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  1. Ray
    Congrats to the White Sox, who just clinched a playoff spot for the first time since 2008. Rick Hahn and co. have done a good job with that rebuild. Definitely think their pitching this season sans Giolito is a bit of a mirage (although Dane Dunning looks pretty legit too), but their position player core is ridiculous and under cheap control for the forseeable future: Luis Robert Yoan Moncada Tim Anderson Eloy Jimenez with Abreu, Grandal, and McCann playing a strong supporting role. Doesn't even include Andrew Vaughn yet!
  2. Ray
    This front office was able to convert half a season of 6 ERA Francisco Liriano into Teoscar Hernandez. Happ in a vacuum wasn't that valuable, but he was still the top pitcher available at that deadline and held more value than a lot of assets this front office traded in which they actually got something of value back. I'm not arguing against the process of the trade, just that it turned out to be a disappointment for us from in outcome. Especially when you take into consideration this front office's affinity to turn players with seemingly negative or zero value into prospects/players that are interesting. They probably valued Drury quite highly, and he had a lot of control. Perhaps they thought he could become at least a league average 3B with the potential to be more productive.
  3. Ray
    The Rockies started the season 11-3. They realistically only had to go 19-27 the rest of the way to make the playoffs but have fallen off a cliff. What a terrible franchise.
  4. Ray
    This speaks more to Yankees coaching more than anything. Marcus Thames has really helped players like Didi, Hicks, Tauchman, LeMahieu, Urshela blossom.
  5. Ray
    Drury DFA'd, McKinney claimed by the Brewers. Pretty much puts a bow on this trade. Probably one of the more glaringly bad trades during Shapiro/Atkin's tenure, but even great front offices make mishaps all the time. They've still made a lot more good trades than bad. The same processes and methods of evaluation landed us Teoscar Hernandez, Thomas Hatch, Derek Fisher, Randal Grichuk, Santiago Espinal for practically nothing, and all of them are contributing to this winning team. Not to mention, in retrospect, they really seemed to have knocked the Stroman and Donaldson trades out of the park. In fact, the only two trades I would categorize as absolute losses would be Solarte for Edward Olivares Happ for Drury/McKinney.
  6. Ray

    Kirk

    Ray replied to Boxcar's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk

    Only for the clubhouse chefs.
  7. Ray
    Why no Vladdy for Fisher??
  8. Ray
    Even Sean Reid-Foley is looking legit as a reliever. Pete Walker and the front office are doing a great job deploying our young pitchers.
  9. Ray
    Professional hitter Joe Panik getting it done.
  10. Ray
    Teoscar is gonna be getting a big arbitration raise if he keeps this pace going. He’s Arb1 eligible this offseason. He’ll probably get MVP votes if we make the playoffs. 2020 is weird.
  11. Ray
    Teoscar is looking like a core piece with the way he’s playing right now.
  12. Ray
    And the Tigers lost to the Brewers, courtesy of Eric Sogard driving in Justin Smoak for the go ahead run. Former Jays helping out. I’ve missed watching meaningful baseball and the scoreboard in September.
  13. Ray
    Sixto on pace for a complete game? Lol
  14. Ray
    What a great outing by Ryu. Everything working against him, and he managed to give us 6 strong. More runs would be nice.
  15. Ray
    Sixto is a stud. Marlins have a pretty good looking rotation for their future.
  16. Ray
    Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
  17. Ray
    Is Musgrove actually that much better than Stripling? Musgrove is younger and has better stuff on paper maybe, but I actually prefer Stripling since he’s performed.
  18. Ray
    May be time to option Reese McGuire’. The expectations with the bat for a backup catcher are low, and yet he’s seemingly shattering those (in the wrong direction).Get him to figure it out in the training site.
  19. Ray
    Stuff has always been great. Which is why teams tolerated his high walk rates, even in his best year. He pumped the zone with strikes that inning. Home runs will happen. Let's hope he doesn't fall apart from here on out, because it'd be nice to get 3-4 innings from him.
  20. Ray
    Merryweather is a testament to Clevelands ability to draft and develop pitchers. This guy was part of Div-II program in Oklahoma Baptist, and somehow he ends up having absurd velo and stuff and looking like a top of the rotation arm.
  21. Ray
    Merryweather is everything I thought Pearson would be this season
  22. Ray
    90 pitches is literally just as arbitrary of a number as 100..... 100 pitches = wow amazing!!!!!?!?#!! 90 pitches with the same results = wow that sucks The fact that there's a wide variance in how many pitches are thrown before starters are pulled should tell you that they're primarily worried about the 3rd time through the order above anything else, which is where OPS against historically skyrockets. The one pitcher this doesn't seem to apply to is Ryu, who either runs his pitch count too high before going through the order a 3rd time, or has actually been blown up when he does. Either way, this front office employs incredibly smart analysts to come up with the best and and most efficient way to deploy the pitching staff they have who then communicate this to Pete Walker and Montoyo. I would tend to trust them over anyone here's analysis.
  23. Ray
    This might be one of the dumbest comments I've read on here. Kendell Williams is a 20 year old who has logged 16 innings in rookie ball. By his age, Syndergaard was a consensus top prospect throwing in the high 90's and dominating AA hitters.
  24. Ray
    It's because of the Angels deal. People thought that the Angels were robbing the Dodgers in the Pederson/Stripling for Rengifo deal. In reality, Rengifo has posted very intriguing numbers in the minors whilst being young for the level. He was listed as a 45 FV in the Angels Fangraphs list and ranked 7th. Apparently the second piece was Chris Rodriguez, who has posted good peripherals in the minors as a SP. He was ranked as the 9th best prospect and as 40+ FV. So they were getting two top 10 prospects in return for Pederson and Stripling. Pretty fair deal. We've basically given up the Chris Rodriguez equivalent in Kendell Williams (both 40 FV), if not less because Kendell is a lot further away than Rodriguez. Which makes sense given there was a slight discount because Stripling has had a rough start.
  25. Ray
    lol Kendall Williams has pitched all of 16 innings in rookie ball and is already 20. I too would prefer that the Dodgers had taken our garbage and given us a solid pitcher like Stripling in return, but their front office is actually competant. Better Kendell Williams than Adam Kloffenstein. We'll probably draft another Kendell Williams in the 2nd round next year to make up for this.
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