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He also said “it doesn’t matter if we just drafted it” so Bohm confirmed!

What is league average in those situations?

I view Riley Pint a lot like Cease. Big arm but some serious question marks (different issues obviously). Get him in the system and hope our development guys can get things to click for him. Regardless, option A is all about getting Rodgers. I’m taking a discount on the secondary pieces if I get true blue-chipper for Abreu and that’s what Rodgers is. He may not be quite as good as Jimenez, but we’re talking about a far less valuable asset. As for option B, I’m not sure I understand what your beef with Hoffman is or what the “not even on the team” comment means. He’d be the perfect type of arm to add and we could immediately insert him into our major league rotation. On top of that, we get an instant replacement for Abreu in McMahon and a major league ready CF prospect. While I’d love to add Dahl as a buy-low type, he’s already part of the OF mix for the Rockies and I really think they’d avoid giving him up. Tapia would get at least a year and half opportunity in CF before Robert & Basabe become serious threats. There’s a lot of value in adding three major league ready pieces that we can afford to work through their growing pains with. And quite frankly, I don’t think the Rockies would do either trade. I’m sure Rodgers is off-limits for anything but the most elite, cost-controlled talents and I can’t see them gutting a huge portion of their major league depth in one fair swoop. More realistically I could see them offering something like McMahon & Tapia and that just wouldn’t do it for me.

I’m open to trading Abreu, but that team better be prepared to pay up. I’m talking about either a Quintana like return (one blue-chipper + one other top 100 type) or a Sonny Gray like return (three top 100ish prospects). So for the Rockies, a team that could desperately use Abreu, I’m talking one of the following two packages: A) Brendan Rogers & Riley Pint B) Jeff Hoffman, Ryan McMahon, & Raimel Tapia Obviously either of those packages would be a big price to pay for a year and a half of Abreu, but that’s the cost for me to give up one of the elite bats in the game, disrupting my clubhouse, & weakening my position with free agents next offseason.

What in the world are you talking about? His K rate was 27.1% coming into the day. Would I like it lower, sure, but it’s not a problem give his BB rate & power.

He has a 24.5% BB rate, that’s going to come with a bunch of strikeouts whether you like it or not.

Why can’t he start 120 to 130 games? There aren’t that many lefties in the majors.

They were bound for regression based on their BABIP’s.

There are a group of posters here who talk like Anderson is some bum and are hoping he gets replaced at SS. Whether he’s a 3 or 4 WAR SS isn’t important, it’s the fact he’s a solid to very good player and only going to get better. You are actually arguing that one bad play last night should somehow offset his body of work which is absurd. People are focusing too much on the mistakes and not looking at the bigger picture. And I don’t get the Yolmer comparison at all. Tim has a very strong package of tools, whereas Yolmer is more solid average around the board outside of fielding. Anderson has a significantly higher ceiling and has a chance of being a special player. We all hope Yolmer can be a solid starting 3B, but that’s probably as good as it gets. I truly believe Anderson will put up a 30/30 season this year. If so and he can maintain his current BB rate, he’ll be one of the best offensive SS’s in the game. And tool wise, he’s got all the ability in the world to be a good defensive SS. It will just take some time.

I didn’t get to watch the game, but Fegan mentioned Tim was battling a sore thumb and specifically cited the double error play. Maybe we all need to cut him some slack until we see these “concentration problems” become a trend.

Tim is currently at 1.3 WAR through 48 games. He’s on pace for a 4+ WAR season despite a .273 BABIP. That’s 55 points below his 2017 BABIP and 100+ points below his minor league average. I get some of his denfensive miscues can be frustrating, but there is a group of people here who need to STFU when they start questioning if Tim is a major league SS or a key part of the core. The kid is only 24 years old and well on his way to being a future stud. His six years of control at roughly $39M is going to look a complete steal a few years from now. Haters really need to be silenced here.

Thanks for sharing that.

Stop being emotional 😜

This is baseball, not the NBA. You don’t need to rebuild Sam Hinkie style and rip your organization to the ground year after year until you finally get enough stars. We are burning through service time of a guy who has the potential to be a top 5 player in the game. I’m not saying that Jose is untradable, but losing a guy who is a top 30 hitter will likely extend the rebuild timeline and cost you precious Moncada years. And that doesn’t even include the clubhouse impacts which may or may not be signicant. IMO you have to be blown away to move Abreu to take on that risk.

I’m sure it’s related to OBP which is more valuable than slugging. And are you sure minor league wRC+ is park adjusted? I feel like it might not be which would make both players’ stats far more impressive.

That wild pitch really hurts there.

Agreed.

WTF?

I just learned an important lesson: don’t respond to a Greg post 60 minutes after the fact because someone else will have already expressed your exact thoughts.

You truly are uninformed & ignorant. Similar or worse players have been getting AAVs of $20M. And why is he probably older this his listed age?

That is pretty badass!

To my knowledge, he was throwing upper 90s post TJS while first in the minors and has been losing velocity each and every year. I don’t think that is that normal.

How does one effectively lose 6 to 8 MPH on their fastball in a handful of years with no known injury?

That’s my exact view as well

He’s a guy who should really benefit from the pros both from the juiced balls and better umps. I’ve seen him be the victim of multiple bad calls in the few games I’ve watched him.