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Creating runs - which is kind of a big deal. After all Pujols had 2 less homeruns too - and was one of the worse regulars in the entire league. This applies double for Odor from Texas.
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He makes many fewer outs ...
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yuck! he is a major, major fluke rule candidate
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most important job for a hitter is not making outs and Santana was a lot better at that
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Santana has a much longer history of getting on base. Moreland's best OBP season as a regular was .330. Santana's worst was .351. Both are pretty solid defensive 1B. I am not sure I'd have given Santana that money - but he is a better player than Moreland by a considerable margin.
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Angels are paying a 32 year old for 3 years who came off of a single good season - mozel tov to them
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The Marlins created that situation by: 1. Not having any money 2. Not being particularly proactive with Stanton - or even communicating intent. They don't owe the reigning MVP an explanation statutorily - but it's a baffling way to do bidness especially when he held all the leverage. Maybe he doesn't cooperate more with them - but they never gave him any real chance to. 3. Lots of teams have fire sales - it happens all the time. Few have gotten so little back relatively. At least one of these trades would have gotten you tossed out of your roto league.
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They got his age 33-35 seasons. Yuck.
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Cole has some durability issues - but unlike the Marlins, the Pirates are at least going to try to get some actual players for him.
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Solid pickup - perhaps a mild overpay. He's always gotten on base and power is pretty good. And he can catch if there is a zombie apocalypse in the clubhouse. Of the three corner bats, he was the high floor low ceiling one
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The farm system produced up the middle talent - which is harder to find than pitching. The team has dealt pitching at the lower levels consistently - which is a double edged sword. On one hand, you are right - it has created a vacuum of home grown pitching. On another - pitchers are so volatile, especially healthwise - that if you can trade them for high quality controllable talent it is hard to get too worked up about it. The Red Sox system is in a down phase for a very good reason - because the system has been so ridiculously good at producing kids for the major league club. Every system faces this. Can the Red Sox back up the supply. They are trying. Flores was considered a coup on the international market until that horrible news. The system has lost some of its ceiling to the major league club. We'll see how it replenishes. No system produces an endless supply - if they are, then they are kind of squandering trade assets.
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And was one of the NL's best starters the other 3 years. He is coming off of an off-season, but his FIP numbers have been consistently very good. Yanks would be adding a pretty good quality #2.
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It'd be nice - but guys like that want to play. Their agents are not going to steer them to a spot to end up in limbo. Better to wait and take a 1 year deal in TB or SD.
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Bradley is a quality starter. We did not get Stanton because Stanton did not want to go to Boston, period. And since Jeter was not exactly fielding Stanton's input - the opportunity to expand his horizons was largely absent. If there was someone in the trade market worth trading JBJ, they'd deal him.
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We will have enough payroll to field a contender every year - if we don't it is because management f'ed up. That includes 2018. Pitching wins championships is both a great saying - and a peculiar one given the World Series which just ended.
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They were further along than say the Padres. They traded Dee Gordon for basically nothing, Stanton for a couple of very far away guys ... Castro probably nets a mid-level prospect and a sack of potatoes. They have not converted their players into assets largely - just salary relief. And this is salary relief that came because they were greenlighted by MLB despite having so little of their own money. Somehow they cannot operate despite having a new stadium more or less gifted to them by the city. You take that - as well as letting go some of the actual popular Marlins-brand figures, taking a genuinely weird approach with Stanton. Now Jeter is getting a bit of a bad rap. The real money man, Bruce Sherman (who picked the Miami Herald clean) was bound to do this. If he did not have YEAH JEETS! as a partner, he ends up not really being any better than Jeff Loria. It is funny as hell that ARod in their post playing incarnations comes off much more likeable - but that's just me.
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because major league baseball was so desperate to have dreamy derek jeter as a team frontman that they overlooked the fact that he and his partners HAD NONE OF THEIR OWN MONEY!!!! And somehow Mark Cuban could not get greenlighted.
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he is also 24 and has only 764 career plate appearances. it is easy to forgot given how much exposure he has gotten and how good the Cubs have been.
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we are very lucky. that said, the idea of some teams just being feeders (which i thought was true-ish in the 90s) is basically gone now. with revenue sharing and so forth, every team has a payroll they can win with. now the recent changes to the CBA to suppress amateur bonuses is very harmful to these teams. that part does threaten this.
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was also a really humane thing for them to do
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Salazar is a terrific pitcher, but I prefer my pitchers actually pitch. Is he going to be a Brett Anderson level tease - putting together Cy Young caliber results in between season destroying injuries
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He was 2B in high school - obviously playing 3B right now. I would not be surprised (thought I read somewhere) if they tried him at 2B just in case (although odds of him staying there seem low).
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If you sign JD, you want 1B to be open ... because Martinez is basically a potted plan anywhere else on the diamond. My hopes would be for Chavis ultimately ... I have doubts he can stay at 2B, though the Red Sox are right to at least try it.
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Abreu's Age 31-32 seasons vs Santana's Age 32-34/5 ones. Abreu's ceiling is higher. Santana I think is the clear high floor candidate of the 1B sorts.
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Maybe. Essentially this is a 1 year/$8M deal with the Twins paying Pineda $2M to rehab.