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He's currently Day-to-day with an illness, IIRC.

Good lord

Well, Hahn will certainly be fired if this run doesn't work. Dombrowski got his full run with the Tigers, from foundation to maturation. The DBacks guys got canned because their moves were insane -- no one thinks Hahn's direction is off like there's was. It's actually pretty similar to Preller with the Padres, if you think about it. He comes in, states they're being aggressive, spends a bunch of money when no one on Earth thought it could possibly be enough. Lo and behold -- it wasn't, the team was a joke, and now Preller gets the chance to tear it down and do it his way. Once you give the guy the task and the vote of confidence, you gotta let him see it through. You could argue that Preller/Hahn both should have been let go before the rebuild started, but once you start you gotta let them see it through -- assuming they aren't Stewart-ing it.

Dude it's year two of a rebuild. I know it sucks to watch, but the ice ain't thin. It'll get thin very quickly in 2020 if these guys all still suck.

None of the doom-crew around here would take ANY of that as an acceptable outcome for this rebuild, nor the tenure of any administration whatsoever.

Wait, what? Tigers? Diamondbacks? Padres? Mariners? Freaking Orioles? Marlins? What on Earth are you talking about?

More intentional though, more like the new Marty34

Time will tell. Alen Hansen has hit better this season. The point is that the Braves are in a pennant race, have been getting ~100 wRC+ out of a bench OF bat, felt like they needed an upgrade, and traded that bench bat plus two pitching prospects for a bat that's hitting significantly worse. And it's not a prospect, it's a 30 year old dude who hasn't hit well for a couple years. It's a strange move in context.

Hang in there, Brad. It'll get better.

It just seems like a steep price to pay for a marginal (if any) upgrade. I wonder if it was as much about a 40-man crunch as anything else, as both pitchers have been around a while.

WAR is a counting stat, and Duvall has more playing time. It's the reason I chose a rate stat to use. Good attempt at sarcasm, but you should probably learn more about what you're talking about first.

Duvall has an 82 wRC+. Tucker has a 101 wRC+.

From a game theory perspective, the answer is yes. From a morality perspective, it's different for everyone. I would never try to acquire someone assuming I could extend him, however.

You use subjectivity when you have no choice -- when the data available is incomplete or insufficient. Unfortuntaly, ithe data with prospects is frequently incomplete or insufficient.

Randoms for randoms

The confusion comes from the fact that, like many things, the argument has been taken out of the proper context more often than not. Back in the early 2000's there was a lot of "you can't hang in the majors if you strike out x much." Then, the counter-argument appeared from your saber-forward teams, which was "if you get on base enough and hit for enough power, we don't care how much you strike out." As they do, mainstream media then stripped all nuance from the conversation and boiled it down to a ridiculous polar stance that is uttered most often. "K is just another out" never made any sense without the qualifiers that were originally attached to it. But, as is often the case, no one in the game was actually ever arguing for it that way.

Torres is already producing at the major league level. There's no argument at all that Jimenez is an equivalent asset.

These are high-variance guys, but this is an absolute fantastic outcome to the Soria signing. This went about as well as it could have gone.

Medeiros is a very interesting post-hype sleeper.

I bet it'll be Shields. I imagine he goes during August.

Yeah guys, I'm with ss2k5 on this one -- you guys are expecting a lot for Soria. I hope you're right, but front offices know just as well as we do that relievers can look fantastic over 30 inning stints and completely fall of a cliff at any moment.

I got to see a lot of both Perez and Acevedo when I worked for Staten Island. Acevedo as long been a favorite of mine -- three pitches, upper-90's gas, and while he has always been said to have some control problems, they never really led to too many walks until recently. Never really struggled at all, really, until he got to AAA last year, and that was only a 12 inning sample. He's been pegged as a reliever since day one, but I don't know why.

No fit, unfortunately.

Yes, the author of that paragraph does not know what a slider is.

Agreed -- all these sound steeper than what I'd think was reasonable. I guess that's the beauty of a bidding war.