Bellhorn04
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I did compare. Ortiz's OPS+ is 139, Cano's is 125.
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He's an excellent hitter, but he's not an Ortiz.
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One of the biggest problems with this idea is that it requires outbidding the richest team in baseball for a player who has more value to them than he does to us.
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OK, now let's move on to a discussion of a blockbuster trade with the Reds for Votto.
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Peralta is definitely on my spite list for 2014 - I hope he has a s***** year.
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You don't seriously think there's any chance of this happening though, right?
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Let's be realistic here. You don't make a colossal investment like that just to 'KO the Yankees'. They're probably not even the biggest threat the next 3 years. And let's not forget that at the end of the day they do have more money than us. The best thing for us may be to let the Yankees have Cano and his $25 million a year cost.
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Not to mention that as of now their 2014 rotation consists of Sabathia and Nova and they have no closer.
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He also admitted he had no info on Salty medicals...why not just say 'I'm guessing my ass off like everybody else'.
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There's a report that the Yankees offer to Cano is 7 years, 168 million, which sounds right. It's also reported that the offer has a deadline. There are no rumblings at all about other teams being interested enough to try to outbid the Yankees.
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I think Brady and Manning are both in the top 5 QB's alltime, with Montana, Elway and probably Unitas I guess.
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They're not dealing Lackey. My sig line says how I really feel about most of this.
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OK, you typed that we didn't need him after 2013. And potential is exactly that, potential.
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Huh?
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Yikes, that's a lot, especially since Lackey's average cost for the next 2 years is only 8.5 million.
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My position is this: I fully expect the payroll to end up at least as high as 2013. And I fully expect Ben to do a good job figuring out how best to allocate the remaining dollars.
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The 10% annual inflation rate is much, much too high, mark. FanGraphs dollar value per WAR has only gone from about 4.5 million to 5 million over the last 5 years.
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I don't know, but number-crunching is what the FanGraphs people do.
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Don't forget that Boras was part of the A-Rod opt-out fiasco though. A-Rod had to fire him and go crawling to the Yankees, who rewarded his crawling by bending over.
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Or put in a vesting option for a second year. It's quite possible they offered one and Napoli turned it down.
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You might be able to justify 25-30 million a year for 5 years, but that's about it. Cano is 31. He's not much younger than A-Rod was when he signed the 275 million deal that is currently making the Yankees feel like killing him.
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Here's one set of pitch framing numbers for 2013. It shows Salty as a little below average. It shows Santana as worse than Salty. Hanigan is one of the better ones. http://statcorner.com/CatcherReport.php
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Defensive metrics for catchers are pretty damn confusing, to me anyway. FanGraphs shows Salty at +7.3 runs defensively, 13th best, and Santana at -9.2 runs. I have no clue what these numbers are worth. Plus nobody can measure game-calling ability.
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I'd rather have Salt than Lava, that's for sure. We did win 97 games with Salt doing most of the catching.
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Salty had a 3.6 WAR per FanGraphs and 2.9 per B-R, which puts his dollar value higher than that.
