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  1. TheLeviathan
    Ramos helps no one in the short term. He's likely out all most of next year.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I'd caution using what people say on social media as any kind of accurate barometer of what's out there. There are some stories out there about how these fringe movements have used some coding tricks to essentially put their message on auto-pilot. Those comment boards are filled with trolls and a variety of other issues that just make their reliability to form opinions on the quantity of people out there pretty dubious. But yes, rural america feels forgotten. They're independent people that want to be self-sustaining, there is racism in the mix, but mostly it's just contempt for being so frequently the butt of jokes, shamed by both sides, and largely forgotten by both sides. That's going to build resentment.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I'd rather not invest that much in someone so consistently hurt.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I couldn't care less about WAR for catchers.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Hadn't heard that. Well....guess we'll see what happens then. So far, so freaking good.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Look at it another way, we just swapped the arb. price of roster complicating Plouffe for a major upgrade at catcher. Couldn't have dreamed it any better.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I hope they don't try for more than 3. Tell a good story and get out, anything mroe than three seems like a dicey prospect for this concept.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I would argue we don't know what our pitchers are capable of until we give them a better defensive catcher and defense behind them. You can't complain on one hand that the team isn't willing to make themselves better and then complain about the price to pay in FA. They acquired the best available catcher on the market. Three years is nothing.
  9. TheLeviathan
    "Upside" catchers are not readily available inside or outside the organization. He'll likely be a wash offensively but a huge boon defensively relative to Suzuki. The upside will be seen on the pitching staff.
  10. TheLeviathan
    He's not blocking anyone for at least a year, probably more. He will provide a professional catcher with good defense for a young staff. Our best bet to improving our pitching was adding a good defensive catcher. We just did that. No one move was "turning us around"
  11. TheLeviathan
    I take Castro in a heart beat. Not even a consideration.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Um.....there is no "much higher". 8.5 million for a very good defensive catcher with decent offense is a damn good signing IMO. Unless Buster Posey is available, what the hell do you want?
  13. TheLeviathan
    Seriously, Westworld is good stuff. Holy crap.
  14. TheLeviathan
    I'll tell you your future for $25 bucks too if anyone is interested. $35 if you're from Wisconsin.
  15. TheLeviathan
    So, so perfectly said: And I wonder how many of them realized they were voting for a defensive adjustment. I love the concept of WAR, and I appreciate the efforts to make it better all the time. And I know the Baseball Reference people do not claim that it is the perfect statistic or that anyone should base their entire award ballot on it. But WAR does have real sway in the baseball commuinity. And in this case, I think it was pretty misleading. WAR does have real sway and so frequently we don't look at the underlying factors and just quote the number (in increasingly smaller samples it seems) to make points without really knowing if the statistic is meaningful. I love this article, thank you for posting it!
  16. TheLeviathan
    I didn't see any potentially quality guys let go for nothing recently. To whom do you refer? *cough* K rate *cough*
  17. TheLeviathan
    Excellent, excellent move. So happy to see this.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Whoops, meant the opposite. DH in both.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I hope our new FO gives no credence whatsoever to fan patience. Build a winner, don't build to appease. One works every time, the other rarely does.
  20. TheLeviathan
    To be clear, I'm pursuing those 10 guys for the major league level. I'm pursuing them because we have open jobs (SP, RP, C, and maybe OF) where we can offer playing time for a guy to rebuild his value. Then we trade them. But I'm not looking to add payroll because we had 103 losses and we have to do some token spending to appease the masses. The "why" and the "who" are extremely important here.
  21. TheLeviathan
    It's also possible that we sign players and don't "add payroll". Just saying.
  22. TheLeviathan
    May has consistently said he struggles with the prep of being a reliever and has experienced multiple injuries since the move. For the love of god let the kid try and be a starter. I can't believe we're sitting here debating this when the only reason he got moved out of the rotation was the team deferring to Mike freaking Pelfrey. Using him out of the bullpen has led to injuries, ineffectiveness, and stripped us of a desperately needed, competent starter. We already fixed the Plouffe mistake a year late, let's fix the May one too.
  23. TheLeviathan
    You're reading way too far into it. The quote is that a rival GM says it's well known behind the scenes we are rebuilding so Berardino inferred that meant the team wasn't looking to go out and add aggressively. The only real takeaway here is that we're treating this like a rebuild. As we should.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I would even further reshuffle: 1) Replay expansion 2) Expanded rosters 3) No DH 4) Automated balls/strikes The first three are all pretty much already agreed upon at some level and will probably happen by the next CBA. The last one is the diciest for happening in the next 10 years IMO.
  25. TheLeviathan
    There are less than 10 guys in all of FA I'd want anyway. This is good news, it means the new guys see this team for what it is.
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