Orgfiller
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The Jays have been reported to be interested in literally everyone available, I wouldn't read too much into it.
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You couldn't help yourself could you?
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Lol Maikel Franco is not boosting anyone's offense. He has a career wRC+ of 91 and projects to be as good at Travis Shaw was (and projects to be), who we just non-tendered.
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Bauer himself has claimed in the past that it's not possible to drastically improve your spin rate without using foreign substances. So he was actively "cheating" this season knowing that every other pitcher does it and gets away with it which is why his spin on all of his pitches improved so dramatically. Probably daring the league to do something about it if they really cared that much. I believe changing your arm motion to a short-arm like he has has more to do with having more consistent mechanics and possibly allowing you to add some more velocity.
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I think part of the reason that Realmuto is even more fun than a guy like Russell Martin is he's legitimately good at everything and not just elite in a couple of aspects - usually defense/framing being one - like most good catchers are. Since his debut Realmuto completely laps the catching field in value provided with his baserunning. Since 2015 he's provided 15.9 fangraphs BsR, the next closest is at 5.3, with the vast majority of catchers being negative (Martin included, young or old). He might be the best running starting caliber catcher EVER! The last catcher comp I can think of that matches him would be peak Jason Kendall.
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lol that's like saying Teoscar Hernandez breaking out as an offensive juggernaut (not saying he has) is boring because we've been there, done that with Bautista and Edwin. Sign me up for Martin-esque value/contract value from Realmuto any year.
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Lol this was good
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He was converted to a reliever last year and was working out with Driveline/other private independent instruction this season, apparently hitting high 90s. I imagine they held a workout with him and the stuff must have really impressed them. You can look through his twitter a bit and you'll see a ton of retweets of Driveline and other private development orgs.
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This is a stupid quote, but entirely in their defense is the fact that David Dahl is made of glass, is a pretty bad fielder and not a good enough hitter to make up for it. He literally projects to be below replacement level lol.
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Declining velo and for some reason his projections are brutal so the Reds' own projections must somewhat match with that.
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You can't get much out of 51 games of defensive data. His DRS over the past 4 seasons are -2, -14, -2 and -10. His UZR ranges from average to bad. His OAA was -2 this season fwiw (11th percentile), -8 the year before (4th percentile) and -4 the year prior (13th percentile). So he's maybe an average hitter with bad defense and whose baserunning has typically also been quite bad. He and Travis Shaw project to be about as valuable, do you want Travis Shaw as a stop gap for the players you mentioned? I also think you're vastly underestimating how close Groshans and Martin are to the majors. Maikel Franco is barely an average player, we can aim much higher while not breaking the bank.
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That's not how park factors work. Franco spent the majority of his career in a hitter's haven in CBP and was above average offensively twice, putting up a >.200 ISO once in his rookie year. He's also a bad defender at best, he absolutely will hurt you on D.
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Maikel Franco is Vlad without the upside or elite exit velos. Hard pass on him as anything more than ST invite with a chance to make the bench. He's not even platoonable lol.
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Jean Segura isn't really a shortstop anymore, or probably won't be going forward. If he's acquired it means Bo is staying at the position and Segura takes over 3B with infield versatility as part of his role ala Biggio. I don't think Segura is ostensibly a better defensive SS than Bo is, unless the public metrics are way off our internal evaluations.
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I'm not sure why they would need to move Nimmo if Springer was signed. Dom Smith and JD Davis are total disasters in the outfield and McNeil should realistically be playing 2B with the occasional corner OF start to give players a day off. Springer, Nimmo and Conforto can all coexist in one outfield, although neither of them are true CF anyway. The Mets are probably closely monitoring the DH situation in the NL so they can stop bleeding runs in LF and just plop one of those guys or Pete Alonso at DH.
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He has the 16th most wins since the 90s, 3rd most since the 2000s. Likely to be overtaken by Greinke and Kershaw.
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...as opposed to them to them blowing chunks or getting injured at the college/prep level?
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I think that was just aging lol. Yeah Vlad Sr. did not age particularly gracefully as he entered his mid 30s but he still had a pretty athletic build and never let himself go to the point of being out of shape, he just followed a pretty standard aging curve for a guy his size. I don't think he even looks as out of shape now at 45 than Vladdy has the last two seasons. -
Keepers (listing 6, if it's 5 for dispersal draft purposes then it'll be the ones in bold) LeBron James Paul George (still really wanna trade his annoying ass if there are takers) Jrue Holiday Zach Lavine Jusuf Nurkic CJ McCollum
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Not really but if you do need the help then I'll do it.
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So with the season starting on December 22nd, is setting the keeper deadline to Dec. 13 not a little too tight? We could always have short windows naturally, and maybe I'm overestimating how long the waiver draft will take.
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This is such a Rockies trade. No one of note being moved or acquired, team not really attempting to fix any of their glaring holes.
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Catchers are really hard to develop and probably is the position with the highest variance outside pitching. If you can sign a bonafide catcher star like Realmuto it opens the door for trading Jansen, Moreno, Kirk, etc. in a package for a large upgrade in a position of need (or in the case of SS, a bilateral upgrade at 3B by virtue of moving over one of Bo or Biggio there). Cleveland would sure love to get their hands on one of our young controllable catchers.
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For what it's worth, if we're talking in the context of Giannis then it's an international player who has played in Milwaukee for the entirety of his NBA career. You have to think Toronto, Canada is less the boogeyman for international stars than it might be for American ones, especially if those stars are coming from small market cities.
