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This is crazy. He saw the same amount of righties as lefties last year. This year he has seen 80 more lefties than righties.

The evolution of Castillo throughout the years is kind of crazy. He went from having one of the best change ups in baseball to having one of the worst.

Yeah, but we're not seeing a decrease in velocity or anything that drastic in pitch shapes. He's also not walking more guys. It's simply that guys aren't swinging at his slider anymore.

Ugh, what a waste of financial flexibility. It's too bad the Red Sox got good again, otherwise we could have traded for Sonny Gray.

This is just overkill though. They could build like a 7 man rotation for the playoffs if everyone's healthy.

Braden Montgomery, Tanner McDougal, and David Sandlin.

His wOBA against on the road is like .364. It's ugly.

It better be for a Cy Young or something outlandish lol.

Is this guy related to Jim?

They have to have some model that thinks he's going to be worth at least $14 million next year, right? Otherwise, why make a trade like this?

The price of every starter has been high. Even Dean Kremer got a legit prospect in return. Maybe I'll feel better once some of the other guys get dealt and those deals look like overpays too.

2 top 100 prospects and neither were in their top 3. Crazy.

FWIW, the projection models still think he's a 4 ERA/4 FIP guy. That's fine for a 3rd starter. I do wonder how those projections might change when he no longer pitches in Seattle tho.

The Dodgers are trying so hard to have a lock out next year huh?

We'd probably have to go back to Jose Contreras or Freddy Garcia before Liriano.

Hmm yeah I could definitely see the benefits there.

We were talking about Boston Smith being too much for someone like Peralta, who is having just as bad of a year as Castillo. But now we gave up Smith and have to risk paying Castillo $30 million over the next 1.5 years. Sure, Dominguez offsets some of that, but not enough. Peralta is also making only $8 mil this year, so his pro rated contract would be extremely cheap.

So they're gonna piggyback with Castillo again? lol

He's given up 16 homers this year. He would have given up 2 more at the Rate based on Baseball Savant's expected home runs.

Getting anyone to take that contract was a bonus for the M's.

Other way around.

We have to give them money on top of this? WTF? I'm guessing this is if Castillo does well, which I guess is fine. But I thought we already gave up a lot in this deal and there's a chance we can give up more...

Since when is Nolan Jones a prospect?

Castillo is basically Fedde that throws harder away from Seattle.

Arizona loaded the bases too and is now up 5.