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"Mariners “Trying Hard” To Deal Mark Trumbo; Have Talked With Rockies" BTS' plan for all these years finally comes to light. It was all a long-bet on Coors Trumbo. Genius.

I made up that Williams quote It was a social experiment You're all idiots I thought "brownies" would be a dead giveaway

Ted Williams took PEDs consistently: "Yeah, we all did it back then. I used to take steroids, greenies, uppers, downers, brownies. It was just part of being a professional." - Ted Williams in his autobiography

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To grant - numbers guy is a good one

Alfredo Simon!

No, but they should drill it into Gibbons' head that almost as a rule, a few of these guys should never face a lineup for the 3rd time. I don't think it's fair to call the rotation a bunch of 4's and 5's either. Dickey is certainly still an above average pitcher. Estrada and Stroman pitched like 2's last year. Happ pitched like a well above average pitcher last year. When I think of #4/5 SP, I think of guys like Danks, Gee, Guthrie, Harang, Big Pasta, and Tom Koehler that might be able to give you 1 WAR if they throw 25+ games.

Pretty likely that they are done with the rotation (other than minor league deals), unless they add through trade. I can't see any sense in signing someone and bumping Hutch or Chavez to #7 on the depth chart.

I don't follow the logic. Revere projects as a below average MLB hitter.

Ben Nicholson-Smith ‏@bnicholsonsmith 6m6 minutes ago After focusing on starters early, #BlueJays have been touching base with some established free agent relievers.

~3M

MLBTR's list of non-tender candidates: Position Players Pedro Alvarez Brandon Barnes Peter Bourjos Drew Butera Chris Carter Pedro Ciriaco Collin Cowgill Tony Cruz Ike Davis Ryan Flaherty Sam Fuld Paul Janish Jose Lobaton David Lough Will Middlebrooks Tyler Moore Brandon Moss Nolan Reimold Ben Revere Rene Rivera Hector Sanchez Michael Saunders Eric Sogard Ruben Tejada Josh Thole Mark Trumbo Brett Wallace Pitchers Al Alburquerque Henderson Alvarez Steve Cishek Louis Coleman Tim Collins Ryan Cook Aaron Crow Steve Delabar Felix Doubront Josh Edgin Neftali Feliz Charlie Furbush Nick Hagadone Greg Holland Jeff Locke Ryan Mattheus Jenrry Mejia Mike Minor Addison Reed Marc Rzepczynski Tanner Scheppers Craig Stammen Carlos Torres Jacob Turner Joe Wieland Vance Worley A ton of very intriguing names that aren't on any FA list anywhere.

I was assuming that his market would be tempered a bit by the concern around his elbow, and how s***** he was with KC. But I guess you can read between the lines and assume that the medicals are strong.

I think that the depth of prospects under consideration in the board dynasty leagues should mean that almost anyone in those leagues should be able to contribute in an informed way, if they want. For the DDL and LoD, that would add: The Cats Ass TheRealMin jays_fever SpeedyGose jays4life19 KingKat Gibbers spittin Abomination havok24 z3r0s NorthOf49 Frag silvergun Fearthedoc Chappy connorp Boxcar jaysblue vdartanian AdamGreenwood Orgfiller Dr. Dinger Torontofan Sammy225 There are a few names there that probably don't follow prospects too closely, but I doubt they'd want to be involved anyway (eg,. connorp). And, obviously, a bunch of those guys couldn't care less. But a few people on this list might want in.

I support this method and I will get around to submitting my list at some point

Do I see THE Zach Lee on that list?

disagree there's also a nuanced understanding of how specific types of players translate to the big leagues that only I and people like me are born with

Why did TL leave?

Doing a consensus community vote is dumb because most of the people here are dumb

wow, apparently Cueto turned down 6/$120 from the D-Bags.

Sea Bass 2.0

There are probably 6 or so owners that haven't really done much this offseason in terms of being involved, updating trade blocks, responding to messages. It's fine though. Some people just aren't that active in the offseason.

Heyward will only be 26 next year. He is probably a top 10 projected position player by WAR. We would expect him to approach 5 WAR in 2016, actually get better in 2017, and then stay basically that good for a year or two before decline kicks in. Which is to say that in year TEN of a Heyward contract, we might expect him to still be a league average player, or thereabouts. You could pay Jason Heyward $200M and actually expect to get a massive surplus on that deal. [table=width: 500] [tr] [td]WAR[/td] [td]$/WAR[/td] [td]VALUE[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]4.7[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]37.6[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]4.95[/td] [td]8.56[/td] [td]42.37[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]4.95[/td] [td]9.25[/td] [td]45.76[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]4.45[/td] [td]9.98[/td] [td]44.43[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]3.95[/td] [td]10.78[/td] [td]42.59[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]3.45[/td] [td]11.65[/td] [td]40.18[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]2.95[/td] [td]12.58[/td] [td]37.10[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]2.45[/td] [td]13.58[/td] [td]33.28[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]1.95[/td] [td]14.67[/td] [td]28.61[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]1.45[/td] [td]15.84[/td] [td]22.97[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Surplus[/td] [td][/td] [td]374.90[/td] [/tr] [/table] Even if you take out inflation entirely and have a static $/WAR of 8M for the next ten years, he still comes out to like $282M in value. It's just so rare to have a guy that good and young hit free agency. Any GM that maxed out their budget in the last couple of years on a pitcher in their 30s should be pulling their hair out of frustration from putting themselves out of the Heyward sweepstakes.