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  1. jmomcc
    Willie May Hayes
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    Ted Williams?
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    This is possibly dumb, but let;s say you have 50 control and 30 control and otherwise stellar stuff. Could you just aim for the dead middlle of the zone and let your below average command take it to the edge? Or would you kill your catcher?
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    Boo to you and your BA account.
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    I still don't really understand tbh. Why would they have less leverage? Do they become a different kind of free agent? edit: just to be clear, im talking about the players not the jays when i say 'they'.
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    Can you explain how that would work? If you miss your window, you become a free agent? Is that better or worse for them?
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    I would guess the only way we get one of them with 2018 money is if they have a promise of 1.5 or below in the 2019 window. They will probably drag it out long enough and maybe try to get us to trade for more space to get them. That however, is WILD speculation on my part because I have no f***ing clue whats happening.
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    Yea, whatever we had left from 2018 could be spent on them I think. However, I don't see why they wouldn't just wait until the 2019 window because teams would have more money, right? I think we have at least 1.5 million in 2018 money (from the trades) so possiby they will just offer all that to one of those guys.
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    I decided to do some mild sleuthing. Looking at the MLB pipeline international top 30 for 2019, the only two guys who aren't 'projected' to sign somewhere (or who they forgot to write that in their bio maybe) are number 7 (yiddi Cappe) and 17 (maximo Costa). There are also the two cuban guys who didn't sign last year (Cano and Sanchez). The two cuban guys are old enough to be close if they are good so for a team on our timeline would be interesting gets. I don't have a baseball america acc which would prob refute all this lol. Edit: I guess those cuban guys could be targets for our remaining money this year also.
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    In the juiced ball era, maybe contact guys who hit line drives are the way to go .
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    Kirk had two doubles and a walk today. Groshans is back. This season has been a real mixed bag for me as Jansen (a guy I had high hopes for) just doesn’t look like the same guy... that’s probably premature.. as are worries over smith. However, Kirk, Pearson and groshans are providing a lot of hope.
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    He was also a 34 year old coming off an elbow injury and a season where his return to form was precipitated by a slight jump in velocity (2mph i think?), which seemed unlikely to repeat given said injury. I'll be honest though, I thought it was more than 3 million.
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    I wholeheartedly agree with this. Bucholz was a waste of time especially.
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    There’s nothing going to convince me less than someone telling me with certainty that someone is never going to be good. You don’t know. I don’t know if it is a 5% chance or a 1% chance or an 8% chance but the front office obviously thinks there is a chance. If that is so, that is worth investing in when we aren’t trying to win.
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    Brantley would surely take some time from Hernandez, or McKinney or Drury/gurriel if/when they play outfield. I’d take Brantley as long as I could trade him to a team at the deadline. I would guess he wouldn’t have signed with us because he knew that’s what we would do.
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    The astros won a World Series and are the team to go to find someone to run your front office. This is like 2/3 years after there were stories about free agents not wanting to go there. Credibility means nothing in other words. The players that would be blocked by free agents are guys like Hernandez. His 5% chance of being an above average cost controlled regular is more important than a free agent who will be being paid more fairly and would decline more quickly.
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    I would rather give Hernandez or McKinney those at bats. I see the point with Morton.
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    You lose the ability to give all those plate appearances to marginal dudes and thus make a decision on them and decide if they could be a regular. It's a real low key thing but I think its useful in terms of winning down the road. I think you could do what you are saying but it's not as optimal imo.
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    I have to see 20 more games of Vlad and Jansen hitting ground balls and I'm going to start blaming our new hitting coach.. lol. I know that's crazy but Jansen looks so different its worrisome.
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    What's the point of signing decent vets on free agent contracts though? Is it just to make watching the jays this season more fun? I'd guess letting guys like Teoscar and Drury play (and whoever fits that bill next year) is more likely to lead to winning teams when we plan to be good. One hit gives you a cost controlled regular. Also, the good thing about letting these guys play is that a whole season gives you plenty of sample size to cut bait, and give new guys a chance, thus increasing the chances of landing one or two cost controlled regulars. I'll be pissed if they sacrifice that to be slightly better in the short term.
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    Are these free agents still going to be good when we are expected to be good? Otherwise, I'd rather just cycle through some more slop and see what cheap gems can be had. It obviously depends on the free agents of course.
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    A rebuilding process isn't supposed to be entertaining. It's supposed to be pretty s***** and you half check out until they are good again. Only maniacs are watching these games at all. I totally agree on the 'let the kids play' thing. These games are basically free. There is no expectation to win. Anyone who is marginal but could be a guy under the best case scenario should play, any vet who will have trade value should play and kids who might be on the next good team should play. The only guy who I thought was a waste of time was Sogard.. but now he turns out to be the second coming of Ted Williams so maybe he is tradeable.
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    I thought Solarte was a bet that bust but had some logic behind it. They thought he had a great contract, could help now and because of the contract could be traded later for more than Olivares if he performed as expected. They lost all ways but I think it was a decent idea. I do remember being surprised it was Olivares because I saw somewhere that he was listed as a potential riser on the jays system.
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    I would give them a pretty long leash because they didn't really get to start the rebuild until 2018 and weren't allowed to tear it down when they could have got maximum value. I also kind of see the sense in the decisions they make in terms of the guys they are making bets on. I also find the idea of the cleveland way (where they seemed to make a habit of getting pop up international guys and could develop pitching) being applied to a larger market. So, I lean favorable anyway. I'd give them a few more years.
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    I have to say, a guy like Carroll (especially in the juiced ball era) sounds like a great pick.
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