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I wouldn't consider Chisholm or Arraez big bats anyways. If you are trying to improve the offense in free agency you have to shoot bigger than that anyway.

can't wait to hear snell call the brewers lucky in the post game interview

I never expected an Olerud / Linux crossover but I suppose I should have

To really put the cherry top of the analysis you would do it for all positions, then rank the positions in terms of median war by position prospects.

Lukes has a ceiling of a league average hitter. Barger has a greater ceiling than that. Jays are starved for offense so you give Barger the chance to start and hopefully hit his ceiling. If he doesn't Lukes slides in. Slotting in both of Lukes and Barger to start would not inspire confidence after the year they just had. I would be pretty disappointed with that.

I'll take one Michael King with a side of Sato, please.

I think at this point we hope for both a) a salary cap and b) some sort of amnesty clause or contract buyout clause so we can use it on Vlad and send him on his merry way.

He was always a dummy and always inconsistent at the plate. No idea how he swindled us into 500M tbh.

I had really hoped that when he entered spring training without an extension that we would be free soon. Alas, it was not to be. Now begins 13 years of misery.

Forget indy ball, send this guy to the gulag.

The Jays also have a lot of slightly above average hitters. Not sure if I love spending a theoretical 150M for yet another slightly above average hitter.

I do like the thought of 60-80 SB next year between Jazz and Bateman.

If we can sign one of Jazz or Suzuki, who would you pick? I like Suzuki more even while acknowledging his age.

Injuries will happen but I think the claim that they average 450-500 PA overstating it just a little bit. From a Baseball Prospectus article: From an old write up on Tyrone Taylor from Baseball Reference: In addition, a hitter needs 502 PA in 162 games to be a qualified regular. It seems implausible that the average 4th outfielder is a qualified regular. However I do agree that there is a significant chance that one or more of your starting 3 OF gets injured, but not all of those PA will go to the opening day 4th OF - they will be spread around him, the injury call up, prospects, etc.

Is this true? When I wrote that I assumed the average 4th outfielder gets 250-350 PA, with a strong side platoon or semi regular guy getting slightly more at 400-500 PA (basically how we have used Lukes). All of that is to say I wouldn't hate Lukes getting another 400 PA next year, if we get some offensive improvement on the infield. But that's harder than signing a corner outfielder who can hit. Idk these are my pre-coffee Monday morning thoughts.