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  1. John_Havok
    Ill reserve judgement until the whole agreement is finalized, but a few million dollar fine to prevent another team from picking up elite talent would be money well spent. We're just talking hypothetically at this point of course, I really doubt MLB would go this way.
  2. John_Havok
    He must be afraid of another Wells-like situation happening and therefore won't even approach a contract that even has a chance of becoming a sinkhole via FA. Hell, signing Garza to a four year deal worth 15 per season wouldn't be a bad contract and I highly doubt he gets something better than that this year. The problem is, we honestly don't know what kind of a premium TO would have to pay to land those guys. We can sit here and think all we want that money talks and players go where the money is every time, but there is just no way that a player, right now, would choose TO as a destination over a better team if the money and years are similar. There's all kinds of perceived problems and real problems that TO has to deal with in every pro sport that isn't hockey when it comes to attracting premier talent through free agency. TO would have to add multiple guaranteed years or a higher AAV, and there comes a point where that doesn't make sense.
  3. John_Havok
    There's no guarantee though the guy would sign though. I think that's the main issue with lottery or just choosing 1 team from say 10 teams who all put up the same bid. Either let the guy negotiate with every team who max bids, or don't meddle at all. THe goal here is to try to get more guys from Japan over to the MLB, giving Houston sole negotiating right because of their s***** record doesn't strike me as a way to lure players from Japan. If they want to cap the posting fee, at least make the fee high enough that only teams who are serious about wanting to sign him step up. Remember just because a team wins the right to negotiate, doesn't mean the guy has to sign with them and then the posting fee is refunded. So if the posting fee is low enough, gutter teams could just always throw in a bid, win the rights, not even try to sign to the player, get their posting fee back and would have effectively blocked other teams ahead of them from landing a player without it costing them a cent. That's certainly not what MLB wants to happen.
  4. John_Havok
    I think that was one of the proposals yes, though nothing has been finalized. They wanted the lower budget teams to at least be able to put bids forward with the hope of getting a chance to negotiate even by having made the same bid as the big spenders.
  5. John_Havok
    That sucks Ken. Me and my fiancée rescued a pit bull and after we had him for about a year, we were out in a friends pasture picking rocks for her rock garden and the dog just took off running and wouldn't stop, something spooked him I guess because he wouldn't stop. He was lost for about 3 days but luckily a farmer spotted him in a yard with other dogs after we went out and dropped off pictures of him to every yard within a 10 mile radius....we were lucky and got him back. Those 3 days were hell not knowing if he was ok or not.
  6. John_Havok
    Pipe dreams. Cano will get his 8 or 9 year deal from someone, but it won't be the Jays.
  7. John_Havok
    It would appear both Rasmussen and Kratz have options, so no danger of losing either of them.
  8. John_Havok
    You kidding, they'll probably both be DFA'd tomorrow as AA tries to sneak them through waivers, he does this every year pretty effectively
  9. John_Havok
    It's just another way of expressing one thing being like another... For example, if you were comparing one player to another similar player you might say that a guy who strikes out a ton, never walks, is s***** at defense and has a massive inflated ego is Arencibia-esque
  10. John_Havok
    Do I foresee a Hurl-esque guarantee here ?
  11. John_Havok
    Yankees casting a wide net.
  12. John_Havok
    I actually don't think anyone wants that...
  13. John_Havok
    Who needs 10 guys? Just give Spanky a hat full of players names and tell him to draw one for every beer consumed
  14. John_Havok
    Of course that was slight hyperbole, but AA does get tunnel vision and overpays when trying to acquire guys he covets. The Happ deal and pretty much every trade he's done since then is evidence of that.
  15. John_Havok
    Yeah but that could be AA code for signing Cano....
  16. John_Havok
    Probably Anderson, who AA will give up Stroman++ for or something ridiculous.
  17. John_Havok
    And feel free to merge this with Ang's thread in the prospect subsection that I somehow missed....
  18. John_Havok
    http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2014-top-10-prospects-toronto-blue-jays/ Also, some Steamer projections and Q&A with Andy Burns http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/qa-andy-burns-toronto-blue-jays-infield-prospect/ http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/steamer-projects-toronto-blue-jays-prospects/ Nay at #3 is a bit surprising but nice to see he's getting some props
  19. John_Havok
    Well sure, but taking on a 10 million dollar reliever is completely contrary to everything that Beane has ever really done. There's no need to take n that kind of deal of all you want to do is get rid of Weeks
  20. John_Havok
    Salary dump for the O's to try and free up space to try and get Cano? I love the offseason...
  21. John_Havok
    Looks like a lot of talking heads are loving this deal for the Nats
  22. John_Havok
    Should have traded Scherzer. He'd command a much bigger return since. Hardly think 1 more year of control with Fister would offset the difference in the skill level between the two.
  23. John_Havok
    I declare this thread to be the winner based on the opening post containing a tweet. And it was first.
  24. John_Havok

    NHL Thread

    John_Havok replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Flames would probably give up Cammalleri for Gardiner. I don't know enough about the leafs to know if he would be a fit, but he's an expiring contract so even if the trade went bad he wouldn't be a cap sinkhole. Flames could really use a d-man right now too with both Wideman and giordano out with injuries I don't know why they want to trade Gardiner though, seems to me he would be a better option than Paul Ranger.
  25. John_Havok
    Why today? Did they just now see the news that they won?
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