KingKat
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Yeah sorry DDL. I had LOD on the brain. My notifications on ProBoards are f***ed for some reason. I thought I had fixed it but I missed your PM again. I checked for it for awhile and then just gave up. Should have checked again before bringing it up here.
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Awesome answer, you could make a blog post out of that. -
Hey, how come you don't talk to me anymore in the LOD? I think we could work something out.
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Yeah these manager/executive compensation deals are basically under the table deals. You can't trade a player for another type of employee so something else has to be coming the other way.
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Janssen has a history of over-achieving. I don't want to write him off completely. If he comes cheap, I say why the f*** not?
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And with that... I just talked myself into picking up Greg Infante in the League of Despair. He played in the majors in 2010 so he's eligible.
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If the improved control he showed is for real, Gregory Infante could be an absolute beast. He's a former top 10 prospect for the CWS and he once infamously hit 100 mp/h four times in a single AA outing.
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Yeah faith in Santos was pretty high but I do remember at least a few people raising the walks as a red flag and it's a red flag with Delabar too. The ups and downs of Santos and Delabar, just go to show you what a crap shoot relievers can be and the crap shoot works both ways. Delabar could certainly go right back to being dominant like nothing ever happened. Someone else altogether could emerge as dominant and conversely, Loup and Cecil could crap the bed. That's relievers for you. Samples are small, s*** happens.
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He already has this bad rep you speak of. That's widely believe to be the reason why LaCava and others have turned down promotions to work for him. He's a stubborn old coot who thinks the rules don't apply to him.
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Nope. 4.53 and 4.12 in the two White Sox seasons that preceded his acquisition. His 2011 season was pretty outstanding, 13.07 K/9 to go with that 4.12 BB/9. That's better in both respects than Delabar's 2013.
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I get what he's saying but it seems like a battle you can't win. It's like trying to get people to stop calling four strikeouts a golden sombrero when originally that was a sombrero and the golden sombrero was 5 strikeouts OR that Mario Mendoza's career BA is .215 not .200 OR that the terms stoppers and closers aren't supposed to mean the same thing OR that the term West Coast offense didn't originate with the San Francisco 49ers, etc.
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I could actually buy this. Angelos seems like a pretty stubborn S.O.B.
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Even in his good year, Delabar had a high walk rate (4.45/9) but that was conpensated by an insane strikeout rate (12.58/9). I can't help but wonder if that's a sustainable recipe for success. Lots of people on this board have a better handle this than I do and could actually answer the question. I'm just raising it. Anecdotally, high walk rates were also an issue that was raised when Santos was acquired. I dismissed it at the time now I'm less willing to waive it off.
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AA wouln't do the hiring of course but I can't see why he wouldn't be involved in the talks around compensation. It would be foolhardy for Pelley to come to an agreement on appropriate compensation without consulting somene from the baseball side of things.
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AA talked about secretely wanting to changes the uniforms all the way back to his days under Ricciardi so I'm pretty that was his idea but Beaston being from the era of those uniforms certainly wasn't going to oppose it. As for the turf, that whole issue seemed to gain traction at the State of the Franchise. The first time Beaston said it, it really seemed like empty bluster that he came up with on the spot but since then a lot of progress has been made to turn what initially sounded like mere wishful thinking into a practical reality.
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That wasn't my point but now that I look into it, I can't say I'm terribly optimistic myself. He needs a drastic reduction of his walk rate.
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AA's path to redemption is to field a playoff contender with the Bautista/EE core. This wouldn't really impact that goal so it would be an ultimately forgiveable offense is things otherwise go well in 2015.
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Not sure what could have possibly made Gammons think he was "a good fit"? Seems like a top prospect that can't even be moved until June is a really randomn choice in that respect.
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diaf
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IIRC, two relievers and two shortstops for Y. Escobar and some god awful no control flame thrower whose name I seem to have finally managed to suppress from my memory.
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I could see him being this year's answer to Steve Delabar. He might not have the human interest angle but the hair alone is probably enough to make him a thing in the media.
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If the problem is that he's wearing a shirt, Twitter was made to address such concerns. You might have to pretend you're a chick.
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Your next avatar?
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I like this. Could be a bullpen piece.
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The poll question was: Would you rather employ Stroman, Tanaka, Porcello, Archer or Cobb? The question buried in his post was: Taking everything into account (stats, scouting, stadium, salary, service time, Steamer and stints on the DL), who is your favorite starting pitcher going forward in the AL East? So yeah basically A)
