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  1. He was a first round draft pick just 12 months prior. He wasn’t some minor league veteran late bloomer. He wasn’t ranked because before that he was in high school. The Mets gave him up for a rental pretty quickly…
  2. Actually he’s pitched pretty well this year. He had that one rough outing against the Reds with 5 ER, but hasn’t given up any since. His last 4 appearances sum up to 4 IP 0ER 2H 5K 0BB. I mean, over twice as many strikeouts as hits and walks combined? Now his sample size is small on the year. Only 8 IP…
  3. Yep. Cause he’s so smooooth. Also because he mixes well with hard boiled eggs…
  4. One trillion dollars!!! Over 5 years…
  5. Don’t overvalue it. The Braves are 1-2 vs Oakland this year. No one is writing them off because of it…
  6. I think too much is made of Houck’s lack of a full compliment of pitches and his struggles third time through the lineup. In today’s age of 8 man bullpens, teams don’t need every starter to go 6-7 innings any more…
  7. Yes, it’s surprising that we’ve graduated more players from 4-7 years ago than 1-3 years ago…
  8. I hope she has a good time…
  9. I have had my share of cabrito
  10. I’m ok with that. Not like Kike is making a strong case to keep starting…
  11. It has an LA feel to it. And the only time goat cheese is good on a pizza is when it’s someone else’s pizza…
  12. Or goat cheese pizza vs … well, does it matter?
  13. Cubs got their #1 prospect Pete Crow-Armstrong for 2 months of Javier Baez…
  14. That depends who has open 40 man roster spots, or spots they could open. Salaries are not outrageous (Chirinos - $1.3mill, Canrera - $950K), but might deter the especially cheap. That Flexen cleared waivers twice dura make me wonder who gets claimed and who doesn’t…
  15. Or the traffic in LA vs the traffic in Boston…
  16. Both Genesis Cabrera (Cardinals) and Yonny Chirinos (Rays) were recently DFAd. Both are struggling this year, but have also shown some effectiveness in the recent past. And both are upgrades over Tayler Scott/Jake Faria types. Probably even over Joe Jacques. Cabrera’s fastball is down 2mph from his stellar 2021 season, from 97.7 to 95.7mph. Chirinos’ FB is actually a little up over his 2022 season, but so are his walks, while his Ks are way down. Should Bloom take a chance on either? Chirinos makes the most sense, since his issues are clearly not reduced velocity and he’s right-handed. But will (should?) Bloom move on him? I do have my doubts…
  17. The idea of a static trade value means it doesn’t get situation/team-dependent. One could argue the inverse - that the trade value should be lower for the Braves because they need the upgrade less than the Sox. Also, no team is a “lock” to make the playoffs until that Magic Number hits 0. Collapses happen. The Sox looked like a lock in August, 2011, too. I remember the 2007 Mets had a 7 game lead with 17 games to play and missed the postseason…
  18. Reportedly the Sox offered $300mill for 10 years, which is essentially the same the he signed with the Dodgers, but two years shorter. What we don’t know is how much the pandemic and threat of a cancelled season(s) influenced his decision, if at all…
  19. Hey you gotta teach kids to lose. Anyone can be a good winner…
  20. It’s easy for them to attach some compensation. Is it accurate? Probably not. And maybe they don’t factor it at all simply because acquiring a player like Chapmen in July doesn’t guarantee even making the postseason…
  21. Are you sure they don’t compensate for that? I don’t know either. But if you read Bitzer’s articles and posts, they do adjust values for very marketable players (like Betts) and they also knock down values of some players who require a 40 man roster spot…
  22. Exactly how does that change by trading players on July 15 as opposed to August 1? My point is this isn’t just buyers sitting on their hands. The selling teams have no reason to deal until all the offers are on the table…
  23. Oakland in particular when they were unloading big contracts. They seemed to focus on quantity when trading Chapman and Olson. Maybe their scouts really liked a bunch of players that the services who do the projections used by BTV just didn’t like. Or maybe they just cared about shedding payroll. But those trades were all very lopsided on BTV…
  24. There’s no reason for the sellers to accept any deal that doesn’t blow them away…
  25. When my daughter started playing sports and got upset with losses, I had to remind her “losing is 50% of sports.”
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