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maybe a physical hiccup

172 days = a full year of service time So he does have almost 2

It really doesn't matter much at all. Those contracts were between 4 and 6 years. You just wiggle the years, AAV, and option values to make the math work. Any extension that guaranteed him money in exchange for options on a couple of his FA years would be awesome.

I think so, but that doesn't really strike me as a material difference.

There are enough fairly similar comparisons to get a decent idea. Quintana and Sale. Chris Archer. Carrasco. Ventura. Most of those extensions fit the same template. 4/$22 + two $9M options 5/$23M + two $12M options 6/$25.5M + two $10M options 5/$26.5M + two $11M options 5/$32.5M + two $13M options Remarkably similar! We have a pretty good idea of what a Stroman extension should look like.

Fragility was a problem with every roster AA constructed

Meh. It's not really that hard to watch youngsters play baseball and throw somewhat arbitrary number grades on their attributes.

No. Everybody appreciated McDaniel and everybody knows that most of the good prospect guys move on from the public sector in short order

"One other difference for the way I’ll be communicating scouting grades to you is the presence of three numbers on each tool instead of just two. The first number is the current grade. The second number is the likely future grade; or, if you prefer percentiles, call this the 50th percentile projection. The third number is the ceiling grade, or 90th percentile projection, to help demonstrate the volatility and raw potential of a tool. I feel this gives readers a better sense of the possible outcomes a player could achieve, and more information to understand my thoughts on the likelihood of reaching those levels." I like him!

lol classic BTS move Trumbo, Jerko, and Gattis could all hit 20-30 HR with OBPs comfortably below .300

Dude it's November. They have until the frigging 2016 trade deadline to find a TOR pitcher

Worst qualified OF in baseball in the last two years. lol.

Teaching is a twisted profession in Ontario, man. The unions have so much leverage that they basically get everything they want. That's the inherent problem with massive unions in the public sector - money isn't really limited because the gov can always shift more to education or raise taxes. The compensation is kind of crazy, all things considered (salary + time off + benefits + sick day entitlement + other things). It's such an attractive lifestyle that people have been flocking into teacher's college by the thousands. Now, obviously, there is a huge glut of young people trying to get into the profession and unless you speak French or want to move to Northern Ontario it takes about a decade on a supply list to actually get a full time job. And the crazy f***ing unions have negotiated everything based on seniority hiring, and they can only interview the top 5 in seniority for every job. So talented and passionate young people - the type who make great teachers and coach sports teams and have a passion for the job - are graduating from teacher's college, getting slapped in the face by the market reality and then switching professions. The result is that the people who become full time teachers eventually will be, generally speaking, the more stupid and untalented people who have no better options than supply teaching until their 30's. Now the Ontario Liberals have made teacher's college two years long to try to stem the flow of graduated teachers, which is just f***ing retarded and unnecessary and a total cash grab. Six years of education to teach Kindergarten? f*** off Kathleen Wynne. So dumb.

Neil Walker is a great fit. Getting pricey for the Pirates. 1/$10M for a slightly above average player is already pushing it for them, and to extend him they'd probably have to make him their most expensive player which is just crazy.

King: Cingrani was pretty close to untradeable by JFAS in the BBDL around this time last year Dinger: It's like looking into Carrasco's future!

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Remains possible but his 2015 seemed like a huge step back. The peripherals were worse, the DIPS took a big step back, the slider no longer looked like a standout swing-and-miss pitch, the fastball command was terrible. And the second straight year with a big ERA-FIP is at the very least not exactly comforting. I still think he's fine... just not sure how fine. I think in a year we've gone from hoping that he can stick as a #3 SP to hoping that he can stick in the rotation.

Navarro vs. Thole is really a false dichotomy. Thole is total garbage who's given Toronto three nothing seasons, and he had a 74 wRC+ in frigging AAA last year. He'll get DFA'd at some point and might even be so bad that he'll accept an outright assignment to Buffalo. It's Navarro vs. sign or trade for whoever is available.

The fact that he's had TJS isn't a huge deal to me on its own, it's just a thing in his past that deserves some consideration and it is well known that past injury is a significant factor in predicting future injury. I don't like the look of his mechanics. That's the meat and potatoes of my opinion. Toronto's developmental decisions with him also imply that they don't really think much of him as a starter. And let it be known to all that I am well practiced as an amateur pitching mechanics analyst.

I'm not going to pretend that I know enough about pitching mechanics to have strong opinions about something like this, but I think his mechanics aren't conducive to being a starting pitcher. He's already had the TJS once and I think Toronto probably agrees with me or else they wouldn't have called him up this season and stuck him in the pen. Might be wrong though.

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Well right now it's Hutch. This is just assuming they add one more quality arm. Hopefully someone to at least slot into the #2 slot, like Samardzija or Kuma. Bump Hutch to Buffalo to work on some s*** and get his swing and miss slider back to form. Sign someone like Trevor Cahill for the MLB long relief / SP depth role. Then you're dancin' Stroman Kuma/Smardjz Dickey Estrada Chavez Hutch/Cahill Cahill/Hutch Flip some rocks over for interesting minor league contract dudes to fill the #8 and #9 positions on the totem. Personally I think Sanchez and Osuna should just be left in the pen, for good. Sanchez for talent reasons and Osuna for injury risk reasons.

Yeah you're right. Agree entirely. I kind of forgot the extent to which Dickey controls contact + the value of the Dickey effect. Main point being that Hutch is clearly behind Chavez, and if anyone should be looked at as the #6 it's Drew.