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#6391 |
Debunking your bullshit
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: KC area
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#6392 | |
Starter
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lawrence
Casino cash: $2431995
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Sunny projection: everyone on the hitting side takes a step forward, or at least the key guys do.Witt is Trea Turner at the plate and on the base paths. Vinny ascends into a solidly above average first baseman. Salvy has another 35 hr season in him where he stays healthy. Singer proves he's a top of rotation starter. The new pitching coach patches up the other guys and we have a mildly decent staff en route to an Orioles like season where we could add at the deadline. Cross takes a big leap as a prospect and is a key piece of a 2024 contender. Stormy projection: all the hitters stay the same or get worse. Witt and Vinny aren't bad players but aren't stars either. The offense struggles to hit for any power and salvy gets hurt. Singer regresses and it looks like it was just a 20 start fluke. No one in the minors steps forward and we continue to have a bottom level system. There is basically not a single key guy on the roster that you can, with any confidence, say they are going to be amazing next year. There just isn't a track record for anyone except salvy who will always be an injury risk. So as a GM he's in a really tough spot, because where you spend your money is really unknown. Theres no point to sign some high value relievers if the rotation is still bad. You can't really trade prospects for another starter because you don't have any high level ones yet, nor can you be sure that any of the rookies playing next year will still be seen as viable big league players next off season. So he's kind of in no man's land. We probably won't be able to make a judgement about willingness to spend and acquire guys until the trade deadline next year. |
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#6393 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2019
Casino cash: $1080400
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Like Gerritt Cole, Stanton, Turner, Freeman and Mookie Betts etc |
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#6394 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Casino cash: $1452500
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But even then Mookie Betts, Stanton and Turner were trades. They weren't flat out free agent signings. They were able to get those guys because they traded prospects away. And even then, look at the Dodgers, Kershaw, Urias and Walker Buehler were home grown. So was Tony Gonsolin. A lot of the Yankees pitchers are home grown too, not to mention Aaron Judge. They are not winning because they sign free agents. They're building a really good team then rounding it out with big money guys. |
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#6395 |
Stay positive, don't give up
Join Date: Dec 2001
Casino cash: $3149383
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Any chance they trade Salvy while he has value.
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#6396 |
Beer Sherpa
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: shackled in a cellar
Casino cash: $3782493
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Based only on the write-up in The Athletic, I'd probably go with either Lombard or Venable.
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#6397 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2019
Casino cash: $1080400
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#6398 |
Rabbi Goldmann
Join Date: Nov 2012
Casino cash: $5450159
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Ha ha, good one. He has negative value. You’d have to give him away free AND write the aquiror a $36M check for the pleasure
https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/players/9105/ |
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#6399 |
Spiraling down the Drain
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Dante's Ninth Circle
Casino cash: $2240588
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Matheny gone yet?
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#6400 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
Casino cash: $1768752
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Main thing is to keep your own superstar talent and then be able to go acquire the pieces to put your over the top. Royals can do that.
Royals offered Hosmer 144 million. Salvy and Gordon got big deals. Right players will get paid here. |
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#6401 |
El Gato Gordo Loco
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Earth
Casino cash: $1891241
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Thank god the Padres were dumber than us. Also paying Hosmer would have crippled this franchise for even more years.
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#6402 |
Mod Team
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
Casino cash: $1351900
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I am sending in my application to be the Royals manager.
I'll let you know if I get a call back. |
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#6403 |
Inmem 2.0
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: My house
Casino cash: $1727558
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Could you imagine if squints would have agreed to that awful deal? Would have been another skunkhead move that further set the franchise back
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#6404 | |
Rabbi Goldmann
Join Date: Nov 2012
Casino cash: $5450159
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Tampa doesn’t do lifetime achievement awards. This deal was a “Skunkhead special”. Know the difference |
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#6405 | |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
Casino cash: $1768752
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