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Actually Corey Dickerson is their best hitter.

Yeah it's been nearly unwatchable throughout spring on the PS4 for me. Almost every game freezes after a minute or two, locking the entire app, so you can't even quickly exit the feed and reload it. You have to go to the PS4 home screen and force close the application. There was one game that finally worked after 3 or 4 crashers but of the dozen or so I've tried, all have failed. Now I don't have very strong internet right now so that could be part of it. But I can stream games on my PC through the mlb.tv applet just fine. And Netflix in decent quality is fine the majority of the time.

Yup it's legal

There are probably a ton of Boston fans there. The East coast (and I'm sure Quebec too) is riddled with them. It's a disease.

Makes sense. Someone mentioned this about a month ago. I forget which poster it was.

I think Stoeten is just too lazy to take a legitimate job like that.

Well it's certainly not a likely outcome. Maybe a 1% or 2% chance that Rich Urena ever becomes a "star"? Just pumping up his own prospects. Standard practice.

"Richie Urena is gonna be a star" - Atkins

wow that's a very troubling injury for Pollock. Pre-existing issue, based on a previous injury, barely put any weight on it and it snapped... career over?

Why is he still owned? It's embarrassing. He has negative value because of the humiliation.

No, I think you're wrong on Ross. One more year. I think Cashner is pretty overrated. He's average-ish. Value Town in that class = Dickey, Colon, maybe Anderson and Buchholz? Geeze, not a lot of attractive anything.

Not a great crop Brett Anderson (29) Bronson Arroyo (40) Brandon Beachy (30) Clay Buchholz (32) Andrew Cashner (30) Jhoulys Chacin (29) Jesse Chavez (33) Josh Collmenter (31) — $2.25MM mutual option with a $150K buyout Bartolo Colon (43) John Danks (32) Jorge De La Rosa (36) R.A. Dickey (42) Scott Feldman (34) Doug Fister (33) Gio Gonzalez (31) — $12MM club option with a $500K buyout Jeremy Guthrie (38) Jason Hammel (34) — $10MM club option with a $2MM buyout Jeremy Hellickson (30) Rich Hill (37) Derek Holland (30) — $11MM club option with a $1MM buyout Edwin Jackson (33) Scott Kazmir (33) — can opt out of remaining two years, $32MM on current contract Mat Latos (29) Colby Lewis (37) Cory Luebke (32) Kris Medlen (31) — $10MM mutual option with a $1MM buyout Matt Moore (28) — $7MM club option with a $2.5MM buyout Charlie Morton (33) — $9.5MM mutual option with a $1MM buyout Jon Niese (30) — $10MM club option with a $500K buyout Ivan Nova (30) Jake Peavy (36) Yusmeiro Petit (32) — $3MM club/vesting option with a $500K buyout (vests with 80 IP) CC Sabathia (36) — $25MM vesting option with a $5MM buyout James Shields (35) — Can opt out of remaining two years, $44MM on current contract Alfredo Simon (36) Stephen Strasburg (28) Ryan Vogelsong (39) Edinson Volquez (33) — $10MM mutual option with a $3MM buyout Jered Weaver (34) C.J. Wilson (36) Travis Wood (30)

He was a 3.6 win pitcher last year, and worth 2.6 and 2.4 wins in each of the preceding years. RA9-WAR is the most relevant measure of his talent. He doesn't have a skill set that should fall off a cliff or anything. He's currently an above average starting pitcher all things considered. Sure, he's old and general wear and tear should be expected to reduce his ability to really chew up innings at some point. Your type of attitude is exactly the reason he has the potential to be a really good investment for the 2017 team. I'm not saying sign him right now. I'm saying they should consider offering him a contract for 2017 if at the conclusion of 2016 he still appears to be about as healthy and skillful and he is right now. RA Dickey had ERAs of 3.71 and 3.91 in the last two years while pitching 430 innings in the AL East. To say "hurrr durrr Dickey sucks and is a garbage tosser" demonstrates about as much critical thinking as that time that I ate a live frog when I was two years old.

No. The team will still be veteran laden in 2017. Dickey is posed to present himself as a very efficient use of resources for a shrewd competitive team in need of innings for that year. The downside is very minimal, and the alternative would probably be substantially more money (3 or 4 times as much?) for a roughly equivalent pitcher. Could be looking at 1/$8 for Dickey vs. Happ contract for a guy like Happ.

He'll be the most efficient use of money on the market, almost for certain. Unless of course he like, blows out his hip this year or whatever.

I think that ^ team competes pretty well. Sign back Dickey for the innings, and then some cheap DH/OF/RP/SP depth free agents.

I f***ing hate you

I seen the vids

prolapsed means your butt chute is a red sock inside out external

hotel staff said something about her being all scratched up maybe she literally fell the point is - nobody knows

It's all a PR endeavour. I think the dropped charge changes pubic perception enough to let MLB seriously reduce the potential suspension. There's also the chance that she is refusing to cooperate because there is no legitimate case, and she was sort of crying wolf, or whatever.

yup

*Boxy hat* We should at least acknowledge the possibility that the incident was never as serious as we thought it was and that's why the wife doesn't want to cooperate. It's not like every DV accusation is some absolutely true and harrowing act of physical violence against a woman.

I think the dropped charges will be a big factor. You're right that it shouldn't be determinative though.

Yeah, the power imbalance between Reyes and his wife is massive.