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  1. JoeBrady
    Colorado doesn't usually trade anyone, even when it makes 100% sense to trade them. I doubt he is going anywhere. And would probably cost more than we can afford.
  2. JoeBrady
    Just speculating, but Adames' old form is about a 110 OPS+ with about 30 HRs. Since the start of May, he has a .773 OPS with 11 HRs in 199 ABs. I'd argue that he has already returned to his old form. I also think that Oracle is suppressing his numbers. IMO, the backloading of his contract is an issue, and that SF has to pay for that, as well as pay for some of his age 34 & 35 seasons. But I have little doubt about his current performance. IRT CJ, I don't think the Nats would trade him. They are finally contenders for the first time in a while.
  3. JoeBrady
    One of the B-Ref stats I like is the sOPS+, which shows our OPS relative to the rest of the league. C 92 1B 127 2B 78 SS 72 3B 101 LF 79 CF 107 RF 115 DH 71 Catcher was better than I thought. 2B maybe improves with Romy, despite his career-ending 0-4. IKF is playing over his head, but should be an improvement as SS when he returns. Having a weakness at both LF and DH argues in favor of adding a DH. Even if Duran returns to form, we'd still need a DH, and I don't think we should count on RA.
  4. JoeBrady
    Exclude Bello's one start, and I believe our starting 5 has an ERA under 3.00 in the past 28 days.
  5. JoeBrady
    You don't know if was a refusal to move him, or if no one offered a fair deal. The idea that he didn't recognize that Duran was not a 7 WAR player is pretty far afield. Do you know why? It's because there are almost no 7 WAR players. 3 players in the past three years have averaged 7 fWAR. There is an odd idea, among a lot of fans, that other GMs look at an fWAR score and decide that's what a player is worth. I'm about 99.9% sure that no one thinks like that, outside of rotisserie, and not usually even then. My guess is that most GMs thought of him as a 3.5 WAR LF. Then there is the matter of kind of needing him. One can easily make the argument that he was going to be a better DH than Yoshida.
  6. JoeBrady
    Nice article. I'll need to re-read it when I've had enough coffee to understand it.
  7. JoeBrady
    I seen good RS rotations before, but generally top-heavy, which is fine. I don't remember seeing a rotation going 5-deep with this consistency.
  8. JoeBrady
    #4 in the AL in run differential. We just have to keep winning.
  9. JoeBrady
    Kids would be running out of the park screaming.
  10. JoeBrady
    Abreu is one of the best fielders in baseball. Complain all you want, but I can read the numbers and watch the player.
  11. JoeBrady
    I guess so. I love having him at $13M, so it just feels like a big plus for the RS.
  12. JoeBrady
    It's hard to believe that we could be doing so well without either Crochet or Bello. It's been so good that we don't even get to use Crochet's injury as an excuse.
  13. JoeBrady
    RS winning causes him much angst. He was near catatonic in 2007.
  14. JoeBrady
    I have Fred on ignore. It makes the site far better, at least for me.
  15. JoeBrady
    I don't generally complain when we lose. But I've heard the passive aggressive thing before. I'd prefer to think of it as a highly-developed form a snarkiness.
  16. JoeBrady
    Okay, that makes much more sense. I didn't see a replay, but that looked like a bad call. That wasn't close to enough to get tossed.
  17. JoeBrady
    But you have to remember, for some fans, it is only the last game that counts.
  18. JoeBrady
    i forgot to attach the sound. Was he ejected for taunting? He spent about 20 seconds on the bat toss and jumping up and down. I'm surprised he didn't get drilled. And this isn't the first time with the bat toss.
  19. JoeBrady
    And half our fans don't understand why we haven't DFAd Durbin yet.
  20. JoeBrady
    I've been saying this since April. The issue isn't the off-season acquisitions. It is the guys that were already on the team. Substitute their 2025 numbers for their 2026 numbers for Story, Anthony, Narvaez, and Duran, and we have a better-than-average OPS.
  21. JoeBrady
    I probably think too much like a rotisserie player, but it wouldn't be an issue for me. The contract is a sunk cost for SF, so it is a question of how much of the sunk cost they want to take (or admit). And I've never held any ill feelings towards Devers. It was a tough situation all around. Maybe both sides could've found a better solution.
  22. JoeBrady
    Buying, selling, maybe stealing. But I'm pretty flexible at this point, and IMHO, I think all fans should be. Players values are unlikely to change over the next three days. We could go 3-0 or 0-3 and have a lot more visibility.
  23. JoeBrady
    Just in my personal opinion, it makes a difference. I understand the logic of selling. That guys can revert or get hurt. But part of being a fanatic is being a fanatic. I'd rather look forward to another month of hope than modest improvements for the future. IRT whom I'd get, I'd be less aggressive now, but would ramp it up if we continue to play well (and vice versa). Right now, I'd be looking at SF. Devers is hitting well, but the contract and past relationship might be problematic. I like Arraez well enough, but the fit is only 'okay', but we do need a lead-off hitter. And I'd continue to look at Adames. That's the best fit RH power hitter that plays SS. I would ask for SF to pick up some salary, but it doesn't have to be prohibitive.
  24. JoeBrady
    Duran might be the most difficult player in baseball to predict, but that just doesn't sound right to me. I'm sticking with him. From 5/1-6/2, he was the #15 position player in BB. Could someone lose it in only 26 days?
  25. JoeBrady
    Are you sure that the 40 IPs locks in the contract, and that it doesn't become a player option? Because it doesn't sound logical to me to, if Chapman's hits the innings, that he loses the mutual side of the contract.
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