Orgfiller

What a weird comparison. Thames' issue was not and has never really been his bat, but rather his abysmal defense. Thames tore up minor league pitching pretty consistently, albeit at unremarkable prospecty ages.

Losing weight is great, but is he in the best shape of his life? That's really all that matters to me.

Just because we're thinking of giving Gurriel some reps at first doesn't necessarily guarantee he's going to be a platoon there. It's just added flexibility, he might play the odd game there if he's hitting well and you want his bat in the lineup at the same time that someone in the outfield is playing well (e.g. Alford) and you want to give Vlad or Shaw the day off.

I'm pretty sure Gurriel will be the 3 hitter and Vlad the cleanup, as things stand.

You could also just piggy back them for 3-4 innings each so they keep somewhat of a starter's workload until someone eventually gets injured and they can take over full time. This is really a non issue, our bullpen is really sketchy aside from Giles - with Bass, Dolis, Font all being different levels of interesting - so Shun and Trent will get their innings.

Barring a disastrous performance from Thornton in ST they'll both very likely be on the MLB team, regardless of if both are pegged as full time starters.

It's things like this why no one should ever be worried that we have "too many options" for that fifth starter (or even fourth starter) position. Pitchers will continue to be injured, and hopefully we should have enough depth to have a capable replacement for the non elite guys like Ryu.

Unrelated to arm issues but he seems like one of those guys that is going to be an ace when healthy but spends a significant amount of time each year being injured.

Indeed.

You're aware of the existence of jock straps right? Especially for a catcher.

Yeah Honeywell was on my MLB roster and I placed him on the IR upon the Fantrax move. At some point Fantrax removed his red flag so you'll just have to pass him as a regular MLB player. Blame him being on my MLB roster for like three seasons on Gibbers.

I assume the MLB will eventually counter with anyone who can't finish through his three batters automatically has to be placed on the 10 or 15 day IL.

Final cuts block: Anthony Kay Trent Thornton Jordan Hicks (TJ) Jimmy Nelson Jed Lowrie

Possibly our worst game this season. It happens, we couldn't make an open shot, free throw discrepancy was high, defense wasn't really where it needed to be even with the Nets missing a bunch as well, and carelessness with the ball. On to the next.

I got you.

Ah yes, put the f***ing creep who can't keep it in his pants until he gets home around young children. Excellent idea.

I think Rengifo is a lot more valuable than people are giving him credit for. Young infielder who can play all over the diamond well and had good offensive numbers while being young for the level as recently as last year. Not to mention the obvious years of cheap control.

David Price?

The Twins got taken to the cleaners IMO. It already looked bad in my eyes that they were giving up Graterol for Maeda, but this really solidifies it. Why on earth did they need to add a pick on top of it?

Today in: trades which neither team needed to make. The Padres' only remaining CF is Franchy Cordero who spent the majority of last season injured. Their other internal options that have played above AA are Abraham Almonte who has all of 1.5 WAR in 369 games and Michael Gettys who isn't a good hitter. The Rays on the other hand, add another superfluous OF to a group containing Kiermaier, Austin Meadows, Hunter Renfroe, Randy Arozarena and Jose Martinez (if you want to call him an outfielder).

He's a sidearmer who throws like 85, I wouldn't get too excited about him lol. His most exciting attribute is being the brother of Colin Moran, who is also not very good on a second look.

The Twins have apparently backed out of the deal.

Terence Davis is incredible. What a player, what a find.

Along with what max silver said, Biggio was also a rookie who was a tad older than your usual top guys. The projections simply see him regressing to the mean, it's not common for rookies to post such an excellent walk rate as he did while striking out higher than in the minors with good power. Projections tend to be conservative, so they regress Biggio to be closer to the average second year 25 year old player with similar hitting profiles, while also not expecting him to be an elite baserunner. On the other hand, Vladdy who torched the minors but was disappointing in the majors is expected to regress to his mean, which is a 21 year old hitting force to be reckoned with. It should be noted, Statcast and UZR vs. DRS see a vastly different defender. UZR and DRS thought Biggio was average to below average, while Statcast rated him as a near elite defender, 92nd percentile in the league. It's very likely if our internal evaluations follow a model closer to Statcast's, which I would assume is the case, that the team likely valued Cavan as closer to a 3-4 win player last season and would likely project him to be in that range as well, with some regression factored in.

Jose Quintana and German Marquez available. I don't really have time to discuss trades via PM atm so just send stuff on Fantrax and we can go from there.