Laika

The trade works because of team need. Pompey is probably at least as good as Revere. And despite rumours to the contrary, Michael Saunders is still literally alive (he might not be kicking, though). Storen completes the back end of the bullpen well. Now there are two good RHP in him and Osuna and two good LHP in Cecil and Loup. It bumps someone like Biagini/Schultz/Tepera who are probably replacement level. It also increases the ability to maybe stretch out Sanchez or Osuna, which may or may not be good. Since Washington matched salaries, arguably the teams gets a bit better without increasing payroll. Revere is an interesting case study in past WAR vs. expected WAR though. He has been a league average OF consistently and he has two years of control left. In theory, he should be worth more than 1 year of Storen. But WAR is a descriptive stat, not a predictive one. There are legitimate concerns that Revere's skill set has changed a bit since the past descriptive results. He may be more of a poor LF now defensively than a decent CF. He also doesn't have a "robust" skill-set in any sense of the word, having maxed out his physical tools in the past to only achieve ~2 win results. Obviously Toronto doesn't see Revere as a rock solid 2 win LF going forward. It will be interesting to see how he does in the next two years. The Nori Aoki situation from this winter kind of tells us that teams don't value corner outfielders like this (no pop, mediocre D) very much.

Cola

I like this trade because it makes BTS look stupid

Halladay is the best. Clemens essentially makes something up, for all intensive porpoises, in order to hit back. Doc is squeaky clean and everyone knows it. Guy is a frigging Mormon. dum dum dum dum dum

It's not my fault that the sport is in decline, you big poof

The Iginla / Doan auction is over. Almost no bids were received. I decided that the two for 1 offer was better since the player coming back (Kevin Hayes) actually has real keeper value. A steal for GD for his championship run. The rest of you were asleep at the wheel. Have a good season. Never invite me to a fantasy hockey league again, plz.

poofs get poofed

I may have been looking at last year Anyway Doan would be like 5th

oh one of those types

Well then you are dumn Iginla's st. dev. is better than all but four of your skaters, lolololol

Still the top offers ^ Very little interest in Iginla and Doan. Kind of surprising. I know they are old but they are first line PP guys that are putting up points. Must not be very many teams going for it this year.

Darno would look great on Toronto's DL, agreed

Adding to an already good offense has synergistic benefits though

I love the idea of adding even more offense to this team. Just keep stacking bats and then sit back and revel in the positive feedback and the ~9 runs for per game. But, won't happen.

+1 Bring back the zecutive of the year Less suits, more toots!

It seems like the Blue Jays are married to Smoakabello and not really interested in looking for creative upgrades at 1B. The fact that they quickly gave Smoak $3.9M is evidence of this. A shame, really.

Steamer600 Cola - 108 wRC+; 1.1 fWAR Pedro - 112 wRC+; 1.1 fWAR Smoak - 96 wRC+; 0.6 fWAR Pearce - 110 wRC_; 2.0 fWAR Pedro is a career 118 vs. RHP while Smoak is a 101. Colabello is a 113 vs. RHP but contrary to what Grant thinks, that split has little meaning. Pedro would improve the team's offense vs. RHP but is it worth the drop in defense from Smoak, and is it worth (presumably) the increased payroll? He was projected for I think $8M in arbitration so he'll look to approach that figure. You would lose roster flexibility by replacing a switch hitter with someone who can't hit lefties. You would gain some by adding an emergency 3B, though.

Columbus just got impaled

oh, obviously that would be a grossly unfair transaction in favour of Toronto Chi Chi Gonzalez has way more prospect clout though. Kind of like Martin Perez or Jarred Cosart.

too rich

Sanchez might be better lowl

lol Gonzalez is pretty bad

Rodney has already been down the toilet and back once. Can he swirl around one more time? Stay tuned and find out, on this weeks episode of Fire Shapiro

Top Iginla Offer: 29 year old W with like 20 points + 5th round pick Top Doan Offer: 33 year old C with like 15 points + 4th round pick Alternative Combo Offer: 23 year old RW with like ~20 points for both players

This is probably the last useful year for both of them. Might as well let someone buy them and make a run