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Goins is pretty much the definition of replacement level, I don't think we should expect to get anything back for him, definitely not someone who has any kind of upside at not being terrible.

My procrastination knows no bounds.

Assuming that fangraphs' stats for homeruns and RBI since 1920 are accurate, then for hitters with at least 300 PA since 1920: -For players with 30 or more homeruns, Curtis Granderson's 2016 of 30 homers and 59 RBI is indeed the lowest (RBI - HR = 29) -For players with 20 or more homeruns, the lowest RBI-HR total belongs to Chris Hoiles of the 1992 Baltimore Orioles, who had 20 dingers and only 40 RBI (RBI - HR = 20) -For players with 10 or more homeruns, the honour belongs to Scott Hairston of the 2008 Padres, who hit 17 homeruns to go along with 31 RBI (RBI-HR = 14) -For 5 homeruns or more, Karl Rhodes of the 1994 Cubs has the record, hitting 8 homeruns and driving in 19 (RBI-HR = 11) -For at least 40 homeruns, Barry Bonds' 2003 campaign has that record, he hit 45 homeruns and drove in 90 (RBI-HR = 45) -Lastly, for at least 50 homeruns, this one came during Willie Mays' only 50+ homer season, where he hit a modest 52 cuadrangulares and helped his teammates score 112 runs (RBI-HR = 60) Trust me, I checked.

That's a really bad deal for you. Noticeably less valuable starters were asked for and rejected by a number of teams, and you added a tier 1 (lower end of the tier if anything) closer to go along with it. Piscotty has some value himself, but yikes, seems like Frenchsoup made out like a bandit here.

Jarrod Dyson is basically a poor man's Billy Hamilton. What he lacks in speed and slightly better outfield defense, he makes up for it by being a better hitter than Hamilton.

Well the positional adjustment will probably make his defensive value even worse.

I'm not so sure I can call this a great deal for the Astros on Beltran. Sure, it's a low risk move for the most part, but Beltran will be playing the majority of 2017 as a 40 year old who hurts the team on defense, provides negative value with his legs, and probably isn't a good enough hitter to hit the 2 win plateau again. I think the Astros at best break even, which is fine given their position on the win curve, but Beltran, who projects to be worth half a win, likely doesn't earn his contract.

Or maybe JB and EE are too "stubborn" to take our offers.

Lol even the Raptors' rookies are sweeping the floor with the opposing garbage players.

They're scoring at will. The early struggling players in Patterson, Ross, Carroll, and Joseph are all firing on all cilinders.

Ewwwww, Navarro is terrible Also he's not decent defensively wtf?

Yeah, for some inexplicable reason I forgot to include randomness in there even though I had also taken that into consideration myself, so if you don't mind I will edit my post to include that. I think he should bounce back as reasonably as you can expect a 36 year old post-prime breakout slugger with apparent injury issues to bounce back. It might be safe to assume that playing the outfield for too long at this stage in his career might also negatively impact his offensive output and increase the risk of injury.

The interesting, and enlightening thing about Bautista is that he was still a 122 wRC+ bat in what was considered a disaster of a season for him. The elite plate discipline did not deteriorate one bit, and the power numbers were lower than his standards set since the breakout, but a .217 ISO in what was again a down year is very impressive. One important thing to note is that despite his strikeout rate having a somewhat significant spike to roughly 20%, his plate discipline numbers remained rather unaffected for the most part, except one aspect. His swinging strike rate, contact within the strike zone and overall contact rates were right around his post-breakout norms, really the only noticeable difference here was his O-Contact% which was way below his standard, down around 10 percentage points from his previous 5 year average. This could mean couple of things: 1) Pitchers exploiting a new weakness that wasn't there before? 2) Declining batspeed, perhaps forced by his shoulder issues, not allowing him to catch up to certain pitches which he was able to foul off or put into play before? 3) Over-aggressiveness at the plate? Maybe he came up to bat in one too many critical situations forcing him to take unprecedented swings on bad pitches, or alternatively, the pressure of the moment getting to him, making him anxious at the plate. 4) Some combination of the above? Edit: 5) Just variance and general randomness?

Do you mean Nox? He's posted a few times this year.

Yeah most of the new posters with the exception of todd have all been really good and stats oriented. Very good sign for the board, funny how reedjohnsonfan trashes us all the time for not attracting new people, yet lo and behold, solid posters are still joining every year.

Posting for the first time in November is like getting a September call-up, technically eligible for RoY but didn't lose rookie eligibility going into the next season and thus qualifies for this year's RoY.

2016 Awards Best Overall Poster: NJH/Cyborg Funniest Poster: NJH Nicest Poster: BigCecil Best Foreign Poster: Terminator ('Murica) Dumbest Poster: gruber92 (recency bias, gruber with some great posts yesterday to secure this award) Most out of touch poster: BBBB Best Female Poster: vdubmvp Best New Poster/Rookie Of The Year: Pendleton Comeback poster of the year: TwistedLogic Most Annoying Poster: todd/gbill/BBBB Best Troll: King in GDT's Best Mod: KingKat, TheHurl Best infrequent poster: 43211234, HM: kcjaysfan Thread of the year: GDTs of Jays walk-off wins vs Orioles in WC and Texas GM 3 Best new board meme: N/A Biggest disappointment (decent poster that slipped): NorthOf49 (inactivity) Worst Overall Poster: todd Worst Troll: gbill Write-in awards: Best Pun Maker: intentional wok Worst Drunk Poster: jays4life19 (sorry buddy, but you nearly quit two fantasy leagues this year on your weekend tirades) Poster Most Likely to be Dead: Fearthedoc, spittin HM: o2? Most Arrogant Poster: Grant77 Best Thread Destroyer: BBBB Biggest Copycat: GD Fantasy Player of the Year: silvergun, HM: connorp Most Improved Poster: THANOS Biggest Infatuation: THANOS and Stroman's pitch usage Worst Non-Troll Thread of the Year: Politics Thread in OT...by far

You're doing fine man, locking non-informative threads from troll posters is not an issue at all.

As usual for me, if it's not on MLBTR or one of the legit reporters then it means little to me.

Nogueira comes into the game. Fouls Marc Gasol within the first 5 seconds, then embarrasses himself jumping on a pump fake from 5 feet away at the 3 point line.

With our current 1B situation, he doesn't even have to s*** the bed to give Tellez a shot, unless Smoak somehow breaks out.

HOLY f*** THE HOUSTON ASTROS MLB MESSAGE BOARD IS NOT "THE ASTROS WEBSITE". Here's the "black and white" that todd is referring to: http://forums.mlb.com/discussions/Houston_Astros/General/Edwin_Encarnacion_signing/ml-astros/90656.1?nav=messages&mobile=y

Todd and BBBB single-handedly trying to ruin threads is not a fun experience.

I don't think their starting pitching is on the level of the Cubs, though their bullpen is excellent and will likely continue being a very strong part of their team next season. I think they'll be a version of last year's Red Sox with a better bullpen and likely worse (?) starting pitching. That lineup is certainly impressive though, and their core pieces are still quite cheap.

I'm pretty comfortable in saying that the participation in such a contest would be high.