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Ah the dreaded “C Word.” The agents throw it around so fast as well, mostly because it has worked 3 times already. But baseball is a $10 billion dollar industry. If owners are going to try to collide to keep salaries down a few million here and there, I would expect at least one opportunistic owner to break ranks and take advantage of the inactivity. Now selfish owners working independently to not spend because those long term mega contracts are financial sinkholes and everyone knows it? I can see that...
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With less than one month until pitchers and catchers report, there are enough good free agents left to make an actual decent team. Here’s my roster. All replacement arguments welcome. C Martin Maldonado 1b Marwin Gonzalez 2b Asdrubal Cabrera 3b Mike Moustakas SS Manny Machado LF Adam Jones CF A.J. Pollock RF Bryce Harper SP Dallas Keuchel SP Marco Estrada SP Drew Pomeranz SP Martin Perez SP Wade Miley CL Craig Kimbrel RP Adam Ottavino RP Cody Allen RP Brad Brach RP Ryan Madson RP Hunter Strickland RP Greg Holland BN Nick Hundley BN Derek Dietrich BN Carlos Gonzalez BN Wilmer Flores BN Jose Iglesias That roster is better than a lot of MLB teams...
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Less than one month until pitchers and catchers report for most teams. Right now there are 73 pitchers with nowhere to report to...
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Those are not exactly names from a bad club. There was also that Ripken guy who held on pretty long at shortstop. He was pretty big...
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Did it really ever look that way? I thought he was a no-brained...
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But the Sox just signed Daniel Schlereth!! That doesn’t make your belly button pucker and unpucker?
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Take listed weights with a grain of salt. For example, the Yankees list Luke Voit at 225 pounds. No way. If he weighs 225, it sure as Hell isn’t in pounds...
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If Harper and Machado are struggling to find 7 year deals, who is going to give Bogaerts 10 years so quickly? JD for 5 years is plausible, and while he won’t be a Silver Slugger for all 5, the DH position does have a history of players aging well. See Ortiz, David and Cruz, Nelson...
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It’s very true. Sandoval was a surprisingly good defensive 3b in San Fran for a while. It was odd watching that nimble blob dancing around 3b...
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If you’re argument is the Sox need to recoup more value out of Sale, then you’re actually arguing the Sox gave up too much to get him. I agree the Sox gave up a lot, but they also got a lot...
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The big difference is the Dodgers also cleared a ton of salary and moved their star right fielder and STILL don’t seem to be in on Harper. But then, sometimes these negotiations do happen under the radar. I always think of Torii Hunter and how he was attached to this team and that team and then out of nowhere he signed with the Angels. And then in an interview afterwards, gave some classic honesty as to why. “My grandma said I’d be stupid to turn down that much money!”
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Sale is a tough call. He’s clearly one of, if not the, best pitchers of hs generation. But he’s also looking more fragile as time goes on and all of those fears about his awkward deliver might be coming true. It really all depends on his contract demands. That no one seems to be getting Price/Greinke money anymore boded well for Boston. But Sale also signed one of the most team-friendly extensions of recent years and may seek to compensate for that with his next contract...
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Eckersley? Hoffman?
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Well, he is 61 years old...
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Hey! Those boats don't fuel themselves!
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No. The bullpen needs to be fixed by either a key signing, a key trade, or both...
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Doug Jones saved over 300 games throwing 85mph and under. Eckersley didn't throw smoke but he did throw strikes and lots of them...
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Closers don’t need to throw smoke. But they do need to throw strikes...
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Well one reason I think he’d be OK as a closer is he doesn’t walk people. He has to get beat because he rarely beats himself. The real reason NOT to move him to closer is his primary asset is his durability...
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I know you realize he had only 6IP as a reliever in a 10 year career...
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Based on what?
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So.... Harper to Philadelphia and Machado to the White Sox?
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The rise of Betts is not really so much just protection in the lineup. His hard hit rate has gone up every year, including 2017...
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Which means one year contracts are fair game...
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Betts’ rise in BABIP wasn’t just due to luck and regression is imminent; Betts hit substantially more line drives and had a much higher percentage of hard hit balls than he did in 2017. Typically players who outperform their expected BABIP are not “absolute monsters physically” but rather fast runners with quick first steps who maximize getting hits out of ground balls. No player in MLB consistently outperforms his expected BABIP better than Austin Jackson, who is definitely not an “absolute monster physically”. ( He’s not even all that ugly.) My suspicion is Judge might be more prone to regressing on BABIP than Betts. His BABIP his last few seasons in the minors was hardly anything dazzling, and that he “always” has high BABIP might stem more from the fact that it’s only been two seasons. He’s not Shin Soo Choo yet...&
