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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Porcello wasn't a front of the rotation starter. The rest were trades for prospects, not 30+ year old players. If you want to trade Santana and/or Dozier for someone with a career ERA in the mid 4's like Porcello when he was traded, sure you could make that happen, but that's not what you said. You said front of the rotation starters.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    The Red Sox were a last place team when they traded Lester, a rental, to the A's at the deadline. I'm asking about competing teams trading established front of the rotation starters. Not rentals from last place teams.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Couldn't they just sign a 'veteran presence', then trade prospects for a second baseman? Trading someone who is already a front of the rotation starter doesn't make a team better, it makes them worse.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Not all of those are front of the rotation starters yet. The ones that are, aren't getting traded for Dozier and Santana. Competing teams would rather trade prospects, and you already said not prospects. We should try to acquire front of the rotation starters, but they'll either have to be prospects from a competing team, or established pitchers from a rebuilding teams. Competing teams don't trade starters that are already contributing, it just doesn't happen.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Neither of those teams have more than 5 front of the rotation starters, so they don't have a surplus. And before you said not prospects. If they are not established, then they are either not front of the rotation starters, or they are prospects with front of the rotation potential. Perhaps some examples would be helpful.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Thrylos specifically said "not prospects". He also said front of the rotation starters. Nobody who is contending is trading guys like that.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    But if they think they are a contender, they are trading prospects, not established top of the rotation starters. Nobody has a surplus of established front of the rotation arms.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    If anyone is trading a young top of the rotation starter, it's because they are several years away from competing. Why would a team that is several years away from competing want to trade for players as old as Santana and Dozier?
  9. Mr. Brooks
    He was #30 in this series.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Rogers is a bubble guy, to me. Mediocre at best k and bb numbers, and a FIP over 4 last year.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Baseball HOF has a character clause. I would suspect that has at least a little to do with Gooden not being in.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    I think I owe Mitch Leidner an apology. I didn't think I'd ever see worse QB play, but I was wrong. This Croft kid makes Leidner look like Tom Brady.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    I'm also not impressed at all with Rorteved, but fully admit that catchers are a whole different category.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    It's manager of the year, not manager of two years. So last year shouldn't even be considered, IMO. And that goes both ways, he shouldn't get bumped for the improvement, or dinged for the drop off. It should be results vs. talent viewing only this years roster and results. I have no idea who should win under those parameters.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    What happened with Phil Miller? Oh, you mean for not voting for him? Shouldn't Miller vote for who he objectively thinks should win, not the hometown guy?
  16. Mr. Brooks
    I'm also on the side of letting Kepler take his hacks against lefties, at least through the ASB, and reevaluate a possible upgrade at that point. His upside is tremendous, IMO, and he won't improve against lefties without reps. I do understand not wanting to sacrifice results now for progression, but I think it will payoff down the road.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Gibson was putting up a 4.81 ERA in AAA when he was Buxton's age. Gibson has zero upside left, Buxton is full of upside. How is comparing them in 2017 using the same yardstick?
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Errors to games tells me next to nothing about quality of defense. There is so much more to defense than just errors. In fact, the player with more errors is often the better defender, because he makes an error on a ball that the other guy wouldn't have even gotten to. Frazier was 1.5 defensive WAR better than Escobar last year, that is a pretty big difference. Who knows what happens down the road, but right now their defense isn't comparable to each other.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    The flexibility could be Gibson's spot. He doesn't have any upside left, he's not young anymore. What he's been is what he is - serviceable back of the rotation arm, but not good enough to ever be locked into a spot.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Frazier is a much better defender than Escobar. I know Escobar can play multiple positions, and that versatility is nice, but he's a well below average defender.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    This is a message board, the whole purpose is literally to speculate. Anyway, the only reason I brought it up in the first place is kinda because of comments like your second paragraph. All of AP's teammates said how great he was, and 3 organizations employed him after he whipped a small child with a tree branch. My whole point wasn't to claim he did anything wrong, just to point out that comments from teammates (or in your case, being signed by other teams) provide zero evidence either way. If anything has been proven over the years, it's that pro sports has this tight fraternity where there is no behavior bad enough to be called out for (by peers), or unemployable for - except not standing for the anthem. John Lackey might be the greatest guy in the world, that was never my point.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Is anyone else a tiny bit concerned by KAT disappearing in big time games? Small sample size, and he still has a ton of progression ahead of him, and I'm a huge KAT fan, but I'm a little concerned by that.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    On field performance at all costs is a fair opinion for some. That doesn't make it the only valid opinion. If I'm hiring an employee, what kind of human being they are is part of the equation for me. Like I said, I don't know the full story, but I'd definitely ask about it and consider it before pulling the trigger on a hire, some don't care, fair enough.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    This. I have no idea what kind of dude he is. He did divorce his wife in the middle of a battle with breast cancer, but I'm guessing there is more to the story. But, comments from teammates give me absolutely zero information on what kind of person he is. We heard the same thing from Adrian Peterson's teammates- then we found out that he beats small children with tree branches until they bleed.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Apples to apples, if they both go 7 years, Rosario actually gets 6M more, under Seth's plan. I know Rosario just had a big year, and Kepler a down year, but I think big picture, Kepler still has the higher ceiling. He's a better defender and baserunner, and Rosario's lack of walks will always put a hard cap on his offensive ceiling. Yes, Kepler has to not be awful vs. lefties to hit that ceiling, but given he has hit them in the minors, there is hope he'll figure it out.
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