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  1. drewski6
    Over the last3 years , Duran is like 120ish in OPS+ on average. Story , not sure, but projected right around league average. Im dinging him for durability. I dont want him hitting top 5 though. If he is your #6 hitter and stays healthy hes a good hitter there vs what youd expect from #6 So Im expecting Duran to be around 120 OPS+, Story to be around 100. Wouldnt consider Story a hole just on that, but Im shading him for durability. I dont have a lot of faith in Story being a major offensive contributor end to end , but a lot of that is durabilty.
  2. drewski6
    The way I see it, we have 4 above average hitters vs righties - Anthony, Duran, Contreras, Abreu and 5 offensive holes. Trading one of those 4 for Paredes leaves us with 4 above average hitters vs righties and 5 offensive holes. Meanwhile, I personally have a lot of faith in Tolle and Early.
  3. drewski6
    Id like to have both, so we can do: Anthony Paredes Duran Contreras Abreu Add in contributions from ROmy and Story, and we might have something if we stay healthy. My preference is to trade pitching for Paredes.
  4. drewski6
    Generally you dont trade your best offensive players when you seek to fix the offense.
  5. drewski6
    Why? Because they audibled to building an elite pitching staff when they couldnt land the guys who would have fixed the offense. And here we are. But somebody is going to need to play 2b, and they may go get an experienced infielder. Even still, there will be injuries/days off and being able to move guys around is a plus.
  6. drewski6
    To get in the lineup sometimes? Yes To get in the lineup daily? No You use your depth and keep guys from sitting too long, especially early in the season. If Yoshida is on the team, and he likely will be, he shouldnt and wont sit for entire months. And the times when you'll want to get him will present themselves you wont even have to try. Someone will need a day off or whatever. If, say, Mayer has a kid and is gone for a weekend....
  7. drewski6
    He and we would be better for it. Anthony NEEDS to incorporate more loft, slug, and punishment into his game. At present, he makes good contact and controls the zone, but its mostly walks and singles, and we dont have the guys hitting behind him to take advantage of that approach. Hes a good enough contact hitter instinctively where he shouldnt need to do the things that people need to do to juice their contact metrics, like stay back, choke up, other way.
  8. drewski6
    If you are moving Duran in a move to fix the offense, that infielder better be like a top 10 offensive player in baseball, because he needs to not only fix the offense, but fix the offense AND overcome the loss of Duran, who is one of our best , if not our best, offensive player. I dont see it. Most trades involving Duran make us worse offensively. Most Duran for infielder trades I see are more defensive fixes than offensive fixes.
  9. drewski6
    I embrace versatility, so if I saw that Duran was working on 2b defensively, I wouldnt be against it. But if we open the season without any additional acquisitions, I lean towards Cedanne at 2b to start because there would be less learning curve. Hes already got quite a head start towards getting good there defensively, and I wouldnt expect the position change to be permanent. I also dont believe the advanced defensive stats saying Cedanne isnt a good infield defender. Hed be a good defender anywhere on the diamond except maybe catcher. Its not like hes so good in the outfield because hes so fast. Its his instinct, jump, determination, focus, arm. Some of that I expect to cross over. I think eventually injuries / slumps will clear up any logjam and when I talk about Duran and/or Cedanne at 2b, I mean until there is an injury or acquisition, or even a breakout (maybe Campbell forces himself to be called up).
  10. drewski6
    Y'all are being a little harsh. At least Pumpsie put out his reason why he didnt consider Gray to be the "#2 pitcher" (btw numbering pitchers is for noobs) But so many other people were like gray is not enough! we need a better pitcher after crochet than what we got! THen we got a guy with less projected war than sonny (by a considerable amount) and its high fives got our #2 woop-woop ANd Im gonna laugh when Gray starts game #2 Who is the #2 , who is the #4 these arent real questions. Whenther someone starts tuesday vs wednesday or makes 33 starts vs 32 is just a fan thing. The reason we got both ,is because if one gets hurt we'll still have the other. If end of year, we go into playoffs with Crochet, Gray, Ranger - its kind of a misallocation of resources (unless we trade Bello) Cuz we'll roll with 3.5 starters should we make the playoffs, and Tolle or Early will be one of them.
  11. drewski6
    she looked good too but i was pretty far back.
  12. drewski6
    I saw Lita Ford live like a month ago. She brought out Dee Snider for the Ozzie parts. That was okay, but Dee did his thing after and Im not sure it was planned but she obv let him go a bit. It was also a loooooong concert. He did his 2 and then covered an AC/DC song He looked and sounded exactly the same. Hes still ripped at like 70
  13. drewski6
    And Drohan and Song left and came back.
  14. drewski6
    He might be better if he started every inning with a runner on base. He seems to settle down and execute his sinker whenever he gets into trouble. But play with fire like that enough and youll get burned and he did end of last year/playoffs. I dont know why a sinkerballer doesnt pound low and away like prime D.Lowe He tries to come upstairs from time to time with a cement mixer slow cutter or a straight as an arrow 4 seem and he gets in trouble. Just stay downstairs and mix up your sinker, sweeper, slider, and change.
  15. drewski6
    Do you think Early is as good as he showed? Im still a Tolle over Early guy personally, but Im open to the possibility that they will both be awesome. Tolle just has some things you cant teach (like size)
  16. drewski6
    What about shattered dreams? (thats when wwe wrestler goldust blatantly kicks you in the nuts and gets an intentional dq) On a serious note - i agree with mvp. I think water finds its level. IF getting called up a little early ruins you, you were alwasy soft and was never going to be much "the manager ruined him" is fan speak for "I will not accept that my mancrush is a bust"
  17. drewski6
    I was on color commentator for my friend Brians backyard trampoline wrestling league.
  18. drewski6
    Yes, agreed. My brain extrapolates The Oz to The Ozzman Was Ozzie SMith ever referred to as "the oz" do you think they ever met? If I was on color commentary for an MLB game in the late 80s, I would def be making the jokes "Oz on third, we'll see if mama hes coming home" Rips a fastball in a non-fastball count: "What a rip! How did he know he was gonna get a fastball there. Must have been a shot in the dark" Barreling around second heading for three: "Ozzie is coming off the wheels on a crazy train"
  19. drewski6
    Ill allow it, but when I hear "The Oz" my brain jumps to "The Ozzman" and thereby ozzy osbourne. Ive heard Ozzie Osbourne referred to as "the Ozzman", I think one of the times was when he saves the world in the silly but fun movie "Little Nicky" They were both great, but I prefer the rocker personally. I like Mister Crowley, No more Tears, Flyin High Again, Crazy Train, the one with Lita Ford, Shot in the dark.... The rocker is just a bigger part of my life. Also - Ozzie Smith never played for hte red sox
  20. drewski6
    (its boomer talk)
  21. drewski6
    They like to have versatile organizational depth, not an earmarked player penciled in to each position for the next 7 years.
  22. drewski6
    When we moved on from TON, me and my buddy agreed that we'd miss the weight room leaders, but were glad to still have Duran. I was adamant against trading Duran at the deadline last year, a big part was this reason (of the three weight room leaders you mentioned, hes the only one still here) I was more open to moving him after he dropped that ball , but it was kind of short lived and Im back to being glad he is still here. I would assume offseason programs are developed for each player, with resources available for the player, but I doubt they are dropping in to monitor. Thats sounds a little too big brother. I think some guys report early for this reason (work closely with strength and conditioning professionals and the advanced machines I hope the team has). I think if the team really wanted to ensure program compliance, they would more pressure the player to report early rather than visiting the player at wherever they may be (cough , marcelo mayer, cough)
  23. drewski6
    Fair enough
  24. drewski6
    Sure - I dont actually think DHam will DH but my point is that there may come a time and probably will where we will be looking for offense, and Masa may be the provider of it at that point. We got like 7 hits last postseason, and I think he had like 2 of em.
  25. drewski6
    If you pulled the projections off a reputable site, Im sure they didnt include Houck. The pitching is excellent by any reasonable metric, and it was even before Ranger, Maybe best rotation in baseball. Or top 4 at least, I would think. Not that I hate the Ranger move, I like the guy. Didnt see it coming, but I like the person. His name isnt even pronounced Ranger, but hes so easy going, he'll let you Americanize it (its Ranh-yer) He'll even embrace you calling him The Red Power Ranger (a nickname he likes)
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