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No wonder Rogers wanted to bring him in! Cheap bassturds! -
That's one way to look at it, but for Bautista to see it like that would be pretty one-sided and self centred. The Blue Jays committed and guaranteed $65 million to him after one miracle season. They showed a large amount of faith in him as a player and a person, and to his credit he rewarded them by being everything they could have hoped he would be for the duration of that deal. Bautista's last contract should be viewed as extremely positive, in a reciprocal sense. Both parties should feel the love... ... I hope
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I think there's a reasonable chance that AA can get Edwin and Jose negotiating at the same time, play that off of the other player, and end up getting team friendly extensions if they both sign. Both players probably love Toronto and the team is in such a good state right now. I really don't think it's necessary to let one walk, unless one of them is intent on testing free agency (Bautista might be). A couple of years from now Jose could play an adequate 1B and EE would DH. Not a huge deal. I think Bautista is all about respect. Does he find respect in dollars, or in legacy? If legacy = respect then he'll accept a sweetheart deal to retire a Blue Jay.
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Clearly what you're missing here is that Colby Rasmus' sour dog personality is the specific reason that his K% ballooned to 33% in 2014 and his value plummeted off a cliff. If Colby had a better attitude, this never would have happened! Also, think about how much a gloomy gus like that would drag down the production of his teammates.
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lol, he's not, and he never was. More accurately, the tension for him has been scouting based player evaluation vs. analytics based player evaluation.
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Yes, because Russell Martin and Josh Donaldson weren't massive production upgrades. Just good clubhouse guys, for the most part.
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No, this type of situation happens all of the time, in most employment contexts. It's really not a big deal. Everybody involved will want him to stay, it's just matter of agreeing on the dollar figure and term. I actually am finding all of the discussion and articles about his status to be pretty hilarious.
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The Kemp trade was a franchise saving maneuver. Imagine the Wells trade for Toronto, but if Toronto had have kept Napoli. And then imagine that Napoli at the time was a 26 year old two-way player with four years of control left. And then also imagine that Toronto somehow got two mediocre pitching prospects thrown in, for shits and giggles. Most lopsided trade of the millennium? Kemp will make $21M per year through 2019 and he will probably be a replacement level player for most of that time. Grandal might be a top 5 catcher in baseball.
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Anthopoulos is super active, so he's bound to make lots of good and bad trades. He's also super aggressive, so some of those deals are bound to look positively lopsided, in either context or hindsight. If he's not the type of GM to f*** up every once in a while like he did in the Dickey trade, then he's also not going to be the type of GM to somehow land Donaldson.
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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.
