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  1. max silver
    This is Varland's first year as a reliever. He has a nearly 40% whiff rate curveball and I think with a bit of tweaking to his pitch arsenal he's a monster lying in wait.
  2. max silver
    I'll grant you the second claim but there's not a snowball's chance in hell for the first outrageous claim.
  3. max silver
    Last I checked Will Wagner was on a major league roster. In fact he was receiving regular starts on one of MLB's best teams.
  4. max silver
    It's literally a once in a lifetime thing for a player to watch his father be inducted into the baseball hall of fame. I think it would be weird for a second generation major leaguer to pass up on this type of occasion.
  5. max silver
    Yeah that's perfectly fair.
  6. max silver
    I'd guess the White Sox are asking for too much in trade. Robert is likely a rental as I don't think there is a front office aside from the White Sox who would consider picking up his $20 million option for next season.
  7. max silver
    He's dropped the strikeout rate to 25% in AAA.
  8. max silver
    WTF man the team loses a series and now you're back to full on Debbie Downer mode?
  9. max silver
    I think Dominguez is a directly comparable acquisition.
  10. max silver
    I'm sure you know by now that there is far more context to Hoffman signing with the Blue Jays than a few failed physicals. The Braves and Orioles passed on signing him as a starter but were absolutely willing to sign his as a reliever.
  11. max silver
    I think the Blue Jays already have a reliable closer, but another pen arm would be a really nice addition to lengthen the pen further.
  12. max silver
    I like that the team hung onto the pitchers who appeared to present higher ceilings as I expect both of Stephen and Watts-Brown likely max out as 4-5 types.
  13. max silver
    Fingers crossed Bieber shoves and is amenable to an extension. I really doubt it though given how close to free agency he is with the player option. I think the only way he exercises the option is if he suffers from some kind of setback and/or really struggles for the rest of the season so all of the risk is being taken on by the Blue Jays here.
  14. max silver
    I don't recall hearing about any kind of setback, I believe the team planned a simulated game for Manoah to better control his innings/up-downs vs an official game.
  15. max silver
    I think the team needs to get something closer to a full strength lineup to return at the very least. I think that all of Kirk, Springer and Varsho should be back soon, with Gimenez hopefully not too far behind. The depth players have done a tremendous job in allowing this run up the standings to occur, but the constant string of B lineups with bench quality players populating the majority of the lineup was bound to run out of magic eventually.
  16. max silver
    I believe Vlad is actually making something like $48 million total this season when you factor in the bonus.
  17. max silver
    Don't try to pretend that if you were a Braves fan that you wouldn't be calling for AA's head. Despite the regular season success his teams have won something like 1-2 games combined in the post season since the world series win, and the team has a poor farm system on top of a serious downturn at the major league level in recent seasons.
  18. max silver
    I ran a quick Statcast search on Dominguez and it appears as though he's only been a tad unlucky vs left handed hitters as evidenced by a .348 xwOBA/.366 wOBA split. I really liked the look of his splitter when he located in properly last night, but when he hung the splitter it reminded he an awful lot of Hoffman's misplaced splitters as they tend to have very little movement when left up.
  19. max silver
    MLB would never agree to implement a floor without extracting their pound of flesh from the player's union. This discussion is obviously moot as the MLBPA would never accept a salary cap system under any circumstances, but I still maintain the opinion that the current system is actually pretty skewed to favor the owners at this point.
  20. max silver
    You are assuming that the salary cap would be set at a low level in the $200 million range vs settling in at closer to $350-400 million, and that the floor would be set barely above where the el cheapo teams are already spending. Of course the players wouldn't accept levels like that, but if MLB presented a cap system where both sides benefit it could actually be possible.
  21. max silver
    I don't agree. I think that the luxury tax acts just like a salary cap except it doesn't come along with a requisite salary floor to force the tightwad owners to spend money on their teams. I believe the MLBPA would be far better off to finally accept a salary cap that forces the owners to open up the books and fully share revenue at a 50/50 split with the players.
  22. max silver
    That felt like a complete accident to me with the pitch slipping out of the pitchers hand.
  23. max silver
    That pretty much represents society as a whole as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
  24. max silver
    I really don't think that the MLBPA does a very good job looking after the lower and middle tier player in the CBA negotiations. The negotiating committee tends to be populated by some of the highest wage earners in the sport and as such the CBA deals tend to be skewed in a fashion that ensures that the stars continue to earn top dollar while everyone else is largely left fighting for the remaining scraps.
  25. max silver
    Fingers crossed neither of these situations end up being long term in nature. Thank goodness Springer managed to turn his head at the last moment, when I saw that play real time I was worried the pitch caught him in the side of the face. I do wonder if these two potential head injuries might increase the team's interest in acquiring a bat, the Kwan rumors just refuse to die so there could be some fire behind the smoke.
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