Laika
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Correa has made it pretty obvious that Tulo is no longer the best SS in baseball. Also, lots of guys are nipping at Tulo's heels for #2 on the list right now.
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That's such an absurd price. Who geefs a fawk about a go-ahead home run in the f***ing ALDS, anyway?
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Bartolo is a fantastic target. He'll probably get a one year deal for around what he made this past year, which was $11M.
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The following players, IMO, could potentially be both extremely cheap and surprisingly decent. This isn't a list for buy-lows like Shark, Latos, or Ian Kennedy, who could be very good and will likely get decent money. These guys are best thought of as #6 SP candidates. The (s)hit list: buy low free agent pitching targets Trevor Cahill Bud Norris Tim Lincecum Doug Fister Kyle Lohse Gavin Floyd Brandon Morrow Joe Blanton Rich Hill Edwin Jackson Chris Young I would love to get Cahill or Morrow to start the season in the pen, as the #6 SP.
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[ img]link[ /img] no spaces in the brackets tho
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This is a weird thing to say. Sure he's a good baserunner and defender, but he's also a really good hitter. He does everything well. His baseball instincts wouldn't be ruined by one big injury. Physical decline or major injury can harm or ruin the career of any pro athlete. If anything, Heyward's broad skill-set makes him a safer bet for long term investment. Even if we fast-forward to 2025 when he'll be Carlos Betran slow, Heyward should still be useful. Heck - look at Beltran himself! Super comparable talent to Heyward, and he's aged like a fine cheese.
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Having just seen Buehrle, Dickey, and Estrada roll through Toronto, I'm more sympathetic these days to the notion that someone might have skills that FIP theory ignores. Santiago is caught as a sinkerball pitcher but he doesn't get groundballs. Kind of weird. Probably a misclassification. I know he used to have some notoriety as a screwball pitcher... Still likely just a POS that is due for a season where RHB wOBA .380 off him.
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Still trying to figure out if he's decent or terrible and extremely lucky. What would his DIPS beating skill be?
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Two controllable guys that might fit that archetype are Roenis Elias and Chase Anderson. Particularly Anderson (Elias' CH rates well but he's more known for his CU). But, neither would be cheap.
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Josh Tomlin Jesse Chavez Jorge De La Rosa Our own Drew Hutchison I am honing in on the idea of trading for Matt Garza. He didn't lose any velocity this year - he just had a weirdly terrible season. Owed 2/$25 with a cheap $5M team option for 2018. The option vests at $13M if he makes 58 starts in the next two years, which could easily be avoided. Milwaukee could probably be compelled to eat some of his contract and he should cost essentially nothing. Vance Worley, maybe? CJ Wilson rubbed some people the wrong way in LA this year. I wonder if the irresponsible Angels would eat 1/2 of his remaining salary to get Revere
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Agree that Toronto should sign Joey Votto
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No offseason action yet in the DDL Also, six people still haven't checked in on the poll Further, proboards won't let me send out any mass emails from my @yahoo account for some reason. It says I need to change my affiliated email address - something to do with @yahoo accounts not working. f*** that!
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/r/torontobluejays is massive now, apparently
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Again, you're conflating arguments. In the other thread you very much seemed to be arguing something akin to the fact that a pitcher's WAR should be expected to plummet when they switched leagues.
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Cool? I thought the talent gap between the AL and NL was common knowledge, but apparently not. Thanks for teaching nobody anything tonight, Grant. Sleep soundly!
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Who was ignoring any facts? The expected rise in ERA for pitchers moving from the NL to the AL is around 0.40 runs. This has been well known and documented for years and years. Everybody knows it. I even mentioned it in the other thread re: Leake's expected FIP. You could have just googled it... Again, I'm still not sure what you're trying to prove. The deviations in your ERA differences (from 0.40), for both directions of movement, are probably due to a small sample size. There wouldn't be a huge sample of pitchers that went 100+ IP in one league and then 100+ IP in the other league within a three year sample.
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I don't understand what you're trying to prove. Grant, in the other thread you seemed to be saying that teams don't like to trade for or give big contracts to pitchers that aren't "American League Tested", as if front offices make some sort of categorical decision about pitcher acquisition based on which leagues they've pitched in. Now you are just showing that the run environment is different between the two leagues. These are completely different things and nobody with six brain cells would argue with the latter.
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~1200 visits today and counting, lmao
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Oh of course. But even by RA9-WAR, in 2013 and 2014 Dickey was little more than average.
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Well you add like 0.40 going from the NL to the AL in general. Leake is projected in AT&T so him coming from there to the RC would add even more. It doesn't change his WAR projection though. You'd still expect him to be a league average SP. Leake would be very similar to what Dickey has been the last few years for Toronto, who I think everyone would agree was a contributor. There's a right price for Leake, the market will probably double it though.
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Preller still has a job?
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Did you guys notice this?
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Latos is a dirtbag that has burned bridges everywhere he's pitched. http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/mat-latos-miami-marlins-new-pitcher-interview-cincinnati-reds-022215
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Probably more like Gregerson's 3/$18.
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Man, I thought Latos had a nightmare season given how he was handled by the Dodgers, but he was actually decent in every DIPS metric and his velocity bounced back a bit from 2014. He's hideous and ugly but... would be a good buy-low. I guess.
