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  1. Brownie19
    Willians brother? I love that 3% K rate.
  2. Brownie19
    2 years before we traded for Tulo 126 games played 91 games played 2 years before JD's free agency 113 games played 36 games played + whatever else he manages this year. Tulo was 31 when we acquired him, JD will be 34 when he's a FA and nobody knows if his arm will ever return to 'normal'. You can point to what JD did between 2013 - 2016 all you want, but that's old news, especially seeing as he's further down the aging curve. JD's gone from a 145-155 wRC+ hitter to 107 this year. Tulo went from a 133-170 wRC+ hitter to a 106 hitter the year we traded for him. Sorry, but I fail to see why you think these situations aren't remotely close.
  3. Brownie19
    He was 9 month removed from being the best hitter in the NL. A lot of hindsight prophets in here today. Based on Tulo - I assume nobody wants to pay JD $20-25M a season over the next 3 or 4 years right? He's been injury prone. He looks like a corpse of himself right now. We all fully expect he'll be posting 0 WAR in 2020 right?
  4. Brownie19
    That kind of tells you show s***** pitching was back in the day. Those guys post huge numbers, but can't hit a 42 year old Warren Spahn after seeing him the 6th time through the order when he's throwing 75-85 MPH. I mean how f***ing awful were the other guys they faced?
  5. Brownie19
    Yeah I get that, but he was coming off a 5.1 WAR season in 2014 (in only 91 games). I think it was realistic to expect this type of decline: 2016: 3.0 2017: 2.5 2018: 2.0 2019: 1.5 2020: 1.0 That's 10 WAR for $100M I'm not sure what they are valuing 1 WAR at these days. It was $9M per WAR last year and people generally thought that was on the rise back in 2015 (it may not be now). That isn't AWFUL value, especially if it improves your team at the right time - in 2015 and 2016 when you're making a push. I agree it's not a great plan of attack to trade for 30 years old's who are owed $100M - but there was a decent chance this wouldn't turn out nearly as bad as it has. The drop in FA values doesn't help either.
  6. Brownie19
    Yeah but f*** - even when he "didn't stay healthy" he was posting 5+ WAR season (except in 2012). He was a 170 wRC+ hitter in 2014 - the year before we got him. Even with his "struggle" returning from hip surgery, he was a .300/.348/.471 106 wRC+ hitter. There was a legitimate possibility that as he worked his way back from surgery that his hitting would improve (as his defense did). You guys act like there was 0% change of that happening and that you all knew he'd be a pumpkin by 2016 - 2 years removed from being the best hitter in the NL. I just don't buy it.
  7. Brownie19
    Anyone understand why they would do this?
  8. Brownie19
    What an embarrassment for baseball. I wonder how much of an impact this has on their inability to attract a younger audience.
  9. Brownie19
    That doesn't mean Matt Boyd is good or anything to lose sleep over. As for Tulo - I mean we got 4.1 WAR out of him over his first 172 games with the Jays - for what - say $25M? That's not bad value at all. I must have missed where everyone knew he'd go from a 2.9 WAR season to a 0 WAR season (missing 100 games) to missing all of 2018.
  10. Brownie19
    Did people really flag the Tulo trade as a bad move the second it happened? That's not exactly what I remember. I mean s*** luck that Tulo's been hurt so much and truly seems to have regressed a lot, but we also unloaded Jose Reyes at the expense of Jeff Hoffman - who looks like a bust anyway. I suspect there was just as many people questioning the David Price trade and to date, we haven't missed anyone from that trade.
  11. Brownie19
    roid rage
  12. Brownie19
    I mean that's a great slide - but let's be honest...that's an incredible stupid decision by Baez. I know he put pressure on the defense, but I would guess that 8 times out of 10, he's thrown out at home. With runners on 1st and 3rd and nobody out - you don't take that kind of risk. Reminds me of when I used to cringe when Vince Carter would take a 22 foot fade away...and then make it.
  13. Brownie19
    I believe AA used those relievers to secure a f***ton of compensation draft picks.
  14. Brownie19
    You know - WAY HIGHER than the guy who's 10th in the majors in WAR right now (for positional players). f*** me.
  15. Brownie19
    But didn't payroll drop under AA between 2009 and 2013?
  16. Brownie19
    You're right - he's probably too stupid and stubborn to look at stats and accept that he's now s*** at shortstop.
  17. Brownie19
    My memory probably isn't that good, but didn't JPR have a decent salary to work with? I mean he wasn't the Yanks or Red Sox, who were spending like crazy at that time, but once JPR left, didn't AA come in, clean house, reduce payroll significantly, rebuild the farm system and produce similar results to JPR? Perhaps by that time, baseball had chance some and teams couldn't just spend to buy talent in the draft. I really hated JPR.
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  19. Brownie19
    Who the f*** listens to interviews?
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  21. Brownie19
    For every Rajai Davis who's speed doesn't abandon him, there's 10 more guys like Ben Revere (done at age 28) and Michael Bourn (done at age 30) who fall off the proverbial cliff around age 30.
  22. Brownie19
    Sorry, but you're not getting the point. There's also very little proof that lineup protection is real. You may have been drinking the Buck & Tabby tonic too long.
  23. Brownie19
    The theory is that his defensive is going to continue to decline has he ages. As soon as that goes, he's a 4th OFer or back in AAA because his bat is simply not improving. He's a 2 WAR player right now who probably won't be by the time Vlad, Bo and the boys are ready to make this team competitive again. You trade him now if you can get anything of value before he turns back into a pumpkin.
  24. Brownie19
    We've released Al Alburquerque. He'd limited his walks in AAA this year (as he did for the Royals AAA team last year). A tad surprised we didn't at least give him a look. Perhaps a cost saving measure?
  25. Brownie19
    Big assumption that he'd accept a qualifying offer isn't it?
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