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If a friend asks a girl out and she likes him but instead decides to date a Kennedy, are you mad at him?

Your argument is essentially "One team decided they wanted a better defensive backup so they traded their part time catcher, therefore, it is impossible for part time catchers to exist at all (even though other teams have had part time catchers recently)"

Wilson Contreras split time at LF and C when they won the World Series. Why couldn't you "prepare as a backup catcher" and when game starts, go play 1b? Its not like a NFL quarterback.

I don't follow. Catchers don't prepare to hit? Cubs have done this as recently as two years ago.

Is this a thing? Why would they want to do that?

The simple answer is because Gardner cost them like 8 million vs. the 30+ million Harper will want and they'd rather spend to improve in areas other than OF. If they wanted to be in on Harper, why wouldn't they let Gardner go and sign him or another corner guy if they miss out on Harper? That'd make more sense to me.

I love how the entire board is celebrating peavy44 and calling him a soon-to-be-legend and he's spent the last 10 pages of the thread threatening to leave for lack of respect.

That assumes the 2020/second wave guys are good instantly.

Anderson. The fact that prospects tend to disappoint in their first year or two seems like an argument for augmenting the roster with smart free agent signings as more prospects get promoted. Otherwise, by the time the next wave comes and settles in, the current wave will be on their way out or getting expensive.

I don't understand why some fans would resist improvement because it doesn't make the team an instant title contender. If you have no third basemen and two giant holes in the rotation and there are no prospects ready at those positions, whats the downside? The time to tank is over. As others have said, if you are going to wait for the team to become great organically, you'll rebuild forever. Over a quarter of the team next year will be long term pieces and they are burning service time. Smart additions are exactly what the team needs.

Isn't he hitting like 400 in AFL? That seems weird to lose confidence in the hit tool when a guy is in the middle of a hit streak.

Yankees sign Machado... Abreu + Rodon for Andujar + Sheffield + Frazier... Doesn't that help both teams?

13 months ago, in a distant bygone era, each league had a team in the playoffs with 87 or less wins.

So anything less than a 96 win team on paper is not competitive?

I like this.

Gross. I can't do another season of the bad OFers we've seen the last two years. Let's say Eloy is in LF and Engel is in CF. Who is the in house option for RF?

I can't believe that they'd just let him go for nothing unless they plan to sign a legit RFer.

Also off the top of my head for baseball.... Cano to the Mariners... Ivan Rodriguez to the Tigers... Randy Johnson to Arizona....

Alex Rodriguez when he signed with Texas too...

Doesn't the list that shows the Sox at 2 people on the analytics side have the Athletics at 3? Have the Athletics become anti-analytics? I don't know what that list really tells us.

I'm aiming higher still

I want my Melton shirt.

QUOTE (wrathofhahn @ Apr 2, 2018 -> 08:37 AM) His scouting report was David Justice we'll see he is still super young. I don't know how realistic it is since I haven't seen much of him but I'd be very happy if he turned into an early career Nick Markakis type... A guy who can bat 2nd, give you a high obp, can run a little, hit like 18-23 HRs, good defense, etc.

Is the webcast working for anyone?

Weren't Angels supposedly still in on Ohtani? I wonder if they removed themselves by signing Maitan.