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    Stephen R Brooks | ‏@sbrooksbaseball (2:44 PM): First day of new turf install.
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    Well maybe JFaS should have worded his post of "Yes. 390 ft -> 410 ft can be an out to HR." as "Yes. 390 ft -> 410 ft can turn a lot of outs into HRs." But you'd hope people would be smart enough to deduce that on their own. Yeah, the original wording could have been better, where it's true that 20 feet can change an out into a homer the same way 2 feet can, but it should be pretty obvious that 20 feet will change many more outs into homers than 2 feet will.
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    I don't either. I think it's stupid to say "20 feet is not a lot because 2 feet is not a lot".
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    Report: Player A hit 30 homers in 2011. Since then, his home run total has shown a steady increase each year, to where he hit a very impressive 50 home runs in 2014. Commenter: But wut if he hit 29 homers in 2011 and 31 homers in 2014? tha'ts only two moar homerz. that's basically nothing,
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    If team finances aren't within the GM's control (I agree), then how can you say whether or not there's any surplus on a player's contract, when evaluating a GM? Moves with payroll implications as large as those are almost never done exclusively by the GM. The president and ownership almost have to be involved. Alex's job is to present to his superiors the on-field implications of the trade, how much better the team will get, what the risks are, and then it's Beeston and Rogers' job to assess the projected hike in revenue that may come from those moves. If Alex is working with Beeston on making a trade, and Beeston is optimistic about the increased revenue and marketing to come from that move (we know that he was), and that helps get the trade done, then you can absolutely consider that a factor in whether or not a guy is providing surplus in relation to his contract.
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    I nominate this as the worst post of the year, without even letting the rest of 2015 play out.
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    http://www.statista.com/statistics/203505/mlb-average-ticket-price-for-toronto-blue-jays-games/ To follow up on my last post, if those stats are accurate, the 2012 offseason hype could have made them more than 11.5M in extra revenue off of ticket sales alone in 2013. That's without taking into account the added concession sales, the jerseys, the magazines, the boost in TV ratings, and whatever else they probably made a ton of profit off of. That's also without taking into account that those players probably would have cost a significant amount more for the Jays to have signed them off the open market.
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    But don't they really? If the message from the top was that there is realistic value to be milked out of marketing Reyes and Buehrle, then even if value-wise their contracts are a wash on the field (not really a bad thing), they would have brought in a significant amount of surplus through their marketing value. And in all fairness, that's exactly what happened. They got a massive burst in attendance in 2013 (2.536M) which pushed them nearly 450K over the previous year ticket sales (2.09M), for the highest attendance mark since '97. This also carried over to 2014, where despite the atrocious season, there was only a drop-off of 160K, making 2014 still the second highest attendance mark in the last six years. Gotta look outside the box sometimes. So far Reyes and Buehrle have more than earned their contracts on the field, and if you take into account the added value off the field, I doubt it's really close.
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    Viacom dios
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    I'm assuming that the Jays will make the playoffs this year, and it'll save AA's job. I'm also trying to be optimistic about our new president not being dumb enough to fire him. Voted no.
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    http://i.gyazo.com/3ebcc128e32272d2f990b0113da287e9.png http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-laughing002.gif
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    Don't think that one counts, since they got Carpenter back as well, essentially making it a player-for-player trade, in which Farrell was also included.
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    It is good timing, but to be honest, I believe it. Makes perfect sense for the Braves to have asked on Hoffman, seeing as how they got back a similar case in Max Fried (both guys got high upside arms, both guys drafted top 10, both guys recovering from Tommy John).
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    Rogers technician dude is over at the house, just got the internet setup and... well, hot damn. lol http://www.speedtest.net/result/4091672016.png
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    "I don't see how you can be negotiating for compensation, be asking for an exorbitant return, not get it and then file tampering charges. Seems like something you would have had to do before started talking to the BJ's about any type of compensation. If anything, couldn't the BJ's say that the O's weren't negotiating in good faith? No team in MLB would have done that deal. Those three players (if true) are a completely absurd return to expect for a non-player." Comment from O's board. Someone that actually gets it? Say it ain't so.
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    Josh Donaldson is a f***ing Blue Jay, guys.
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    Admitting that he's walking away probably makes that guy the worst troll of all time. Oh well, now that the one thing that unified all of us is gone, it's probably time for us to go back to hating each other.
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    lol, I wouldn't trade Fuld for Scioscia.
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    And nobody here cares http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-laughing002.gif Why is that so hard for you to accept? We are happy that we don't get him. We don't want him. Please keep him. Enjoy him. Hold his hand and read him a bed time story. Violate his restraining order. Be merry.
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    That seems to be exactly what they plan on doing, which is why they've walked away. That's something that doesn't seem to be registering in the s***-filled brains of you and your counterparts. The Orioles overplayed their hand, the Jays folded, and for whatever reason, the moron Orioles spectators watching at home are under the belief that the Jays are still at the table and begging to be played. In actuality, you've gotten married to the idea of trading Duquette for far more than you should have gotten for him, you're bothered that he doesn't want to be there, and you're now in denial that it's over and that it didn't play out the way you thought it would have. Meanwhile, all of this is made worse by the fact that every single Jays fan on this board is completely content with the idea that the Jays have walked away. That's probably why you're sitting here at 1 AM trying to get a rise out of people who don't care. Compared to the kind of people we've had walk through here, you're a replacement level troll at best.
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    Or to go further and put in the simplest possible terms, since I understand that you have the intellect of a jackass, if you believe Duquette is worth more than Felix Hernandez, who himself was essentially underpaid at 22M last year, then despite the fact that no GM makes even half as much, you firmly believe that your Orioles should most definitely be paying Duquette above 22M a year, correct? And if your club won't simply toss the precedence of GM salaries in the current market and compensate him for what he's truly worth, why should the Jays themselves ignore that precedence and give you idiots compensation equivalent to what you think he's worth?
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    This is the hilarious part that you thickheaded f***tards don't get. Perfect example. Felix Hernandez. Most dominant pitcher in the AL, he was worth anywhere between 36 and 50 million dollars last year. Yet the compensation he received was 22M. Nearly/less than half of what he was worth. Even if he was worth 45M, anyone who paid him 45M would be regarded as a f***ing idiot, because of what they paid relative to his market value. It doesn't matter how much value an apple has in comparison to an orange, all that matters is how that apple is priced relative to how every other apple is priced.
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    Enjoy Ubaldo for the next three years.
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