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  1. moonslav59
    What? No tater for Bello?
  2. moonslav59
    I'm okay with signing low budget starters as depth, but at some point we need to look at quality over quantity, and that will cost more than $10M/1. I'm thinking we'll eventually have to part with a prized prospect or two to trade for one, but I'm not sure Bloom thinks that way.
  3. moonslav59
    Yes, a bit premature on this year's signings, but I'm talking more about the strategy of not even going over $10M, let alone $15 or $20M.
  4. moonslav59
    I'd rank him behind Perez.
  5. moonslav59
    That's what "the jury is still out" on them means.
  6. moonslav59
    I can see the reasoning clear as day, but how long can you sustain a winning team when you go 1 for 5 on scrap heap starter signings? Richards Perez Paxton Wacha Hill Now, the jury is still out on Paxton and Hill, but he has to find more gems in the rough than 1 out of 5, especially when you are spending over $38M on these 5. I'm not saying it's easier finding 1 in 3 good starters for $38M, but the odds favor it, IMO. He's spreading the risk. I get it, but you often get what you pay for, and we've gotten mostly crap. Bloom has done better in trades and Rule 5 than free agency.
  7. moonslav59
    Because a compensation package built around WAR would lock in the formula at whatever point they agreed to lock it in at. It would be a transparent formula and likely not fWAR or bWAR but a league designed formula similar to either or both.
  8. moonslav59
    No doubt, many of us had wished we did better on acquiring pitchers with better expectations than Paxton, Wacha, Hill, Diekman and Strahm. Same with last year's Richards, Perez, Sawamura and others. I kept expecting a trade to be made, as so many decent pitchers changed teams over the winter- some at seemingly bargain basement returns. Somehow, Cora seems to cobble together a well-functioning pen out of scraps and reclamation projects, but the rotation vaccine avoidance has now forced Houck and Whitlock to the rotation. I'm giving Bloom a pass on 2020, although pretty close to zero of his starter winter acquisitions showed any smidgeon of success, that season. (Pivetta was a summer addition.) But, it's extreme wishful thinking to expect big contributions from guys like Richards, Paxton, Wacha, Perez and Hill. Somehow, we have to start going aiming a little higher.
  9. moonslav59
    So, then you are defending WAR, which is based on WINS above replacement level players. How may wins does Bogey have? How do you pay him based on wins? The debate is about what to use, if the league goes towards paying players based on performance and productivity.
  10. moonslav59
    It's a short sample size, but I'd say, so far, we've had other "major disappointments," even though some of these guys did not have very high expectations to begin with. The near totality of 2-3 of our starters' failures has been "major," IMO. OPS Against 1.056 Pivetta (10.03 ERA/2.143 WHIP) .891 Hill (7.00/1.556) To a much lesser extent: .816 Eovaldi (3.68 /1.296 are decent numbers)
  11. moonslav59
    We all knew this pen would end up having some rough times. All-in-all our pens have been over performing, despite some scary times and a few stretches of failures.
  12. moonslav59
    You're the fantasy baseball king, You should know how badly these guys did.
  13. moonslav59
    Except they always left Craig in to get the last out.
  14. moonslav59
    Good one!
  15. moonslav59
    Best closer in MLB!
  16. moonslav59
    Cora the magician.
  17. moonslav59
    This is like Kimbrel, his last year here.
  18. moonslav59
    Hey, Joey Votto only needs nine thousand- nine hundred and...
  19. moonslav59
    Fair enough.
  20. moonslav59
    I'm guessing 1 more means 3,000, but my math has been off, recently.
  21. moonslav59
    Does what he said make sense, at all, to what we were talking about? The rates of hit or miss has nothing to do with contract sizes. That does not mean contract sizes are not an issue, and just because I replied to a comment about our FA SP'er signings not being very good by supplying the contract amounts does not do anything to change the hit or miss rate debate. Eovaldi and Lackey were not misses. Many feel Price was not. Same with Dempster. He chose to bring the contracts of the Sox SP'ers into the debate, and I just responded to that point. Was he saying the Sox example was setting an example that starters miss more than RP'er?
  22. moonslav59
    Many of the top FA RP'ers signed recently were disasters due to injury, too. It's part of the risk, but also part of the "miss factor." I get that the contract makes their misses more acceptable, but it doesn't change the idea that they miss more often. Afterall, most are RP'ers because they weren't good enough to be starters, although that notion is changing, and we're only talking about the top FA pitchers signed, recently. I know a lot of starters have "missed," many due to injuries, and I have said I'd rather we trade for a good to great SP'er than sign one, but I still think they miss less often than the best RP'er signings each year. The list I provided has a whole lot of complete failures and many nearly complete failures. Some, like Chapman and Jensen, from like 5 years ago did well, but the vast majority failed.
  23. moonslav59
    Making no sense, again.
  24. moonslav59
    I'm not sure the OBP will be sustainable in the bigs, but it's nice seeing him improve in that area.
  25. moonslav59
    OPS Against on the Farm 13+ IP .501 Seabold .607 Murphy .648 Drohan 10-12 IP .246 Walter .461 Santos .514 Winckowski .544 Bello .604 Gonzalez OPS Leaders (35+ ABs) 1.255 Rafeala (10K/ 3BB0 1.229 Fitzy (17K/ 4BB) 1.138 Lugo (7K/ 2BB) 1.151 Refsnyder (8K/ 9BB) 1.001 Binelas (15K/ 9BB) .983 Cordero (18K/ 5BB) .974 Northcut (13K/ 1BB) .942 Mayer (13K/6BB) .908 Sanchez (9K/ 9BB) .907 Kavadas (16K/ 10BB) .904 Hamilton (8K/ 6BB) .878 Ugueto (8K/ 1BB) .858 Casas (10K/ 11BB)
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