moonslav59
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I have to admit, I was one of, if not the first to give up on the 2019 team. I caught some flack for that, but I think it was at least after Memorial Day. Sometimes, you just get a gut feeling- good or bad- on that year's team. I can't tell much about this one, so far, and with Sale, Paxton and Taylor due back, at some point, and the short ST'ing, so much seems up in the air.
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Got any proof? We're talking FA RP'er, right? Biggest RP'er contracts 20-21 54/3 L Hendricks 18/2 Treinen 16/2 T May 13/2 P Baez 11/1 Rosenthal 11/1 Hand 19-20 40/3 W Smith 34/4 Pomeranz 24/3 W Harris 14/2 C Martin 11/1 D Hudson 11/1 Betances 10/1 Treinen 18-19 43/3 Kimbrel 39/3 Britton 30/3 Familia 27/3 Ottavino 25/2 A Miller 25/3 J Kelly 23/2 D Robertson 18/2 Herrera 15/2 Soria 10/2 J Wilson 17-18 52/3 W Davis 28/2 M Minor 27/3 B Shaw 27/3 J McGee 21/2 Morrow 18/2 T Hunter 17/2 Nicasio 17/2 A Reed 16/2 Neshek 15/2 J Smith 14/2 Swarzak 14/1 G Holland 13/2 Cishek 11/2 Gregrson 16-17 86/5 Chapman 80/5 Jansen 62/4 Melancon 31/3 Cecil 19/3 Dunn 16/2 Ziegler 12/2 Wood & Tazawa 11/2 Rzepczynski, D Hudson & Casilla I know the top FA SP'ers have often failed, too, but show me they failed more than these clowns!
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I'm always for upgrading the rotation, but some of these prices are just beyond overpays. BTW, we are paying a lot for our starters: $25.6 Sale $17.0 Eovaldi $10.0 Paxton $7.00 Wacha $5.00 Hill $2.65 Pivetta That's over $67M. If you count Price's $16M, we're at $83M, which is over a third of our total player budget of about $225M.
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I realise many starters “miss” too, but so do more good RPers. Even the really good ones underperform, too often. Are you saying we should pay for a top closer?
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Relievers are too hit and miss. I prefer spending on starters.
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Awards? LOL! OPS ignores defense and running and double counts some achievements. To me, an average of bWAR and fWAR looks to be as good or better than anything else.
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I wish we’d spend on one good starter instead of three questionable ones.
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Who? Swihart? He doesn't count.
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I get that, but again, if they are going to base anything on performance, what is currently out there as a better option?
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A solid connection is rare, as usually the pitcher is back-tracking and or ducking.
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I get that, but if they do run with this, any measure they choose will be flawed and criticized.
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Who is saying the world is ending?
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bWAR and fWAR are not just one stat, but your point is still well-taken. The problem is, if you are going to tie pay to performance, you have to use something to measure the full value of a player.
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I used to think he was a troll, but it's clear he's just an idiot. -
WOR lost 10-8 Fitzy hit his 5th Casas hit his 4th Y Sanchez hit his 3rd Stewart hit his 2nd (Nobody has 2+ hits, but Ramos walked 3 times, Downs, Cordero & Sanchez walked twice.) DHern & Hartlieb got lit up.) POR won 12-5 Potts 4-5 w 2nd HR & 2B Koss 3-4 w 1st HR Hamilton 1-1 w BB, pulled from game Santos got shelled GRV lost 4-1 Yorke 1-4 Salem in extra innings Mayer 4-5 w two 2Bs Kavadas 2-3 2 2B & BB Paulino 2-4 w 2B & BB W Gonzalez 4 IP 4 H 0 ER 3 BB 6 K
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DHern - OUCH! 1.2 IP 1 H 5 ER 4 BB 1 K Hamilton went 1 for 1 w a BB, but was yanked. Any word on why? Potts with a dinger.
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Game by Game Breakdown Starters IP/ER vs Relievers IP/ER SP- RP L 5.0/3 - 5.0/1 (2 ghost runs allowed) L 5.2/4 - 2.1/0 W 3.1/3 - 5.2/1 L 4.1/1 - 3.2/2 W 4.1/3 - 4.2/0 W 5.0/2 - 4.0/5 L 2.0/5 - 7.0/4 W 5.2/0 - 3.1/0 W 5.0/0 - 4.0/1 L 4.2/4 - 4.1/4 W 4.2/1 - 4.1/1 L 4.0/5 - 5.0/1 L 5.0/2 - 4.0/1 W 5.0/2- 4.0/0 L 4.0/0- 5.2/3 L 4.0/ 0- 4.0/5 L 7.0/2- 1.0/4 The pen has done better in 8 games. The starters have done better in 7. They did about the same in 2 games. The pen as done okay to well in 11 games. The starters have done okay to well in 10 games.
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Had hopes there, at the end, but no such luck.
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Maybe once we go to an 8 man pen, he'll be ready.
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Bats need to come alive, and soon!
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Indeed, and once Sale or Paxton joins the staff, we can move the lowest starter to the pen for some long relief action.
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You'd bench Kike & JD most of the time?
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This would be better: 1. Story 2B 2. Devers 3B 3. JD DH 4. Bogey SS 5. Verdugo LF 6. Kike CF 7. Dalbec 1B 8. JBJ/Arroyo RF 9. Vaz/Plawecki C
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Taking Whitlock out of the pen to place him in the rotation may happen full time, at some point, this year, but I worry about the affect on the pen, especially after we go from a 10 man pen to 8. This looks pretty nice, though: 1. Eovaldi 2. Houck 3. Whitlock 4. Wacha 5. Pivetta (Hill as piggyback with Pivetta or Wacha?) If and when Sale & Paxton join the rotation, it will be interesting to see the choices made, then.
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Too bad we couldn't have talked them (and ourselves) into Kelly, Kalish & Anderson- maybe throw in Ranaudo.
