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  1. jimmer
    Chief, I'm going out on a limb and say, with very few exceptions, that the ones praising it supports an aggressive approach for our team too and the ones who panned it support Ryan's approach?
  2. jimmer
    OF COURSE we can't put that on Ryan.OF course not. Because contracts were just as huge back then making everyone we could have traded for to put us over the top very expensive...
  3. jimmer
    except Ryan has never done the 'striking when the moment was right' move and it took eight years last time to build a team that had sustained success. And it's convenient that it's never the right time to strike until Ryan does it. Then, and only then, will some say THAT was the exact time to strike. If Ryan doesn't strike, those same people will say it wasn't time to strike.
  4. jimmer
    yeah, I liked how Gardy refused to give up on Casilla too. liked him SO much that he said before Hardy was traded that Casilla would compete for the shortstop spot because he had all the physical skills. Santana doesn't seem to have the fundamentals down yet. How that is possible I don't know, but it's just like Casilla and the fundamentals of shortstop.
  5. jimmer
    What, a team is going to actually say,'they refuse to make any additional moves because payroll is maxed out.' What do their actions say? plenty of people think you can play and promote the kids but also understand the roster is a 25 man roster not 100 man roster and you can also trade some prospects.
  6. jimmer
    or 99/1 :-)
  7. jimmer
    .817 OPS from a shortstop. Yeah, like you said, still quite good.
  8. jimmer
    He blew the 2nd game he was brought in to close then he blew another one two weeks later. How does that make him 16-16 in saves? For 2/3 of the season we lost exactly one game when Rauch was brought in for a save.And we won the division by 6 games, Capps didn't secure anything. The difference between him and Rauch in two months wasn't the difference on anything.
  9. jimmer
    'When people argue against upgrading strengths, they’re really arguing for the presence of diminishing returns, but in baseball, the evidence actually supports the idea that adding a good hitter to an already good line-up actually returns a higher level of value, not a lower one.'-Dave Cameron, today's article on the Tulo trade
  10. jimmer
    141 wRC+ in 2013 171 wRC+ in 2014 2015: 1st 43gms: 3.1bb%, 22.4k%, .136iso, 69wrc+ (after surgery) 2nd 43gms: 10.1bb%, 19.5k%, .207iso, 149wrc+ (as he gets further from surgery recovery)
  11. jimmer
    Well, we have a low bar for going all in. Getting Hudson, trading for Hardy, and getting Thome that was our go all in. It was also super low risk in terms of monetary committment, I was super stoked for 2010 for doing that and nailed our win total in my preseason prediction. The only thing we did at the deadline was get Capps.
  12. jimmer
    Yeah, not true. Berrios is 19th on that list. http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/midseason-top-50-prospects2015/
  13. jimmer
    yeah, seriously, of the three Kiley has the highest opinion of him. Notice they didn't even show his Baseball America prospect listing on his BR page (still doesn't) . Because he wasn't top 100 (or certianly not top 50) Berrios was top 50 in BP, MLB and BA. He wouldn't have cost that much, certainly not Sano.
  14. jimmer
    except that he did have TJ surgery and going into this season, he was Kiley Ms #67 prospect. They also have to actually trade Reyes AND get quality for him. Brock was talking about what the Rockies got in THIS trade, not about what Hoffman was or just assuming the Rockies wouldn't mess up the Reyes trade too., if the trade even happens.
  15. jimmer
    that's 2 years at 22M each year guaranteed and then 4M buyout if the third year isn't exercised. That's 48M for 2 years AND whatever they will owe for this year, like 7M. So around 55-56M for just under 2.5 years of a bad player. They better flip him for some quality or it's really bad for them.
  16. jimmer
    They gave up the best shortstop in baseball and a decent reliever for the Blue Jays salary dump, top 100, but not top 50, prospect and some filler.
  17. jimmer
    First, range factor? Why is that the stat to look at? It doesn't actually measure range. Second, because of one downturn year on defense he'll fall off the map?Because of one season? That's a trend? He accumulated 5.3 WAR in less than 100 games last year and is projected to have 3 more WAR than Reyes next year. What, he's gonna drop like stone right after that at the ripe age of 32?
  18. jimmer
    going into this season, Kiley McDaniel had Berrios #24 and Hoffman # 67. That's not so close. Berrios also got a future value ranking of 60. Hoffman, 55. Tulo will still be a quality player in 2017 and 2018. And they relieved themselves of a big contract as well that they would have had to pay for a worse player, which helps.
  19. jimmer
    I don't believe for a second it would have taken Sano (and what he just got traded for seems to back that up) and losing Gibson doesn't give me even a seconds pause.
  20. jimmer
    He would have? The Rockies just traded him and Hawkins, took on Toronto's salary dump and still didn't get a prospect like Berrios OR a MLB pitcher like Gibson. If we didn't throw a salary dump or ask for Hawkins, you think he STILL costs Berrios plus a bunch more? And depending on what more it would have taken, it's still a good trade for us.
  21. jimmer
    which is why getting Tulo would have been such a good move.
  22. jimmer
    I'd bet he will. He'll be 35 at the end of his contract unless Toronto makes the playoffs in his last year of the contract. He won't be 40. He will, for sure, be a shortstop in 2017 and still an average- good defensive one too.
  23. jimmer
    The most likely is invisible option #3 that says they don't make the playoffs at all because they've overplayed their talent and are coming back down Earth.
  24. jimmer
    How do we know we will be more posited for a run next year? That's an assumption I certainly wouldn't bet on as I look at where this team is at. With our ridiculous May run, we may have a better shot making the playoffs this year than next, as KC will still be rocking, the Tigers will reload and have Miggy back, and the Indians will still have the talent that is under-performing but likely won't again. It's always a good idea to get quality players when you can. Quality players are assets for the current and as pieces to move for prospects later..
  25. jimmer
    IF?
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