KevinGregg

Can't veterans refuse an outright assignment, even if they clear waivers?

Jays are set up to be a power house after the 2020 season, depending on how things go. I hope he would at least consider coming here

You mean like when they got Grichuk for Greene and Leone?

If Marcus just had an average season this year then the Gerrit Cole trade last off-season would have been a pretty close comparable. Stroman is basically one year behind Cole in terms of when his clock started, so trading Stroman this offseason would be comparable to trading Cole last offseason. -Both players would have 2 years of control left at the time of the trade -Arbitration valued Stroman very similar to Cole, in that they awarded him a $6.5M salary which is just under what Cole made (6.75M) -Stroman has 10.6 bWAR going into next season compared to Cole who had 11.4 going into last year - fWAR has never been as kind to Stroman so Cole is farther ahead by that metric Obviously Stroman coming off a bad year significantly hurts his value but it would have been a really close comparable if Stroman even had a slightly below average year instead of being total crap. Pittsburgh only got Joe Musgrove, Michael Feliz, Colin Moran and Jason Martin for Cole, which definitely should represent the top end of a return for Stroman, which isn't terribly exciting to me. As someone who really only knows about top prospects none of those names jump out at me.

I would love to get Sale he's so good

Would we rather have Harper or Machado? Harper fills a more immediate need, but obviously both are long shots for the Jays to sign

Does Jon Harris get taken in the rule 5? I recall he at least used to be kinda highly rated

I wouldnt move any of the next wave of guys like vlad bo jansen or pearson A package centered around lower level players like groshans and pardinho could work

The opener is brilliant and I could see it becoming the new norm for games with a non-elite "starter". It's an excellent way to get more of the matchups you want. Your innings eating #3-#4 starter gets to pitch basically the same number of innings, but faces batters from the bottom of the order more often. The first inning is actually very high scoring and shouldn't be treated as low leverage garbage time, so it makes sense to actually start out with a good reliever compared to a more mediocre pitcher who has the ability to pitch a lot of innings but not necessarily the stuff to get critical outs whenever needed. Also, the first inning is the only time a manager gets to plan exactly the hitters he wants to send to the plate - the opener is a way for the opposing manager to sort of counter this by having the best pitching matchup possible.

Dan and buck full time would be ideal.

excellent post

1) Currently the first thing I see when I hit the home page is a full screen link to "articles". In general I think scrolling should be kept to a minimum on the home page. Within the first screen that is presented to me I should definitely see a link to the latest podcast and maybe a couple of recent articles. 2) I think the header bar is way too big, especially when combined with the "designed by wix.com" bar. One quarter of my screen is being taken up by the two bars when I initially get to the page. 3) On the podcast page and the Podcast section of the homepage, each podcast has the same image. It doesn't make sense to dedicate so much screen space to the same exact image over and over again, especially on the Podcast page where it takes up more than half the screen at a time. If you could come up with any kind of image at all that has anything remotely to do with a topic of the podcast that would be so much nicer. Now we are getting into content, so I won't say anything about what the pictures should be. But as far as the design, that's a lot of screen space to use for the same repeating image at this time 4) This is more of a content suggestion too I guess, but a "Meet the Radio Scouts" page seems like a nice touch. People are gonna wanna know who you guys are, what you look like. Some basic info like a picture and a little blurb about who you are. Maybe say something about how you all met here and what your usernames are. 5) You should probably make a bigger deal about people following you on Twitter and Youtube. I see the little icons, but maybe make a little message about how you are nothing without fan support or some s*** and ask them to follow your social media pages

38 million for Desmond, minus 11 million for Morales 27 million for 3 Arb years of Gray. That might be worth

Would that count as him essentially retiring from the mlb? i.e. he gives up his entire salary and if he wants to come back to mlb the Rockies would still have him for the last year

Hes been my favorite player on the team since last year. Hes such a hard worker on defense Meanwhile Ibaka is easily the player I hate the most. I feel like his salary could be so much better used. Just gotta give Kawhi some time to get his game back, and he should be able to put this team on his back

Just want to post here to say I am super stoked for the Raps opening game tonight. Now that Lebron is out of the East this team is going to make a finals appearance no problem!

I definitely cheer for former Jays unless they go to the Yankees.

f*** the Yankees go Sox. Sale and mookie and JD looking good

Hendricks not looking particularly good at all. Cant locate whatsoever

Me either. You can't build a legit MLB rotation in one off-season. Even if they think we probably won't compete next year, I'd love to see them go after a legit starter with a few years of control. Patrick Corbin is the obvious guy to go after in FA. Maybe Colorado would part with John Gray. I don't want to watch another full season of Sam f***ing Gaviglio

FanGraphs WAR = fWAR Baseball-Reference WAR = rWAR (or bWAR) Baseball Prospectus WAR = WARP Position Players: Each site uses a different hitting, running, and fielding metrics. FanGraphs uses wOBA as it’s baseline hitting stat, but the other two sites use metrics built on a similar linear weights framework. For base running, each site has it’s own version of base running runs, which we abbreviate to BsR. For fielding since 2002, we use Ultimate Zone Rating, while B-Ref uses Defensive Runs Saved and BPro uses Fielding Runs Above Average. Prior to that, we use Total Zone, which appears to be B-Ref’s choice as well. Baseball Prospectus is the only site that has incorporated catcher framing into their calculations. FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference use the same replacement level calculation of 1,000 WAR per MLB season. Baseball Prospectus’ appears to be slightly different. Pitchers: While WAR for position players is different among the three sites, it is nothing compared to the differences for pitchers. Generally speaking, the three sites take a run prevention estimate (more on this shortly) and scale it to how much the pitcher has pitched that season. The big difference is that each site use a much different run prevention estimate. Each site adjusts for league and park, so I’ll exclude that from the comparison for clarity. FanGraphs uses Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) as our baseline. However, given that infield fly balls are very similar to strikeouts in terms of being automatic outs, we treat them as strikeouts in our WAR calculation even though they aren’t include in the general FIP calculation. In addition, we include a leverage component when calculating our reliever WAR. I don’t know if/how the other sites use leverage for relievers. Baseball-Reference uses a pitcher’s runs allowed and then adjusts that value based on the overall quality of their defense that year. Baseball Prospectus uses their custom Deserved Runs Average (DRA) metric as a baseline. DRA is a significantly more complicated model that attempts to control for factors like catcher framing, defense, etc within the run estimator itself. https://www.fangraphs.com/library/war/differences-fwar-rwar/

Go Cubs

What have the Cubs done that you dont like?

Martin would probably be a fine manager. I'd love to see a player manager. Hasn't been a player manager since Pete rose in the 80s I believe

what the f*** kind of reason is this to like a player lol