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  1. Grant77
    You guys did a nice job.
  2. Grant77
    According to the Toronto Star, the Blue Jays signed 33 year-old right-handed starter John Thomson for $500,000 plus incentives. The 33 year-old has a mild labrum tear and was affected by elbow soreness and a blister in ’16 as well.
  3. Grant77
    I can't believe he throws that slider at 89 and still gets so much movement. That's a potential weapon if he can command it down in the zone. Thanks for the video.
  4. Grant77
    Gourriel was tough for me too, I'm sure he was for everyone. I had him 4th with the expectation that he'll be an average starter for a few years. I may have had him 3rd, but I subtracted his salary from my projected value in his first 7 years. I'm not sure if anyone else did that.
  5. Grant77
    So I wasn't the highest or lowest on a single player (except Vlad Jr. I guess). Maybe I was too conservative. Overall, it's a very good list. Conner Greene at 9 is very low in my opinion, but that was mostly due to some stat scouts not ranking him to make a point, which is indefensible and hurts our accuracy. The rest is hard to disagree with too much outside of a couple spots one way or another. Good job king.
  6. Grant77
    Cool, thanks.
  7. Grant77
    You probably saw him live while I only saw 3 games I think, but his slider was really loopy and ended up in the dirt a lot in the games that I saw. Is there a 4th pitch that I haven't noticed and was mistaking for the slider?
  8. Grant77
    Are we really selling high? This is the new Happ and I don't think he's going to regress. Nobody will pay for wins if that's what you expect, especially not the Dodgers. There are always outfielders available for reasonable prices on the trade market and we have other assets to use. Creating a hole that is difficult to fill in order to address a weakness that is easy to fix is a stupid move for a contending team. Look at last year's offseason for a frame of reference. Decent pitchers like Happ (Miller and Leake) cost an arm and a leg while impact outfielders (Trumbo, Dickerson, Fowler) are readily available. It's the same every year.
  9. Grant77
    Brett Anderson on a minor league deal would make me very happy. I'd also welcome back Feldman.
  10. Grant77
    Those are fair points and you are probably right. Still, the great majority of playoff teams DO have good depth in their rotation and good starters 1 through 5. I wouldn't be so eager to sacrifice that if I were the GM. We have our own situation and we need more depth. It doesn't matter to me how we compare to other teams. Reddick + Happ looks much better than Morton + Puig to me.
  11. Grant77
    Why does that matter? If someone gets hurt, we have a crap starter that will hurt us every 5 games. Last year was an aberration. We'll be using 8+ starters in 2017 and we need more depth, not less. There are outfielders on the free agent market, so let's look at those first. When Greene and SRF are knocking on the door then maybe we can start to consider trading someone.
  12. Grant77
    Talent and depth are very different. Our depth is Bolsinger, maybe Biagini, and Greene. Not good.
  13. Grant77
    I wouldn't explore that kind of trade until we have secured a suitable replacement for Happ. Our depth is already too thin. I like Cashner in the 'pen though.
  14. Grant77
    I'd be thinking more like 1/5 if I were the GM.
  15. Grant77
    Looks like the Astros found that answer a little before you did.
  16. Grant77
    I don't see why we would be looking to upgrade on Barney. He's the right guy for our situation in my opinion and we should focus our resources elsewhere.
  17. Grant77
    What I do is try to look at comparable players and see how their pitches grade out, but you're right that it is very subjective. It just gets rid of the confusion involving semantics, like what just happened. I do think it is useful for things like speed and arm strength though. Scouts have defined parameters for each grade.
  18. Grant77
    If that's the accepted nomenclature then I had it wrong and meant to say that his curve is 60 grade. He throws it as hard as 85 on the stadium gun and it has late bite. It reminds me a lot of Yordano Ventura.
  19. Grant77
    Wait until you get his age...
  20. Grant77
    His hard curve is a plus pitch and the changeup is coming along well considering he didn't even throw one until we drafted him. Stats are helpful, but you are going to miss on a lot of players if you ignore half of the big picture.
  21. Grant77
    This is devastating. Get well Jerry, we're all pulling for you.
  22. Grant77

    NBA Thread

    Grant77 replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    So LeBron James says he lost all respect for Phil Jackson after seeing an extremely critical (but seemingly true) interview where Jackson describes him using his star status to manipulate his teams to their detriment. What he says he's upset about though is the use of the word 'posse' in the interview, which is apparently racist. He says to look up the word in the dictionary and that it isn't what he stands for. I was confused, so I went to dictionary.com and got this. historical a body of men, typically armed, summoned by a sheriff to enforce the law. informal a group of people who have a common characteristic, occupation, or purpose. I hear the latter definition used in conversation on an irregular basis, but never in a derogatory way or in a way specific to African Americans. Can someone explain to me if this is actually offensive and why?
  23. Grant77
    Let's hope a problem with the physical.
  24. Grant77
    I would have ranked Todd #1 until he tergiservated with respect to Alford. Stick to your guns, Todd!
  25. Grant77
    I can certainly understand their belief in the bat. I don't know what happened in those two years, but he was mashing with the Reds last year.
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