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  1. glory
    Wow, the Nats have a real shot at winning a title with their rotation. They’ll be rested too since the ALCS will likely go down to the wire, and this series doesn’t look like it will last much longer.
  2. glory
    Agreed, never been a fan of Tellez. The easy answer might be bringing Smoak back on a cheap one deal. You know he likes it in Toronto, he won't cost much, and he had a bad BABIP last season so he could be a bounce back candidate. Otherwise the team probably wants to spend most of its available money on pitching and an outfielder. Kinda wish they just pressed fast forward on moving Vlad to 1B. An upgrade at third with Vlad moving to first would make the team so much better than Vlad at third and trying to upgrade first, but looks like we are a couple of years away from that.
  3. glory
    I hope so but not sure how high the team is on Tellez. They might just plug him there. I’d look for a 1B upgrade personally.
  4. glory
    My guess is Hernandez is the DH next season and they acquire a CF from another team/free agency. I doubt he'd have much trade value right now and he was probably the 2nd best OF on the team last season behind Gurriel, so it's not like he's expendable. Put him at DH, cycle all the OF's (and Vlad) in the DH spot, use Fisher as the 4th OF, and that's probably the offence next season.
  5. glory
    Finally a real source reporting about this and it sounds like positive news (screw you, Jonah!). Interesting that Atkins has an additional year on his deal.
  6. glory
    Yup I'm rooting for the Nats now because they actually have four starters who they will use to actually start games in the playoffs. Even the Stros and Yankees are having a bullpen game in game 4 apparently. The Nats just throw out 4 SPs and are winning. No openers. The way it should be.
  7. glory
    8/280. I think that's what the Jays would have to offer to get him. Every team interested in him will offer 7 years and likely around $34-35m a year, so the Jays will have to go beyond somehow.
  8. glory
    Even the Baseball God's didn't want to see the Rays advance. Astros/Yankees in a 7 game series is what baseball needs. Should be great.
  9. glory
    They'd be forced to use them against at least 3 batters, and not use 3 pitchers to get 3 outs like they did 10 minutes ago, dumbass.
  10. glory
    When Manfred green lights the 3 batter minimum rule, the Rays are going to go into depression.
  11. glory
    2013: 62 wRC+, 0.4 WAR, 313 PA 2014: 83 wRC+, 0.1 WAR, 225 PA 2015: 96 wRC+, 2.0 WAR, 390 PA 2016: 64 wRC+, -0.2 WAR, 361 PA I mean, yeah Hicks had the nice season in 2015, but he was fairly bad outside of that. Drury had a 1.1 WAR and 92 wRC+ in 2017, and everything else has been s***. I'm not saying it's a perfect comparison, I was just responding to the notion that the Yankees wouldn't bring someone back coming off a terrible season. It's happened. Of course the Yankees could turn you or me into a good hitter, so I'd give them more of the benefit of the doubt with their judgment calls on players, but like I said Atkins likes Drury for some reason and we just have to live with him being tendered again. I would non tender him, but I'm not the GM.
  12. glory
    To be fair, the Yankees had 26 year old Aaron Hicks put up a 64 wRC+ and -0.2 WAR in 2016 and tendered him for $1.35m. He then exploded at age 27. I don't expect Drury to follow that path, but if a front office really likes a player, I could see them tendering him even coming off a horrible year. For reasons I can't quite understand the Jays think Drury is a good player even after Brian Cashman couldn't fix him, so he will probably end up getting 2020 to see if he's worth anything.
  13. glory
    Yeah, $2.5m in today's free agent market is a lot of money to play with. You can get a decent utility IF with that dough. Drury should not be a guaranteed tender, but he likely will be because the front office likes him (and traded for him).
  14. glory
    Wow. Woke up to see Twitter exploding about the Dodgers. I went to bed assuming they'd win. Roberts is still really bad. The Nats might be the team of destiny this post season.
  15. glory
    Acuna gets hit. Could see that coming based on the score.
  16. glory
    Wow just saw the score. What a disaster for the Braves. Losing is one thing, but like this? Thankfully for AA he inherited like a zillion top prospects so help is on the way.
  17. glory
    Another thing is the 40 man roster is loaded with young P's. Just in AAA/MLB, off the top of my head, there is Thornton, Shoemaker, Borucki, Zeuch, Kay, SRF, Pannone, Waguespack, Merryweather, Perez, Murphy, Diaz, Hatch (will be added). They'll add Pearson soon enough. If they sign a couple of starters from free agency, then that's way too many arms for the AAA/MLB rotation. Sure some of them will get hurt or suck, but some of them also profile as relievers, if they are not traded. I actually think it would be a smart idea to convert someone like SRF to the pen. Merryweather is apparently throwing 100 so he might be an option (assuming they can't find a place for him to start). We don't need an entire pen of trash bags in their 30's who we want to trade for something at the deadline.
  18. glory
    Agree with BTS, but I expect Drury to be brought back. Not sure about Law.
  19. glory
    Runs through 2020. He recently extended Atkins who also runs through 2020. Basically both the president and GM have a year left on their deals and not even a hint of an extension for either one. Rogers did the same thing to AA four years ago, then he went bananas at the trade deadline, got them to the playoffs, and rejected their contract offer. Not sure how this story ends but the longer Shapiro is without an extension the more likely it is that one or both parties likely does not want the marriage to continue.
  20. glory
    Maybe. Had no clue who he was until he was brought up a few pages ago. Who knows. Grain of salt required until we hear more noise from other sources.
  21. glory
    Jonah strikes again. Still don't know how credible this dude is, but seems like he isn't just a random guy, so take this for what it is.
  22. glory

    NBA Thread

    glory replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Lowry actually did the Raps a favor, I think. There isn't a single team out there that will want to trade for an expiring contract this season. The FA market sucks in 2020. Everyone is saving up for the summer of 2021 when Giannis, Kawhi, LeBron, George, Beal, Oladipo, etc, are out there. So by getting an extra year of Lowry, he actually becomes a bigger trade piece because a contract that large that expires in 2021 will be more coveted. Not that I expect the Raptors to trade him since they will also presumably be looking to preserve cap space for the 2021 free agent market, but cap space for next season is meaningless. Might as well give Lowry a little bonus for the championship and keep the dream alive for 2021. If Lowry demanded a long term deal, then that's a different story. But one more year on top of his existing deal? Perfect for the Raptors.
  23. glory
    I'm too lazy to look up all the playoff teams, but the Yankees were 43-32 against plus .500 teams with a +41 run differential. Keep in mind, they had more injuries than practically every team, and they were turning the Gio Urshela's and Cameron Maybin's of the world into good players. There are levels to this. I said the same thing about the Indians last year who looked ordinary against good teams (I believe they were under .500 against them as well), and the Astros made quick work of them. The playoffs in baseball can be a crapshoot, but when there is a large discrepancy between the quality of two teams, the odds of an upset decrease even with luck factored in. Not impossible, but not as likely. I'm referring to a 5-7 game series, not a one game play in, obviously.
  24. glory
    They were 41-16 against CWS, DET, and KCR (47-16 counting the Orioles). They were 23-12 in one run games. They were 31-35 with a -43 run differential against plus .500 teams. I mean, the schedule is the schedule, so they deservedly won the Central, but I'm not buying that they were a great team. A good team, sure, but we saw what happened against a great team like the Yankees. A team with Odorizzi as their best SP (who had a really good year but come on) is not a legit top team. I hate the Rays, but I can concede that their pitching staff is really good and their coaching can manipulate situations to their advantage most of the time (openers, etc). The Twins are simply not in that class.
  25. glory
    As I said before, the Twins were a good team but vastly overrated due to their division. The Yankees got a lucky break by not getting home field. They got the easier ALDS opponent and homefield doesn't mean as much in baseball as it does in other sports. With that said, hopefully Cole shuts them down the next time.
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