moonslav59
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Yes, it was pure sarcasm. Maybe Max had not read my previous posts on the matter. Can someone give me all the examples where the worst team to make the playoffs winning it all? One might argue the 2006 Cardinals, but that's all I see in over 2 decades. If you only count the WC play-in game winners, there are 8 teams in the playoffs. Randomness would dictate every team has close to a 1 in 8 chance of winning. The fact is, the top 4 teams have won about 75% of the last 16 WS. If it was random, they'd have won about 50%. Better teams win more often. Long series weed out the worse teams. I'm still kind of amazed that some here are arguing the better teams don't win more often.
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No, honestly, it isn't. Yes, any team can beat any other team, and baseball is more random than other sports, but in 5 or 7 game series, the better teams win way more often than random flipping of coins.
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I agree, but some GMs sign better FAs than others- or make less big mistakes.
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The more I think about the Bloom hiring, the more optimistic I get. I'm looking forward to some shrewd winter deals, an improved draft and some better IFA signings. We may even see a surprising team in 2020.
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Excellent post. Yes, it is possible to like what DD did but still think it was right to move on.
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It's all a random crapshoot.
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It might be better to hope Price rebounds. If we trade him, we'd likely have to pay half his salary. Is saving $15M worth opening a new hole in the rotation? Close call, IMO.
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With no Betts, I don't see the benefit of keeping JD. 2020 would be over, so then just look to 2021 and beyond- fully.
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It's not really all that laughable to imagine a division win. Every year sees some surprises. Plus, we are just one year removed from a record season. It just takes nearly everyone being healthy, and although that may look like a long shot, our best players are on the right side of prime or in the middle of their prime. We are likely to lose almost all our oldest players, and we haven't been counting on the oldest remaining player (Pedey) for anything in 3 years. 36 Pearce 35 Pedey 34 Wright 33 Moreland 33 Price (Still not far removed from prime) 32 Nunez 32 Cashner 31 Holt 31 Gorkys 31 Josh Smith 30 Leon 30 Porcello 30 Thornburg Ages of our oldest significant players: 33 Price 31 JD (may opt out or be traded) 30 Sale 30 Workman 30 Walden 29 JBJ (may be non tyiendered or traded) Borderline significant: 31 Brasier 31 Chacin -
I may be in the minority, but with all the "pen games" and "opener games" these days, I'm not seeing it as a problem. It can really mess up the lefty-righty set line-ups early in a game. With 26 man rosters coming up in 2020, we can pretty much be sure of a 13 man staff all year. (I think we carried 13 pitchers all 2019- the first time, I think, that happened with the Sox.) Hell, we may see 14 pitchers at some point- not counting September. Anyone know, if they changed any rules about September call-ups?
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As long as nobody trips up the other.
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He is NOT "fully healthy," and when we signed him, he was an OF'er about to be used primarily as a DH. Now, he's a DH who can play OF in NL parks. Teams may realize part of the reason he was relatively healthy the last two years was precisely because he was almost a FT DH. To me, he's worth $22M- not more and not much less.
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In my opinion, the darker it gets, the faster the rebuild might be. Having a high budget can keep us from being really bad, but being really bad gets top draft picks (or better ones). The IFA market might be the real key to rebuilding the farm quickly and finding ML ready players, too. I've been expecting a cliff for a while now, so I was prepared for this, and I was okay with DD's plan as long as it got us a ring. It did. I lived through decades of futility with no prize at the end of those waits. A 4 year wait would not be fun, but if there's a prize afterwards, all is good with me. Those 3 last place finishes with Ben at the helm sucked big time, but I never lost hope. We had a great core of young players AND a super farm, so the optimism off set the gloomy 3 seasons. I'm hopeful this guy will make the rebuild go more quickly and more forcefully.
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Are you yanking our daisy chaim?
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Certainly, an argument could be made that was the wrong choice, especially in hindsight. To me, it would have made sense to either pick up a decent RP'er and give the impression we were "going for it" or have a mini-sell off. Playing it halfway almost never works. (The 2013 team did.)
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If no one will pay him, then he shouldn't/won't opt out, in theory, but then again, players and agents have been wrong about their value before. I could see a team making us take back a player with a high (but lower than JD's) contract to offset the high cost of a DH/PT OF'er, or we just kick in $4-6M to jack up the return we get for him. I do not think there are a lot of teams looking to pay $22M for JD, but it just takes one.
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What ever the titles, I'm glad we have some smart new blood in the system.
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Maybe that's exactly what happened, or they reached the end of can be done.
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Nice win for the Stros.
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Had a feeling you were joshin'.
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1) We would just trade JD rather than pay him to opt out. 2) No way we get even near $100M, let alone under it. My guess is we'll be around $200M next year. 3) Let's give the guy some breathing room.
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No, it won't be easy, but in theory, if this guy could help build the Rays to respectability with 1/3 the budget, it may not take long for us to get back to the top. I admit, I know very little about this guy, so maybe my rosy glasses are doing the talking. I'm more optimistic , now than a few days ago and much more so than before we let DD go.
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I think it's going to turn out well with this guy. I'm hopeful he can build the farm up quickly, cut some salary and then fins some bargains on the market.
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Chaim the New GM! https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/10/red-sox-to-hire-chaim-bloom.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
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Where is your supporting evidence?
