moonslav59
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Nobody has come close to saying he has made all the right moves. No need to respond to rest.
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Vaz totally sucked after the trade and was basically their back-up catcher for the last 2 months.
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The Astros have found the way to let key players go, and still be competitive.
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Good to see Vaz get a key hit!
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If career OPS v RHPs is everything, why not just play Hosmer at min pay? He has an .810 career split.
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Bob Ryan? LOL!
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I'm saying that was part of the reason they looked to trade him. IMO, the biggest reason was his s***** D at SS- a key position for D, when going for a ring. The rest just made the choice easier.
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Apparently, he came to ST'ing already hurt, but pretended he got hurt there. I think that upset management from the start, and refusing the extension combined to make him dumpable.
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He might be just the type we are looking for, or not. Despite his rather pedestrian .739 OPS since 2020, he has averaged 23 Hrs and 98 RBI per 162 games in that stretch. I doubt he ever repeats 2019's .922 OPS, he's only 27, so there is hope he can get over .800, again. Zero HRs in 147 PAs, this year could be a warning sign, but he did have a career high OBP of .347. Hard to know, if this is a Bloom guy.
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Hitting on other players' wives wasn't very good for the clubhouse, either. The trade could not have been to improve team character, although Doug M. might have helped, a little. It was all about improving SS defense and stability, which it did, and that, IMO, made the difference in the end. Plus, OCab gave us more offense than we bargained for.
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The JBJ deal does seem to be the be-all-end-all move made. Not only did he suck, his contract, alone, put us over the lux tax. While his $8M b uyout for 2023 does not count on the tax line for '23, it's still $8M JH is spending, this winter. I'm not a fan of brining in another LF'er. I was a broken record on out glut of LF'ers, this season, but I do want to see our OBP greatly improved without spending a ton doing it. I'm not sure what Beni will end up getting, but if he's much cheaper than Nimmo, and Nimmo gets a massive overpay, I'm not sure what better options are out there. I would not say he is my Plan B for the OF, but among FAs, he's pretty close.
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I think the uncertainty surrounding the CBA was part of the reason so many teams waited and waited, last winter. Maybe we return to a more spread out signing period.
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Yes, I understood your point and would not minds having the next Darren Lewis on our club for 6 prime years. I'm just saying I expect better-fully aware of the chances of being disappointed.
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I'm the driver of the bandwagon that claims Jeter was the absolute worst defensive SS of his era, so saying Nomar was better than him says basically nothing good.
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A little true. 1st half>2nd half K% 21.9%>23.3% BB% 10.4%>9.6% ISO .199>.166 While you guys K'd more, walked less, the biggest change was in your ISO. You may have swung more for the fences, but you became less successful at hitting HRs. You guys did try to change the dynamic. You dumped Gallo and added Beni, but the injury bug came b ack to bite your ass on that one. Lowest K% (Top 9 by PA) 13.1 LeMahieu 13.6 Kiner-Falefa 17.6 Trevino 18.4 Rizzo 22.6 Torres 24.1 Hicks 25.1 Judge 27.1 Donaldson 30.3 Stanton The two players you count on the most are among your biggest K men. Peraza had 57 PAs, this year. Here are the rest of the players with 100-350 PAs 17.6% Trevino 19.1% Beni 21.0% Higgy 22.0% Andujar 22.7 Carpenter 25.7 Cabrera 26.1 Marwin 38.8% Gallo Your lowest BA players: .159 Gallo .185 Marwin .211 Stanton (The new Dave Kingman) .216 Hicks .222 Donaldson .224 Rizzo .227 Higgy .229 Andujar .247 Cabrera .248 Trevino .254 Beni .257 Torres & LeMahieu .305 Carpenter .306 Peraza .311 Judge
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Key Offseason Dates: NOV 7 at 5 pm deadline for offering QO NOV 8 Free Agency begins NOV 9 GM Meetings begin NOV 17 Deadline for players to accept or reject QO NOV 19 Deadline to protect eligible prospects from Rule 5 Draft NOV 30 Non-Tender Deadline DEC 6 Draft Order Determined for July 11-13, 2023 /Winter Meetings begin DEC 9 Rule 5 Draft JAN 14 Arbitration figures exchanged
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The team was built on relying on the HR. It's too late to change the tiger's stripes.
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I get a sneaky feeling Rafaela will hit better than DL.
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There was also rumors he hurt himself in a non baseball way, and the Sox did him a favor by not making that public. Then he pouts, like it's the team not him that was wronged. We dumped him just in time. Some longer term affects of that trade: For comp picks on OCab going FA: Ellsbury Lowrie We later got Melancon for Lowrie and Holt for Lowrie. We later got Kopech as a comp pick for losing Ellsbury and Sale for Kopech, Moncada and others. The gift that kept on giving.
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Ok, but 40 HRs per 650 PAs since 2019 is something "some might argue" is his biggest strength.
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Some might argue his power is his strength, but you are right. He would not DH. I guess, if we signed him, it might make Ref a platoon DH and 4th OF'er.
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If we are looking for a discount and possible upgrade at DH and possible back-up 1B or LF/RF, what about these FAs? Y Gurriel (RHP) 38 y/o .778 since 2019 (20 HR/162) .747 since 2021 (108 OPS+) .807 v LHP/ .763 RHP career splits Vogelbach (LHB) 30 y/o .769 OPS since 2019 (25 HR per 162 gams) .762 OPS since 2020 (112 OPS+) Career: .822 v RHPs (.485 v RHPs) Naquin (LHP) .756 since 2019 (20 HR/ 162) .765 since 2020 (101 OPS+) .794 career v R (.611 v L) Pollack (RHB) .794 since 2019 (27 HR/162) .774 since 2021 (OPS+ 111) Duvall (RHB) Just turned 34 .770 since 2019 (37 HRs/162) .738 since 2021 (97 OPS+) Brantley (LHB) will not be cheap, but he turns 36, next year and may not cost a lot. .832 since 2019 .795 since 2021 .841 v RHP career (.693 v LHP) Jose Abreu would liely be too expensive, as would B Belt.
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With his D, he cold probably hit worse than that and bea FT'er on some ML team, but I agree. We'd need that to happen to hand him a FT job. I think he can hit .260-.275, but I'm not sure he can reach an 8% BB rate.
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Valentin was very under-rated.
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Bluster!
