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  1. fireballW
    When is he eligible to sign?
  2. fireballW
    I was all about Abreu. Swept him up in any fantasy league I was in too. But just because this guy is Cuban doesnt mean he'll be a star. Not a great last season in Cuba and 5'9". Sure there are guys that height who can hit mlb pitching but it's rare. He is worth about the same amount of risk we took on with Melky, but I'm sure 8-10 million won't be enough in this case.
  3. fireballW
    It'd be funny how frustrated you would get when you keep getting offers that really dont include any great prospects, even for a guy like Bautista. Even funnier when Stroman gets hurt next year and Norris goes for TJS. There is no easy rebuild for this team because even for guys like EE and Bautista you need a lot of luck in lining up a trade from another GM. For Bautista youd proabably get one really exciting propsect and a couple mediocre ones. If the exciting one doesnt become a star then youve proabably gone a backwards. People are saying what theyd want for guys like Happ and MB who both likely have negative trade value. Even eating salary they wont get you an exciting prospect in the upper minors unless you get really lucky.
  4. fireballW
    Id take Melky over any of those guys. The thing about signing guys for value is that you do it so you can spend the saved money on something else. It is evident that players not wanting to sign here is becoming an increasing problem. Top stars need to be way overpaid for. Mediocre guys usually have a few similar offers and wont choose to come here all things being equal. The value reclamation projects dont want to come here at all (turf/bad pitchers park). We can probably usually only sign guys who have hardly any other place interested in them, or overpay like with Macier. These value guys people want, usually they want them for a reaaon, which means other teams probably want them too. So why would they even bother to go to Toronto.
  5. fireballW
    Dickey is such a self-absorbed d-bag. Always looks cross if a player makes a bad play but doesnt give a shout out when a defender bails him out.
  6. fireballW
    Have a good feeling Dickey will go on a bit of a run and help solidify the rotation like MB did in the early season.
  7. fireballW
    Maybe the bullpen struggling has to do with the fact that almost all pitchers that spend significant time around Pete Walker get worse. Next year Stroman will be walking 5 guys per IP. The only guy who stays consistent is MB who doesnt even attend the pitcher's meetings.
  8. fireballW
    Agree. Happ had pretty good K numbers all along. He has good heat for a lefty. There was more upside there. The Jays tried to keep getting EE back. AA said each year, even after getting him back after being released, that he thought EE had huge breakout potential. Someone saw something in Happ. They got him and gave it a shot, nothing wrong with that.
  9. fireballW
    We have Seitzer now so how about McCarthy and Hill (back for a playoff run). Neither should be very expensive.
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  11. fireballW
    It is just confusing because this board is friggen amazing and the posters on this board kick so much ass that they figure things out faster than most people who are paid to do the same thing. Really, big props to all you guys for all the digging you do.
  12. fireballW
    Nah, it's not. But I can look forward to some example with about a thousand uncontrolled variables to try and prove something. *"Good" umpires by definition call more correct strikes than "bad" umpires *More bad strike calls come when catchers with good pitch framing numbers are catching The rest kind of writes itself.
  13. fireballW
    I have it on good authority (RIP Kirksaw) that umpires train specifically on watching the ball and making sure they are not influenced by the catcher. Pitch framing is a skill that shouldn't exist and shouldn't matter if the umpires were doing their jobs as trained. Good umpires largely negate pitch framing, while terrible ones, like Baker, turn it into a stat that MLB talent evaluators can't ignore. An umpires job is to call the strike zone and if they aren't, for whatever reason, it's on them. Baker did a terrible job at what he was trained to do and it impacted the game. Arguing this and calling him out is not the same as saying our team should not try to improve our ability to exploit the crappy umpires of the league.
  14. fireballW
    Terrible. MLB makes a lot of money when they have an Asian superstar or two in the league. Reminded me of when Dice K made his debut against us. He did spectacular because for the first year the MLB would call everything a strike for him.
  15. fireballW
    Do people not realize that the defensive stats back up what we can see with our eyes, which is that Lawrie is way more valuable at 3B defensively? We should still be looking for a 2B, but everyone seems pretty set on his needing to shift Lawrie.
  16. fireballW
    Beltre and Utley are both better fits than Wright. He's in the midst of his worst year, is 31 years old and have a very expensive contract. I would not give up even a decent prospect to get Wright, since I think his contract will have negative value.
  17. fireballW
    From what I know about defensive stats though, Lawrie at 2B and Beltre at 3B does take a lot away on defense compared to Lawrie 3B and Utley 2B. If Utley is willing, I'd still go that route and keep Lawrie at 3B.
  18. fireballW
    This. Although I am guessing might have 10/5 rights and with his knees he may not want to come to Toronto, even if we are playoff contenders.
  19. fireballW
    Trade them to TB and hope that they relocate to another division when their team needs to move out of TB.
  20. fireballW
    Hmmm I guess. I don't know. I don't mind him at all. Kratz has never done anything special to convince me of anything. I could see him being more valuable, but I could also see Navarro doing better over the last many months of the season.
  21. fireballW
    I won't copy the post, but I don't see a real big problem with those kinds of posts. Same things you hear from people if you are at a game. Lots of fans are like that when watching a game. I don't post much in the GDT, but if I am watching a game on the computer and there is a bad call, sometimes I refresh the GDT just to see other people are annoyed and not just me. I do think the "ignore" poster button goes underused. If you had a problem with those posts, ignore the poster. Everything to do with being a fan shouldn't be in depth, analytically discussions. There is always a place for overreacting when it comes to one's sports teams.
  22. fireballW
    Maybe for a thread like this, but people love to check out the milb game threads. Around the time of July 2nd, people will be all over this. If it was in the subform they wouldn't even notice it hardly. I'm one of the guys who would actually check out the minor league thread from time to time. But I remember there were positives from the old board and one was how much more discussion there was about the minor leagues.
  23. fireballW
    Yep. Need to hit people right in the face with things. Anyway I am not in Canada. It is at least two clicks and that can take too long for me to bother.
  24. fireballW
    Because it was a pain to go to, so most people wouldn't even bother. It was great to see tge milb gdt today, right there in front of my face. If this board really wants new members, that's a good way of pulling some in. Every "fan" thinks they know everything about the MLB team, but when they start to realize some people on here know all there is to know about soooooo many other players in the org, they start to feel like they are learning some things. Plus it just adds a bit of hopes and dreams for if the team does go through a tough time and keeps a few extra people interested and coming to the site.
  25. fireballW
    It's obvious to me most people here like Kratz over Navarro, but what's the argument for that?
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