moonslav59
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Bogey Career OPS: .770 Career Late & Close: .769 .841 this year .725 last year .768 year before .871 year before .684 year before Hard to project anything from this...
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The Yanks did not suck earlier this year: they suck now, though.
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Truer words have never been spoken.
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JBJ is up to .710, now. He's up 208 since May 19th. He's been pretty consistently about .790 for 4 months in a row. (.794)
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They've revealed nobody consistently does much better in the clutch than otherwise. Year-to-year numbers yo-yo all the time.
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Me, too. Get all three for all I care. Let them work their way into a corner/
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I never disagreed with the point about "at some point you have to cash some in." I loved the Sale trade. My counter was to the added point of "that's the whole point of having them." If you said that's "one point of having them..." I'd have wholly agreed.
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Has anyone else noticed how successful we've been when PH'ing for our catchers, recently?
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The Yanks can afford to sign Kershaw, Machado and Harper and still be below the max line by letting Gardner go.
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We clinched already... back in early August. This magic number crap is voodoo clown s***.
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I give up. One post you say chips are only good for trading, and then another you talk of using the farm to plug holes.
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Hitting well and throwing well are skills. Hitting and throwing well "in the clutch" are not.
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9/15 VS Mets
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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Fantastic, but not a repeatable skill.
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We certainly got some nice returns (not named Thornburg) on many of our prospect trades, but where would we be without several years of relatively low-cost players like Betts, Beni, Bogey, JBJ and Devers? I'm not arguing against trading top prospects. I've suggested hundreds of trades myself. My point was a counter to the claim this cliam... "At some point you have to cash in some chips - that's the whole point of having them..."
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Some big names for this winter.... Bryce Harper Manny Machado C Kershaw J Donaldson C Kimbrel B Dozier Andrew Miller Z Britton D Keuchel DJ LeMahieu N Cruz, A Beltre, AJ Pollock, E Gatis, A Cabrera, E Andrus, W Ramos, McCutchen, C Blackmon
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Exactly. In no way is your farm system's only function is to provide trade chips. In fact, ideally, that should be secondary to the idea that your farm provides your big club with cost-controlled talent on a consistent basis.
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A ring might make him happy enough to want more.
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1. This past winter was not loaded with top free agents. 2. The biggest spenders were either resetting their luxury tax or limited by the $40M over line. 3. Next winter is different on both counts.
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Come on, we got Beni because we were bad, but we got good again while he was still a prospect. We did not trade him because we viewed him as a bigger asset to a team in need of a LF'er. I remember people saying we should trade our top prospects for Hamels. I'm glad we didn't trade them all. That's my point. Keep some- trade some. Their purpose is not just for trading as you proposed.
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With so many NL teams feeling like they are close to contending, I could see many of these teams looking to go large on 1-2 big name free agents: LAD SFG Cubs WSH ATL STL PHI PIT MIL COL Plus, traditional big spending non contenders like NYM. Even the padres splurged last winter on Hosmer. AL possibilities NYY BOS to some extent HOU CLE SEA LAA Even the CWS might see this winter as the time to add a piece or two to their solid young core of talent.
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You're right. My bad. I was sure I saw it did. Okay, so $146M minus arb costs. We're still talking at least $80M to spend. (They may not even offer Gray an arb.)
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I get that, but the "whole point" of prospect chips is NOT to trade them. Thank God we kept Betts, Bogey, Beni and Devers despite being in playoff contention in many of those seasons when trading them might have brought us instant gratification at the expense of being out of it this year.
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Their projected payroll next year, counting arb raises and player benefits payments is $100M. They are losing Sabathia, Robertson, Walker and maybe Gardner (team option) plus McCutchen, Happ, Lynn and Britton. That gives them $106M to spend and still be below the luxury tax and $126M to spend to stay under the second penalty phase. They could spend $146M and still not be in the "tax hell" weare in. There should be total agreement on the idea that they have MEGA BUCKS to spend! So do the Dodgers. The Dodgers lose Machado, Dozier, Grandal, Ryu & Madson. Their estimated budget, before any further spending is at $123M. That gives them $83M to spend and still be under, $103M to stay under phase 2 and $123M for under the max line. Again, MEGA BUCKs lottery numbers. The CB Tax Threshold is $206M next season. Here are some projections... $147M SFG with Bumgarner otion $145M Cubs without the Hamels option $141M Boston with Sale's option $104M HOU without McCann option $100M Nats Just watch the MEGA spending this winter. Teams saved up for this historic free agent season. It's going to be a bidding fest.
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At some point you have to cash in some chips - that's the whole point of having them. The "whole point?" If that was true, all prospects would be traded. My guess is, most GMs view prospect chips more in the light of eventually filling a hole in their current team or near future team than as trading assets.
