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Because Brad Miller had a .930 OPS in the minors, with a .400 OBP and awesome peripherals, and UZR thinks he's an average defensive shortstop. People still see him as a sleeping giant who got jerked around stupidly by Seattle. Someone who could be a top 5 offensive SS in the game. Also, Nate Karns is older than Mat Latos.
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/r/torontobluejays is good for about 1500 hits right now, if your article is sufficiently interesting (ie., related to Blue Jays trade idea). http://i.imgur.com/rOAwxTi.png If we wanted to actually grow and pump up the blog right now we would be wise to use reddit
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No team would pick players like that in the MLB portion of the rule 5. If Toronto added guys like that to the 40 then they'd just end up having the waive them anyway, eventually, when they need to be DFAd off of the 40 to make room for useful players who can actually provide some depth. Toronto will fill the 40 with Colt Hynes and Bo Schultz type dudes - not non-factor fringe prospects who aren't even close to MLB ready.
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reminder in case anyone forgot - you are allowed to carry as many prospects and MLB players as you want during the offseason. Not limited to 12 prospects.
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A cautionary tale for teams that think prospect depth = actual positional depth
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Tim Beckham is very bad though. Miller probably starts, full time.
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Traded Nick Williams to BTS for Brad Miller
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Yeah Tampa's SP depth made this an easy decision for them. From the M's perspective, I hate how this means they are basically putting all of their SS eggs in the Ketel Marte basket.
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Brad Miller isn't as shiny as he used to be. He's not going to have those ~3 WAR projections for 2016. Karns demonstrated last year that he's a league average SP talent. I think it's pretty fair
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Lackey or Kuma Makes sense to be aggressive on one of the good old guys. They won't command lengthy contracts but they are... well, good.
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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.
