Laika

I contacted silvergun through email and we exchanged some messages. A few other people also contacted him independently. He's not leaving the DDL. Basically, he rage-quit the message board because it sucks and in a fit of fury he lumped the league in with the board, since it's a board league. But in the light of day he realized that he could not leave the DDL. It's just too good. He is done with the message board though. He made a ProBoards post in the Chat thread about all of this. So I'll take this opportunity to say that while this thread has a lot of utility, the official spaces for the DDL are ProBoards and Yahoo. I encourage everyone to update their trade blocks on ProBoards. Any official league polls or announcements happen through ProBoards, Yahoo, or email. We have a few members now that basically don't post on BJMB. Jaysblue hasn't been around in forever, for one. Torontofan and Gibbers barely post at all. FTD is MIA (but that's a bit different). On the subject of co-managers, they remain frowned upon. I think they can be more annoying than helpful. I do recognize the usefulness of temporary supports like such as GD for North right now, though.

We aren't moving forward with anything at the moment. I'll talk to silvergun via email and try to get to the bottom of things. #1 priority is retaining silvergun

How many bbdl members do we even have involved as co-managers? I would root and and destroy the presence of all of them if it meant keeping silvergun, who is a pillar of the DDL community.

Co-managers are now illegal in the DDL. Existing ones may or may not be grandfathered.

Name 1 person on this message board that hasn't been trolled so hard by me that they spat out their milk

Bad year to do it with the loonie being so floppy

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.