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  1. User Name
    They had that guy at league minum, his name is John Lackey. A better argument would be that they should have kept Lackey.
  2. User Name
    Fundamentals are the one part of a player's game you can fix. You can't teach talent, you can teach fundamentals.
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    Still very much like Miley, yes. He has good stuff and a bulldog mentality. His problem is that he's a "pace" guy, and if they can get him out of whack early in a start, he will usually melt down.
  4. User Name
    And you wonder why we think you're a jackass.
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    You're completely ignoring the fact that those are numbers he's posting after moving to pitcher heaven. Some context is in order. Obviously anyone would take him over Kelly, but not at that price and costing a draft pick. You're fighting a losing battle to convince me here.
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    I liked Shields before the season, but it's clear that, like Masterson (who I also liked) he's not worth the money. It's called logical asessment. You should try it sometime iortiz.
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    Shields at 80 million, with his current 96 ERA+, pitching at Petco, still looks like a good idea to you? I'll give you less Panda, but the Shields signing looks worse by the second, even with the IP still being there.
  8. User Name
    Yet you probably still have a sub .500 team, specially with Shields' HR proneness this year.
  9. User Name
    Keeping Lackey is a good point. Shields has looked terrible in SD, and Hamels was too expensive.
  10. User Name
    There's no way they would've given up Hamels without one of Betts or Swihart, and that's too steep a price.
  11. User Name
    In Panda's case though, it may be possible. The Giants are getting nothing out of 3B, and it may realisticallly be the best-case scenario for all three parties involved.
  12. User Name
    Bradley has a .539 OPS in 543 MLB PA. There's nothing perplexing about why he's not on the roster right now. It's common sense. He has demonstrated no ability whatsoever to handle MLB pitching, while killing AAA pitching. He has earned the AAAA moniker all for himself. The fact that a700 is whining about JBJ's stay at AAA further cements the idea that he's just a contrarian.
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    Are you serious? Maybe you're talking specifically about guys close to joining the MLB squad, but otherwise Rafael Devers, Javi Guerra and Mauricio Dubon are demolishing minor league pitching in the lower rungs of the org. Look, it's hard to take you seriously when you say in one breath that you "don't understand or care how valuations work" then turn around and say "you don't see any kids demolishing anything". If you don't understand or care to understand how valuations work, your opinion comes off as arrogant and of little value. As for JBJ, all he can do is keep hitting. They will give him another chance, but if he sucks again, his next chance may be in another org.
  14. User Name
    So you want to use hindsight to say you would have traded at least one prospect who looks like an above-average regular contributor right now for a starter that would not put the team over .500 at this point in time? I usually agree with you, but that is terrible, terrible logic.
  15. User Name
    Still not enough of a difference maker at that price, and who knows how he'd be faring at Fenway.
  16. User Name
    Shields, the other iortiz/a700 binky, has an ERA+ of 96 and is giving up bombs at an unprecedented rate in Petco park, of all places.
  17. User Name
    iortiz didn't understand the age part of the equation, why they're similar, or the point of the comment. Just terrible. Stick to your day job, iortiz.
  18. User Name
    I'd move Panda to SF and Hanley to 3rd. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts he'd be way better there than in LF.
  19. User Name
    The funny thing is that if he turns into a lights-out BP piece (a possibility with his velocity) the trade looks that much better. The Sox org is making some head-scratching decisions right now.
  20. User Name
    This is a logical stance, therefore it will be rebuked by iortiz.
  21. User Name
    What's the problem with it in this case? In their horrible May, it was the defense and offense that did them in, not the pitching. It's fact.
  22. User Name
    Ubaldo blows.
  23. User Name
    The problem is that that's not how prospect evaluations work. A 26-year old demolishing AAA pitching for the third year in a row doesn't have the same upside as a 20-year old doing the same. As people have said ad-nauseum in this thread, we all know JBJ can hit AAA pitching, it's his ability to hit MLB pitching that's in question. If he wants another shot, he has to earn it.
  24. User Name
    4.96 ERA is good? On what planet?
  25. User Name
    Back to baseball....now they're hitting, but the starters couldn't get the A's lineup out consistently.
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