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So you offered Soto? There's literally no one else this can apply to.

It's purely sim. Literally a game of watching names and numbers, you're basically acting as a GM/President of a team. Ridiculously in-depth, it has just about every player in the world including amateur guys. You can "play" games but basically just as the manager.

I've heard reports that Josh Palacios was hitting a ton of atom balls at the alt site. Watch and learn folks.

Yeah this is fine by us.

Fake news! Brandon Nimmo sprints to first base on walks. Mark Canha is literally a ginger. You can't top that pastiness.

Why are you so intent on splitting up my Cubans what do you have against pasty white boys Mark Canha and Brandon Nimmo or Italian-American Conforto? I'll take a look later and see if I can find a deal that satisfies both of us.

Realmuto comes back home. I've made significant moves over the past week and in the process traded...*checks notes* ZERO of my 5 starting caliber outfielders. Cool cool cool

Really? I thought he did his job just fine considering what his actual role should have been. Average ish defense with the ability to fill in all over the diamond, average baserunning, below average offense with a slap hitter's skillset but he took some walks so he actually got on base a decent amount.

Generally speaking, not being in the AL East.

Has Payamps even been added to the 40-man? With Phelps already being reported to have passed his physical I think he'll be taking Yamguchi's spot. We'll probably DFA Payamps, try to get him to pass waivers and lose him to some other team that will do the same.

For the love of god someone trade for my extra outfielders.

Offseason after that. He has two more years of team control remaining, although he'll actually be relatively expensive for this one at $6.6M because the Red Sox tried to avoid arbitration while he was still good and paid above what he's currently worth. I actually imagine this is one of the reasons that they wanted to move on from him.

Meh, Benintendi was god awful in 2020 with injuries. Cordero has an extra year of control, also injury prone but has some monster tools so there is some upside. Winckowski is whatever, pitching depth. The Red Sox will probably get a lottery ticket or two more to round it up. The deal makes sense for all teams involved.

A few things wrong here. Biggio absolutely plays like a power hitter. He's a flyball heavy hitter, strikes out frequently, pulls the ball often, and walks a lot. Just because he runs well compared to most power hitters doesn't mean he has a slap hitter's skillset. Biggio doesn't have great bat control, he has a great strike zone discipline which doesn't mean the same thing. He takes A LOT of pitches and is very selective at what he swings at, and as a result his contact rates are roughly league average and because he doesn't swing at balls he doesn't swing and miss too much. If Biggio were to swing more it's not a given he would have the same contact results, he likely would start swinging through pitches more, for better or worse. If he had great bat control he would 1) make contact a lot more often 2) strike out less. Bunting is a lot harder than it seems. Biggio will probably start laying one down every now and then if teams like Tampa continue playing 4 OF alignments against him, but can he bunt successfully consistently enough to outweigh the given opportunity of taking a walk, getting a single or getting an XBH? Not a simple question to answer! Especially because we don't know if he's actually a capable bunter or not.

Pain.

One of these is not like the others lol.

He's not wrong, but I don't think Biggio will stop being valuable as a result. He either continues with his current approach which I think would still make him an above average hitter even with a deadened baseball, or he starts selling out for pull power a bit more at the expense of lower BABIP and a few more Ks.

I would like a Trout offer. I actually think I have the pieces to get it done or at least to be competitive in a bidding.

Seeing High-A Vancouver is gonna take a bit of time to internalize. That rotation could be a lot of fun to follow too, Kloff/Van Eyck/Palmer all have a shot to make some noise and put themselves into serious prospect consideration.

Yeah if anything this is a huge win for us. None of our hitters are hitting wall scrapers aside from Biggio and he has other positive qualities. On the other hand shitbags like Tanner Roark and whatever the rest of our rotation currently is would benefit greatly from the meatballs that they're serving not travelling as far.

Oh I'm not saying Ozuna isn't a lot better/valuable than Grichuk. Just not buying the 5 WAR thing. I'd say it's more likely Grichuk is a ~1.5-2 WAR player and Ozuna 3-3.5 than 1 vs 5 kind of thing.

Strongly disagree tbh. I don't buy Ozuna as a JDM esque hitter after one excellent third of a season and previously peaking as a 5 WAR player exactly once 3 seasons prior and that was when teams viewed him as an actual outfielder which for some reason no longer appears to be the case.

Zac Veen, Brandon Marsh, Brandon Nimmo, Brian Anderson, Bobby Dalbec, Mark Canha all available. Looking to upgrade on Nate Lowe at 1B, so he could be coming back your way in such a deal. Also looking to upgrade SP. Would prefer to move from the MLB side over the prospects since I already have a tough time finding starting opportunities for all of them.

No? You're not signing Marwin Gonzalez to supplant one of your full-time players. Aside from the corresponding 40-man roster decision a Marwin signing should be independent of any other moves to acquire pitching.

Marwin Gonzalez would be the perfect bench infielder to give us some depth at a number of positions.