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If I'm another pitcher in that second tier (Buehler, Eovaldi, Pivetta, Manaea, Severino, Bieber), I'd look at Kikuchi and Wacha signing for 63M/3 and 51M/3, plus the overall amount of talent available this off season - as a sign to take the bird in hand in terms of accepting the best deal they can get sooner rather than later. If they try to wait out the market, I feel like someone from that list may end up getting squeezed out of the money.
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KC had such an underwhelming lineup last year, needed to add and probably still should. They are Witt and Perez regressions away from having f*** all, and had no one other than Witt had notable on base skills like Carlos mentioned. They have their (super random) big two arms in Lugo/Ragans assuming they hold up, backed up by Wacha and some decent depth options (Wright/Bubic etc). This free agent market seems rather flush with SP options, so they could very conceivably go out and add a decent upgrade to the middle or even top of that group, ending up far ahead in aggregate. If you slide another good vet into the top 3, Wacha makes for a solid #4 and you have a quality competition for the last spot. I think that was their mindset here, replace or upgrade the rotation spot in free agency and the bats acquired are found money. I'm guessing it has something to do with the quality of the free agent crop. Teams are looking to dump as much money from the bottom end of the roster as possible because there's an unusual amount of middle to top tier talent available.
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https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/five-first- round-picks-left-unprotected-ahead-of-2024-rule-5-draft/ The 2020 draft was understandably one of the weirdest and least normal in MLB draft history. The pandemic forced college and high school seasons to shut down early. For some high school teams, their season never even started. We’re still seeing the effects more than four years later. Teams left four of the 11 high school first-round picks from the 2020 draft unprotected ahead of the 2024 Rule 5 Draft. That 64% success rate is well below the typical 73% rate of prep first-rounders being protected from their first eligible Rule 5 draft.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
Pendleton replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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White's mom is Korean
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
Pendleton replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Yeah I have to give props to that women's bout, that was quite a battle. Serrano is a tough cookie for eating those repeated headbutts and continuing with that nasty cut, she was robbed. -
I think we'd be looking at high end backup/low end starter money, maybe in the same neighborhood of the IKF contract (15M/2). The only prediction I can find (Kiley McDaniel) has him at 17.5M/2. I'd be fine with a two or three year deal in that price range. Still a pretty affordable way to have a key position completely locked down for multiple years.
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Still fairly youngish (30) and has a very solid five year track record of defensive results, which should be probably the biggest consideration for a backup catcher
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Carson Kelly for backup catcher
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Gotta stay optimistic, right Spank?
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Seems like the type of guy that the A's have been sorting out
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Sitting on some shares?
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Would seemingly indicate that they don't see Baty as their future 3B either
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Looks like they have the second fewest goals conceded (7) behind first place Liverpool (6) and no one else has allowed less than ten, pretty impressive.
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https://www.mlb.com/news/justin-turner-intends-to-continue-playing-in-2025 Turner intends to play next year
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Every failed power hitter should be studying video of his swing adjustments. He went from taking big looping HR cuts to just letting his hands explode through the ball, way shorter path to the baseball. Found my post from last year that showed a side by side comparison https://www.bluejaysmessageboard.com/threads/10601-Around-Baseball-2023?p=1695031&highlight=Rooker#post1695031
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Yeah I wouldn't be able to shrug it off as no big deal. It's about as unprofessional as you can get from someone paid to try and win baseball games, not to mention the complete lack of respect for his teammates and their aspirations.
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I hope the Twins are able to sue him to recoup the 300k signing bonus he just received in July, what a f***ing loser.
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I haven't seen any recent projections but I'm thinking 5 years in the 85-100M range depending on how the market plays out. Gausman was slightly older but had a more proven recent track record of frontline pitching results when we gave him 110M/5. The free agent pool seems deep enough that Flaherty isn't a lock to get 9 figures despite the great season.
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Yeah but in his age 28 season after basically first becoming a flop and being given up on by the team that drafted him (plus two others). But anyway, my point was that Rooker is a very unique case of a hitter who was far below league average until basically reinventing himself in his late 20s. I don't know if his minor league numbers have much value for comparison in the context you are using them, as that version of Rooker went on to flop in the MLB. Should add that I'm not disagreeing at all with your general thesis here, I'm very intrigued by what Nimmala has shown.
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Rooker made a huge adjustment to his swing prior to his breakout last year, significantly shortened his path to the ball, it can easily be seen by video comparison.
