Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
The idea is to sell high on prospects, not sell them after their value has deteriorated.
Which SPs improved their stock? Anderson, Touki and Wilson is all I count. Wright and Wentz probably maintained their value.
Gohara, Soroka, Allard, Fried, and Newk all saw their value decrease after using up another year of control, showing they aren't very good, getting hurt, or a combination of those things.
So everyone wants to sell low on these assets. Doesn't seem very smart to me.
Chico (11-06-2018)
FG just realsed their Top 50 FAs and projections:
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2019...0-free-agents/
I would not want to be the team giving Donaldson 3 years, that's for sure.
I also feel sorry for whatever team gives Corbin $100M.
50PoundHead (11-05-2018)
Is it a crazy idea to try to trade and extend Nolan Arenado? What would it take?
You guys think it is crazy to trade for Mookie Betts
Coppy
with a little luck and patience we could have this sort of post season
1) Grandal at AAV of 15M
2) Trade Newcomb and Wentz for Peralta and Lamb (adding 15m to payroll)
3) Sign high leverage reliever for AAV of 12m
4) Sign Anibal for 6m
Opening day rotation is Folty, Anibal, Gausman, Julion, Fried
We hold on to Soroka, Gohara, Touki, Wright, Wilson, Riley, Pache, Waters, Contreras
Go get him!
Founding member of the Whiny Little Bitches and Pricks Club
If Kiley is right and 13 per gets Grandal then I’m all over that. Kimbrel at 14 is tempting.
I have a similar outlook...Grandal 3 year @ 15M, Brantley 2 year @13M, Anibal 1 @ 6M, trade Newcomb and Ender for Mitch Haniger. And dump Tehran.
Lineup - Albies, Acuna, Freeman, Brantley, Haniger, Camargo, Grandal, Dansby
Rotation - Folty, Gausman, Anibal, Soroka, Fried (with Touki, Wright, Wilson, Gohara in he wings)
Bullpen - Viz, Minter, ODay, Sobatka, Winkler, Ventres, with moeny at the deadline.
Reinforcements time well also. Riley in 1 year, Pache in 2 years, Contreas & Waters in 3 years, Pitchers galore
I think more teams are gonna go away from the 30-40 million dollar a year guy and spread the money out on a lot of good players rather than one or two great ones. I’m curious to see what Harper and Machado get.
For the long-term - and numbers-wise - they're not wrong. Given the depth of MLB-ready pitching in the Braves' system, injuries SHOULDN'T be a concern for the next 4-5 years - how many franchises have ever been in that position?
What gets "missed" from the pure numbers perspective is that being the smartest guy in the room without money gets you nowhere these days. Whether or not any franchise has completely bought into analytics is at least somewhat irrelevant - EVERYBODY is at the very least hiring people who have a better understanding of the numbers and letting them make their points to the decision-makers. Whether you're a "numbers-guy" or an "eye-test" guy, you have to come to the realization that the old stats vs. scouts argument is long dead - you're simply not going to be able to run circles around the JS/Bobby old-school crowd because they have all hired people like AA to teach them what they don't yet understand - or at the very least warn them when they're about to make a monstrous mistake when they choose to go with their gut rather than the numbers. The old-school crowd isn't a bunch of flaming idiots - they'd never have gotten to the positions they've been in in the first place if that was the case. Warn them they're about to screw up and show them why they did a few times, and they'll figure out they need to listen more carefully.
The only problem I have with worshiping at the analytics altar is that it treats everything as if all 30 teams are playing a zero-sum game, and they simply aren't. The teams with money can afford to spend their way out of the few times when the numbers don't work out like they expected them to. The Braves can't do that. The Rays have never been able to do that. There's probably not a team in the game that made moves strictly by the numbers more often than the Dodgers did this year - and that may very well be what cost them. They didn't have a "go-to guy" - not a single one. Boston was able to rally around their struggling stars because of the immeasurables - nobody on the Dodgers' roster got that chance because they were going by the book NO MATTER WHAT. At some point the poorer teams are going to have to trade in a few inexpensive pieces - even when doing so is inefficient - simply because they're as close as they can get and can't just go buy that last piece any other way.
When you can't spend enough to cover just one or two mistakes, you simply can't compete with the big-market teams any more today than you could in the past because they don't make as many mistakes as they used to when they simply threw money at those mistakes.
Last edited by clvclv; 11-05-2018 at 09:52 PM.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?