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I think in general its true that big money deals for pitchers are bad overall, but they are a productive bad thing you do when you want to win because getting pitching that's good at the time is hard to predict long term and you just gotta take a shot.

ok, this thread has been cleaned up. I know we are very passionate about safety. Please be nice to each other.

It's not a bouncy ball though. It reduces drag on fly balls, but he doesn't hit many of them. I'm thrilled that Madrigals game has been so successful to date, but he has only hit 11 home runs over the last 4 years. I think he may hit 10 when he gets to his 26+ years, but hopefully he can keep above a .100 iso at the majors levels which would be a decent amount of doubles and triples.

Jesus, I was on vacation and missed this. That is so awful and disgusting.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

He keeps saying this but is that really most ground rule doubles at GRF?

Could have been a late bloomer. If he wasn't identified early may have fallen through cracks, and I don't know how scouted panama is vs. others.

That tyreek hill thing got kinda wild though.

Man I was wondering why Wilber Perez is still in Kanny then I looked at his walks.

That trade didn't happen though.

Ha, I was just thinking Heyward.

I think it will have to be trade. I always preferred Castellanos as just a bat, so 1b/dh. Um, joc pederson sure would have been nice... I really have no idea who will be available.

I don't believe so, I don't see urgency and there is a need to have 1b/dh open for yermin/collins/palka/etc. Not really a need, but I don't think there is an urgency.

Yeah I get that, but I think there is something to in this free agency: - still a good defender - good clubhouse guy from winning teams - Still decent obp even in bad years and not bad k rates But yes, not option 1a

I know the royals are weird but if they do buy out gordon he may not be a bad option.

They still have derek dietrich listed which is annoying.

What is the best 2019-20 free agency list? MLBTR's burned me because it included guys that were on team options.

I do agree with you that we could be at $110 million and none of us would even be that impressed with the signings. When you add up the amount of spots we still need, the $amount will be large even if there is no marquee guy. Basically would need to hit like the twins did in the offseason, which is one of the better ones of the last few years.

I don't believe they felt they were competing in 2014.

Their track record is horrible, and I am concerned teams will spend a bit more this free agency trying to show well for the next CBA and the sox may lose out on some targets or spend more on average than they would have last year.

I would definitely prefer making CF the plus defensive position and not RF. Benintendis defensive metrics are so hard to read because of the monster. So it's a hard question to answer but I'd take weaker arm in RF and what I believe will be plus plus defense with robert. Also feels like any deal for Benintendi would occur in offseason and I would imagine would start with Madrigal.

Not an inspiring list https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/minor-league?pos=all&lg=30&stats=bat&qual=y&type=0&team=&season=2006&seasonEnd=2019&org=&ind=0&splitTeam=true&players=&sort=14,1 Cortney Boran, Red Sox, DSL However, if you include all the way until 2005 with only players 16 and 17 and sort by wRC+, Bailey is 5th. Players like Candelario, Jorge Bonifacio, Julio Rodriguez, Estuiry Ruiz, Victor Robles and Estevan Florial show up in the top 25 of that list. His is much more BB driven, but Robles had a similar (but better) iso and worse walk percentage. So his performance does stand out.

I think its a little interesting they are going level by level with Lindgren like a Billy Madison thing.

I'm surprised by this but maybe this is the not particularly cheap aspect of the 3 years of arb. I can't imagine he'd be Betts level but he'll be expensive.

I'd be happy with Alex Wood but what if he returns from his back injury and is terrible? He has a big question mark here having missed almost 2/3rds of the year by the time he returns.