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  1. harmony
    17 Trade Deadline proposals for contenders WWW.MLB.COM Astros president of baseball operations Jeff Luhnow last week outlined his Trade Deadline wish list: Catcher, starting pitcher, left-handed reliever. Really, Jeff? Is that all? How about we throw in a weekend in Maui? Meanwhile, his Dodgers counterpart, Andrew Friedman, said he intended to be aggressive as usual before adding
  2. harmony
    According to this trade simulator, under that proposal the Red Sox would receive $66.4 million in value and the Mets $25.6 million in value: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/ That's more than a tad lopsided.
  3. harmony
    The New York Mets reportedly may package starter Zack Wheeler and closer Edwin Diaz in a trade: https://nypost.com/2019/07/27/mets-may-make-zack-wheeler-edwin-diaz-a-deadline-package/
  4. harmony
    That proposal does not pass the smell test at this trade simulator: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/
  5. harmony
    Instead the Red Sox signed righthander Nathan Eovaldi, with a career ERA+ of 95, to a four-year, $68 million contract. While the Trade Simulator's net value of a negative $400,000 for Hunter Strickland is surprising, that negative value pales in comparison to Eovaldi's negative value of $26.6 million. https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/ BTW, in July 2009 the Red Sox traded Strickland and infielder Argenis Diaz for nine days of Adam LaRoche, who was then traded for Casey Kotchman.
  6. harmony
    As an under-the-radar target, would the Red Sox have any interest in Seattle reliever Hunter Strickland, who remains under team control for two more seasons with a 2019 salary of only $1.3 million? Strickland, whom the Red Sox selected in the 2007 draft, posted saves this year in the Mariners' first two games, striking out three and facing the minimum six batters. However, in his third appearance the righthander recorded only one out and surrendered three runs before leaving with an oblique injury that has sidelined Strickland until his minor league rehab assignment this week: http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=519326#/career/R/pitching/2019/ALL This trade simulator lists Strickland with a negative trade value:rolleyes:: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/ The 30-year-old Strickland has a career ERA+ of 134: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/strichu01.shtml
  7. harmony
    The Oakland Athletics have acquired lefty reliever Jake Diekman from the Kansas City Royals, according to Jeff Passan: Diekman is a rental with a mutual option for 2020. The return may help define the market for relievers.
  8. harmony
    Edwin Diaz's surplus value remains high, according to the Baseball Trade Values Trade Simulator: https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trade-simulator/
  9. harmony
    And Edwin Diaz had a career ERA+ of 156 at the time of the trade as opposed to Nathan Eovaldi's career ERA+ of 95.
  10. harmony
    ZiPS, Steamer and FanGraphs Depth Chart project Nathan Eovaldi with rest-of-season ERA of 4.43, 3.38 and 3.91, as well of rest-of-season BAA of .281, .237 and .263: https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=9132&position=P Eovaldi comes with risks.
  11. harmony
    Righthander Bryan Mata was the "SoxProspects.com Pitcher of the Month (June 2019)" https://soxprospects.com/players/mata-bryan.htm
  12. harmony
    SoxProspects writes of Bryan Mata: "Projects as a back end starter, but could end up in the bullpen where his stuff would tick up and play in a late inning relief role." https://soxprospects.com/players/mata-bryan.htm ... while MLB Prospect Watch writes of Mata: "He has the upside of a mid-rotation starter but will have to develop much more consistency to get there." http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2019/?list=bos
  13. harmony
    That's why they'll remain in the bleachers (having fun nonetheless).
  14. harmony
    The game may turn on the bullpens as the starters have racked up high pitch counts.
  15. harmony
    Mitch Moreland also is owed the balance of his 2019 salary of $6.5 million. That price tag could limit his suitors.
  16. harmony
    The Dodgers reportedly now have corner infielder Tyler White: How does Mitch Moreland compare with Tyler White? https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=3086&position=1B https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=15564&position=1B
  17. harmony
    The Red Sox record in one-run games -- 15-12 (.556) -- is better than their record in other games: 41-35 (.539).
  18. harmony
    Thanks. That's the idea, not a personal reference to an identifiable individual. The passage was prefaced by: "Generalizations have little value but ..." https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/19360-A-Realistic-View-at-2019-Part-II/page54
  19. harmony
    Posts should refrain from using the words "you" and "I" (unless offering a compliment:)). Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  20. harmony
    https://library.fangraphs.com/misc/war/replacement-level/
  21. harmony
    And my posts will continue to refrain from becoming personal.
  22. harmony
    In statistics a larger sample is better than a smaller sample. Far more players shuffle between the majors and minors than who have established careers as average MLB players. WAR relies on the vast numbers of those replacement players.
  23. harmony
    And yet this year the Yankees, Astros and Dodgers are not mediocre.
  24. harmony
    An MLB.com columnist has 20 trade deadline predictions for for 20 player, including Mets corner infielder Todd Frazier to the Red Sox (despite the balance of his 2019 salary of $9 million): 20 predictions for 2019 MLB Trade Deadline WWW.MLB.COM The 2019 Trade Deadline is a week from Wednesday (4 p.m. ET on July 31), and as you've probably heard, it's a little different this year. There's no August waiver period this time around, and therefore if teams want to make moves to reinforce a playoff push, they've only got
  25. harmony
    This post ridicules science. Art and science can co-exist ... and in fact complement each other.
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