Laika

co-signed

Different regimes, bro.

If he starts at 5 WAR in 2016 and then declines normally while a $/WAR of $8M inflates normally, he'll be worth: 40 38.52 36.98 34.95 32.35 29.11 25.15 = $237M Of course you wouldn't really expect him to total that much WAR. The added risk with pitchers in particular is the heightened chance that they will blow out their arm and miss a huge chunk of time, or just decline precipitously like Sabathia did. The extent to which you want to bake that into the projections is discretionary. I don't know the proper percentage for "pitcher risk adjustment".

f***ing Rogers!!!!!!!!

Buzz from Twitter is that buzz from Korea is that the Twins were lowballing him pretty bad but he just signed anyway because he wants to play in the MLB

Projections aren't really designed to predict playing time. Later on in the offseason Fangraphs will have team depth charts properly updated and at that point you can kind of sort of see projected playing time on those pages, but right now you can ignore what Steamer thinks for PA and IP. The current Fangraphs depth charts aren't really curated - more of an artifact from 2015. If you use Steamer600 right now it scales everyone to 600 PA / 200 IP / 65 IP (for relievers). It's much more useful for comparisons. Travis' recovery time window bleeds into spring training so it's possible that he won't quite be ready to break camp with the team. They probably do need someone else on the roster than can man an IF position since Travis and Tulo are both big injury risks and Goins can't hit. Kelly Johnson is increasingly attractive to me. - 2B depth - LF depth (makes a Revere deal easier) - Has even played some 1B and 3B recently, so has a lot of positional utility - Lefty with some pop - Skills don't seem to have eroded - actually has some upside; could catch a power upswing - cheap as f*** I think he would make the roster much more robust.

lmao

Give him a one foot long, square beard though and BTS would enjoy it

I'll take Vicente Padilla in the ugly horse race http://bis.npb.or.jp/players_photo/2013/h/042_61665137.jpg

"in baseball" being used loosely I'm thinking about your LoD offer btw. Not sure how the flag situation will work

Joc Pederson is handsome? I don't really see it.

I think the Tigers gave Rajai Davis 2/$10 a couple of years ago

no you don't

"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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GD loves the tip

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.

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