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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.

Something to note is the Morales' defensive contribution is rated as a 0, rather than negative. He basically projects for a win higher than last year despite the same offensive output, so probably take the under there unless he exceeds his offensive projection (possible in a better ballpark suited to his profile perhaps?). Not entirely sold on Travis, but 2.9 WAR is not an exaggeration. Don't have any problems with the rotation, I would take the over on Stroman and Liriano could fluctuate massively in either direction, maybe a slight under on Sanchez.

I'm sorry but clearly you have no idea what you're talking about if you believe CF is the easiest of the outfield positions, contrary to every scout, player and analyst. Speed has nothing to do with it, range is probably what you're referring to, but that's more than just getting to the ball quickly, it's also the read and the route, which is much more difficult in center.

Please stop.

Interesting how well AJ Jimenez projects in terms of value despite his offense being regarded as garbage. This can't be just regular positional adjustment can it?

Isn't Cespedes' difference substantially higher? I think he's an outlier in that sense, he's much worse playing CF vs playing the corner. I think fangraphs had an article on it.