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    Yeah, I'm sure every team that has ever coached him has tried to work with him on not striking out so much. Just saying "here's some ways to do it as you transition to the hardest league in the world" is a bit of a stretch. If he k'd about 30% in NPB, he's going to k about 35% in MLB. For qualified batters, Ryan McMahon led MLB at 32.3% last season. His strike out comp is probably Patrick Wisdom who is now playing for the Kia Tigers in Korea.
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    Valdez was so great, the Sox wanted to try him out at every position!
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    Yup. They were slow on a lot of MLBers (Meidroth, Hamilton, Vazquez).
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    And left handed in Fenway. Not ideal for a Murakami landing spot.
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    He's a 2/3 WAR guy today. The problem is that he won't be in a few years. The problem is the sheer length of the deal, not what he's currently being paid.
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    That's 12.5M for 8 years! Those last 3 are a write off at least. He's going to have to be a 2.5 fWAR guy every year for the next 5 years for even 50% of the contract to work out. Not a given!
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    A little presumptuous!
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    Okamoto: RHB, good defender, professional hitter with pop Murakami: LHB, terrible glove, high k, loads of power, basically high risk Kyle Schwarber
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    Murakami isn't more successful unless you're counting striking out IMO.
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    That's not going to get it done. He's a Pad for life if they won't eat 50%.
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    Xander will have a decent MIF glove for the next 4-5 years.
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    Welcome to five years of suck STL! Bloom will give you a tremendous farm system though. Lots of tinkering at the bottom of the 40 man roster too.
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    That contract should include the 5.8 from the following season though. It's not Lackey's fault the Sox traded him.
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    How hungry are they to eat a sizeable portion of that Xander contract? Send him to SF?
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    But they need an OFer so of course they have to trade for Duran. They are desperate.
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    I think you were confusing his situation and Hendriks who collected situations like pokémon.
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    I think Mayer can pick up some slack in his second go around. How much? IDK. He's not Roman Anthony.
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    That's an NL central lineup if I've ever seen one.
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    I don't believe so.
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    I don't understand that Rafaela offensive comp. He has a much higher bb rate and lower k rate at his age/level. Is he just a bad ball swinger?
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    I wrote "since 04" because I wanted to go back to the 04 offseason when they had to replace Lowe and Pedro and it was very depressing looking at all the bad FA signings as I kept going and going.
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    Sandlin could drop the way Romero is currently doing. I know he has great stuff, but he needs to produce results in games. If he gets nudged to the pen, I'd push him behind Mullins to 20.
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    Per Speier, starting to "take shape": Duran, plus for Ragans
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    Especially once we start seeing what all the other starters for. That Cease contract is steep. I know he's healthy, but he's not a guy I'm worried about having in the division.
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