Dojji
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http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/league-info/potential-free-agents-for-2017/ Have at it. Find the guys that are clearly superior gambles to Santana over the next 2 seasons. The closest guy I see is R. A. dickey. I wouldn't mind Dickey, but I have a thing about signing 42 year olds to multiyear contracts.
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Considering it's looking like there isn't going to BE someone better available this winter, especially for a price as reasonable as $13M/year or less? Yes we do. People who think Santana is in any way overpaid as a lower middle of the rotation starter at $13M/year, consider the Price contract and consider what that means for middle echelon professionals. The price for pitching is hideously inflated thanks to low supply as well as the fact that teams now have all that extra media money burning a hole in their pockets. I don't think you get Santana himself for that little money if he hits the market right now, I think he goes for at least $15-18M/year on the open market.
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I think your nose must be blocked.
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Yep. Leon was brought into the fold to help replace Vazquez post-injury, to prevent us from having to call up Swihart -- only for Hanigan to get hurt too forcing us to bring up Swihart anyway. Best part? We got Leon for cold hard cash. He didn't cost us any talent at all.
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That was caused by the injury to Carson Smith as much as anything. Not a ton Farrell can do about suddenly not having his setup man. Especailly before the bullpen has really shaken out and he knows who else he can count on.
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Is it? It's the game where the injury became obvious. Is it really the game where he first became injured? Do we know that for sure? With muscle tears, the damage could have been initially sustained awhile ago, and exacerbated by the motion of pitching over a period of time. Big league players play through a lot of muscle pain and incidental bumps and scrapes. Who knows when the damage was really sustained. I've noticed that they've used Uehara a lot more tenatively in the last few weeks, and the team's response to Kimbrel's injury was to bring in Zeigler rather than lean on Koji. I think it's quite possible that Koji has been a hurting unit for awhile, but trying to pitch through it until yesterday when he couldn't go any further.
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Reasonable statement, but it goes back to the question of how exactly Farrell was supposed to keep the innings down on his top bullpen arms with the Bastard Batallion in full operation.
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And if he brings in a bottomer from the pen and loses the game, you're going to sit there and bite your lip because they're managing Koji and tazawa's innings, right?
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So you criticise them for mismanaging a job that you admit you have no idea how to do better?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule#Loose_rhetorical_sense
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Yeah Slasher, that post? The one where you leap to conclusions after exactly one start? That is the stupid post. That is the one anyone who's been around any length of time knows not to make after a single appearance. There will be plenty of time to beat on the guy if he confirms to be yet another member of the Bastard Batallion. He hasn't done that yet.
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What would you pay for Santana? It's going to cost some kind of talent to complete a trade for this guy, and we can't count on Minnesota to be content to take our garbage. I'm not convinced Buchholz has any value at all right now.
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I am honestly a little disappointed that he couldn't figure out how to settle down and limit the damage. that's a critical skill for a SP and Pomeranz wasn't able to accomplish it. I'm not going to read much into the outing, but the loss of composure was not a great sign.
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OK. Who takes those innings, and the innings Carson Smith wasn't able to pick up? Do you think that a mix of Layne and Hembree could have taken those extra late and tight situations?
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Not sure what you're implying. They've gotten plenty out of Koji. Once he comes back off the DL he should be alright for awhile.
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... and while you do that bear in mind that those preseason rules would already have to be adjusted slightly due to the injury to Carson Smith.
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So far this year that guy has been Steven Wright.
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It's nowhere near as simple as that, and it never is. You are grossly oversimplifying the situation. We knew going in that Koji would probably be good for at least one trip to the DL sometime this year. this is not that much of a surprise regardless of his usage pattern.
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you mean the ordinary issues that happen when a bullpen is assembled using duct tape and bailing wire? Or hell, when an ordinary bullpen is used, period, and attrition happens? A few trips back and forth to the DL is pretty normal procedure for a reliever, it's more normal for it to happen at least once than for it not to. Plan A went out the window before Opening Day even started, with the injury to Carson Smith. If you want the reason why a lot of our other bullpen stalwarts got used a lot more than they should have, that's a good place to start.
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if the problem is mechanical or structural, it seems highly likely.
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No reason to believe that Koji's injury is directly related to use. it was not one of the muscles or joints that you'd expect a worn out pitcher to experience problems in (such as the pitching shoulder, lat or knee). I think people rushing to blame Farrell for Koji's injury are getting ahead of themselves.
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If we'd acquired Pomeranz those months ago, he would have been slated for the bullpen. Could he have stretched out in Boston and still be the same dominant ace type he was? Not as easily as he did in SD.
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I didn't say that. Anytime someone physically moves there's a potential for injury. but I see the odds being much greater that this is a freak injury that could have happened whenever he happened to pitch, rather than a mechanical breakdown due to overuse. If it had been anywhere on the load bearing structures of a pitcher, from the fingertips to the shoulders to the hips to the knees to the ankles and any of the muscles in between, that might be another matter, you could make a definite argument about wear related injury, and there's plenty there that can go awry. But a glove arm injury? An injury to the arm that's only used by pitchers when pitching as a counterweight? you guys sure you're barking up the right tree?
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I believe it's an injury to the pectoral on the left (glove) side. That's the arm he was favoring when he came out. If that's the case didn't suffer an injury to a major load bearing part of his pitching mechanics, it was a glove arm injury. This reads like a freak injury to me. As I understand it this injury could have happened on any pitch he threw regardless of how often he was used. How people can be so confident that this injury is wear-related I have no real idea. It's like people are so sure that it's JF's fault that they rush to the forums to say "Ha! I told you so!" without taking any care to consider the real facts or make sure their story is straight. but naw, this is the Internet, and that could never happen here, right?
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Ross is a bit of crapshoot, we've seen good-Ross most of this year, but I think we've all seen enough of bad-Ross that we have an idea why JF isn't thrilled to bring him out in a tight situation.
