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I think Sierra's hitting close to .300 with the Sox. He was at .272 before the game today. Edit: .299/.317/.443

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:54 PM) ERA+ 96, -0.3 WAR, His fWAR is even worse since he's given up so many home runs this year. When Reed doesn't have his good velocity, he's just throwing 92 MPH fastballs right down the pipe.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) So Rajai Davis is now the Tigers starting CF? Oh boy. Their defense just got exponentially worse.

Looks like Rose is going to make it on the USA FIBA World Cup team.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:33 PM) LOL. Price @ 20M is just fine. It isn't like it is 20M for 5 years. This is so laughable how stupid some of this statisticians have gotten. I almost wish Kenny was back in charge the way some teams have started to completely overvalue prospects, etc. If anything, I would have expected Cameron to say Price is well worth it at $20 million. He is. He's a 5 WAR pitcher. That's worth at least $25 million on a one year contract. But I think his point is this: Price at $20 million is a lot of money, regardless of how much money you have or how valuable he actually is. Paying him that money AND giving up 6 years of control of good prospects is not worth it. You also have to take into account that the Rays aren't exactly rich. $20 million is like 1/4 of their payroll.

QUOTE (almagest @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:30 PM) Hard to go on sustained runs when you have the giant starting pitching holes we have had all season. Along with a terrible bullpen.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:14 PM) Marlins got Cosart instead of Danks. I would too. Costs a lot less, not any worse.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:10 PM) That is terrible. Just hold onto him for the rest of the season and try in the off-season and or again at next years deadline. Brutual by Rays; Great move by Tigers. Agreed. They didn't have to make the trade now.

QUOTE (1dog @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:12 PM) I am shocked that the A's traded Cespedes BTW...to rent Lester for a few months? Just doesn't seem like the type of trade the A's usually make. They're going for it all. Although this Price trade really gives the Tigers a good chance to screw up that plan.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:10 PM) Not saying that the athletics should have got price, just that they added and subtracted and seems like tigers just added Agreed. The A's gave up a lot for what was more or less a luxury in Lester. They already had 5 solid starters, including 3 excellent ones. The Tigers got better in the rotation and won't lose a ton in the lineup with Jackson (they will miss his defense though, they have no CFer).

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:09 PM) Rays got less back for 1 1/2 years of Price than the Cubs for 1 1/2 years of Shark plus 1/2 a year of Hammel. God dammit. I don't understand why the Rays would trade him now if that's all they were getting for him. They had the off-season to look for a trade. They must love Nick Franklin or something...

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 03:05 PM) What sucks is that losing smyly doesn't matter becuase he's replaced with price and doesn't hurt losing Jackson either. Didn't hurt their major league team. Athletics had to lose cespedes. Rays weren't going to take Cespesdes' fairly expensive contract and deal with his impeding free agency in a year. They don't have the money to retain him. That's why the A's didn't get Price. Cespedes is a much better piece now than Franklin or Smyly ever will be. And honestly, Smyly is not any better than Tommy Milone.

MLB Trade Rumors just broke...

Price, Scherzer, Sanchez, Verlander, Porcello. Damn.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 02:59 PM) Holy sh*t! Tampa just got fleeced for Price. I would have expected more than Franklin and Smyly.

Jackson's going to Seattle. Nick Franklin and Smyly going to Tampa.

Wow they're taking him out in the middle of the inning.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 02:33 PM) Rios is the John Danks of batters. He makes $15 million to be average - and he's been worse than average this year, like Danks. Both on pace for 1.4 WAR. Ya don't say.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 02:31 PM) Leury hitting .186/.222/.246. Meanwhile Rios is wanted by 4 or 5 teams. D'oh! It's not like freeing up Rios' salary got us Abreu. Freeing up Peavy's salary did that. I think the Sox wanted to let Viciedo develop, but that hasn't exactly worked out.

Remember when Beckham was hitting near .300 a few months ago? It looked like he had a little bit of trade value back then.

Danks would have been average in 2006. In this day and age, a starter with an ERA/FIP in the mid 4s is not considered average anymore.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 02:05 PM) 2B maybe? Ian Desmond has been a good SS; just not as good defensively as Cabrera. Rendon plays 2B. Cabrera makes no sense for them unless Zimmerman will be out for a long time. Edit: after reading about Zimmerman's grade 3 hamstring strain, this trade makes a lot more sense. Rendon goes back to 3B. Cabrera to 2B, where his lack of range will be less of an issue. Desmond is actually a good defensive SS.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 02:00 PM) Gillaspie against lefties: .213/.250/.280. He's rightly sitting today. I'm not talking about today specifically. I've felt he should be hitting second for a while now. But Robin won't do it because it'll put Eaton and him back to back.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 01:54 PM) Batting Ramirez 2nd is retarded in the first place. Conor should be hitting second. I don't care if he's left-handed. When you have a guy with a .370 OBP batting 6th and the rest of your lineup sucks, you're doing it wrong.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2014 -> 10:51 AM) Jerry Crasnick ‏@jcrasnick 22m #Twins announce that Tommy Milone will report to Triple-A Rochester. Because? ...what?