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Just looking at marte's contract, there is a LOT of surplus value. So you'd need to pay most of berrios' contract to just add our two best prospects not named yesavage.
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I think i'd keep tieddeman. He won't have the innings to start this year but he could be the leverage lefty reliever we need.
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I really don't think any front office would see hIm as anything other than a 5th starter on a bad team. Yes, that's not fair but i think its accurate. we also just have too relievers without options. also, if you want to be a big payroll team and have a good farm.. this is kind of how you do it. You sign someone in fa, and then trade the depth below.
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No, he has three years left
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Could we get an optionable reliever with good stuff and some deep cut prospects for Lauer? He could be a 5th starter on a bad team. i'd be happy to unload rodrquez but i'd keep berrios.
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I'd love king or ponce. King can be really really good.
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Yea that's fair. I think some team will get a steal with him.
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I'm not comfortable paying a reliever what diaz wants honestly. I'd be willing to overpay ponce a bit. Just like, we probably need him as a 6th starter at some point, and then if he isn't a playoff starter he could be dynamite in the pen.
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Of all those i'd sign Ponce selling him on swingman to start. And then rogers seems like great value.
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I think you need to just decide on a contract extension prediction source and then have opinions based on that. Because the contract terms matter obviously. anyway, mlb trade rumours have saurez 3/48 and keller at 3/36 - Diaz is 4/82 - Ponce is 2/22 - Finnegan 2/20 - Weaver 2/18 - Rogers 2/18 - Seranthony 2/18 - Fairbanks 2/18 - G Soto 2/16 - Pagan 2/16 - Nick Martinez 2/25 They have been pretty close so far. Cease was 7/189 which with deferrals is essentially spot on . Helsey was 2/24 so a little low. Williams was 4/68 which i think is a bit lower than he got aav wise. iglesias was 2/26 so 1/16 looks close if you factor in extra for a one year deal.
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He is projected 2/18. I'd love to do that. I'd also like Loaisaga as a reclamation project. Not sure what his market would be.
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3 years 50 something seems pretty good value honestly. I'd have been ok with that.
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Just listening to rates and barrells. They were saying that Cease was specifically trying to learn Gausman's splitter from afar and had even thrown it in games this year. Also mentioned that we have the second most splitters of any farm system. If he could learn a splitter even just to throw to lefties...
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Luzardo is going to have an insane market if he has a full healthy year. He'll he 29 going into free agency as well.
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This version of Arenado is quite a jays type hitter as well. Could they get less chase and more bat speed out of him?
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I think its close too because berrios is still youngish. There is a chance of a resurgence.
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In the spirit of berrios trades. One involving arenado and donovan from the cards? If we don't get bo.
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Yea, i think i agree with sliderguy in that we aren't the kind of org that changes pitches that much. But even his existing sinker and curve used a bit more and sequenced better could help.
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He has thrown 7 different pitches in the last 2 years but the other 5 he throws very little other than the curve. That is used more against lefties than righties. He did mess with his mix a bit this year increasing the curve to lefites and decreasing it to righties. In terms of stuff plus and location plus the others are (in small to very small samples) excluding the sweeper that isn't on there. Sinker 95/90 Cutter 108/81 (all 2004) Change 109/110 Curve 92/102 The one that stands out to me is the change. He reduced how often he threw is in 2025 though. It is quite a soft pitch though almost 20mph softer than the fastball. There is something there that could be figured out you'd think.
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I think on an org wide level you could almost do both. So, essentially your minor league pitching development concentrates on pitch design and then we draft projectable guys to give pitches to. Then when they get to the majors they focus on pitch mix and so on.
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Its just a numbers game with the dodgers and they develop a ton of WAR in controllable years through the draft. They also do this thing where they develop a 2/3 win player and then just trade him and sign someone in free agency instead, get a few guys years away from the rule 5 and then THEY become good prospects. Its a really smart way to use their money. I think the jays problems in the minors with injuries was more that there wasn't the volume of prospects to overcome it. We have the payroll to be the dodgers but we don't have the synergy between drafting and dev maybe. The dodgers seem really keyed in on what they can and can't develop. Your point on Walker above is interesting. One of the first 'bad' signs that we might not be about to become a cutting edge pitching org was him staying as pitching coach. Not that he is a bad coach, he's really good. But more that you'd expect people coming in with a really defined pitching philosophy to pick their own guy.
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Yea if he showed some kind of change that produced three wins, His durability, i think he gets it. Maybe 4/75
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If he has 3 war, he opts out i think. He could get something like 4/80.
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The fact that he hasn't done it yet might just mean he's not comfortable doing it which is fine, but i feel like obviously you want to get him down from 80% two pitches. The curve and the changeup look like pretty good pitches. He has them already. Its unfortunate he couldn't throw the cutter reliably to where he wanted to. It graded really well stuff wise. Ideally for me he would have an average 2 seam that he could throw for strikes. Just feels like there is a guy with 5+ war seasons in him with a better mix.
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Yea you would think adding just two slightly below average pitches and sequencing them would make him even better.
