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Those same projections have Riley at .307/.471 and Camargo at .326/.439 so I'm not sure what your point is here.

Oh, you're one of those people who likes math. I'd prefer to deal with someone who can just eyeball this deal and know its right in their gut.

What about the Bedford Level Experiment huh? What about fish eye lenses in space cameras huh?

I'll trade you clv and PawPaw for CrazyTrain, VirginaBrave, and SJ24. I know its a 3 for 2, but I feel like clv is at least worth Virginia and Taylor combined. I'll talk to clv about waiving rhetorical questions, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. He really likes those things.

Can you name an instance where a player gave away an opt out for precisely no monetary gain? I certainly can't recall any. And if the ability to control his situation were so important to him, why would he just give away his ability to regain full control of his circumstances in two years for...

Yeah this is another point that isn't related to money at all. Why would he waive his opt out to get out of his current situation, to enter into a different situation that he knows nothing about, and lock himself in to that situation for the rest of his career. The opt out isn't exclusively...

I feel like this is made up. I don't recall many people saying unequivocally that Donaldson would for sure be coming back or that it was definitely down to us and the Nats. I recall mostly reading arguments on the number of years and dollars that should be given to Donaldson. I don't recall...

Yeah those two things are different. Its technically possible for me to get into incredible shape, climb the Seven Summits, and bang every chick in Maxim's top 100. But there is literally a 0% chance of that happening. At best I could do Kilimanjaro plus 20-30 Maxim Top 100, but even that is...

Maybe he's deaf and hasn't heard the rumors? Maybe he doesn't even know he has an opt out and we can trick him into signing a waiver? How are his reading skills?

I once said that there was absolutely no way that Trump would win the presidency. I also said that tie-dye unicorns who are addicted to kindness didn't exist. Must mean that I was wrong about both of those things.

What would be the benefit in waiving the opt out? Even if Arenado were totally convinced of his commitment to whatever team he was on, it would still be immensely stupid to waive his opt out. If he goes out and has an 8 win season in 2021 at age 31, he would likely do much better than 5/164 on...

They would have to pick up more than that. We'd be sending two top 40 prospects for an essentially value-neutral asset. Waters and Anderson are worth more than 40-50 million dollars. Plus, we'd be adding ~25 million dollars to the 2020 payroll while creating yet another hole in the outfield...

We should go to Ozuna and offer him a 4 year/not getting kicked in the balls contract. If he declines, kick him straight in the balls.

Its really not THAT rare, depending on how you define that word. You usually see a trade or two like that every year, depending on how many teams are rebuilding at a given time. We just have the unfortunate luck that there are very few teams who seem to be in rebuild mode at the moment. The...

Stuff like this literally happens all the time. The reason bad teams trade good players without monster contracts is because they don't want to waste that player's value on a non-contending team. Instead you trade that player to acquire future value in prospects. Those prospects will help you...

Braves just signed Solarte to a minor league deal. I really liked him a couple years ago.

I just can't see a realistic amount of money for the Rockies to send over in order for a deal like that to make sense. At this point, I don't think we have the room to add 25 million dollars to our payroll. In order for Arenado to get DOWN to even that number, the Rockies would have to send...

If we are ever going to trade high end prospects, its going to be for a controllable guy who doesn't have a ridiculous price tag. Even if the Rockies were going to send a bunch of money in the deal, citing Arenado as the ideal "trade the prospects" target is just strange. If they sent 50...

The more I look at him, the more I really like the idea of signing Brock Holt. He can serve as a strong side platoon option for 3rd base and can serve in other roles in a pinch. Shouldn't cost too much. If our offseason finished with Castellanos/Ozuna plus Holt, I'd be pretty happy with that...

If he is unable to add anything else to this team, then yeah the offseason was a fail. If he can add another 3-4 wins to the lineup, then the offseason was a great success in my opinion. If he adds another ~2 wins through going after cheap veterans who fit our lineup dynamic, then I still...