Bobthe4th
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That's fair. I think the votes come from if the Twins get the second wildcard and end up winning it all, it allows fans of middling teams to think that with a couple of small changes that could be them. Compare to the NBA, where if you're a fan of the majority of teams you're likely feeling disillusioned.
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If the only way to win was to have a superteam, baseball would be more predictable and it would also encourage tanking even more for any team that isn't elite. Overall, encouraging tanking is generally bad for a sport.
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Potentially today is Bautista's last ever home game for the Jays. He deserves a good send off, hope he gets a home run today.
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Of the 2 Japanese players to be posted under the current system (where they can pick where they want to go) Tanaka picked the East Coast with the Yankees and Maeda picked the West Coast with the Dodgers. Plenty of other Japanese players have joined East Coast or central teams in the past when they had the choice.
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And now we'll never know!
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Yeah it's worth the extra salary over a bargain basement signing IMO. Sanchez's finger is a question mark, Happ and Estrada are another year into their 30's.
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With Alford and Gurriel both being nearly ready, you could go with Pearce, Carrera, Pillar and Teoscar as the outfielders with ideally at some point in 2018 Alford becoming a starter, and/or Gurriel taking the Goins role of cover middle infielder with the ability to play LF if needed. Could then spend the money saved (from not signing an overpaid free agent outfielder) on pitchers (and in a perfect world Otani haha). Depends entirely on the market and who they can get - I'd be happy with either approach if they sign the right players. I can't see Barney being back, he's a free agent. Goins should stick around as the 25th man, can't see him being jettisoned yet. Depending on if they feel that Urena can be relied on to be called up when Tulo and/or Travis get injured, I think they may acquire another middle infielder in case Gurriel needs more time to develop.
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I somehow completely missed this, but the D league is now rebranded as the G league. NBA teams can have up to 2 players with their G league affiliate who can be up to 45 days on the NBA roster without counting towards the cap. Makes the G league more like a true minor league system, just need the few NBA teams that don't already have an affiliate to sort one out.
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Always loved these. Can't decide on my favourite line from the second one, but I think it's "don't slow down in East Cleveland / or you'll die" So yeah.......... have fun SirBJay, maybe they have a 24 hour bar?
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Haha that doesn't describe any of Zeke, Pillar, Alford or Teoscar.
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Disagree, even if that would get it done (which I agree it probably wouldn't) I'm ready to move on from aging, slow outfielders who should be playing at DH.
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I'm not sure I'd want Martinez at $15-20m per year which is what he probably would ask for.
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Zeke, with Teoscar as a starter. Gurriel.
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According to the Japan Times (link here) they are talking about it but it's with the opposite intention - to try to reduce posting fees to save MLB owners even more money. The proposed new system would give the Japanese team up to 15% of the total package given to the player. In Otani's case that'd be much less than $20m.
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Completely disagree, if less than $10m was that important to him he could have waited 2 years and got 10 times that amount. He's going to be extremely rich from being so marketable to any sponsor who wants to appeal to the Japanese market. It's now a hard cap - no one can go over their allocation (whatever it is originally plus up to 75% extra acquired though trades). Legacy penalties are carried on which is why a few teams have restrictions for this year.
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Miggy contract worst in baseball?
Bobthe4th replied to AdamGreenwood's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Miggy has struggled with injuries this year. If the Tigers were sensible they'd have shut him down at the end of August to let him heal. IMO it's far too early to write him off, and he could play up to his contract for a few more years. But even so he's obviously not going to be worth $30m a year for each of the next 6 seasons. -
General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Bobthe4th replied to reedjohnsonfan's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah definitely, unless you're signing one of the 3 or 4 truly elite lock down relievers, it's not worth spending much on the bullpen I completely expect Tepera to be terrible next year, and guess who's back from a year long injury - Bo Schultz! it'd be nice if he was the next random reliever to have a good year haha. -
Or Seattle, or Anaheim, or Toronto....... Even if you just limit it to the AL (which is wrong IMO), considering that money is far from the biggest deciding factor, he could sign with almost anyone.
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General 2017 Blue Jays Discussion Thread
Bobthe4th replied to reedjohnsonfan's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Carlos Ramirez - 31 games in 2017 across AA / AAA / MLB, 0.00 ERA - pretty impressive. Hopefully we've found another bullpen piece for 2018. -
It's a $4.75 million total pool for us. We can trade to obtain up to 75% more though.
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Yes, they're restricted to a maximum of a $300k bonus for any one international player.
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They both traded for extra international bonus money for this year.
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The latter will be much more important to him IMO, most of the money he'll make will be from sponsorship and his next free agent contract.
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Anyone have the Orioles @ Jays 2016 wild card GDT?
Bobthe4th replied to HERPDERP's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I assume you were sacked for spending all day on this board? -
If the Royals fail to keep Hosmer in free agency, they could line up well for us to try to trade one of Smoak / Pearce / Morales to them to free up some space at DH/1B for us. Perhaps they would want Pearce for his outfield flexibility too (even though he's not very good in the outfield).
