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  1. Josh Lindblom to the Brewers, Passan reporting 3/9.1 which seems like a really solid deal for them.
  2. Kind of disagree on J.D. Davis, he's got some intriguing tools at the plate but he's a god awful fielder, and we already have one of those guys at third base who is the generational hitting prospect and a collection of below average toolsy guys on the corners. Would you want him as a 1B/DH which is what he really is? If you believe he's closer to his 136 wRC+ last year than his projected 109 WRC+ then maybe you can sell me on him. He's a big time exit velocity Statcast darling.
  3. Not really? Reddick at his age was a good fielder with passable offense and different hitting profile, with much better baserunning and a lot more proven.
  4. Former BVV client FWIW.
  5. If we're in on Calhoun then clearly CF isn't the only thing we're looking for. Nimmo would be a good target IMO.
  6. I love the Biggio comp, I can really see the similarities in their hitting profiles except that their batted ball profiles is vastly different with Biggio hitting nearly no groundballs and Nimmo hitting quite a few - this might be fixable though!
  7. His defense is fine in the corners, he's not a CF. Big fan of the on base ability that Pendleton alluded to, walks for days and his baserunning is above average.
  8. Probably the fact that he's a a bad hitter and you're putting him in an offense-only position lol. Brownie is right.
  9. There's also arguably the most lethal 1-2 punch of all-time in Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling in 2001. In the postseason both of them pitched 40+ innings and had ERAs and FIPs under 2 in the prime of the steroid era.
  10. This just in: good pitcher has good record when his team scores a lot of runs.
  11. The Yankees ruined Sonny Gray so it's entirely possible they wanted Happ to pitch a certain way as well which wasn't suited to his style in Toronto.
  12. Sounds great, and then when Ohtani goes 5-6 innings the Angels will have a black hole in their lineup that could have been filled by a competent major league hitter. Although I'm not entirely sure how pinch hitters work with the new 3 batter minimum rule. Sounds like too much of an NL strategy because then you're blowing up your bench.
  13. He didn't have a ST and only started pitching against professionals again in June. I think he did pretty well considering the circumstances. ERA has him as 2.3 RA-9 WAR in 112 innings and a 4.06 xFIP paints a much cleaner picture of his previous season. Even with a juiced ball I don't think he's likely to stick around a 24% HR/FB rate. His velocity has stayed incredibly consistent, his PD stats were pretty much inline with career numbers, and we have some of the best defensive catchers in the league already with Jansen, McGuire and Maile so I don't see why him being reliant on elite control and framing would be an issue here. He still projects for 2.7 WAR next season and that's after a year which could only be described as a nightmare from start to finish on his end.
  14. Well we're heavily using hindsight here to say this. At the beginning of FA no one knew what the market would be like, and if it followed the last couple of offseasons the Odorizzi probably would have ended up with like a 2/25 deal at best and he'd look like an idiot for rejecting the QO, in fact he was still probably smart to have taken it to guarantee himself a solid one year payout. If the Jays, like I'm sure many teams did, approached FA with the assumption that prices would have been low then convincing Odorizzi to opt out for this 4/60+ and the market stayed quiet (aside from the stars) then they would look like idiots. I don't think this is one case where you could have done anything about it, the player had a tight deadline and him accepting the QO must have meant either teams weren't really allowed to talk to him or he was being lowballed from the beginning.
  15. Odorizzi who accepted the QO?
  16. He's like bizarro Russell Westbrook but doesn't tank your shooting ratios.
  17. If you think about it from a fan perspective as well, which I'm sure plays some small part, Strasburg has been the chosen one in DC from the moment he was drafted. With him just winning WS MVP and now the chance to retire with the team he's going to end up as the greatest National of all time which is pretty neat. It's an easy sell for those that might think that's a lot of money for a guy with his extensive injury history, ideally he can avoid sustained injuries in his 30s (unlikely) and have a chance to end up in the HoF. I would bet they'll regret those last few seasons from a financial standpoint but with him being a team legend and all that it's more palatable.
  18. PitchingNinja is the gift that keeps on giving. Good for Dykstra, the stuff is strong so hopefully he can transition well to the bigs if he makes it.
  19. The Knicks' biggest problem starts at the very top, I don't think he would be interested in being in such a dysfunctional organization.
  20. I'd probably go as far as actually giving a B/C+ prospect to take on Darvish's contract.
  21. Teoscar can't be worth anything and the Cubs wouldn't just give Schwarber away in a salary dump after he's had two straight ~3 win seasons and they have control of him for two more years. Their OF is already quite awful so I can't seem them moving their best piece there unless we were giving up some very good prospects.
  22. I think you are being a bit greedy. You don't need stars everywhere, you need some stars and ideally no black holes on the roster. Thames with a platoon partner can probably provide something like 2 WAR, the WS champions got mostly nothing from their collective first basemen except for Howie Kendrick who only played around 50 games there since he was a utility player. 2 WAR at first base would already be a pretty big improvement from what we got out of the position last season, and with 1B being so cheap to acquire these days it's totally fine if we fill that up with stopgap players.
  23. LeBron just acquired PG eligibility. It's over for the rest of the league.
  24. Yikes, imagine going from Yasmani Grandal to Omar Narvaez behind the dish. Brewers pitchers just took quite a hit.
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