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Getting an ace helps any team, but upgrades are upgrades...
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Yeah I’m not really sure the Celtics know who their centers will be next season. I guess they value that first rounder from Phoenix. I didn’t like their draft much at all. Although it’s tough to get an immediate impact player unless you’re drafting in the top 3 or 4 picks any year. At 14 and 22, you’re looking at rotation players at best..
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So was Will Middlebrooks at 24. And we got a backup catcher for him, not an ace At age 24, Middlebrooks had an OPS+ of 102 and Frazier has a 106. I don’t think those 4 percentage points are the difference between ace and backup catcher. At age 23, Middlebrooks had an OPS+ of 121 in 286 PA, roughly the same as the older Frazier has in 209PA this year. Both players have K/BB concerns and while Middlebrooks is worse, he has a massive defensive advantage over Frazier in terms of position and performance. Frazier isn’t getting an ace better than Minor, who currently is the ace of a team still in the hunt.
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Until they’re no longer in it, which most people suspect will happen. A lot can happen over the next 5 weeks. The idea of the Rangers trading Minor is not an original thought on my part...
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It is vital that MLB capitalize on this Euro market for the same success the NFL saw...
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Minor is under contract for 2020. He’s not a rental...
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That’s the problem with affordable and controllable star players. Sometimes other GMs just focus on them, like Lunhow did. To give up a season that is far from over and a perennial Cy Young candidate, it wouldn’t surprise me if Rizzo wanted a lot more than your A-Ball stars. If so, maybe a Mike Minor/Clint Frazier swap could happen...
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Do you want to exhaust those possibilities if the Nationals insist on Gleyber Torres? Holding Torres took you out of the running for Cole. Sometimes with these mega-star trades, the other team can focus on one key player and simply not budge on his inclusion. Would you deal Torres (along with, say, Florial and Garcia) for Scherzer?
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... and that’s why the Yankees acquired Jordan Lyles...
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What are the chances of Porcello being offered a contract extension?
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Ok that’s really good.
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It would be funny taking on Encarnacion and benching $13mill worth of Brett Gardner filled their budget to the point where they couldn’t afford Scherzer. I would imagine any deal for Scherzer would inclde the last few months of Brett Gardner...
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They can take on the salary, but can the Yankees still meet the asking price?
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Why? It was not exactly a rousing success last time. I think if the Rays are actually going to move, Charlotte would be a great place for them. North Carolina is a very intense baseball hotbed...
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They could change their name to the Tampa-Montreal Express, and make it sound like a train...
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So Bleacher Report proposed “Draft Day Trades That Make Sense” Two of them involved the Celtics, both with the Rockets 1. Baynes, Williams, and picks 20 and 23 for Clint Capela 2. Hayward strsight up for Chris a Paul Do these trades make sense? For both teams? Maybe one mega-blockbuster with Hayward, Baynes, Williams and picks 20 and 22 to Houston for Paul and Capela?
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So apparently the Rays are exploring the idea of playing half their home games in Tampa and the other half in Montreal, which, I’m going out on a limb here, would make them the first team in North American professional sports history, to have two home cities simultaneously. I like the idea, especially for a well run but poorly supported Rays’ team. I do wonder if they will add Montreal to their moniker. Will they be the Tampa-Montreal Rays? Or the Tampa Rays half the year and the Montreal Rays the other half? Or the Montreal Expos the other half? Or just adopt an non-specific geography, like the Continental Rays? And what will they do when they realize the Expos left Montreal because they couldn’t draw in that city either? I propose they change their mascot from Rays to Ghosts. Since they’ll still not be seen by anyone...
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No real free agency rumors yet, not surprising with the draft hours away. The Celtics aren’t likely to get an impact player in the draft a d seem to be linked heavily to Herro and Bol. Not sure how I feel about that. I do think they’ll try heavily to move up, but we’ll see how that goes...
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The Lakers were one game over .500 with LeBron. While that record/pace does typically make the playoffs, you don’t often last very long...
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With the exception of the game he left early for health reasons and the Texas game where he was getting shelled, Price has also thrown at least 83 pitches in all his starts prior. The one exception was the 67 pitch game you called out, but Price left that game with a 6-2 lead, not a 1-1 tie. I had to make 83 the cutoff, but really it’s the only remaining game below 90 pitches ( also it was only his second start this season), Price has thrown 100 pitches in a game twice this year, maxing out at 103. He’s also thrown more than 90 pitches 5 additional times. The 73 pitch outing stands alone in that it’s the only time this year Price has thrown less than 90 in a close game without health issues...
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Margot’s been weak and Guerra is converting to pitcher. (Apparently he throws about 98mph.). Asuaje was never anything more than a utility infielder. Kopech’s been hurt. A lot. Basabe is struggling a bit in AA, but was killing in A ball this year...
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I’ll allow it. I don’t think anyone wants to undo that trade, although the progress of Allen and Moncada has certainly quashed the myth from a couple years ago that the prospects the Sox gave up for Kimbrel and Sale were all busts...
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No. I’m “on record” as to being open-minded about the situation. If Cora pulled him, say, to keep his IP down, that was not the game to do it. But I do think the decision was made with information I don’t have, and Price himself made some comment about it not being “on Alex”, which makes me think maybe Price asked to come out for some reason...
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He may have been sarcastic...
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Really? The Sox are over .500 now, but you’re predicting they will finish under .500? With your track record for spot on predictions on team performance? Now that stork has chimed in, I am confident this team will win 105 games...
