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  1. a700hitter
    DD went for the overpay on Kimbrel instead of the wife-beater.
  2. a700hitter
    Also, the baby was very large for her age.
  3. a700hitter
    Does he also quit every season around the All Star Break?
  4. a700hitter
    Smith adds a power arm at the end of the pen which we needed. And we really don't lose much with Elias for Miley.
  5. a700hitter
    I can't see the upside for Seattle in this trade.
  6. a700hitter
    Elias isn't bad -- a Miley type from what I remember and Smith was the closer for part of the season.
  7. a700hitter
    That's a pretty reasonable contract.
  8. a700hitter
    How about Mitch Moreland? The Rangers are shopping him.
  9. a700hitter
    Who are the Rangers and Seattle looking to move in return for one of our pitchers?
  10. a700hitter
    That is a pretty intimidating back end of the pen.
  11. a700hitter
    It would be great if DD could snag this guy.
  12. a700hitter
    I am hoping that the Winter Meetings are active. I like it when there area lot of trades.
  13. a700hitter
    I was optimistic last season too about Porcello , and it cost me in a bet to iortiz (that I am still trying to figure out how to pay). Though I was optimistic, I still thought they rushed to overpay him.
  14. a700hitter
    At this point, Porcello was not worth one season of Cespedes.
  15. a700hitter
    The Tigers are reportedly close to signing Mark Lowe.
  16. a700hitter
    Salty signed by the Tigers.
  17. a700hitter
    Not meant as an attack. See my edited post. Laughing at you going Looney over a baseball discussion.
  18. a700hitter
    You are already crazy. Lol! Don't blame me. Take accountability for a change. You are responsible for your own emotions.
  19. a700hitter
    And you will always have me to complain about. At least, my discussion centers around baseball moves.
  20. a700hitter
    I have not compared Porcello to either of them.
  21. a700hitter
    I said that Buehrle is his ceiling. I didn't say that he is Buehrle's equal. He is far from it. That is his upside potential imo. In free agency you pay for accomplishments not potential. It's a nonsensical argument imo that it was a good deal when signed. The guy is nothing special. His best asset would be if he could just achieve some consistency as a middle to a bottom of the rotation guy. That is not worth $21.1 million/year.
  22. a700hitter
    Sometimes you make me shake my head with your perspective. I think the problem with the Red Sox last season was the terrible rotation and equally terrible bullpen. DD has addressed those issues by getting the best closer and the best FA starter. I didn't realize that the problem was shutting up those people who said that we don't have an ace. Thanks for the laugh.
  23. a700hitter
    The guy is a middle to a bottom of the rotation pitcher over his career. There was no risk of his value skyrocketing. None. His career ceiling is a Mark Buerle and I don't see him achieving that level of consistency.
  24. a700hitter
    He was not going to elevate himself to the level of Greinke or Price. That was not going to happen. There was zero chance of that happening. If he pitched to his career norms or better he might have gone up a million or 2 in AAV. There was no big discount.
  25. a700hitter
    It means no such thing. The problem with the Porcello extension is that there was no rush to sign him before seeing him pitch for the Red Sox. We got no discount by extending him while he was under contract. The Samardzija contract proves that fact. Ben would not have had to pay more for Porcello on the open market, even if he had pitched to expectations. Certainly, after his miserable 2015, he would not have commanded the contract that he received. The extension only would have made sense if it came with a discount. $21.5 million per year was not a discount. Porcello was not going to become an ace overnight and command $25-30 million per year. Ben overpaid in hindsight, and without hindsight, under a best case projection, he paid full retail a full year before he had to make the decision. It was a very poor decision no matter how you slice it.
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