Laika
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Just think about 2020 Vladdy Guerrero Jr hitting 40 bombs at the hot corner Rowdy Tellez ISO-ing above his weight at 1B (he'll weigh 250+ by then) Anthony Alford a few years into his McCutchen career path Max Pentecost the world's first one armed position player Richard Urena hitting .180 while backing up a geriatric Tulo Alex Anthopoulos being an area scout for the Rockies or whatever one can dream
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It's all semantics. I think he's just commenting on the fact that he would be sort of less of a full GM than before.
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mods r dum
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Just take the internship and then you'll probably be single. Problem solved
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They basically just hire an overqualified kid in the middle of a math/engineering degree, or fresh out of one, and then suck the love of baseball right out of him before he switches industries. Might actually be a decent job under SHAPIRO though!!!! I would apply but I'm too smart. Also, I don't even know what SQL stands for.
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The deadline to extend a QO hasn't happened yet. It is soon though.
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8======D
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Rockies decline Morneau's option, so he's a free agent. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/10/rockies-decline-justin-morneau-option.html
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lol Tellez is masive, and slow af
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Blue Jays GM Candidates [Tinnish? Peter Brand?]
Laika replied to GD's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Grant77 would make a pretty good GM -
[TABLE=width: 444] [TR] [TD] Year [/TD] [TD] Age [/TD] [TD] Salary [/TD] [TD] WAR [/TD] [TD] $/WAR [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] 2016 [/TD] [TD] 30 [/TD] [TD=align: right] $13,000,000.00 [/TD] [TD] 7 [/TD] [TD] $1,857,142.86 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] 2017 [/TD] [TD] 31 [/TD] [TD=align: right] $17,000,000.00 [/TD] [TD] 6.5 [/TD] [TD] $2,615,384.62 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] 2018 [/TD] [TD] 32 [/TD] [TD=align: right] $20,000,000.00 [/TD] [TD] 6 [/TD] [TD] $3,333,333.33 [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] This is pretty sweet on its own though.
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Yeah I agree. They already have Donaldson's best years under control. There shouldn't really be a huge push to get the tail end of his career under control too. Teams do this all the time with in-house stars and then regret it. They don't seem to realize that there might be a correct time to just say goodbye to a star player. Even if you do want to keep Donaldson until he gets arthritis, this is also the WORST possible time to buy in. He's about to win the f***ing MVP award! Just be patient and wait for a slightly better time to purchase six old years of JD
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If Alex wants to be the GM of a baseball team and run every single aspect of its baseball side from top to bottom.... well, I hear OOTP16 is pretty good.
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This is a good, fair, well thought out, and non-speculative post. Nice job.
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Hard to say without knowing whether or not he'll show up to spring training with that top knot in 2016
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I understand him wanting full control of baseball decisions because he had a unique situation with Beeston and essentially did have full control, but there are only 30 (or so) of these jobs in the game and the majority of them do not grant the GM the final say on everything baseball. He had the opportunity to work with and learn from a great baseball guy in Shapiro - he could have seen that as a positive and not an impediment. I think his ego just got in the way, more than anything. Five year offer to remain the GM of the only pro baseball team in his home country, where he has grown as a professional, where the fans generally love him and he just built a team that went to the ALCS, and he turns it down because Mark Shapiro wants to bounce ideas with his GM and Alex wants to be the big cheese. smh Could have accepted but placed something in the contract stating that if a GM offer involving full control of an organization comes up then he is free from his contract with Toronto and able to accept.
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so like Uber, but for baseball
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The amount of young controllable pitching that has moved through Toronto's system is kind of crazy. Obviously trading some of these guys was fine, or more than fine. Syndergaard Stroman Norris Hutchison Hoffman Boyd DeSclafani Osuna Nicolino Sanchez Castro De Jong <--- don't forget about him, traded for a couple of international bonus slots Wojiechowski Musgrove Dyson Nolin Graveman (probably more)
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I find much of this post to be absurd
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They already had this. Single game tickets against the Yankees/Red Sox are priced as "premium" and cost more money than a weekday game against the White Sox.
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This Griffin article could have been written by Grant:
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That report is almost certainly ********. From some random TSN guy who said in his article that the Blue Jays don't have dynamic ticket pricing...
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It's hard to wrap my head around how this could be a good career move for AA... still trying to see the angle here.
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John Lott asking two perfect, pro reporter questions. AA has trouble dodging them but still manages to - refuses to "get into specifics" and says simply that based on "general discussions" the fit wasn't right. Says that he never asked for anything and was never told that anything would be different.
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Here is a baseball job posting, too bad AA isn't qualified: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/job-postings-houston-astros-baseball-research-and-development-analyst/
