Terminator
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Loup and Carrera are worth their projected salaries IMO. Carrera is a little bit harder to justify because he's not an ideal 4th OF because of his lack of ability to play CF. And with Pearce probably already on the bench as mainly a LF and Morales entrenched as the DH, having another LF only type in Carrera isn't ideal. I think he'd be better suited for a 5th OF role for a NL team. I wonder if he could be traded for anything. I completely agree on Goins and Koehler.
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I don't think he's much of an upgrade.
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Yeah it's not like you can rank them like the following and then say it's a toss up simply because first isn't that far off from third. 1. Trout 2. Bryant 3. Altuve It's more accurate to think of how you would rank them like this: 1. Trout .... .... .... .... .... ....and so on 2. Bryant 3. Altuve
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Yeah I agree. They must like him and then they must also think that acquiring him with a year of control will allow them some leverage to bring him back at a reduced cost or something.
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Yeah it wouldn't be ideal but we've got a lot of holes to fill and I assume limited resources to do it. I don't think he's going to hit wRC+ 132 but I think he could be around 100 as a low OBP, high SLG type of hitter. If things go well he could be even better. With decent defense and baserunning that's good enough. He's also going to be 25 and a half when the season starts. If he's not ready by now he probably won't ever be.
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I pray to god that Goins is gone. I wouldn't mind them trying to sign Loup and Zeke at a lower rate. They can be extremely frustrating but they aren't bad players. Koehler is one injury plagued season away from being a capable 5th starter and I wouldn't mind having him back but I wouldn't give up much to get him.
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Sogard is a good fit. Everyone knows how I feel about Nunez too. Would Sogard and Nunez be the sexiest signings for the lineup? Not at all but more than anything this team needs depth. Nunez and Sogard's versatility would really help us avoid giving so much playing time to negative WAR players. As I said I like Cobb. I think all three are realistic and would give us something like this: C - Russell Martin 1B - Justin Smoak 2B - Devon Travis 3B - Josh Donaldson SS - Troy Tulowitzki CF - Kevin Pillar LF - Eduardo Nunez RF - Teoscar Hernandez DH - Kendrys Morales BENCH LF/RF - Ezequiel Carrera LF/1B- Steve Pearce UT- Eric Sogard C- ??? SP - Marcus Stroman SP - J.A. Happ SP= Alex Cobb SP - Marco Estrada SP - Aaron Sanchez
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What about Alex Cobb? He had a really good 2nd half.
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AL Wild Card Game: Minnesota Twins @ New York Yankees
Terminator replied to havok24's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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I'd probably take that deal as well under the theory that he could provide enough value on the frontend of it and that inflation would take a bite out of the latter half of it to make the contract palatable. I'd hate to give up anything of value for him though.
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Why did he play those 3 years in the KHL anyway?
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Yeah the Sportsnet board is probably the worst. Reddit is also bad. Shatkins is largely responsible for the fantastic team in Cleveland so I trust them more than dopes on the internet.
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There is all sorts of s*** from this presser that Atkins is saying. Bautista is likely gone, wants to add speed, Vlad Jr. not in the 2018 plans but won't count him out, Blad Jr. might get OF reps next year because Atkins thinks both Donaldson and Vlad can be on the team, etc.
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Oh don't get me wrong. I think he sucks and hated the signing the moment it was made. I just don't think we are going to get anything for him at all unless we pay for half of his deal or perhaps even more. Given that we are likely stuck with him I'd take him out of a 100% guaranteed starting role and let him scrap with Pearce for the DH AB's. In year 3 we might be able to buy him out or something then.
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We might as well just keep him. I'd move him and Pearce to part time roles. They can DH, both can play some 1B and Pearce can play a little LF. If all goes according to plan they could each get a few hundred AB's. I know that Morales' complete lack of defensive value isn't ideal for a part-time/bench role but it's not going to be bad for the team to have a league average bat like Morales on the bench. Having guys who are good at something is going to be better than most of the guys we've had on the bench in the past.
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The club option could have a buyout attached to it if its declined but a vesting option would work too.
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General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Terminator replied to reedjohnsonfan's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
He's been pretty solid this year. Shatkins said he wants 8-9 MLB starters. I agree with you he shouldn't be given a rotation spot but I think he'd be a great fit in the 6 or 7 spot for us. I'd probably start him in Buffalo and woulf fully expect him to get 20 starts or so. -
I'll never forget that year. It was one of the first MVPs after I caught on to advanced stats. Morneau was the third most deserving candidate on his own team after Mauer and Johan Santana. I remember I wrote Buster Olney telling him how stupid he was for voting for Morneau and my argument was based largely on positional importance. Olney replied that not only did he take positional importance in to account but that it favored Morneau because for a small market team, the 1B for the Twins HAS to drive in a lot of runs. So not only was Morneau really good at driving in runs, he did so under extreme amounts of pressure. He ended up writing an article on it but I can't find it. I've hated Olney ever since.
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Play stupid games (like pitching with a ridiculous jump step delivery to gain an advantage) and win stupid prizes (funky delivery makes you injury prone).
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How many do they think we have now? 8-9 is necessary but it seems like we have quite a ways to go.
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He's been worth 3 WAR over his past 4 seasons, all of which were years in which he was more of a bench guy than a regular. That's not a bad player and certainly an improvement over Goins and Barney.
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Source: Blue jays extend Marco Estrada
Terminator replied to Laika's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah I agree. I think we need to sign a #2 or #3 and then Biagini can start in Buffalo. -
Source: Blue jays extend Marco Estrada
Terminator replied to Laika's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Biagini has a 4.17 xFIP as a starter as well and deserves to be on the list. He's had a solid year, he's mainly been unlucky because he has a 58.7% LOB% as a starter which is pretty bad. I think he can be a backend SP. -
There's a non-zero chance but he'll have to sign for peanuts.
