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Wow that's a great deal for him. Would have loved for the Jays to grab him at that price to play LF and provide more IF depth. Maybe Nunez is still a possibility. I guess with Solarte and Diaz on board we may not need a guy like him as much though.
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General 2018 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Terminator replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
That's great value for Loup. I'm less happy with Zeke. The money is fine it's just the fact that he takes up a roster spot that I think could be given to someone better. -
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Prices might be starting to drop some. 3 for 39 is a fair FA deal.
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General 2018 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Terminator replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
It was like 90 ABs right? -
General 2018 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Terminator replied to Bobthe4th's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I think Teoscar Hernandez is underrated here. The OBP might not be there but he's got enough pop, defense and baserunning to be an average regular. At worst he's a solid backup. He's also old enough that he deserves his shot now. I think given all the needs we have he's probably penciled in as a starter. Not sure Shatkins signs two starting OFers. -
I think Dickey might be the only guy in baseball who will make this board knowingly reject a good value signing when they see it. He's too good of a bargain to pass up. I'd watch an entire rotation fo RA Dickey's if it meant we won. Plus you could likely get him on a one year deal. Perfect situation for us where we are just wanting to tread water for 2 years without making any long term commitments.
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Nunez plays OF.
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Let's sign R.A. Dickey ($7 mil), Eduardo Nunez ($11 mil) a backup C ($?) and the rest on the bullpen ($3-5 mil or so). Then extend Donaldson. Call it a wrap.
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I think some might be ignoring the effects of moving a guy from the rotation in the spring, to a relief role in the bigs leagues, then back to the rotation in April, May or June. Then if someone gets healthy he'd go back to the bullpen and do it all again. I guess that's what swingmen do and I can't say with any certainty that it has an adverse affect either so perhaps it is the right move. I don't find the argument regarding "downgrading the big league team" to be all the persuasive though. We are talking a handful of innings in a middle relief role over the course of the first couple months of the season. Those innings are probably made up when he can come in and pitch 6 to 7 innings unrestricted instead of 3 innings one start, 4 the next, then eventually he's got no restrictions. And of course, they may send him down to the bigs to stretch out while a shitbag like Rowley gets the interim starts anyway. This FO has done that before. The #6 SP is a key member of the big league team anyway. It's a more important position than a middle relief role IMO.
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Over an entire season it'd be a marginal downgrade of less than a WAR. And working off the theory that he'll be in the rotation sooner rather than later it's a very short term downgrade anyway. High likelihood that he's in the rotation in May or June. We probably need 8 capable starting pitchers. Some of them will need to be in AAA. I'm all for him starting in the bullpen and then switching to the rotation but would like to know how that affects his performance. This team also won't necessarily do that. They could send him back to Buffalo and allow a Mat Latos type to get starts while Biagini builds up his stamina.
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The first time he went from RP to SP they did that, the second time they sent him back to Buffalo.
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Yeah that might work. Although they didn't do that with him last year for some reason. I guess I'm assuming that switching him from bullpen to rotation adversely affects him but that's not necessarily true. It may not have last year, just looking at xFIP.
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*at which point he goes to the Buffalo rotation for 3-4 starts and then goes back to the MLB rotation where he's on an innings limit to start. In the meantime Ryan Borucki burns an option to get lit up for 2 games and Mat Latos makes the other two starts.
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Ha! Who cares. He's Joe Biagini. And when he's starting in the rotation in mid April it won't matter anyway.
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That's our starting pitching depth? Yikes. The average MLB team uses 10 to 11 starters a season. I'm afraid to ask who #8 and 9 are.
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I'm surprised you feel that way. Marginal improvements in the pen are secondary to starting pitcher depth IMO. Let's assume we sign a capable fifth starter. Who would our 6th starter be? Borucki? Mat Latos or someone like him again? We will likely get a full season's worth of starts from pitchers other than our initial 1-5. Biagini should be soaking most of those up. Having him stretched out and ready to go when one of our starters gets hurt (it's inevitable) seems better than jerking him around from the MLB pen to the AAA rotation for a few games and then back up to the MLB rotation. It's also a lot easier to find a reliever who would provide similar production to Biagini than it is a starter who is willing to sign for depth. I guess I'd also be ok with him being the long reliever in theory. Just seems like in today's game with 8 man pens there aren't many guys who manage to stay stretched out in long relief. So he'd have to do the 4 games in Buffalo to stretch out anyway.
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4.23 xFIP last year as a starter. He wasn't that much better as a reliever. Put him in AAA as starting depth.
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This team isn't bad at all and is definitely a WC contender. Solarte and Diaz improved the team 3 to 4 wins already. We've still got 20 mil or so left to spend. Need an OF and a pitcher.
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Pearce should not start over Hernandez IMO. Hernandez is the better OF. Pearce should start over Morales though.
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Even if we can't move Morales we should move him to the bench and start Pearce. Very similar bats but Pearce runs like Ricky Henderson compared to Morales. Morales' baserunning alone was worth about -1.0 WAR last year. Pearce also cannot field whatsoever.
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Well Steamer has them pegged as 1 WAR players in only 80 games. 1.5 to 2 WAR players are probably fringe starters, good backups.
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For a team that seemingly is going for the 2nd WC I think the middle infield is probably in okay shape.
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Woops, think I mispoke earlier. But here's the projected improvement we can count on compared to last year. In 362 PA last year, Barney was worth -0.6 WAR. In 459 PA last year, Goins was worth -0.3 WAR. In 324 PA, Steamer projects 1 WAR for Diaz. In 339 PA, Steamer projects 0.9 WAR for Solarte. So just kind of eyeballing it, we are looking at a 3 WAR improvement or so from our backup middle infielders.
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If they get similar playing time as Goins and Barney, Diaz and Solarte could be 4 WAR improvements EACH.
