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  1. He might just take 1/$20mill and hope 2021-22 is a better market. Plus he'd be in a better position without a QO attached...
  2. Of course, if he reverts to his pre-2020 numbers, he might be the Pillar of Salt...
  3. Duran as a fourth outfielde strikesme as a bad idea, as he would spend too much time on the bench. Signing one of the stopgap players and bringing Duran into the fold mid-season as a starter would work for me...
  4. If the market is such that Brad Hand cannot even get claimed off waivers with a $10mill contact attached, a player like Springer might decide to take a one year deal and re-enter the market without a Qualifying Offer after next season, where he could presumably get a much better contract. Do you give up the draft pick and use a huge chunk of the team budget (whatever it is) to sign Springer for a single season?
  5. That's why they bashed forearms....
  6. Your qualifications are definitely superior to mine. Applying?
  7. I knew Burke had come out, but I didn’t know he did it before Bean or while active...
  8. He wasn’t. But he has been for a while and is on a very short list of former MLB players who have come out. I think it’s just two...
  9. The Sox just came in fifth. Playing Cat and Mouse against the Yankees with regards to roster moves might be a bit premature. Let’s pass Baltimore first...
  10. Eh. I can learn Python and probably need my SQL certification. But that’s all paperwork and anyone can get that. I have a project background, statistical analysis background, an application to baseball in my past, the ability to present and convey data. My big question mark (and the ONLY reason I haven’t applied yet) is I have yet to think of a suggested project. Any ideas?
  11. Well, I have an engineering degree, (mild) programming and database knowledge, and even a past project that used statistical analysis to predict future modeling (the ol’ WAPM)...
  12. I take it the new era started sometime between the second and third sentences? Regardless, the defense of him always misses the major part of my complaint...
  13. Meanwhile the other Billy Bean, also an outfielder, was one of, if not the first openly gay Major Leaguers. I wonder how often these two get confused...
  14. As you said "player", this is not true. Unless you don't count Travis Shaw for some reason....
  15. I'm sure they all prefer contenders. But at the end of the day, they can only choose from the offers they get...
  16. It's Billy Beane with an "e" on the end. Billy Bean without an "e" is a completely different baseball player with a much, much different legacy...
  17. There very well could be more, but that list is only for the top 50 free agents...
  18. Sure fWAR shows that. Lester has 46.3 fWAR for his career. Good for 72nd among all pitchers since 1950, just ahead of Johan Santana and just behind Kevin Millwood. Perez has 10.9. Not even worth looking up the rank. Perez is 7 years younger and is extremely unlikely to make up the 36 fWAR difference in that time. But by being 7 years younger, Perez might have a slight edge in 2021...
  19. Rank the folllowing from fastest to slowest Snails Sloths Glaciers 2021 MLB Off Season
  20. All that matters is 2021. Neither of these guys is getting multiple years guaranteed...
  21. 5.1 isn't much better than 2.2? That averages out to a full WAR per season...
  22. Not to mention, the uncertainty surrounding the 2021 season means this off-season could be less eventful than the last two...
  23. Maybe he only wanted him short term? That he is not back now means at the very least, either Bloom was not totally committed to him or that Cora is not totally committed to coming back. I mean, some of this could easily be on Cora...
  24. This year. He took the surname of his mother, who was murdered when he was 7. His first name isn't even "Dee." It's Devaris. But no one could even pronounce it right throughout his baseball career. So rather than go by Devaris Strange-Gordon, he opted for the much simpler Dee Gordon, with Dee being nothing more than a pronounceable expansion of his first initial.
  25. Hand went unclaimed because too many teams are uncertain what 2021 will look like, or even if it is going to happen at all. The first clue about how teams/players/agents feel about this will be how many Qualifying Offers get accepted. That only 6 offers were made - the lowest amount since the inception of the program - does lean towards this being the case. And I would think a minimum of 2 players - defintely Gausman and Stroman - simply take the offer. So there may only be 4 players rejecting a QO this off-season...
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