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but 9 million is only 56% of their total pool. 8.3 Million is 66% of baltimores, that's why I'm wondering if it's really "ricky williamsing"

Exactly. The thing you always hold your hat on with moncada is he is athletic, fast, and hits the crap out of the ball. He can get a lot more productive as a player not by massively improving one thing, but improving the margins of his worst tendencies. He doesn't need to become an 18% strikeout guy to be productive, but if he goes to being a 28% guy he'll get more productive hits because he is fast and hits the crap out of the ball. The more he specifically puts the ball in play the better because his natural talent lends him to being a guy that should be more productive in balls in play.

They should have given them a good player back then too. Really doubled down on making their rival better.

Well, unfortunately they have hard spending constraints, despite that they've averaged 86 wins this decade. Perhaps this savings allowed them to keep their starting pitching in tact for one more run. The white sox, knowing the indians have spending constraints, therefore helped quite a bit in lowering those constraints and gained very little.

True but the nice thing is it is carrying over some of the things we saw in spring training.

But he's $6 million cheaper. That they can get comparative production at 1/3rd of the cost is why cleveland was helped by the trade.

Ah, but what about the first 5 games this year? Check mate. It would be really nice if we were able to organically produce .730 OPS first baseman and not need to pay $9 million for them.

Ah, didn't realize it was a pulled hammy, thought he was still out from the hand.

Wait so is it possible AZ could offer Adley 9 million to get him to 16?

Disappointed Zangari isn't ready yet.

Yeah not trying to diminish it it’s just striking, here’s where it’s at now. Last year he was 7 for 130 after an 0-2 count. 0-2 counts accounted for 21% of his PAs. This year he is 2-4 with a double and a home run after an 0-2 count. 0-2 counts account for 22% of PAs. He is doing more damage in all counts, but him turning his production after hitting 0-2 from horrendous to normal bad makes him a much more productive player. SSS and all.

We should sign shields

People talk about his new aggressiveness early in the count but to me his best improvement has been on two strike counts, where he was truly unbelievably bad last year.

This is the Leury Garcia game

Just looking at box score: Leury is amazing.

At the very least I think a work stoppage is less likely. Clearly teams are showing they'd rather just pay more for the productive years than pay premiums on the decline and showing it to the players, they'll find a way to accomplish that IMO.

Cesar Prieto anyone?

I'm glad 2017 was as terrible for everyone else as it was for me. At least they brought the effing chevy trucks out.

The machine set it up to be that way.

Let him go up against the best, he may surprise you. Remember Abreu going long vs. all the top pitchers in 2014.

I suppose. I thought they would play castillo against tougher righties as he at least has a shot, whereas mccan vs lefties is worse than castillo but better than vs righties. But McCann's game calling against the royals was good enough I'm fine with him continuing to work with the staff. Castillo...ugh. Hate that guy after his suspension.

Pretty much. Though it can all change if just one or two guys comes out of nowhere in a positive way this year.

It has been interesting seeing the use of catchers. It seems the playing time is divvy'd up on accordance to the pitcher throwing, not offensive considerations.

Man, this bryce harper guy sure is fun.

The lack of youth added during a time when we were in penalty box in international was a poor choice.