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  1. jud6312
    http://gentlemint.com/media/images/2012/04/18/6745f59b.jpg.505x650_q85.jpg
  2. jud6312
    Ah yes, the old do nothing approach. Works like a charm.
  3. jud6312
    I saw this, too, and realized I shouldn't have read it until after work. They're going to view Allen - once fully healthy - as the "big trade" and probably find some other scrap heap pieces. My expectations are incredibly low, and I have a feeling Falvine will fail to reach them.
  4. jud6312
    Those of you calling this game "entertaining" must have been watching something different than I was. Wins are entertaining. P!$$ing away large leads and losing - despite battling their tails off - is not. I'm tired of the plucky little team that won't go away trope. Win the effin games you're supposed to win. Win the games you're one strike away from winning. If you can't do that, then people upstairs need to get you guys to help accomplish that. And, yes, I get that nobody has made trades yet, and everyone's waiting for the first domino to go. BUT they had an entire offseason to get pieces to get the job done and they didn't do it. I'm tired of waiting, and I'm tired of the Yankees and their obnoxious fan base.
  5. jud6312
    I'm guessing one low- to moderate-impact bullpen arm, and then a mix and match of in-house minor league guys to try and patch something together (Hildy, Allen, Stashak, Thorpe, Smeltzer, Reed, Mason, Hackimer, etc.). I'm hoping to be wowed by their aggressiveness, but preparing to be underwhelmed.
  6. jud6312
    It doesn't look like he's fairing all that well in Rochester. The majority of his runs came in one outing, but he's walking almost a guy per inning.
  7. jud6312
    You're concerned about Gibson? I'm honestly more concerned about Odorizzi turning back into a pumpkin.
  8. jud6312
    Glad I'm not the only one with concerns about Perez. I obviously didn't expect him to continue that way throughout the year, but I was hopeful that he wasn't getting back to his old self. At this point I'd settle for something right in the middle.
  9. jud6312
    Kepler and Polanco were signed in July 2009, Sano in October 2009, and Rosario drafted in June 2010. Not a shabby 12 months.
  10. jud6312
    Who are the other two to hit 100 this year?
  11. jud6312
    Why not do what the other leagues do with roster size? Set an arbitrary roster size (let's say it's 28) and then each game there's a list of inactive players, healthy scratches, whatever you want to call them. DH, I can go either way on this one. But if they don't go universal, mix it up with interleague play and play NL rules in AL parks and vice versa. Pitch clock, definitely. Anti-tanking, good in theory, but would be really difficult to prove and enforce. Some teams, despite their best efforts, are just really bad.
  12. jud6312
    Maybe he threw it out there because he's also lefty and his one good season is more recent than any other available lefty with one good season? All I got on that one. Given 2017, and a better K/9 rate, I'd have probably chosen death by Drew instead ... he's the drowning option, right?
  13. jud6312
    That's all well and good, but you're comparing him to a pitcher he's not competing with. For better or worse, Odorizzi is probably a lock for the rotation. Perez's veteran status, paycheck, "lefty-ness," and (assumed) status as one of this FO's guys, will give him every chance to fail or succeed. I've seen no evidence from them that Perez or any of their FAs have a short leash - whether it be losing their spot in the rotation, higher leverage roles in the bullpen, or from the roster entirely. That means he's blocking guys like Mejia, Romero (if he's not moved to the pen), Stewart, Gonsalves, Thorpe, De Jong, etc. from getting innings in the majors. They might all very well need more time to develop, or might be destined for the bullpen based on their own merits anyway. But by making this move, you're not finding out if they're ready or not, if they're starters or bullpen arms. If you're rolling the dice on Perez reclaiming his past "success" and achieving middling numbers, why not roll the dice and find out what you do or do not have waiting in the wings. Depth is only depth if it's really there. On paper, this team has plenty of arms, but because of moves like this, nobody knows if it's real or not.
  14. jud6312
    You hit the nail on the head ... "supposed to be." Martin Perez was "supposed to be" really good ... 7 years ago. Michael Restovich was "supposed to be" a top-notch power hitter. Matt Garza was "supposed to be" an ace. Adam Johnson and J.D. Durbin, were "supposed to be" an really good. There's a lot of people that were "supposed to be" something that never panned out. It very much looks as though Martin Perez is one of those. Even if he improves on last year, is his upside anything more than what he's already shown in previous years? On a team/organization full of question marks, why waste time, roster space, and money answering a question that appears to already have been answered?
  15. jud6312
    The rather glaring error in this argument is that with 2016 Berrios, 2018 Littell, and 2018 Gonsalves, you're talking about rookies, with ridiculously small sample sizes on the latter two. Martin Perez started 2018 at least parts of 6 seasons in the majors, and just under 700 MLB innings pitched. It's like comparing kindergartners to sixth graders.
  16. jud6312
    I fail to see anything positive about this move. I mean, aside from the "Falvine will sign anyone that's rented an apartment in Arlington" jokes.
  17. jud6312
    Have any of them ever had an Arlington mailing address?
  18. jud6312
    Yeah, I think you're on your own here
  19. jud6312
    Because Duffey's never played for the Rangers?
  20. jud6312
    I honestly don't understand this - regardless of what spin is put on it, or where they plan to use him As a starter? Aside from experience, does he offer anything more than what we could reasonably expect from Mejia? As a bullpen arm? Rogers has the main spot on lock. Maybe he's a better option Moya or Vazquez, but given his recent results, I'd roll the dice on one of the two and if they don't pan out find another dime-a-dozen lefty down the line. But, I guess not every pitcher can claim to have formerly pitched for the Rangers or Indians.
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  22. jud6312
    I got giddy about this thread when I saw the news of this signing last night.
  23. jud6312
    Having the ability to do so and actually doing so are two different things.
  24. jud6312
    If Kirilloff was banging on the door this spring, I'd be more open to trading Kepler, who I still think is on the verge of big things. But if his replacement comes from the pool of Cave, Wade, Granite, and Reed, then count me out. As it stands now, if Buxton flames out again, you've got Rosario, Cave, and Kepler, which isn't ideal, but you could get by with it. But if you trade Kepler, are you really ready to roll with Rosario, Cave, and Granite? What if Cave turns back into a pumpkin? Rosario, Granite, Wade? Can you trust Granite after a bad/wasted year? Can you trust Wade to make the jump and produce? Do you trust that Michael Reed is anything more than a AAAA player? Unless there's a better backup plan than any of those four, or the return in a Kepler trade is too good to pass down, I'm passing.
  25. jud6312
    Yeah, hard pass from me on that one. The glove is burned and the bat looked to be heading the same way. Obviously he wouldn't be expensive, but there's a reason nobody jumped on the grenade after Boston cut him loose.
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