Most people Meyer's size aren't frontline starters. Not sure why that is. Maybe they have hard time consistently getting the ball in the low part of the zone, I don't know. There's obviously one glaring exception to the rule, but most people aren't inner circle HOF type pitcher like Big Unit.
Yeah, it's mostly about positional adjustments. It's why even the best 1Bs have negative DEFs (but 19 shortstop has positive DEFs). Only one 1B has a positive DEF this year, for example.
I binge-watched the first couple seasons of 21 Jump Street when I was TDY in Cyprus. They had been donated to the Armed Forces Network who distributed them to us. They were on Beta Max :-)
there is zero risk to putting anyone on waivers at this point. it's done to gauge interest most of the time, and they are easily pulled back. could put the whole team on there and there would be zero risk.
Indians did pretty well in getting Miller (last night not withstanding), and I see most sites recognizing that and declaring them as one of the deadline winners.
yeah, you never know, he could end up being flipped in the offseason or trade deadline next year. it's not like this guy has been horrible his whole career, just tends to walk a few more than we like around here :-)
Dave Cameron called it the weirdest trade of the day (year). I'm fine with it because Nolasco is gone and because we won't need a GPS tracker to know where Meyer is at any given time ;-)