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Mark Shapiro master plan to antagonize other teams into signing Bautista now versus waiting for his compensation period to run out.
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The team couldn't generate runs when it needed to, which is why the Royals bullpen took a crap on our historic offense...which is also the same thing that Cleveland did to both us and Boston this year. Both the Royals in '15 and the Indians in '16 hit more homeruns than us in our respective series'. When your offense is more or less built on hitting HRs (but but but our team OBP...I don't care) and the opponent out homers you, you're probably going to lose.
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The biggest problem with the Marlins trade was how much salary we took on. That led to the Dickey trade (his age meant that he'd come cheap for a "Cy Young" pitcher) and later led to the situation wherein we went into a season with Castro/Osuna/Pompey/Norris/Travis ALL being asked to fill major starter roles on a team that was trying to make the playoffs despite all of them being rookies (we had no payroll flexibility to fill all those holes elsewhere). I'm not sure what ownership pressure he felt, but AA really flipped the switch from "building" to "going for it" way too early. Yes it got us into the playoffs, but it created a short window with a team that ultimately had too many holes to actually realistically win a championship.
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Its no different from Canada Goose LOL. Canada Goose "Arctic Tech" material is 85/15 Polyester/Cotton...this thing is 83/17. Its 90/10 Down fill. Its a legit coat. Is it "as nice" as a Canada Goose coat? No, but I don't think its ~$800 less nice either.
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Sears AlpineTek Down Parka goes on sale for ~$99 every now and again and is basically the same thing as a Canada Goose coat except with a different logo. Its almost too warm.
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Cool story bro; except the part wherein Fowler actually had "issues" with the Cardinals until they gave him an assload of money. IE: None of this was a "factor" at all. He signed with the team that gave him way more money than any other, just like he would have signed here had we given him the most money. Like, you realize that he signed with the franchise that told Albert Pujols "thanks bro, cya later" while he was still in his actual perceived prime LOL.
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He actually hit for most of his power on the road, but at the end of the day he's a guy who was a 100-105 wRC+ hitter for three seasons and all of a sudden put up a 130 wRC+ season backed by a huge uptick in power. He doesn't walk much, and he's not very good defensively either. He can clearly hit; but guys who rely on high BABIP tend to age worse and be less dependable than BB-driven batters.
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The Nationals were definitely down on Giolito. Velocity down and even at 93/94 he somehow couldn't miss any bats while getting lit up like a Christmas tree.
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"Poor secondary offerings"...he struck out more batters/9 this year than Giolito ever has at any level. "Reliever, no secondary pitch"...sounds like Syndergaard.
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How is it significantly better? Giolito is either hurt, or his stuff has gone backwards big time. Robles is in A-ball and can't touch Moncada anyway. Is Reynaldo Lopez a star? Probably not.
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What exactly makes Fowler overrated? He walks, makes solid contact, average power, plus base-runner. The fact that he is a player driven by walk-rate instead of BABIP strongly suggests that he is likely to age well as a hitter (unlike someone like Carl Crawford who never walked and therefore became useless once the legs wore out). Fowler left Coors Field and actually became a better hitter.
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Kopech is like Syndergaard when we traded him: a prospect who was obviously right on the cusp of blowing up, but who's actual "prospect ranking" hadn't quite synced up with the talent/upside. Given Giolito's drop in velocity and overall stuff, it isn't absurd at all to see Kopech end up as the better prospect.
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Giolito's prospect status is down and Moncada is a better version of Robles. Kopech isn't far off from being the best pitching prospect in baseball himself.
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This. It wouldn't even be outrageous to assume that Kopech becomes a better prospect than Giolito.
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Uhm, they also gave up Kopech who is 20 years old, just dominated the AFL (ranked #2 prospect by BA behind only Gleybar Torres), and hits 100mph with his fastball. On top of two other prospects.
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The $/WAR model does not work perfectly in free agency because there are market restrictions and realities that take precedent. Trout may be "worth" $75 million a year, but that doesn't mean that anyone would pay him anywhere near that on the open market even if he magically became a free agent tomorrow. The max he'd get is something like ~$40 million a year. Its a fun thing to look at, but it doesn't work in actual real life.
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I can't wait until Conner Greene unveils magnum next season and shows all you hating f***s whats up.
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Blue Jays showing "strong interest" in Dexter Fowler
metafour replied to Laika's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
How isn't he worth $15 million? He was worth $26 and $37 million the last two years. Even if you take his 3.3 and 4.7 WAR seasons as flukes; his ~2.1-2.3 WAR seasons still peg him at over $15 million. -
Jays sign Pearce to 2 year 12.5 million deal
metafour replied to jerb's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
He hasn't. He's been injured. -
Jays sign Pearce to 2 year 12.5 million deal
metafour replied to jerb's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Except that the entire fascination with Steve Pearce is that over a regular season's worth of at-bats, he's actually a great player. You WANT him to play a full season. We got him for so cheap because due to injuries he CANT play a full season. -
Great thinking jaysblue!
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It has been speculated that they might load up on bats in free agency which would then allow them to trade young position players (like Springer) for pitching.
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Except that they have exact MPH batted ball rates coming off of his bat, all of which confirm Morales' ~41.1% hard hit rate or whatever that "guy" typed into his computer. Average MPH Ortiz: 94.2 Morales: 93.9 Encarnacion: 91.5 Flyball MPH Ortiz: 95.2 Morales: 95.3 Encarnacion: 95.0 Line Drive MPH Ortiz: 99.8 Morales: 97.4 Encarnacion: 94.6 Groundball MPH: Ortiz: 89.9 Morales: 91.0 Encarnacion: 87.2