Hard not to believe that AA's not still lurking. If the Yankees have moved on from the potential three-way deal and Rosenthal's right about the Happ signing, where's the big piece the Mutts are going to send for him coming from? Andujar would no longer be a part of any return, and the Mutts keep saying they're not interested in including Conforto or Rosario.
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 Marlins are going to waste Realmuto's value by holding out for unreasonable packages in an attempt to make up for poor returns on their other assets.
Folks clamoring for new owners of the Braves need to wake up and see that the scenario going down in Miami is just as likely to happen with new owners as the scenario they are all dreaming about. Chances are a new owner will be meddlesome, incompetent, and install lackeys in positions of power...without raising payroll a bit. The grass isn't always greener.
DirkPiggler (12-12-2018)
Morosi- #Tigers have spoken with multiple teams this week about a Nick Castellanos trade, source says, but a deal is not close. #Braves are one of the most interested clubs. @MLB @MLBNetwork
I get the feeling Fried or Touki would be going back to the Fish if we do trade for Realmuto.
This feels like Winter 01-02 when Steve Phillips traded for everyone to the Mets to try and overtake us... Mo Vaughn, Alomar, Burnitz, D'Amico. Then we crushed that by acquiring The Vinster SVOD and The Sheff.
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His expected BA based upon how he actually hit the ball the last 2 season is about 20 points lower than it "should" be, so that accounts for most of the projected drop in BA from .280+ to .260. Maybe Haniger is a guy who can maintain a BABIP in the .330s. I haven't run my projections for him to make my own determination, but I would tend to doubt a guy sustains a BABIP in the high .330s as well.
His barrel rate and LD/FB exit velocity suggests he should carry a HR/FB rate around 17%+, so his career rate of 15.6% is likely suppressed a bit by the ballpark in Seattle. In fact, his career HR/FB rate away from Seattle is 16.7% and lines up pretty well with what I expect from him based on the values I use to project HR rate. I see no reason to project him for an ISO under .200, and would actually expect it to rise a bit if he leaves Seattle.
The projected BB/K rates of 9.5% and 22.1% seems legit, and I would probably project the BB a bit higher, probably closer to 10%.
Without running my full projection system on Haniger, I would probably peg his 2019 season at about .270/.360/.480 (.840 OPS) with ~25 HRs.
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jpx7 (12-12-2018)
Haniger seems like a real possibility. i have to think AA is working hard to work something out.
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