KingKat
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Not really. It was much more effective as a market suppresion measure than a competitive balance measure. All it really did was artificially deflate the market for some FAs. There was every reason for the players to push to scrap it and it's surprising that it took this long.
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Wasn't the q.o. outright eliminated in the new CBA?
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I actually don't have strong feelings about the guy as a person but he is objectively a ******** and having a two cent brain does factor into valuation. You can't separate his volatility as a person from his volatility as a fantasy asset. The benchmark I'm using here is Yasiel Puig. I'm pretty sure there was discussion about how we'd handle a player who is already considered a volatile asset and the sentiment was that there's a certain risk baked in to owning Puig and that you just have to live with it if something goes wrong. Well if there's no insurance on Puig why would there be insurance on a lesser player with worse character issues? And even if there was insurance, what would that insurance even be? Is the gap between having Ventura and having nothing really bigger than the gap between Jose Fernandez and the compensation he earned? I'd argue that it's much smaller in fact.
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I feel like we've discussed this scenario before hypothetically and concluded that players with a high probability of washing out of baseball shouldn't net you compensation. At most, he should be worth something like the 5th overall waiver pick.
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It seems like Ventura was an asset with a very high probability of providing no value and becoming essentially worthless (if he wasn't already). An accident is a freaky way for that outcome to happen but him becoming worthless is well within predictable outcomes all the same. This is not a compensation scenario IMO.
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This ties in nicely to what JPA said about Bautista being really into business and into his brand.
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A sad day for baseball, a time to share our memories...
KingKat replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah and it's not like he has a horse in the race at this point. -
If you do that, he'll just use the moose sex corridor.
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Can you tell us anything about your source? Sounds like a pretty easy thing for someone to just make up.
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Impossible to answer. For one thing, you can't really assume that Posey isn't on the juice.
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I think it's a good thing that King pushed you on that. It definitely read the other way.
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Mike Piazza might the last player of his ilk we'll ever see. I feel like there's now way he gets 1611 games played in catcher in today's baseball not with the new emphasis on run prevention.
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Do you know who else strikes out a lot? Justin Smoak. They are pretty similar players really. The big difference is that Smoak's power hasn't translated into in game results as much as Carter's power has. Chris Carter is basically the player you see if you squint really hard at Smoak. Doesn't make sense to me to continue to employ Smoak if the player you're hoping he becomes is sitting right there.
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... and these opinions are usually based on a small sample (i.e. whatever they did that one time he caught them).
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Yeah there's that too but my main point is that they are not idiots. I mean I'm sure some are but I think the majority know exactly what they are getting into (or I guess more acurately, what's getting into them).
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Average is 2 WAR. Replacement level is 0.0 WAR, i.e. zero wins above replacement.
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Quoted.
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I think that''s the attraction for a sizable amount of groupie types. They want the thrill of a celebrity hook-up. It's not even that they don't want long term relationship generally. They might want that in their life, they might even be in one at the time but they are probably not expecting it from these hookups. It's a bit sexist to assume that these women don't understand the sexual economy and how it works.
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Had to pinch myself not to burst out laughing.
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I think you're right. We've seen some fluctuation in Bautista's outfield play in the last two years. He's not nearly as bad when he's 100% but that's hard thing to appreciate when he 100% with decreasing frequency. Atkins alluded to this in the presser. "Most likely we'll see him in right field the bulk of our games. He had a shoulder injury in 2015 that impacted his ability to throw in '16 -- we actually spent some time with him this offseason and saw him working out, and seeing things that were extremely encouraging."
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Chargers to LA? I didn't even know about this. That looks like a poorly drawn Dodgers logo.
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I forget what you call the excessive use of serifs in fonts but it's a really annoying design trend. I don't even think they're called serifs when they are mid-letter like that but whatever it is, it looks foolish. The Angels are notorious offenders.
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Canada 150 seems to be the pretext.
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I think you're right. Good call on the handedness. Edit: That very picture comes up when you Google Kris Benson Pirates
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I guess it's to this board's credit that we don't lose our collective s*** over Tellez but sometimes I kind of wish we did. He's a first base prospect so he has a tough hurdle to clear. He has to really hit but to his credit, he's been doing just that and doing so at a young age. He's still younger than a college draftee. He's a good hitter and he has a clearer path than to the Majors than most prospects of his ilk. It's not crazy to wishcast a bit on this guy.
