Laika
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I didn't say that I would want to trade him, lol. Tards.
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So he'd have high demand and tantalizing upside. Sounds like a pretty good trade chip!
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Shouldn't we talk about trading everybody? There's a price for everything. Pretty close-minded to be categorically opposed to trading certain players.
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Craig Kimbrel has very little trade value, in a nutshell. Almost a wash between his projected value and guaranteed contract. Most of his potential surplus value might actually be present in the chance that you could have him refuse a QO two years from now. If the team trading for him is high on the win curve then his value goes up a bit, obviously.
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See, AA would probably never even consider that because Sanchez is Stroman's best buddy. I'd probably do it. Grant wouldn't though, FWIW. Because when Sanchez throws strikes he's unhittable. Or, in the slightly altered words of Brian Fantana - "40% of the time, it works every time."
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You have a point on the QO, but for the record 60% the Fangraphs crowd didn't think he'd get offered one from the Padres. And the whole Happ vs Kennedy thing is kind of artificial. I could see Happ getting 3/42 and Kennedy getting 3/33, it will all just depend on when they sign and who wants their services and how good their agents are. Personally, I think Kennedy is probably worth roughly 36 million dollars on a three year deal. That's with no QO attached. And as we know, it will probably take a premium to get any decent free agent arm to sign in Toronto, Canada, in the AL East, blah blah blah.
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Not a chance Sha-pir-row will ask for more money in year 1 of his tenure
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Ian Kennedy is good
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I mean if he's cheap then sure. Kimbrel Cecil Osuna Hendriks Loup Sanchez is better than the Royals' old Holland-Davis-Herrera pen. The team could fill out it's rotation with guys like Erasmo Ramirez who can only go through an order twice.
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I'd rather Sanchez gets traded while he might still have decent prospecty value to someone
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Sanchez set up Cecil close Osuna start sign an RP or two
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Dave Cameron's worthless predictions for Toronto are: Estrada at 3/33 Kennedy at 3/42 Navarro at 2/10 I could see that happening I guess. Pretty lame though. I wonder if anybody interested in Estrada will also want Navarro to team them up again.
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Just a hunch, but I think they're closing in on an extension for Abdelkader.
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I wouldn't. It just doesn't align with the team needs right now, and my ideal offseason would involve getting rid of Revere and anointing Pompey the starting LF.
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I am all for offloading Revere for whatever they can get to save money, so that would be a big help. I don't even care if it's one interesting pitching prospect who is three years away, to be honest. Pompey is a better in-house option than Revere and Saunders very well might be too, so Ben needs to be gone. Backloading the Iwakuma deal could work too. 10/16/16 + getting rid of Revere would get them basically to budget for 2016. I guess Smoak at say $2M hypothetically has a small amount of trade value, but they'd need to find a very specific trade partner. A team that needs a part time 1B and doesn't have much space in the budget could be willing to give up something small.
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More correctly, I think, if the Reds trade Chapman someone like Revere just would not be the type of player they would be looking for, at all. They are in rebuild mode and they'd want a top prospect. Chapman is still an asset vs. his salary, but if they trade him before the season then you also need to factor in the value of the QO compensation pick that he will almost certainly land a team next offseason. So Chapman could carry a lot of trade value this offseason, especially to teams that are high on the win curve. Chapman for a top hitting prospect in the #26-50 range, or a top pitching prospect in the #11-25 range, would probably be a fair deal. So a fair deal on paper might be Pompey straight up for Chapman.
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14+15+6+4+6 = $45M If the payroll is capped at $140M then they probably only have ~32M to spend.
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"development isn't linear" - said the old wrinkly scout
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Since MLB also has a separate process that gives out "competitive balance picks" based on market size, the true purpose of the free agent compensation pick regime must be to simply sandbag the market for top talent and save owners money. I suppose it also is in the interest of long term parity, since teams that land big ticket free agent talent will lose a high draft pick in the process. This slightly increases that chances that said team will fail at remaining competitive "long term".
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Arbitrary binning process says: 4 teams that got picks are smaller market 5 teams that got picks are bigger market (considering Detroit and Baltimore to be bigger) 5 teams that gave up picks are bigger market 3 teams that gave up picks are small/mid market (M's, Padres, Twins).
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You would need an entirely new system then if your goal is to help small market teams. The system as it currently is constructed probably gives more comp picks to teams with higher payrolls, since they have an increased ability to acquire QO worthy players in the first place. It's also drastically unfair to good but non-elite free agents. It's a contrived and ineffective system, at best.
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Compensation picks just need to go away entirely
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let's do that trade you didn't want to do earlier
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Probably because of that DDL title more than anything.
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I forgot / didn't realize you were from Toronto. Anyway, I am excited to have someone I know inside the Shapiro regime. Hink hated working for the AA crowd but Graydon seemed to enjoy it.
