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Yea I am as well. Fiending.

How does non tendering an injured player work exactly? I'm over him as well.

With the massive caveat that nobody knows what Mccann is looking for i would wait as long as possible to re-up with him. If you regress his babip down to a more sustainable 330 he's a solid regular but not a star. Solid regular is awesome but we don't want to pay him like this is his true talent until we know it's real. It probably isn't.

With interleague and MLB.tv the novelty factor of seeing NL players (or vice versa if your a fan of an NL team) has long been gone and that was the primary attraction. I agree the game was boring the mic'd up stuff was a fun addition but the game itself was boring not sure what would change that. Other sports are having the same problem so it's not just unique to MLB everything is so media saturated now that the novelty of having all the superstars in one place isn't there.

I don't understand how you even tie the two together. Yonder was a dumb move this one is a smart one. Put it in the ledger however you want but one had nothing to do with the other.

the guys in MLB FOs that get paid to do more than mindlessly flip cards like an 9 year old at his first family gathering do.

With the way they've been making moves it seems like Jay is an obvious DFA candidate soon. The money would literally have been better spent lit on fire but whatever Hahn has strong points FA is not one of them. Cordell kinda sucks but he's dirt cheap and has a couple tools that play, especially as just a 4th OF.

I dunno have you been paying attention to what 1.5-2.5 WAR 33 year old DHs get in FA?

Yea all I want is 10 run plus (so near gold glove but he should be able to do it if any of the damn reports are accurate) defense at 2B and a 350 OBP with 30-35 steals. That's 3 WAR or maybe 4 if he's an iron man 160 game guy. It's exciting to see him succeeding with such a crazy profile I am a doubter but I'm coming around. he handles the bat well which I worried about it's not so much that he's overmatched it's just he doesn't really approach hitting like anybody else in today's game.

I used a couple free calculators from Fangraphs this morning on Moncada. Some are a little dated I think I used the 2017 calc on moncada for babib and it had him at an expected babip of 365 which completely matches the eye test on that one. Moncada is fast and hits the shit out of the ball that seems an obvious high babip guy but other guys like madrigal that don't really smoke it (ichiro maybe is the prime example) but can hit a lot of well placed line drives and really bust it to 1st can also have a very high babip without looking much at all like Moncada's batted ball profile. Speed is critical tho. Look at Avi, he's fast to 1st and it gets him about 10 hits a year. If you hit a lot of ground balls and you're fast you can make it work even in today's game. It helps Madrigal will have a spot at 2B because while I do think he'll hit for average he won't have any power. It's just not happening. Maybe he tops out at .120 iso. Oh well that's what the other guys are for. Madrigal just needs to be a solid regular in the grand scheme.

It's nice to see a guy hitting for power in our system that is supposed to hit for power at his position.

thanks for that, interesting, maybe it's a new thing to prevent injury or something. just seems like with the best hitter in college consensus that has already shown out with wooden bats at various scouting things you might buck tradition and get him against guys that will challenge him asap.

I was thinking exactly the same. Tradition! The way it's done! Has any team bucked the seemingly entrenched idea of letting a top college hitter "slowly work up" after first signing? I mean aren't these kids fucking swinging and training anyways? Sox could have him out on the back fields of AZ for two weeks taking live ABs in a controlled environement, coaching him up and evaluating at an org level, then send him wherever.

Yea we're wasting time with Vaughn in A ball, high or otherwise. Get him up to AA this weekend then a cup of coffee in AAA and he's in MLB next July.

they look awful. as usual the presentation of this events sucks ass. joe buck can fuck off.

is that the first time he rocked the chain? If so I dig it. swag it up dude.

Yep it's a positive reinforcement for him I think that's important.

Tanaka is a fucking All Star? Awesome. Just put the entire Yankees team in.

blacked out on MLB.tv and fox local comes in like shit in this part of town. Great job MLB I'll just go stream it illegally.

As a fan of the laundry and not just the names on the back I'm thrilled. Sounds like a guy that will take a massive home team discount so we can pay other guys that are (frankly) better and younger. Everybody wins.

Good. Maybe he'll play for free. Someone should ask him. If he wants this team to succeed and build a winner he can offer two things this offseason: 1) become open to primary being a DH. Maybe he could talk to Edgar or Frank about it I'm not kidding. Edgar has said on Mariner radio out here that at the end of his career when he was DHing he learned to use the video room in the stadium in between ABs to try and get an edge and it helped him. Jose need to learn similar tricks to the transition. 2) Offer a massive home town discount. I'm talking 20-30% over fair market value. Fair market value is probably 2 years 20 million (assuming he finishes around 120 wRC+ and 2 fWAR). So take 2 years 16 million with a club option for 5 million on the back. There, you're a Sox for the next three years most likely now do some winning and hit a shitload of important HR. Also, given his love of Chicago the Sox need to get creative with the "personal services" side. If he wants stuff for his wife and kids (luxury box, access to a team vehicle, and so on) give it to him no questions asked, as long as it's not a Drake LaRoche style request.

As much as I like to see our guys in the ASG whenever a SP is involved it's always "get in there, get three outs, and get out healthy". Felt the same about Sale.

right on. I'm excited about the dude from what I'm reading. I think I posted it earlier today (been a long day) but looking at BP's list of mid season top 50 guys it's amazing how many 15-16 year old Latin kids nobody had heard of a few years ago are now on that list from mostly three or four orgs: NYY, Rays, Braves and Astros. It's great to strike on the big fish like Robert but if you can find Robert at 15 instead of 19 you've got a massive leg up on the league.

first one they didn't trade away perhaps.

You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather!