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Effect Buehrle has had on the youngsters = priceless

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All I can think about is a half man half horse centaur with a headset on

Tom Verducci has been an incredible colour guy for Fox. He doesn't speak up a whole lot, but when he does it's almost always insightful - or even better, researched. The one good thing about the broadcast, which is terrible in general. He's like the opposite of Harold Reynolds, who just talks off the cuff, talks all of the time to fill any silent air, and seems to just be wilfully ignorant about a lot of things. I remember Joe Buck being sort of boring but professional nonetheless. However, he's seemed largely disinterested and boring all playoffs. A lot of the time this is how he'll play-by-play call an at bat: "strike one... here's the 0-1... ball one... here's the 1-1.... good rip on 1-1... (insert Ned Yost reference)... (no comment on ball 2)... 2-2 pitch... Moustakas! - Hosmer! ----- inning over." so f***ing boring, Buck

No, not in like forever.

Spanky, why don't you make fantasy baseball trades with me anymore?

He has that thing, but that doesn't really matter on its own. More importantly, the arm is a bit late and there seems to be a lot of effort in his delivery and the body just might not be on time the way that it needs to be for a SP to hold up. I can't say for sure because I have no idea what I'm talking about and you'd need high speed video anyway. But honestly if he was a good bet to be a SP than Toronto wouldn't have called him up this year. There had to be a determination there that his role was RP and he had all of the skills to be one right now so why wait and f*** around with building up his stamina and all that s*** and risk him getting hurt before he even makes it to the big leagues? And then when AA says s*** publicly like "we still view Sanchez and Osuna as starters long term", well there might be some truth there but for me, reading between the lines, that's mostly about maintaining trade value for them. If they end up in some proposal and the opposing GM values them as SP then they'll be worth a hell of a lot more. And if AA is on the record about how these guys are relievers then the other dude can argue for them to not carry such significant value.

TBH, I think Osuna's mechanics might potentially be so problematic that him being a starter just isn't really an option.

Jason Pare from Cleveland. Rumour has it that Pare killed an attempted mugger in downtown Cleveland one night, so he had to be traded to Canada.

Wow, could you be any more stupider? You realize that major league scouts just single-handedly won the ALCS for Kansas City, right? jesus duck

Well the Tulo deal was pretty good in context. Can we have Norris and Boyd back, though?

were you wrong or is he just AFK?

Also, 5th OF. Only real issue is that he doesn't have 1B experience.

It's very likely that he would need a platoon partner given what his regressed platoon splits would be in relation to his talent level. Even if you don't expect him to be terrible vs. RHP, you would expect a LHB of similar talent level to be much better. We could also remove the "platoon" label and just say that pencilling in Colabello at 1B would necessitate some legitimate insurance. A platoon is just a convenient and sensible way to get that insurance. Really they just need to roll out Smoakabello 2.0. Doesn't have to be Smoak though. Could be any not awesome or expensive LHB 1B type who would reasonably be acquirable. Morneaubello Jasobello Mossabello (would be awesome) Davisabello (Ike, obviously) LoMobello Smithabello etc.

I just can't see it happening. They will probably just look for a Smoak upgrade for 2016 - someone to platoon with Colabello. And if AA stays around he'll probably be focused on extending EE and JB, so 1B will be kept open in the long term for Bautista. It will be a tunnel vision offseason focused on acquiring pitching, I think. No need for more offense and the pitching market is very deep.

Are you trying to get me banned? I'm on your side man. This is exactly what the fascist wants - he's trying to divide us with unequal treatment.

You'll see with your mod goggles that I made an informative poll and had adjusted the age to 50, which would have been a better number to delineate "old" posters. This poll would have gathered lots of interesting data in a sensitive manner. BUT the fascist deleted my poll, because he's a f***ing imbecile.

Yeah they have holes all over the diamond. Lots of core players they probably won't be able to retain. Davis, Wieters, Chen, Parra, O'Day... For all of the credit that Duquette and Showalter were getting the last couple of years, that organization looks like it was terribly mismanaged at this point. To have all of those players hitting FA at the same time and to have their farm in the terrible state that it's in is pretty bad. Aside from the seriously injured Hunter Harvey and Dylan Bundy, they have like, one other actual prospect. Trading Eduardo Rodriguez for Miller looks terrible right now - they really couldn't afford to do that.

I think his usage comes from an abundance of caution and they probably still consider him to be nearly untouchable.

Kind of like when there is a group of reasonable moderators, but then there's this one guy who....

lol

#ModShow spillover The Swedish Joe West of baseball forum moderation is censoring me

You realize that the poll was optional and anonymous? You dumb Swede...

I don't even understand what his role could possibly be. 2nd/3rd backup MIF? 3rd pinch runner?

Why do you like to pretend that minorities don't exist in the world of baseball discussion?