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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Bauer is only going to do 1 year deals.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    It helps them because they're building for the future, they aren't trying to win this year. They now have 5 of the top 50 prospects in baseball (pipeline).
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think I'm lowering the bar or giving a free pass. Because, I don't think multiple relievers better than Rogers is a fair or reasonable expectation. Rogers is one of the elite relievers in all of baseball.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    So the 2 biggest buyers so far have been teams well under .500. This is the most bizarre deadline I can recall.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    The broadcast crew are employed by the team. What do you expect them to say?
  6. Mr. Brooks
    If so, that's news to me. Haven't heard anything like that before. A quick Google search for Michael Pineda innings limit didn't bring anything of relevance either. If he's healthy, which by all accounts he is, it'd be near impossible to shut him down until September, when rosters expand. You can't send him down, and he can't be IL'd if he's healthy and pitching well. And you obviously can't carry him on the active roster if he isn't going to pitch. Moving him to the bullpen could be an option, but you'd have to do it immediately. Even one more start would make it pretty tough to keep his innings under 150.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think the Marlins are the worst team in MLB. The Tigers hold that distinction by a country mile, IMO.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    There is no reason to think Pineda won't be available for the postseason. Innings limits aren't really things you see on a veteran of his age.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    I hope not. Preventing runs is just as important as scoring them. Also, Kepler just had a day off yesterday.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    I guess I don't understand why it's so hard to believe that these are legitimate reports, and these are the packages the Mets asked for? I'm not saying an agenda isn't possible, but why such an automatic rush to believe that it must be an agenda?
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I could be wrong, but I don't think Pipeline does a re ranking with their midseason updates. I believe they just slot in any new additions.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    You'd love watching Frank Gallagher.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    IMO, there are three keys to writing good characters. 1) They have to be multi dimensional. Almost nobody is always good, or always bad, or always stupid, or always honest, or always noble, etc., etc. People are shades of every character trait. 2) Motivations. Make me understand why a character does what they do, and why they think what they think. It's not enough to just tell me that they did these things, and they thought this, or they said that. Take the time to develop their backstory and their insecurities, and their vulnerabilities, and their motivations. Then, things people do or say will innately make sense. 3) Give me a reason to care. Whether I like a character, or hate a character, I need to have a reason to care about what happens to them. Like Craig said, maybe there is something that happened to them, or a character trait that I can relate to.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Couldn't agree more. In fact I predicted this, in this forum, moments after he fired Fletcher, when he said in his press conference that he wouldn't hire anyone who disagreed with where this team was. The next hire will not fare any better.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Not only that, the details coming out are crazy! Multiple front office people dreaded coming into work every day. Fenton was forcing Boudreau to play certain line combos and minutes, Craig Leopold was literally holding his hand during the draft and free agency, and on and on.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    It's fair to speculate, and have opinions, we all do and should. But we have no idea where the Jays rank these guys. For all we know, the Jays have him as a top 50 prospect. Again, totally fair to have opinions and speculate, but far too many people across multiple threads are making declarative posts like, "the Twins could have easily beat that deal with prospects x and z".
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Spot on take. Fenton fired after just one season.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Dan Hayes is on KFAN right now saying that the Mets are looking for MLB talent in return for Syndergaard. He's saying it will likely take a 3 team deal for a buyer to acquire him. That would seem to confirm the suggestion that the Mets would have asked for Buxton.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Of course, actual scouting services rate Kay as a pretty good prospect, not garbage.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Maybe im missing part of the story, but why does this mean there is some ulterior motive behind this reporting? Couldn't it just be that those are actually what the Mets asked for, and LENIII reported as such?
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Yes, any team would be required to keep him on the 26 man roster for the entire season if they selected him in the Rule V draft.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Sure, I'm saying if he's completely healthy a month from now. If not, then yeah, don't push him.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    With the current state of the bullpen, I like anyone and everyone on that, or most any other list. As Chief said, this is a bullpen whose 8th inning setup man went unclaimed through waivers, a week before the deadline, with every contender looking for bullpen help.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I'm hoping the current FO will be far more open to being more aggressive with guys like this. During our down seasons, I was all for conserving options and service time. But now that the window is open, that should all go out the window if you think a guy can help you now. And I do think that Graterol, if completely healthy, could help out of the bullpen this year.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    With 221 walks in 388 career milb innings, Clay has a long road ahead of him before he's on the radar for a MLB shot.
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