Braves signed Bud Norris today.

Tigers catcher Alex Avila signed with the White Sox.

Notable because his dad is the Tigers' GM. Should make for an interesting Thanksgiving dinner.

Exit velocity, 152 players with >250 balls tracked:

9. Nelson Cruz
10. Marcell Ozuna
11. Kendrys Morales

still want to kick the tires on marcell ozuna, see what it would take to get him.

Bob Dole had a bricks sighting in his toilet earlier today.

That may require medical attention.

FG suggested either Gausman or Walker/Paxton from SEA. Our best comp would be the mid point between YV + Danny Duffy. (YV for Ozuna +......or Duffy + for Ozuna)

I don't know that it's Duffy + much. Guess you're only talking about two years of control of Duffy vs 4 with Walker or 5 with Gausman. Think Paxton would be 5 as well.

But if that's the price, and Florida gets one of those guys for Ozuna, good for them.

The Blue Jays have signed J.A. Happ to a 3 year, $36 million deal. Let the games begin.

Speaking of the Blue Jays.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a> assistant GM of major-league and international operations Rene Francisco interviewed for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueJays?src=hash">#BlueJays</a> GM job.</p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/670280001120432129">November 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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If JA Happ got $12 million AAV, I think we can expect all deals to be inflated more than we were projecting.

I mean, it's possible the Jays just loved something about him (maybe they buy his second half improvement more than most?) and really raised the market, but it's more likely guys are just going to get more money.

Perhaps, but there's a reason he's the only player of note to sign so far. Deal was too good to pass up relative to his other offers.

There are usually some crappy early signings like this.

Dave Cameron puts a 20% hike on all the FG crowdsourcing estimates. They've found the past few years that taking last year's contracts and adj them for expected dollar-per-WAR still comes up short. Cameron believes it's because "it only takes one" mentality. The crowdsourcing probably *does* accurately predict the avg value (or median) of all offers...... but the winner's curse of bidding always means 1 party overpays at the end.



That was long-winded but I believe it addresses your point and they find the same things you are predicting. Net: Cameron has Zobrist 4/76 and Gordon 4/92. Last I checked anyway.


His figure for Zobrist is breathtaking.

What is happening with Gordon? Is he coming back?