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  1. If you're looking for a contract you can take on cheaply....Zach Grienke continues to be number one on my list. And now it's being reported in AZ that they are likely looking to dump that salary.
  2. Rocco Baldelli? There's a blast from the past. I seem to remember loving him on old baseball video games.
  3. I would target Iglesias or Galvis. The other option is to explore trades. Im just not sure what's out there.
  4. Polanco's OPS and wRC+ would still be top 10 as a second basemen. You lose a little bit there, but gain a lot defensively. Basically, he's a premium hitter whether he plays 2B or SS, so better that he plays the position where he can be a plus defensively rather than a minus.
  5. Garver and Austidillo's flexibility might mean three catchers. Gardy would be proud.
  6. We're all secretly blaming our wives here because doing so with anonymity on a sports page is our only outlet. (In case my wife reads this.....I love you hunny. You're the best. I was obviously joking about ever being right)
  7. Well, he was with a key troublemaker in his entourage. Once you add your wife it's nothing but shenanigans of the highest order.
  8. That's fair, there absolutely could be more to it. I leave the door open to be highly critical of Sano should more come to light. As sketchy as all those details are, he was with his wife, in the DR (where having an unlicensed vehicle or being out at 3am or any number of things could be MUCH different than our assumptions), and the police released him without charges.
  9. Sure, which is why it was wise to wait and see. It could have been a major indictment of him. Or it could be an accident. I think it's telling how many people rushed to think the worst when all they had to do was wait about 10 hours to get the full story. In the meantime he was suggested to have bribed the police, willfully ran over the cop (because how could anyone do this accidentally with a backup camera!), was out at 3 am with his entourage, etc. Sounds like he drove the cop to the hospital, paid all his bills, and tried to do his best to make amends. What a monster!
  10. Yup, looked at McFarland wrong. Tommy Hunter, Brandon Morrow, Juan Nicasio, Pat Neshek, and even our own Addison Reed are closer to that 3/27. I would say Miller and Allen are both superior players in the eyes of GMs. I'm guessing they are both much closer to what Wade Davis or Greg Holland made. If I had to guess, Miller probably gets something in the range of 4/50 and Allen maybe a shade under that.
  11. Maybe, but that's what guys like TJ McFarland and Mike Minor got last year. I'm guessing Miller, Allen are 10+ players.
  12. What do people think is "buy low" on Allen exactly?
  13. Certainly, but I think others took your thinking farther in this thread to places far less justified.
  14. I was out until 3am with my future wife in my mid 20s too. Didn't make me as awful a person as some of you jumped to in this thread. Other things might make me awful, but not that in and of itself.
  15. Well there you have it: just a bad look. Glad to see things were resolved responsibly and fairly.
  16. Those are not typically the kind of deals you see at the deadline. Those tend to be off-season deals just like the Joe Nathan one.
  17. Step 1 would be to get into Houston's position next July then.
  18. I imagine Kimbrel's price tag is going to be shockingly high. I'd go down to the next level and offer Britton a contract and try to get him while the sharks are circling the bigger fish. Of the payroll room we have, I'd rather spend the bulk of it on the offense than the bullpen. (And now I'm laughing at my own post that we'll spend anywhere close to what any of us are imagining)
  19. Pony up for Britton, let Reed/May/Hildy/Rogers be the setup guys.
  20. Right. Best case scenario this is a bad look. Worst case.....well, given what has been said so far, that could get really bad. Probably best to wait it out before we declare anything regarding this incident.
  21. Yes - it swings both ways. They both have been given opportunity - now that loyalty needs to start paying dividends. Either they can be productive big leaguers or we have to move on. That's the point of this, please don't build any strawmen out of what people are saying.
  22. No one is hating on them. No one is suggesting we outright "ditch" them, but the team should be ready to deal with the possibility that 2019 looks like 2018. If it does, these two are no longer cornerstones. Or at least can't be counted on in that fashion.
  23. The problem is the lense. We always view through a narrow one because extrapolating manager trends is a far more difficult thing to do. It's hard to divorce talent from decision making. Hard to know what is driving things behind the scenes. My opinion is the Gardy/Showalter pops have more to do with personality change. Like how an office picks up the slack cuz new management has arrived and you want to make a good first impression.
  24. TK used to say 1,000 PA's is the time to make judgements. I think that is a good bar in general.
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