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He's about as good as Richard but with health problems. Might be a little bit of a FIP beater whereas Richard isn't though.

I don't think it's anything to worry about just yet. Beginning of ST he might just have had trouble locating while he knocks the rust off.

Yeah exactly. It's a long year. If another vet is going to come dirt cheap I would def sign one and put a guy with options down in the minors. Plenty of these guys are going to get hurt.

Seems like the home ballpark played a big factor as well. Citizens Bank is really homer friendly. Almost the complete opposite from the Giants home park which might be the worst for left handed hitters. Over 13 years that could actually make a big difference on his career homer totals.

Yeah it stretches out his AAV which will help them avoid the luxury tax. ~$25 mil a year isn't necessarily going to be THAT crippling in the year 2030.

Given his experience as a starter I wonder if the team would consider using him as an opener.

I like it. He's better than Axford and he's got late inning experience (if that matters).

This is a good idea for both leagues.

Seems like the scouting reports love McGuire's defense and arm. If he's a good framer he could be an excellent backup/fringe starter. His bat leaves a lot to be desired but he at least hits left handed so it should be relatively easy to make sure he usually has the split advantage.

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No and I'm from the area and live here.

If Tulo can make it through Spring Training healthy enough to play, I can't wait until Stroman faces him in the regular season. When he strikes him out he's going to go nuts lol.

It was a shitmuncher NAIA school.

Seems like a pretty good deal for both sides. He didn't really give them too much of a discount compared to what Machado got but paying a guy through his age 35 season isn't so bad.

Bonds 2004 stat line might be might favorite: .362/.609/.812

Awesome, thank you.

Yeah the June one was much better. Hall of Famer (lol) Harold Baines, Paul Molitor, Bob Welch and Dave Henderson were all drafted that year. I wonder what the difference was between the two drafts.

In college I was coached by this guy: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ledbet001gar. He always said he was a 1st round pick and I looked him up and confirmed it. Well I was talking to some old friends and he came up so I tried looking him up. Couldn't quite remember his name so I looked up the SF Giants first round picks over the years and he never came up. Well eventually his name came to mind and I looked up his baseball ref page and it said "Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 1st round (9th) of the 1977 MLB January Draft-Regular Phase from Santa Ana College (Santa Ana, CA)." What was the "MLB January Draft-Regular Phase"? I think it was definitely a worse player pool than whatever the "normal draft" was. The only guy from the first round of the draft Ledbetter was in that I had ever heard of was Dave Righetti. I have never heard of that draft otherwise though and there isn't a ton of info on it on the web. Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Lol @ Donaldson liking this tweet. I also just saw the home run. It was an opposite field 315 foot fly ball straight down the line that barely cleared the fence.

True. I'm applying big picture process stuff when it could simply come down to Shatkins preferring certain individual players over others. If McKinney smacks RHP like that again that'd be awesome.

Shatkins is doing a good job but they can be hard to peg down sometimes. In the Happ deal we got controllable low ceiling types. Then we turn around and flip Diaz (another low ceiling type) for an actual pitching prospect. Why they didn't try to do that with Happ I'm not exactly sure but given how the FA market is treating 1 to 2.5 WAR players I think they got the Happ deal wrong and the Diaz deal right. We basically replaced Diaz with a similarly talented player for $5 million bucks and got a pitching prospect on top of it. But once we did the Diaz deal then we were basically stuck with relying on Tulo to be the starting SS. (We all thought it might be Gurriel but he's going to be a UT guy.) But how do you attract a starting SS for peanuts when you have Tulo on the team? It's hard to guarantee playing time with him there. Since he probably doesn't have much left in the tank they probably just said screw it and dumped him so it would open up a spot for someone more reliable. Because without Galvis we'd have a suspect starting SS in Gurriel and no depth. No we at least have a capable starter in Galvis, with some depth in Gurriel, before having to turn to the replacement level guys like Urena and Sogard.

Here's the overall quote: Martin was the other veteran on the team. I never got a douchey vibe from him though. Bautista was Bautista but he wasn't there last year so I wonder how much he played into those comments. Donaldson kind of seems like the prime suspect. I remember when he went on his "this isn't the try league, it's the get it done league" rant. Most fans loved it but as a teammate that's not something you exactly want to hear. Tulo is another prime suspect. Those two getting hurt and losing a bunch two years in a row is also going to affect how one views them as clubhouse leaders too. Regardless, it doesn't seem like it was an epic meltdown in leadership from anyone, just maybe some personalities butting heads a tad after two frustrating seasons.

I don't think Hicks did that bad. He's a late bloomer so he he likely had one chance to cash in and rather than banking on a big year and going for a 4 for 80 type of deal like Lorenzo Cain or something he took a discount to secure the big payday. If he got hurt this year or had a bad year he's looking at a 1 or 2 year deal. I think he's probably going to regress some anyway, he just had a monster year that I don't think he'll replicate again. And like MikeM said, if he signs a 5 year deal he probably doesn't get much in his age 34 and 35 seasons anyway. He projects to be not much better than replacement value in those years. If he tears it up from now until he's 35 (which I highly doubt) he probably only gives up 20 million or so? I think he did fine.

Lol Jays do him a favor by releasing him when they did and he spits in their face.

Agreed. Especially when guys like Dietrich, Avisail Garcia and Denard Span are all signing for peanuts. What's the point of McKinney? Same can be said for Drury too.