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  1. Olerud363
    Earlier in the offseason someone was posting offseason plans that inevitably involved Pujols. Maybe it was Hongsw84 under a different name, maybe it was a troll, maybe it was someone who actually wanted to get Pujols. I don't know. Whatever the case acquiring Pujols seems to be becoming an inside joke.
  2. Olerud363
    lol. Maybe we can trade Teoscar for a good relief pitcher. Then we can have Pujols, Cabrera and Grichuk as the middle of the order.
  3. Olerud363
    I know people want more left right balance, but what about just f***ing the l/r balance and going with a right handed power team. Could move the lf fence in 20 feet or something cf Springer ss Bichette 3b Guerrero 1b Pujols dh Cabrera rf Hernandez lf Gurriel c Kirk 2b Kevin Smith
  4. Olerud363
    Vladimir Guerrero JR should be at 3rd with Pujols at first and maybe Miguel Cabrera at DH. Imagine the numbers Guerrero would put up with those two protecting him. It would be ridiculous to think 42 year old Pujols or 38 year old Cabrera could play 3rd better than a 23 year old Guerrero.
  5. Olerud363
    The Raptors have had far more success then the Jays the last decade. Sign me up for the NBA system if it leads to the Jays having Raptors level success. If the system is designed properly it gives teams an advantage in keeping their own players, and also an advantage if they have 'payroll' room. The Jays as constructed would have even more of an advantage signing guys like Springer, Ryu, and Gaussman, if they had extra payroll room High level free agents are now getting almost 45 million short term, or 300+ million long term and Jays have played in that market anyway. So suppressing those salaries won't change much for the Jays.
  6. Olerud363
    I think it is more complicated than that. Let's look at it from the Perspective of a Blue Jays fan. I'd personally want free agency held off longer, keep players longer, make it easier to resign your own players, Salary cap to restrain the Yankees, and I'd be fine with a salary floor and earlier arbitration to compensate, also fine with raising the minimum quite a bit. I'd be fine with a system that paid players more on average but restrained the top teams and high level free agents, while paying young players more, and forcing small market teams to spend more. However neither the Yankees nor Tampa Bay would want that. Yankees just want to be able to make playoffs 28 of the next 30 years and use their financial might to their full advantage, Tampa would hate a salary floor or increased minimum salary, because they just want to use their brains to their full advantage while keeping a 50 million payroll. Basically it's not just players vs owners, every owner probably wants something different.
  7. Olerud363
    Might want to ask Oakland about Tony Kemp. Espinal may be a Scutaro if he keeps it up and performs to optimistic projections.
  8. Olerud363
    I think 'send down the river' is offensive because slaves used to be sent down the river to plantations. However I first remember hearing a similar phrase in a Chris Farley skit where he was a motivational speaker high on crack, down on his luck and I think lived in a van by the river. There is a neighborhood nearby, near the river and the river floods every few years and ruins the basements so houses are cheaper there and poorer people live there. A lot of people think the next town down the river sucks ass and it would be hell on earth to be sent there. Point is obvious phrases develop in multiple contexts. There is an infuriating type of intellectualism where they blindly focus on one path a phrase evolved along, a path which is racist, but fail to see that obvious sayings probably developed multiple times in multiple contexts many classist but not racist.
  9. Olerud363
    You have to re-create him in the aggregate. Jays two worst positions hitting wise were DH and 3B while 2B was pretty good. Reframe the problem as replacing 2021 combined DH/3B/2B production.
  10. Olerud363
    I'd appreciate if a mod could put expressions into a white-list and black-list, so we know which ones to avoid.
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    lol the board already chased away Todd... who if I recall a mod investigated and Todd wasn't a Troll. That was his real personality.
  12. Olerud363
    I haven't been following the board as much lately so I assume there is a troll problem and somebody is creating multiple accounts. I seem to recall some guy suggesting permutations of signing a,b,c and Pujols... lol. Maybe this is the same guy. However he's basically just suggesting Toronto do what Texas just did... Probably a Troll yes, but the idea is actually possible if Rogers really wanted to open up their wallets.
  13. Olerud363
    If he ever plays 150 games they might have to pay it out... In fact I think they'd be happy to pay it out. I'd sign Vlad to a 10 year 200 million dollar contract with double that bonus structure. I think. It would kind of work wouldn't it? If he is MVP caliber he gets 40 million, if he is an all star 30 million, if he gets fat again and hits ground balls he still gets 20 million but at least you save half the money...
  14. Olerud363
    His plan could happen if Rogers just spent a ridiculous amount of money and the team would be awesome Even Grichuk/Jansen for a good reliever could happen if Jays pay a bunch of Grichuk's salary Sign Freddie Freeman 6 years 180 million Sign Carlos Correa 12 years 400 million (a little more than Seager + premium to come to Canada) In the real world it is not going to happen, but hypotheticall could Rogers do it? Would they go bankrupt? Or would they make a tonne of dough because 3.5 million fans come to watch the super team and they get the best rating ever? cf Springer 1b/dh Freeman 1b/dh Guerrero ss Correa 3b Bichette rf Hernandez lf Gurriel c Kirk 2b Biggio/Espinal
  15. Olerud363
    We heard the same thing about Espinal and Espinal did fine... I'm not even a huge fan of Espinal, and I don't think he'll be as good going forward as he was last year, but I think he'll hit roughly as his minor league stats predict. Same with Groshans. Whatever weaknesses he has are already baked into the minor league stats, so going forward he'll probably end up as a .270 .320 .420 hitter or something, could play if he has good defense. Don't see him getting eaten alive, but unless he improves don't see him being a star either.
  16. Olerud363
    Seager is not a Grichuk, 14 points higher in wRC+ last year (99 to 85) and 9 career (111 to 102). He's has horrible home splits. There might be some hidden value there if you get him out of Seattle. There are better options of course, but I wouldn't be upset if they got him.
  17. Olerud363
    The irony is Grant is one of the biggest Trolls on the board. If he is wrong about Garcia you will never hear about it, however if he is right he will troll you about it to the end of time. In 2027 in some unrelated discussion he will say... "A lot of posters are pretty bad at player evaluation, if you remember some on this board thought Yimi Garcia would be above average." To be fair I'd do the same to him... Once and a while I still like to randomly bring up the fact that Billy McKinney did not turn into the next Justin Upton. However as far as I can see you are not trolling, just discussing a current signing.
  18. Olerud363
    lol. If Gaussman or Ray had a longer track record they'd be signing for 35 million a year... Nice move. Replaces Ray with a guy almost exactly the same stats wise.
  19. Olerud363
    Would open up Votto, Olson, Freeman and maybe others I am forgetting... Tigers did something similar with Cabrera in 2012, moved him to 3rd to get Fielder. Fielder wasn't a great signing, but Cabrera wasn't a disaster at 3rd and they made the World Series that year.
  20. Olerud363
    We'll have to see who Semien is replaced with. It will be interesting to see once the offseason is finished what the projected win total is. I'll be happy if it is around 90, I'll feel OK if it is 87 or 88, if it is below 85 I'll worry.
  21. Olerud363
    They were a 99 win run differential team with him and a 92 win run differential team without him assuming they replace him with a random sucky guy from triple a. If they replace him with someone better then a replacement level moron they will lose less wins. Even if they replaced him with himself they would have lost 3 wins or so (he likely won't repeat that season). They don't have to build a 100 win team as it is unlikely bullpen and luck will be terrible every year.
  22. Olerud363
    That's a fair point. I'd have to look more into the breakdown of when players DHd. Gurriel DHing and going 0/16 in the most important games of the year (after getting his hand crushed by Grichuk) also was bad use of the DH. If Kirk still catched a bit he could maybe do 110 games as DH 30-40 as catcher and still leave 50 games open for breaks for other players. Just that last year it seemed like a lot DH at bats went to obviously hurting players (Springer, Gurriel) or guys who can't hit enough for DH (Grichuk, Panik) edit: Panik didn't really DH other than maybe a game or two, but for some reason a lineup with Panik as DH really sticks out in my head.
  23. Olerud363
    Kirk full time DH is an easy way to improve the team. I'm not totally convinced the rotating DH works, impression was last year that when Springer had to DH he wasn't healthy enough to hit well. Same with Lourdes Springer hit like .200 .300 .400 as DH. Lourdes even worse. And Lourdes went 0/16 last week of season as DH.
  24. Olerud363
    I like Teoscar but I think the system is recognizing that his k/bb is pretty bad and it's unlikely he'll maintain a .290 average
  25. Olerud363
    Wow! Pretty amazing that A-Rod earned 25 million a year in 2000... What is the highest AAV now? 35 million? 40? These guys aren't keeping up. I think highest AAV went from like 1 million to 25 million from 1980 to 2000 but has slowed since... Scott Boras needs to up his game.
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