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Everything posted by notin
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One guy on the Phillies DD was able to acquire that I wish Bloom had gotten is Brandon Marsh aka The World’s Oldest 24 Year Old. But not sure if abloom would have surrendered the catching prospect even if we’re had one good enough. Realmuto made the Phillies’ one expendable, at least for a while…
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Before this year, I wasn’t really sure if I would have called Schwarber a Three True Outcome guy. He always had the Ks and walks, but I wasn’t sure if he hit enough home runs. This year, he definitely added that third outcome into his arsenal…
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Why not?
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Shouldn’t that allow for whatever the budget leaves to replace Bogaerts and Devers?
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“Every franchise that has won a World Series” means every team except San Diego, Tampa, Milwaukee and Seattle. And all of them - including Tampa - have signed prime free agents at some point…
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Rule 1 : There are no rules. So ignore rule 1. Seems to create a logical paradox…
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But most of the correlations are so vague. If there was any magic formula for winning a title, every team would do it. But that magic formula simply doesn’t exist. And even if the Sox signed no one this off-season and then won the title, we slay have prime free agents. Certainly Story should qualify. Or Kike…
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This is another generalization where criteria gets melded to fit the statement. Sort of like “you need an ace to win the World Series” Or you need a close. Now you need a free agent. The problem is there are guests exceptions. And quite often the rules for what fits get redefined to support the initial postulate. The reality is - there are no rules. Other than winning at the right time…
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Rule? There are no rules.
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The 2015 Royals didn’t win a World Series?
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The President of the Devers for President Club chooses Judge? Ok if those parameters are too far apart, when does it get closer? Devers - 10years $320mill Judge 8 years $275mmill ??
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Not even remotely part of the question…
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And then of course there is the perennial rebuttal to every “all World Series champions” sweeping generalizations - the 2015 Royals. Unless of course Edinson Volquez qualifies as a prime free agent somehow…
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If you can’t trust Goat Boy, who can you trust?
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I’ll call Bloom. You call Bill Schmidt…
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The definition of “prime free agent” will be taken as loosely as possible, I see. The reality is the Yankees started going heavy into actual prime free agents like Mike Mussina and Jason Giambi, and that was when they STOPPED winning titles…
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Rendon was older than Devers when he signed, but at age 26 his 12 career fWAR did trail Devers at that age. Over the next 3 years, Rendon would be worth nearly 19 fWAR. Devers certainly could do that, but will he?
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So say it comes down to this: Devers wants 10 years $350mill Judge wants 7 years $260mill Who do you sign?
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The 1996-2000 Yankees?
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That’s why they hired Bobby Valentine. The hired s manager they KNEW would be a problem. If the team succeeded, they can blame Tito and call themselves genius problem-solvers. If the team failed, they can say it proves the manager was the problem…
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Or Japan to foster more geographically-impaired baseball stars…
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BTV gives Marquez a surplus value of $4.3mill, making Matt Lugo ($5.6mill) a more than adequate return by that standard…
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Will Devers settle for a 7 year deal like Rendon did? Are you suggesting a 7 year $266mill contract? Or a 10 year $380mill contract? And are we defining fair market value as “what the player wants”?
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Devers was worth 4.9 fWAR. Judge was worth 11.4 fWAR. Judge could decrease a lot while Devers improves a lot and still be better and hypothetically cheaper. I don’t think it’s such an easy question. Although a lot depends on Judge’s actual demands…
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Can we get a smarter troll? Maybe one who can read at the fourth grade level???
