Bob Sacamano

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 03:39 PM) Generally "Teasers" are supposed to be shorter, but I've never seen a 5 minute trailer. I've seen people combine 2-3 trailers into a single one - that happened for Star Wars last year and I shared it here, but that wasn't an official thing, the trailers were each about 2 minutes. Maybe not 5 but definitely longer than 4 mins. I've seen a lot of close to 4:30 trailers.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 03:22 PM) I have to imagine they are also looking at all of the Braves kids that just got set loose. That too.

QUOTE (FT35 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 03:17 PM) Exactly. It's the Red Sox who are inquiring...not us. The pressure is on them to ante up because they are the ones in "win now" mode. I think it's funny all the Boston fans saying this prospect or that player is TOO MUCH for Abreu. Well...it doesn't really matter because if it's too much, you don't get the player you're asking for if you don't match the price. I know the logic is profound...but if you believe a certain player is the missing link to a championship run, you pay to get him. If not, you pay an inflated amount to get someone not as good on the FA market and hope it works out in your favor. Not much else to it. Go sign Adam Lind if that's closer to your price range. I'm thinking they sign Santana. That way they hold onto their last few chips and don't have to go over 4 years or sign Hosmer long-term.

Unique enough for this thread?

Angels received $1.21 million, all of the Braves remaining bonus pool money, along with Johnson for a prospect. Angels now have $1.315 million to offer Ohtani. I'll add them to the list of teams I expect to sign him (along with Yankees, Rangers and Mariners).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 01:42 PM) Assuming all of them are successful AND healthy? I wouldn't bet on it. Both Davidson and Cordell missed significant amounts of time last season. I was just saying to POSSIBLY open up the year. Whether they could last a full year, who knows.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 01:36 PM) If Avi and Abreu are dealt, there will be at least a couple of these kind of guys who play this year for sure. You'd have Gillaspie at first if he is good in the spring, Davidson at DH (which is likely right now), Cordell in RF.

Subject change, please?

QUOTE (hi8is @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 01:13 PM) Damn it Law, you dream crusher. I still will blindly believe ? Still willing to give him a year or two of at bats to prove him wrong. Worst case scenario, a team still has his arm.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 12:13 PM) Jon Morosi‏Verified account @jonmorosi Giancarlo Stanton trade development: Source says #Marlins likely would accept offer of Panik, Beede and Shaw for Stanton alone -- if #SFGiants committed to paying at least $250 million of the $295 million left on Stanton’s contract. @MLB @MLBNetwork Wasn't there an update yesterday saying the Giants are willing to take on the entire contract? Don't know if it meant for that package or not though.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 11:51 AM) Sure, but why would he sign that? He'll probably get 2 years and $40M the next 2 seasons. So he's effectively getting 2 guaranteed years at $20M per. Security? Sure...but I think he'd do better in FA in he doesn't fall flat on his face the next two seasons. For what would be his age 33 season and on? Probably better but not much.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 11:30 AM) Again, why can't the White Sox trade them now, and sign them later if there is a need and they are worth the money? It's pretty much a free look at how they will age, and you get some assets for assets you don't need while you aren't going to contend. You obviously will have competition, and their new teams will have some sort of say, but they save their current salaries for a couple of seasons, so if they are worth it later, they can pay them more then. This is fine too.

QUOTE (fredmanrique @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 11:05 AM) Just a general observation about AAV and excess value, as I notice a lot of people using that to lower their perception of an Abreu return at his salary. Does it not ignore supply and demand and pretend as though any of 30 teams can have any player at what they view as appropriate value WAR for dollar spent? There are only so many consistent top 10 hitting first basemen in baseball. The whole league days so hard now to accouunt for defense, it overinflates guys like Hayward, and undervalued almost all 1b in my opinion. Part of that is less steroids in the game too. Just a thought when people say groome+chavis (or whatever) is too much for abreu This was all over the thread on MLBTR. It was getting annoying to read. I ended up breaking it down very simple for someone on there: If Abreu is dealt, that means Rick Hahn received a great haul. It's that simple since the Sox don't have to just trade him away. He's not blocking anyone and they have no salary commitments next year (outside of Shields).

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) You just have to squint really hard. Lol figured someone would say that. That was more of a "teaser" or "teaser trailer" than an actual full trailer correct? Seems like trailers are usually around 4-5 minutes long.

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 09:37 AM) In trailer, no Hawkeye and no Spidey in that big battle scene or Iron Man, but War Machine is. Didn't see Ant-Man either.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 09:28 AM) The cosmic cube was in Captain America, they already knew where they were going That's true too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 10:29 AM) If you offered him that and he said no, would that make you ready to trade him for the best available offer? It would for me. I think so.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 10:21 AM) I’d give Abreu something like 4/$80M with a 5th year team option and call it a day. He can anchor the middle of the lineup for a big chunk of our window, serve as mentor for Moncada, Robert, & other young LatAm players, improve our sales pitch to free agents next offseason, & further establish our status as the team to sign with for future Cuban amateurs (which becomes important with capped spending). All those factors combined make him worth more to us than other teams IMO. That contract would be perfect.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 09:37 AM) I just wonder if it really is attempted much. Switch hitting has been something every kid who has every played in a playground has tried. If you really trained to switch pitch, obviously it wouldn't be easy to be major league quality on one side, not mentioning both, but you figure a few would have made it. It would really help a bullpen out, and speed up the game. It would be fun to watch Darvish do it. When he was missing the whole season due to whatever surgery he had, he said he could pitch left-handed (who knows how well that would have gone though). Speaking of Venditte, I think he signed with the Dodgers the other day. It's basically like carrying a 26th man which is kinda how it would be like having Otani DH and pitch.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 09:21 AM) Supposedly this guy will make about $20 million a year in endorsements, so that will ease the burn a bit. I still think he's foolish for not waiting. I hope he can do both hit and pitch. It would really be fun if he was successful at both. One freaky thing I still don't understand why we don't see more of is switch pitching. Like...Pat Venditte type of switch pitching?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 09:08 AM) GOTG had nothing to do with choosing Thanos. The decision to start the Infinity storyline came way before they even decided to do GOTG An official announcement that they were making GotG happened the same weekend the first Avengers movie came out. I remember going to see it that Saturday and checking my phone and seeing a post about it on Facebook. Who knows when they actually decided to make it though.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 08:44 AM) The Cubs got Arrieta because Jesse Crain got hurt. Oh what could have been.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 08:47 AM) 2014, the year after the Sox took Nieto. He had just converted to catching, and didn't have a very big year in high A. He broke out the next year. He was the Cubs version of Magglio Ordonez, who the Sox once left unprotected. Well that's not really luck. That seems like a no-brainer to not take the guy who just converted to the hardest position on the field haha it seems more lucky that he was able to stick behind the plate than someone not taking him.

QUOTE (Tony @ Nov 30, 2017 -> 08:44 AM) Willson Contreras was the starter. David Ross was a pinch hitter. Yeah as his personal pitcher entered the game. He only caught once every 5th day unless it was necessary.