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  1. KingKat
    Yeah DHing Travis would have made sense. Barney is better defensively anyways and you can always have Saunders pinch hit for him in a big spot and use Goins after that. Why not take advantage of that 2B depth if you're going to have it?
  2. KingKat
    Uncheck the box when you post pictures. Also, that's probably enough for now.
  3. KingKat
    That was a Moneyball reference.
  4. KingKat
    Pinch hitting for Barney will probably fall to Navarro. No thanks.
  5. KingKat
    Those two don't belong in the same sentence. One is a great pitcher having a bit of an off year. The other is a bad pitcher going through the best stretch of his career (and he's still not that good).
  6. KingKat
    He was warming up in the last game.
  7. KingKat
    Donaldson is a former catcher.
  8. KingKat
    I don't love that the team has to field Goins. He doesn't give you anything that Barney doesn't give you but it would have been too risky to leave him off.
  9. KingKat
    Martin, Navarro, Barney, Goins maybe even Bautista. Several guys could field there in a pinch.
  10. KingKat
    Yeah he fixed that but it still appears in Governator's quote.
  11. KingKat
    I hadn't occurred to me that they would drop Feldman but it makes sense. Liriano wasn't fresh coming into the last series so it made sense to roster a long man but with him rested, Feldman becomes superfluous. He was very unlikely to get any use anyways and Pompey will surely get some pinch running opportunities. Goins for Smoak was pretty much obligatory with Travis's health issues. They don't want to be forced to DL Travis.
  12. KingKat
    The vague response from the MLB official doesn't really address the issue but I think what they're trying to avoid is giving a team a chance to burn a player. Hypothetically, if today's game went south poorly, the team could burn Feldman for four inning or something and then just kick him to the curb tomorrow and replace him with a fresh body in Liriano.
  13. KingKat
    Am I the only one who thinks that of all the things to get really mad at Grant about, this one is a really, really odd choice?
  14. KingKat
    Holy s***... It's been so long I forgot the game was tonight.
  15. KingKat
    I could see the FO having a slight preference for pushing the young guys towards the end. Stroman's IP don't get discussed as much as Sanchez but he just pitched 200 IPs in what was effectively his first full season in the majors.
  16. KingKat
    I could see Gibby wanting to line up Stroman for game 7 so I'm not too surprised. I was more surprised when that he didn't just put Stroman in game 1 and kept everyone on their regular turn.
  17. KingKat
    Even predictions like this don't mean much to me. Teams don't always win or lose according to script in a small series. Sure you would expect Toronto to hit more homeruns long term and the Indians to use their speed more but in a smally series maybe Cleveland out-homers Toronto. Maybe Cleveland out-homers Toronto and they still lose because of weird quirks of sequencing. It's just too volatile a sample.
  18. KingKat
    Well I suppose you could look a historical data to determine that but ZiPS wasn't conceived for this purpose so it would be hard to read more into a correlation than dumb luck.
  19. KingKat
    So futile to use projections over a short series. That's the second article I've seen today that used some hard data to look at something that has no chance of lasting long enough to normalize. As lame as it sounds... anything can happen.
  20. KingKat
    Sometimes it's hard to understand the thought process at Rogers. They made a very aggressive decision to pull the plug on Shomi but they are still pushing Texture (formerly NextIssue) and that's been a dog from the start.
  21. KingKat
    Considering how they handled David Price, I think we can feel fairly confident that they won't make a purely token offer.
  22. KingKat
    What he gives you on defense, he cancels out on baserunning so I guess technically you're right but I wanted to give him some credit for his 1B play.
  23. KingKat
    Yeah that's fine in theory but in practice it's a different story. This team believes in the bird in the hand approach. They're not going to get utopic about this. They most definitely will try to find common ground with Edwin. They won't willingly risk being left holding their nuts.
  24. KingKat
    Is it still fair to Edwin to call him a "bat-only" player at this point? Just as you'd suspect from the eye test, he's been a positive fielder the last two years. Sure he takes a huge hit on Fangraphs positional adjustment but so would any 1B regardless of whether they were good at the position or not. At least the fielding itself doesn't have a negative impact with Edwin.
  25. KingKat
    I'm pretty neutral too. I think the payroll will go up. Given that and given the position on the win curve, I don't think we need to be as paranoid about bad contracts as some people seem to be. There's justification for taking on some risk in exchange for short term gain.
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