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  1. DuckDuckGose
    Power lefties with dominant SO ability give me a raging fandom hard-on
  2. DuckDuckGose
    His minor league walk rate was lower and leaves room for optimism. The stuff is downright nasty. If I had to pick a pitcher in the AL East to break the 200 SO plateau Moore would be my first pick.
  3. DuckDuckGose
    Best bench and defence IMO. Rogers should really invest in a guy like Silverman or Friedman.
  4. DuckDuckGose
    The Rays will be competing for the WC not the division but they're a really solid, well built team.
  5. DuckDuckGose
    I would sell my soul for Matt Moore. Only way he doesn't take a step forward next season is if he suffers a devastating injury.
  6. DuckDuckGose
    They have the best pitching in the division... by a fairly large margin (Tanaka could change that). At least until Price is shipped out.
  7. DuckDuckGose
    Schoop is being overlooked IMO as well. He isn't a +5 WAR guy but I see him in the 2-3.5 WAR territory for the majority of his career. If Davis is on pace for another +50HR season he will bring in a haul. We're talking 3 Top 100 guys one of which would have to be a potential superstar a la Tavares, Sano or Profar.
  8. DuckDuckGose
    If everything goes wrong there isn't a team in pro sports that would still be a contender. The Rays' are as close to a lock to win +85 games as you can find in baseball.
  9. DuckDuckGose
    Longo has been hurt a fair bit and their pool of SP's is one of the deepest, if not THE deepest, in Major League Baseball. They have a few super utilities that can be shuffled to fill holes as injuries pop up and a fairly strong BP. They just set themselves up for success year-over-year.
  10. DuckDuckGose
    Yup, it was nice to see him post earlier today.
  11. DuckDuckGose
    Their FO is the biggest question mark. If any of those guys aren't going to be resigned they should be able to bring some significant assets in return. I think Hardy, Norris and Wieters will be back. IMO they trade Davis if he has another strong season since his contract demands would be astronomical. I'll include him for now though.
  12. DuckDuckGose
    TBay is a pretty sold bet to win 87-95 games next season. I'd agree with the rest of the division.
  13. DuckDuckGose
    Bundy, Machado, Wieters, Jones, Norris, Gausman, Davis, Schoop and Hardy is a pretty solid core. They need to go a step further to augment that group but I really like their chances in a year or two. In 2014 I think they'll battle the Jays for 4th (or 5th if you're a glass half empty kind of person) in the division.
  14. DuckDuckGose
    The Jays had huge holes with replacement level players filling them. The NYY not so much. Every team has weaknesses but don't kid yourself the NYY are going to be really good next year.
  15. DuckDuckGose
    With hindsight ya but at the time they weren't bad picks.
  16. DuckDuckGose
    I still like most of those picks...
  17. DuckDuckGose
    It's not like NYC isn't a massive worldwide entertainment hub.
  18. DuckDuckGose
    Big money contracts are good for the game as long as they do not cripple small market teams. They attract new players, people often choose to play baseball professionally because they can make significantly more than other sports and create excitement every off-season. What they really need to do is scrap the draft pick compensation system and move to a monetary one.
  19. DuckDuckGose
    I guess hypothetically but, it's pretty certain they'll be over the tax in 2014 and be considered a serial offender by the MLB...
  20. DuckDuckGose
    Beeston should be the first to go.
  21. DuckDuckGose
    The immediate implications on the tax means they are over though right?
  22. DuckDuckGose
    He also puts them back in to the luxury tax range. In the end probably costs them north of $200M.
  23. DuckDuckGose
    The Mets knew what Dickey would cost and they didn'tw ant to pay it. You can say it wasn't a FA deal but it was a market value contract. In terms of decent FA SP's there were tons last off-season; Dempster, Kuroda, Greinke, Iwakuma, Haren, Ejax, Lohse, and Anibal all beg to differ. The fact that AA paid up for Dickey like he was a sure-thing bonafide ace doesn't make the deal any better, in fact it makes it much worse.
  24. DuckDuckGose
    No, let me clarify. My point was that the Jays traded long-term assets for a bunch of guys on FA deals instead of just signing FA's. I can understand where you are coming from and why you are taking my post that way. However, I think Dickey is an important piece to the puzzle and didn't mean to exclude the NYM trade in my original post.
  25. DuckDuckGose
    Dickey definitely fits the description. The Jays gave up assets for a player on a FA contract instead of just signing a FA. I'd understand if they got him at a discount in prospects or AAV but the Jays offered him more than the Mets and gave up their two best prospects in the system.
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