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Or if you get Austin Riley.

I know what Not Good Standing means, but since you're a lawyer, you'd likely know this part better than me: I thought that when your entity isn't in good standing with the state, you lose all of the legal protections afforded you by having an entity. That's obviously true for involuntarily dissolved entities, but I thought it was also true for entities not in good standing.

Is Zaleski in AA? He's the guy who got Hansen to have good control in the first place. They need to work together again.

The problem is it's hard to find players that walk as much as he does. Sure, Votto does in MLB, but he didn't in the minors, same for Mike Trout. It's hard to tell how his BB% will be affected by making it to MLB, because you just don't see hitters as patient as he in the minors. That said, in looking at all of these patient hitters, what I have noticed is that their walk rates either maintained or increased at the MLB level. Does that mean I think Collins is going to average a walk a game? Of course not, but it does mean that chopping nearly 10% off of his MiLB walk rate seems misguided at best. Also, the research I've done makes me believe even more that a .240/.360/.460 slashline is a reasonable expectation of him, with career years (with some favorable luck) looking something like .270/.410/.550 because the juiced ball and playing his home games at GRF will probably help his power numbers. ETA: Fangraphs gives Collins the same raw power grade they gave Judge as a prospect.

Collins has not walked in less than 18.5% of his PAs in a season at any point in his pro career. His first partial season in A+, he was at 21.6%, last year between A+ and AA, he was at 18.5%, and this year in AA he's at 21.1%. That's not "just one good season", that's an established trend of ~20% BB rates in MiLB. Obviously MLB pitching is better, so shaving 5-6% off and assuming a 15% BB rate makes sense, but 8-12% is quite a bit of shaving off the numbers.

1) If it were up to the fans, the White Sox would still have Fernando Tatis Jr. 2) This is why I think packaging Soria and Fry is the best trade option the team has.

If they put Stephens on the same rotation day as Shields, that seems to indicate to me that he would be next man up in the event of a Shields trade.

For reference, your slashline assumes a walk rate in the 10-12% range. I don't think it's realistic to expect his walk rate to fall ~10-12% from AA to MLB. Even if we take your numbers, with the exception of bumping the OBP by 20 points to .350 to reflect a more realistic walk rate projection, those are still respectable numbers.

If Collins can hit in the neighborhood of .250, he should be an .800 OPS player, maybe better with the juiced ball. A realistic slash line for him could be .240/.360/.460, that's an .820 OPS, probably a wRC+ in the 120s as well.

Oh, good, he's going to send a bunch of kids to die so he can get rid of the Russia story after using that to get rid of the kids in cages story. Kids are still in cages and Trump and his cronies are still actively conspiring with Russia to defraud the United States. Profit motive dictates that the media chase the latest sensationalist headline, however, so here we are with these things happening and no one covering them.

Isn't the donation from Encounters, Limited illegal since it technically doesn't exist?

His track record is no shorter than Kahnle's, and he's the main reason the Sox got Rutherford. I could see another package deal like that that nets the team a high quality guy and some lottery tickets. Maybe even more considering what the Indians paid for Hand.

That international money must've been very important to them.

Jace doesn't? His K/9 is pretty ridiculous if he has mediocre stuff. He's also a lefty with 6 years of control instead of a righty with 4. Rutherford was also considered top 50 at the time, the rankings that dropped him came out right after. Also Davidson was brought up in a 2 for 3 proposed swap by a Braves beat writer that included Fried, who is ranked higher than Allard. Also Davidson comes with much more control than Frazier did. Another thing I'd be willing to change is send Sanchez instead of Davidson as long as Riley was coming back. I just assumed the Braves would be more interested in Davidson since their beat writer suggested him as part of a trade.

I'd trade him in a package for a package that included Allard and Riley. The Braves would just have to believe that he's that guy, but there's precedent for it (Yankees with Kahnle last year).

I didn't know Waters was valued so highly. Would Kyle Muller make it more realistic?

Fry isn't valuable? I thought he'd have a Kahnle type thing going on, except with 6 years of control beyond this year. He was the piece that put Riley in the deal for me

My crazy idea that people are going to say is too much: RP Joakim Soria, RP Jace Fry, SP James Shields, 1B/3B Matt Davidson to Braves for SP Kolby Allard, 3B Austin Riley, C William Contreras, LHP Kyle Muller, INF Braulio Vazquez I'll wait for the "That's way to much"s and the "They'll never give up that"s. I really want the top three, the other two are interesting looking fliers.

You genuinely enjoy being all doom and gloom, don't you?

In his ~600 ML PAs which equates to about 1 full season, he's put up 2.6 fWAR.

That's fine. I'm sure you'll hold yourself to the same standard you expect of others.

Then I assume you will be making no observations about the behavior of other posters in this forum? Because that's basically all he did. If you consider someone commenting on your behavior to be instigating, perhaps you should change your behavior?

He didn't call you a liar, but even if he did, if you post lies, calling you a liar is not an insult. Also, glad to know you consider "full Trump" and "full GOP" to be insults. It would be a stretch to say he actually broke any of those rules.

Agreed. I wanted Hiura, so it was especially disappointing for me when the Brewers shocked everyone and took him at 9.

The players are probably going to push on service time in the new CBA. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like the NFL's RFA system instituted, where arb eligible players at some point during their arb get to shop their services on the open market with the team with rights getting RoFR.