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  1. moonslav59
    Well, now!
  2. moonslav59
    He did very well in a very short time with us, last year. Maybe, they are hoping he will continue like last year. He hasn't played mush, this year, and the frustration over Dalbec's slow start should not factor into the Shaw evaluation. I'm not saying I'm okay with the production we've seen from 1B, and other positions, for that matter, but I'm not sure we expected to see Shaw playing this much.
  3. moonslav59
    Pedro: trade & ring Schilling: trade & ring Beckett: trade & ring ERod: trade & ring Porcello: trade & ring Sale: trade & ring Eovaldi: trade & ring I see a pattern.
  4. moonslav59
    I get that. I really do, but I just can't see us ever getting to be a top 3-4 contender without adding quality pitching. Maybe, at some point, one of these bargain guys will far exceed expectations and give us what we'd expect from a $17-27M FA starter. Maybe, a prospect will become an ace, or Houck and or Whitlock will. I'm not saying it's impossible to create an excellent rotation without signing or trading for an ace, but that's a lot of hopes and prayers having to come through and soon.
  5. moonslav59
    Bloom hasn't spent over $10M. There's a big gap between $10M and what Price and Sale got. Eovaldi and Price's $16M come off the books, this winter. How will Bloom spend on starters, then? Bigger money for free agents or trading prospects for a good one? Or, does he hope some of our prospects fill the open slots?
  6. moonslav59
    You can, but it will always be more subjective than valuing HRs, BBs and hits.
  7. moonslav59
    What? No tater for Bello?
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. moonslav59
    I'd rank him behind Perez.
  11. moonslav59
    That's what "the jury is still out" on them means.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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)
  17. 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.
  18. moonslav59
    You're the fantasy baseball king, You should know how badly these guys did.
  19. moonslav59
    Except they always left Craig in to get the last out.
  20. moonslav59
    Good one!
  21. moonslav59
    Best closer in MLB!
  22. moonslav59
    Cora the magician.
  23. moonslav59
    This is like Kimbrel, his last year here.
  24. moonslav59
    Hey, Joey Votto only needs nine thousand- nine hundred and...
  25. moonslav59
    Fair enough.
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