dansby will be very good for fantasy

Tiger Junior will report as a SP and if he doesn't make the team he will be a SP in AAA. Good news. This signing is more significant than people think.

K. Good?

Well, no.

I support all of this. Toronto should do a plush tallboy giveaway day.

Have to regret it a bit. Edwin @ 3/57 or whatever is so much better than Morales @ 3/33 But you can't fault them. It was reasonable to expect EE to get a $100M deal. I don't blame them for pouncing on some targets early in free agency. Clearly their internal analytics loves Morales.

Hard to imagine Toronto not signing ONE of JB or EE. They seem to have no suitors at all and Toronto has relevant holes. Fill our holes, Shapiro!

The hypothetical value of a win simply comes from how much teams demonstrably pay in free agency.

He's probably a lot better than a lot of the options in this thread anyway. I would almost expect him to be worth more WAR that say Moss or Bruce

I wasn't aware the door was shut on him starting. Not sure I reall care about reliever TJ. He doesn't exactly have power stuff or LOOGY stuff

love the kid but his shoulder is probably hamburger meat

Here's a SP depth signing that I can get behind: No idea if source is legit.

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JD Martinez broke his elbow running into the outfield wall in June. I wonder if that incident (associated fear) significantly impacted his defense in the second half.

I still think they move Cutch. Wait for the hullabaloo to die down, teams will miss on targets, he'll look more attractive.

Who is expecting him to be flipped? I think it's obvious that they will try to trade him for profit at the trade deadline. That's different though.

He was traded like two days ago

Other free agents Luis Valbuena - just plop him in LF or something. Trevor Plouffe - see above. Austin Jackson Desmond Jennings? Gregor Blanco Alejandro De Aza Josh Hamilton - ???? is this guy retiring or what? Angel Pagan Chris Coghlan Trade Jarrod Dyson -- seemed like a great target until Adam Eaton got traded for that huge package. It seems like baseball values these defense first guys appropriately which is unfortunate to this end. David Peralta Seth Smith Billy Hamilton JD Martinez -- why does nobody in Blue Jay land talk about this guy? Random realistic trade targets... Brandon Drury (probably not available) Socrates Brito Tommy Pham Tony Kemp Jake Smolinski Mark Zagunis Scott Van Slyke Derek Dietrich Travis Jankowski (maybe a stretch) Scott Schebler Billy Burns Eddie Rosario (maybe a stretch) A lot of these names are bottom of the barrel. But I think most of them have some angle that is interesting. At this point I kind of just expect Toronto to add a couple of warm bodies and not much more. But we'll see. If they do so little as to just sign a guy like Valbuena (plop Pearce in LF) then I would be ecstatic.

Safe to say.

It's not THAT complicated. I have a mental process for it but I'm sure Cyborg or North know how to do it with real math. Analogy from school - your grade in a class changes by the percentage the new mark is worth * the difference between the new mark and current mark. If you have a 70 and you get 100% on something worth 10%, your grade goes up 3%. If you have a 70 and you get 79% on something worth 1/3 of your final grade, your grade goes up by.... 3%. Now consider your incumbent mark to be the league average pitching ratio. Consider the new mark to be the specific player's ratio. Consider the percentage the mark is worth to be the innings / week that they give your team. It's difference from league average * proportional contribution to your weekly innings. So the calculus changes based on roster construction. If you own more or less SP or RP it changes the thought process. One elite RP doesn't do as much for a team with 10 starters chugging innings. One league average-ish SP heavily sandbags a team that relies on strong relief ratios.