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  1. gunnarthor
    Kepler for Cole straight up would be a loss for us. If the Yankees are going to move Frazier and Adams for two years of Cole, I think we move on. If the Yankees are giving up on Frazier, it means they have another future corner OFer coming into the fold (Bryce Harper). Money can fix a lot of issues and the Yankees have more money than anyone. They can overpay. Adams is similar enough to Gonsalves or Romero to match up but I don't think we can - or should - match Frazier.
  2. gunnarthor
    Wait, you think a team should have 14 players producing 4 or more WAR each year? I don't think that has ever happened. Cleveland won 102 games last year and had 4 players produce 4 WAR or more. Houston won 101 and had 6. Dodgers won 104 and had 5.
  3. gunnarthor
    Old friend Oswaldo Arcia has signed with a Japanese ball club. Good luck to him. Yankees say price for Cole is too high so I'm not sure that the Gordon, Jay, Granite rumor is accurate. Twins on Darvish, Seattle might be too.
  4. gunnarthor
    Eh. I'll see it but probably not this weekend.
  5. gunnarthor
    Might depend on what we expect out of them. I see Rodney as a fairly reliable, safe 60-70 innings guy out of the pen. Maybe as a closer. Not elite but no worse than Everyday Eddie. Pineda is a lottery ticket who might throw a few innings this year and might be able to give the Twins 20 or more starts as a #3 type next year. I'd have been fine giving Kintzler or Neshek the two year deals they got but it might very well be that the FO is pinching pennies to sign Darvish or Cobb. I figured they had about 20m to spend, others think it was closer to 30. We've spent about 8.
  6. gunnarthor
    Kintzler signs 2/10 deal w/Nats. Options could make it worth 16m.
  7. gunnarthor
    Gonsalves and Romero as a starting point. It's interesting. At the end of the day, it's only one year of Manny (plus a future pick when he leaves). Realistically, he might be worth something like 5 WAR. And if you look at other trades where someone expects about 5 WAR in return, something like Romero, Gonsalves and Thorpe (if they want pitchers) + Mejia would be arguably fair. But Machado is such a name that Baltimore should get a major overpay. Or maybe no one meets their price.
  8. gunnarthor
    Yeah, not a huge move but he's an upgrade and I'm ok with him closing and having other (better) options pitch in different parts of the game. And if my mental math is right, we've added about 7m or so to payroll this offseason. Not sure we can do much more and sign Darvish.
  9. gunnarthor
    Well, if the Bucs traded for Burdi, I think it's a lock that they'll keep him next year when he's recovering from TJ surgery. Bummer but with his injury history, I'll give the FO another pass here.
  10. gunnarthor
    Honestly, I thought it would be worse. We lose Burdi and Bard but both have to stick and I don't think either will. And both are oldish for prospects. I was positive someone would take a flier on Stewart but that didn't happen so we still have him in AA to start the year. We also drafted a guy somewhat similar in Kinsley from Miami so ... all things considered, I'm not too upset.
  11. gunnarthor
    It's not a bad signing. I'm good with it. Not the answer to all our problems.
  12. gunnarthor
    Davis wasn't quite a throw in but he was a minor piece, not a headliner. Both Donaldson and Stroman are headliners.
  13. gunnarthor
    How many people still think Michael Jackson is great? Moore was a horrible candidate for many reasons - Jones was close before the Post story came out - and it turned off over half the voters of an insanely red state. Jones might not win re-election or he might show the voters that he's a good representation of Alabama. Who knows. But I don't think we should be anything but overjoyed.
  14. gunnarthor
    And Moore won't concede. What a piece of ****.
  15. gunnarthor
    If Toronto wanted to trade these guys, they wouldn't combine them. They'd get more for them individually.
  16. gunnarthor
    Good work, Alabama.
  17. gunnarthor
    Granite, as a LH hitter, isn't a great fit for our current OF anyway. Ideally, we'd want our 4th OFer to be a righty to give Kepler a day off against lefties during the season.
  18. gunnarthor
    Rays only have 440k to spend so they are probably trading for money, per Sanchez
  19. gunnarthor
    I read an article years ago on abortion that said most Americans are wishy washy and aren't really 100% pro-life or pro-choice yet most politicians are forced into one of those positions. I think the Dems would be far better off if they had a few more Joe Donnelly's in the party but I know many people who think he's a POS for his views on abortion. So, yeah.
  20. gunnarthor
    I think this is a nice article celebrating both Morris and Trammel as well as the 80s by Joe Posnanski, who never voted for Morris but at the same time is quite happy he's in the HOF. "But Morris' case was never about numbers. It was about the pitching fury that drove him. If you want to choose any number, choose one that tells the story of Morris' stubbornness. He threw 240-plus innings 10 times; since 2010, only seven pitchers have thrown 240 innings in even one season. No, there couldn't be a Morris in today's game, not in the same way, not in this era of power bullpens and the science that shows you rarely want a pitcher facing a lineup for a third time." https://www.mlb.com/news/alan-trammell-jack-morris-a-nod-to-the-80s/c-263258412
  21. gunnarthor
    I've never liked Rodney - he always seemed lucky to me - but he's done it for a long time and he wouldn't be the worst arm in the pen.
  22. gunnarthor
    More from Heyman and others - Orioles are shopping Machado Fernando Rodney met with the Twins Cubs might sign Cobb DBacks might move LHP Corbin Miami will give away Ozuna!
  23. gunnarthor
    Agreed. I think he's an NL pitcher only.
  24. gunnarthor
    We might also be over estimating Cole. He has name recognition but he was decidedly average last year and only threw 116 ml innings the year before. He can eat innings but his era and fip weren't great. What do we think we're getting for his two years?
  25. gunnarthor
    Sano is represented by roc nation, just like his idol, Robinson Cano. http://rocnation.com/miguel-sano/ Lewis is a Boras client (and so is Gerritt Cole)
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