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Wow, what a prima donna.
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MiLB regulations can be passed unilateraly, MLB regulations have to be ratified by the union so there's no "logic" to it. You can consider the MILB restrictions as what MLB would prefer to have across the board and the MLB regulations as what MLB considers truly important. The rest is benign enough to not be worth the hassle of dealing with the union. That's why no one is going to give Stroman a hard time about this. The team and the player played nice and it's a non-issue now.
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It's really a metaphysics discussion at this point and a rather dry one at that.
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All AA had to do was add him to the 40 man actually but he stated that he didn't feel comfortable exploiting that loophole. He may have also felt that the hassle of essentially freezing a roster spot wasn't worth it. In the end, Stroman cam back strong and didn't seem to suffer from the lack of game action and AA got to look like a boy scout in the eyes of the league. Win-win.
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The one and only Masahiro Tanaka posting and bidding thread
KingKat replied to SAAviour's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
You have to figure that some of these free agent pitchers must be getting impatient. That seems a more fruitful pursuit than being a longshot in a bidding war for Tanaka. Of course, we don't actually know what kind of money AA has to play with. So far, it's looked like he doesn't have any but maybe he has more than we realize. If the does have money, I really don't agree with this strategy of waiting until the last minute and going pitching or bust but that was discussed ad nauseum back when there still were other options. -
Royal Salt Lake City. Nothing stupid about that.
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Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it looks like it would take quite a lot of clicking to compile a list of his stints. I was just curious as to how many 60 day DL stints he's had.
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What the flying f*** was that?
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Anyone know of a site that tracks all of a player's DL stints?
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No one should feel shittier than the Jays. With the new posting system, an opportunity like Darvish represented will not come back.
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I think it all comes down to Rogers. If they feel the marketability of the team has gone down the toilet and they went to re-create last year's hype, Tanaka is pretty much the only way to do it. He would definitely create a media firestorm. So I could see it happening only if it's Rogers idea and they are willing to pay whatever it takes. If it's just AA simply trying to work within whatever the general Rogers framework is, it's practically impossible.
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I think he was reffering to me.
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Good thing Sanchez isn't a lefty.
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Vernon Wells Designated for Assignment - Pickup?
KingKat replied to Fromagedujour's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Ugh... I really hope that annoying trend doesn't become more common in baseball. -
I can give you a bunch of picks if you give me your two best prospects.
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And you shouldn't. What I'd like to see though is the validity of the idea that the field gets watered down get tested by measuring the performance of the other players. Do we see a consistent trend where year after year, the veteran players get a boost in performance that could be tied to the watering down of the overall competition level? I suspect you wouldn't. I suspect you can put as much stock in a September sample as any other one month sample (which admiteddly isn't much anyways).
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Vernon Wells Designated for Assignment - Pickup?
KingKat replied to Fromagedujour's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Do casuals even like him? Wells falling on his face after the big contract is much more prevalent in their mind then what he accomplished before. If anything, I think the casuals have forgotten that he used to be good and simply hate him now. -
I feel callup performances are worthless anyways. The sample size is too small regardless of the state of competition.
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This is what eventually made me change my stance on trading Lee. I kept thinking if there's anyone I should be cashing in on now, he's probably it. Who knows how many more opportunities to do so there will be. My plan all along was to go all in the first year and if that didn't work out, I could always get younger by cashing in some chips. I always preffered that approach to going young in year one. I had a good run in 2013 but the league looks really top heavy in 2014 so it's probably for the best that I diversified my portfolio and invested in some future so to speak. I'm not goingfull tank. I'll see if I can hang around. If I do, I'll convert some prospects/picks back into roster pieces and if I don't, I'll go full rebuild. Then again, if I can get my hands on the prospects I covet, I might just go sell crazy. Momentum is certainly building that way.
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Obviously I'm arguing for my own side here but I wonder if there isn't a bit of Jays bias in this. Urias may be four years younger than Sanchez but he's only half a level behind and his numbers wipe the floor with Sanchez. The only way Sanchez is better IMO is if you penalize Urias for his youth but when you look at them from the perpective of their respective developments, the gap is much smaller than the age would suggest and when you factor age respective to performance and level, Urias's age makes him much better than Sanchez not worse.
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If you go back far enough you should have enough data. You'd limit your sample to a certain numbers of PAs maybe half as season's worth, maybe more and compare September results versus rest of season. You don't need to untangle the why of it all because you've eliminated the callups from your sample. By default you're only dealing with the players who will benefit from the so called water downed competition.Is there an overall trend? How consistentis it from season to season? That should at least give you a nice yes or no answer about the whole thing. From there you can put a number on it if it's really a thing (I suspect it isn't).
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Oh sure anything can happen but the Bengals choke job against the Chargers last week shouldn't really change anyone's opinion on Rivers or the Chargers chances.
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Someone has to win in Wild Card Week. It's easy to let recency bias get you way more excited about those teams than you should. They rarely come through in the Divisional week.
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Sorry I misunderstood your intent. So you would substract the numbers as a quick and dirty way to see if there's difference. I thought you were just saying to substract them based on the asumption of the difference.
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Yeah but what is the stastitical case for doing that? I mean it's a common trope that September numbers are meaningless but has the boost that players get from the watered competition been measured? Has an April effect been measured? Is either statistically significant? Unless I see some numbers, I would be more comfortable assuming the effects are marignal and largely overstated than assuming the opposite.
