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  1. Carlos Danger
    None of the Astros pen is homegrown, apart from one or two of the starters that have moved to the pen. Our pen in the 90’s was a large part homegrown and had depth! We had Henke, Ward and Wells at one point just to name three. All capable of closing. Then in 93, Wardo and Wells. Regardless how you do it, when you are close, like we are, with a limited window, and following the Pat Gillick rule, you need to make those moves to put you over the top. We can’t just leave the pen until last anymore and figure we will find soley serviceable guys to get us by
  2. Carlos Danger
    Didn’t you give advice exactly counter to this in a Fantasy post (which I agree with by the way). You said something along the lines of you used to hang on to fringe players too long and as you gained more experience you learned to cut bait with them quicker and move on. I think great advice for real baseball and Fantasy. There will be the odd Bautista or Chris Carpenter etc, but 90% are just what they are or never live up to projections/potential.
  3. Carlos Danger
    Yea, but what is our objective. We can’t go to war with almost same same as last season and expect different results. Each incremental improvement helps the overall improvement of the team. We shouldn’t just look at shiny stuff to help us improve, we should be aiming for sum total improvement.
  4. Carlos Danger
    Objectively, regardless of contract, if we want to improve on last year, we should not be complacent with guys like Richards. We can upgrade and add.
  5. Carlos Danger
    From here on out, I am now going to refer to you as my deaf, Mexican buddy who lives up in the 51st state.
  6. Carlos Danger
    Your comment was fine and innocent. Jim being a smart ass was what brought us down the path of don’t call someone what their not or lump them all together.
  7. Carlos Danger
    No doubt a player would feel more comfortable on a team with players who speak the same language. However, in reference to the OP and the Marlins, they do try and attract players that represent the community in order to attract fans in the seats and followers of the Team. As I pointed out, that is based on nationality, not language. The Marlins will go after talent first, fan base type players second, Cuban, Venezuelans etc. Just because a player speaks Spanish is not something they would target based on their historical actions and what I know of the area/fanbase/team. If the Marlins want Kirk, it will be because of his talent, but not going to get 10,000 extra Cubans at the game because he speaks Spanish. The Chapman’s when in his prime, Guirielle brothers etc, yes. Speaking Spanish would be helpful with the local media and locals, but unless player is representative of a local demographic, not going to put extra seats in the stands apart from being a good baseball player.
  8. Carlos Danger
    You read it wrong which is not surprising. It is not racism which you are casually throwing around. It is ignorance. Too many Canadian and Americans use the title Mexican like Coke, Kleenex, Xerox etc. I know plenty of Canadians who get butt hurt being called American or saying you are the 51st state etc. It is by no means racist, but a matter of being proud of the your individual country, culture, identity and not wanting to be lumped in some homogenous mass because you speak the same language. I was and am educating people who honestly/ generally don’t know and those who are just ignorant.
  9. Carlos Danger
    Yea, because it is ignorant to lump a group of people together due to the only commonality being language. Call a Persian and Arab and they get pissed. Call a half the Canadians American or say same s*** and Canadians get bent out of shape, call an Aussie a Brit or vice versa. Call a Japanese person Chinese or Korean. Call someone from France a French Canadian and they will be insulted, especially considering French the way it is spoken in France is so much cleaner and smooth then the guttural nasal French spoken in Quebec etc. Call someone from Calgary a Torontonian. Not racism it it pride of ones culture and origins, country, region etc.
  10. Carlos Danger
    Just finished listening to AA part 1 of 2 on the Gibby show, good s***! Loving the show so far.
  11. Carlos Danger
    I think you should be able to add Cole Wilcox as an SP or Springs type guy to that list by mid season 2023.
  12. Carlos Danger
    Typical of the average Gringo or Canuck to lump all Spanish speaking players together. Miami and South Florida in general is full of Cubans, Colombians, Venezuelans, DR and others from South and central America. The border States Texas and West are primarily Mexicans and Central America. Even though they all speak Spanish, HUGE differences in the language and culture. Don't ever call a Colombian a Mexican or a Cuban a Mexican etc. Latinos are people from South America which includes Brazil which the language is Portuguese and not Spanish, yet they are still Latinos. The comment that Miami would want a player who is Mexican just because he speaks Spanish is like saying Toronto would want a player from Australia since they speak English and are part of the Commonwealth.
  13. Carlos Danger
    If you want to be a stat nerd and refuse to look at the big picture of improving our Team, then we can look at Fantasy stats using the most sabremetric league on this board- LOD In LOD- Varsho is worth 81.89 points Kirk is worth 73.04. Varsho 79 runs scored to Kirks 59 Kirk 134 hits to Varsho's 125 hits Kirk RCs (Runs created) 74.4 to Varsho's 69.1 RC Varsho 74 RBIs vs Kirks 63 RBIs Varsho 27 HR, Kirk 14 HR Kirk .349 WOBA to Varsho's .319 WOBA Varsho .443 SLG% to Kirk's .415 SLG% Kirk 372 OBP to Varsho's 302 OBP Varsho 16 SBs to Kirk's 0 On the offensive side Kirk beats Varsho by about 5 total runs in Runs created. Fantasy only takes into account offense. The offense is close enough between the two with Varsho actually being better in some categories, plus his plus D and positional versitality and at key positons, makes it a no brainer! Put the straw down and look at the big picture!
  14. Carlos Danger
    Kirk is Mexican. He would have more appeal to a west coast or Texas team.
  15. Carlos Danger
    Where are we at with that??? Do we have all our managers on board? All the switches turned on?
  16. Carlos Danger
    I would like to think Kirk will end up a Prince Fielder type. Regardless, with both Prince and Panda, weight/health issues ended up derailing them. I would be very wary of any long term contracts with Kirk. Hence another reason to trade while the value is high.
  17. Carlos Danger
    Good post! I don't disagree at all that Kirk is the superior overall offensive player. My point is and has been, that Varsho's offense is good enough, coupled with his plus D, that in totality, Varsho would make the TEAM better overall then Kirk does. Hence IF IF IF , Arizona was willing to trade Varsho, for Kirk, which I don't think they would do (AZ). I would do that deal without much hesitation to be honest.
  18. Carlos Danger
    If you are only going to look at percentile rankings through a straw you should play fantasy baseball. It is not the way to build a better real life MLB team. Your deflection of my comments and inability to comprehend more then a stat page, shows ignorance of the big picture. The Blue Jays need run prevention as much or more then they need an improvement in offense.
  19. Carlos Danger
    A defense only type guy is someone you pinch hit for, or you sub in for a really good no defense hitter. If Varsho is on the team there is no need to PH for him and no need to sit him until a defensive replacement is needed. With Varsho specifically, the Blue Jays can trade a catcher and still DH a catcher. The fear with two catchers of DHng one is what if the starting catcher gets hurt? With Varsho you still have three catchers on the Team and improve your CF defense which improves your overall OF D. How many of the singles Kirk hit could have been stretched to two by Varsho. How many double plays would have not been completed with Varsho running vice Kirk. How many times would have Varsho gone 1st to 3rd, 2nd to home vs Kirk going station to station. How many times would Varsho been sent on sac fly and scored vs the amount of times they had to hold Kirk. 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to home. Not all hits if not a HR are created equal….
  20. Carlos Danger
    I think you need to look at a move like that from a Team approach vs player vs player. I strongly believe, that as a Team, considering roster makeup (3 catchers, current OF etc) , run prevention etc, the Blue Jays are a better Team with Varsho vs Kirk. The goal is to improve the Team, its not a H2H Fantasy league.
  21. Carlos Danger
    I wouldn’t simply because he went to the pen when he got off the IL. Those other three guys are SPs.
  22. Carlos Danger
    Varsho makes the Blue Jays better then just Kirk does. Plus CF/OF catcher, good hitter can SB, take the extra base on a single or sac fly, still young. Team Varsho here baby!
  23. Carlos Danger
    I am same same as some others. However, considering it is a Dynasty league, I would probably go Singer, Detmers, Cavalli.
  24. Carlos Danger
    Can any of those guys pitch? We need: Pitching Pitching Pitching Pitching and Pitching
  25. Carlos Danger
    A statement questioning the supposition.
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