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Not clever, original or funny. Congrats!

- don’t feed the trolls glory

Goddamn s*** the bed!

Then moose and Abreu. Soo 45 on 3sp and 25(?) on the 2 bats.

Would be really interesting if we know what the approx payroll would be next year. Hard to speculate on The best FA signings without that. That said, I’m more in the favor of spending on 3 Lesser tier pitchers than 32 on cole. We have that many holes in rotation.

-he clearly wasn’t referring to you

Great idea . We will attach you to them to make sure they get there. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.

Interested to see where payroll will land next season. Atkins of course can see we have several starting pitching slots to upgrade on. I count 5. I’d love to spend 80m on the rotation putting payroll up to about 140m. Buy a whole rotation with One or two players to 1 year deals. Give us a good chance to win every day this season and set us up for 2021. Spend 10m on a 1bman.

I can’t wait to tune into the bill james vs spanky sabremetric debate. Must see tv

You can take it up with bill James as that’s his quote , not mine

WAR is dead wrong because the creators of that statistic have severed the connection between performance statistics and wins, thus undermining their analysis.

It was kind of tongue in cheek . But ya, 80 sb pace ain’t bad

Rickey Henderson

Nope not 87

It’s been ownerships built in excuse for years. AA acknowledged he hadn’t made offers to big free agents.

I meant this: offseason. What do the following so fetch in free agency? -Bumgarner - Hamels -odorizzi -Roark -ryu -Miley -wheeler -quintana -Porcello

More like we haven’t offered competitive contracts to high end FA

It would be stroman and about 7m to spend for the equation

7/210. Your turn

Sign 5 fa sp this offseason. What do the following so fetch in free agency? -Bumgarner - Hamels -odorizzi -Roark -ryu -Miley -wheeler -quintana -Porcello

Here is my take on the Astros trade. I’m fine with it. Biagini is nothing. Sanchez is prob a negative value. Atkins believed the chances of Stevenson succeeding vs Fisher was with the cost of biagini and Sanchez. I agree. And fisher is ready for his chance now. Stevenson is a few years away. This offseason Atkins needed to fill cf, 1b and a bat to rotate into dh so prob another of. He feels this fills the cf hole and does so dirt cheap. He looked at fishers profile and thinks it screams breakout if given playing time, which we can provide. Atkins feels Sanchez is done as a starter and needs to move to the pen. However, he knows Sanchez is gonna bitch about it and doesn’t want to deal with it especially with a young team. Arb eligible he was probably gonna make 5-6 m and really isn’t worth that in the pen esp with so many arms in aa-aaa that probably are going to land in the pen rather than a mlb rotation. So best case scenario next year , Sanchez is a good reliever and gets traded ala Hudson and phelps for a prospect that falls 25-30 in our system. I’d rather use the 5-6m we were going to pay him and use it towards a fa sp for 18m. I think Atkins plans the same for stroman. (I may disagree on that). But he’d spend 21m upgrading from stro and Sanchez to 2 superior sp. Throw in shoemaker borucki and Thornton and we have the start to a solid rotation with Pearson in aaa to go with an emerging lineup for a payroll of 81m including tulo

I imagine the Pepsi distributer bullies him around for concession pricing

Months of waiting around for this...

I want to be able to call Atkins shrewd