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Reddit's BlueJays subreddit has become unreadable. This is what occurs when you get a tonne of casual fans who don't know how baseball off seasons and contracts work demanding a winner. I'm hoping this front office doesn't care about what fans want and just works to putting the best team on the field while strengthening our minor league system. I was scared that under AA we were going to be the Phillies 2.0.
I have a lot of friends who really follow hockey, I follow enough to keep up in conversations. I get really annoyed when friends say things like "It doesn't matter how much you pay them 3 years from now if you win once!" in regards to baseball moves, when I suggest trades and signings in hockey that I think would be bad they lose their s*** because I don't understand hockey. How I wish they could see it from my perspective.
I still view them bringing Smoak back as Colabello insurance. Colabello reverting to a sub 110 wRC+ bat probably becomes a negative value asset.
Who knows some team in a rebuild might also like him.
I still have major concerns with Colabello, terrible defensive numbers at first in a small sample (240 innings this year -5 DRS) and that .411 BABIP and 6.1% BB and 26.1% K just make me think he's a DFA candidate come May.
I don't know if I'd want to pay Smoak 1.5M+ to ride the pine for a month when he has no versatility.
Thole and Delabar should both be non-tendered and I don't know if I non-tender Saunders based on the upside he has if healthy and after missing a full season good chance you're not looking at a big raise in arb.
As King said the Twins have already stated multiple times this offseason that they want Sano in the field and not being relegated to DHing at this point in time. I believe the general idea is it keeps him in better shape instead of turning into another fat DH.
I can understand them moving Hicks with who they have in AA/AAA that look like they should be above average major leaguers but god damn do I dislike this trade.
Mauer at C, Park at 1B, Sano at 3B and Plouffe DHing would've made a lot more sense.
On reddit someone looked into it and in 2015 Kevin Pillar batted .278. In the first half he hit .278, in the second half be hit .278, against righties and lefties he hit .278
A lot of folks on MLB Radio (mainly Duqette and Ferrin) don't see many huge contracts this year because of the depth. They had Davis at something like 4 years and 85/M.
I'd take Davis on somewhere around 20-22M/year. He's been good defensively the last two years and since 2012 he's had one bad season (94 wRC+) and 3 with 121 wRC+ or greater.
A win is a win and if you get a 4 win player playing over Smoak or Colabello that's a pretty massive improvement.
At the very beginning he was an amazing GM, gaming the compensation system, unloading Wells, stupidly trading Napoli for Francisco, drafting well, making good trades for Escobar and Rasmus. Then he went all in on a bad team.