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Tampa should just swap Archer for Keon Broxton and be done with it!
The amazing thing is how stacked the Astros are even without Keuchel.
But I don't care for your proposal. The 2015 Keuchel who obliterated the Yanks on the WC game has been only sporadically glimpsed since then. When he's on, he's great, but the Crew can't afford to trade those prospects for a one year rental. And that's what he would be. Last ace to pitch in Milwaukee was Sabathia in 2008. And he couldn't leave town quick enough...... don't know why.....plenty of good beer in Milwaukee.....
Personally, I'm having trouble with where MLB is heading. A handful of super teams with an occasional playoff lifeline for the small market clubs isn't good for the game. Venerable franchises like the pirates and reds can't compete, and if they do manage to string together a decent line up, they're walking the wire to try and keep it intact for more than a couple of years.
Cheap owners like Wilpon are one thing, but there has to be a way that teams that ID and develop talent can keep it in the fold.
Cubs really loaded up this off season. And they have a mighty wallet. And most importantly, dudes want to play there.
I could see the Brewers making the playoffs, probably as a WC......I could also see the Brewers struggling to finish .500. They certainly overachieved last season, and they didn't exactly bolster the rotation. Gallardo? Miley?
I guess the off-season ain't over yet. They have the prospects to nab a front line ace, but who's ready to deal their#1 arm?
Me too. Wow. He has been decent to pretty good over his career. There's some teams out there who would definitely improve with Dickerson in the starting 9. Unfortunately, my Brewers aren't one of them.
APRI hit with a CRL
Lol. If Gilead wanted Bio-Path it would have happened.
No doubt a healthy staff is the key, not only for the Mets, but for all of MLB. That said, the Crew were within a game of making the playoffs last year, and I would have challenged all but the most hardcore Milwaukee fans to name the starting 5 going into the season. Our GM and scouts nailed it last year: that SP staff totally outperformed expectations and proved that it is possible to compete without Kershaw, Lester, Sale or the other big names.
Yes, there are elite pitchers. But as you know all too well as a Mets fan, you're not elite if you're on the DL. But the sign of a solid MLB organization is the ability to compete when your stars are injured. That's what the Dodgers have done. A fat wallet doesn't hurt, lol.
I hope your arms bounce back. Any division that's won in May, like the Nats did in the NL east last year, makes for a boring season. And if the Mets don't compete, the Nats might have it sown up in April.
I bought in pre-split in the .18's
Hoping some decent clinical results come out in the next days/weeks/months to send this higher, because form what I've read, clinical results are pretty much all this outfit has left.....
I have no interest in Arrieta. His numbers suggest a steady decline into the twi-light of a bloated contract. Lynn I like much more, both for price and potential.
That said, the Crew has some excellent trade bait in the OF. Acquiring a front line starter through the trade route is much more appealing to me than signing a FA, especially for a starting pitcher.
Let's face it: small market teams have a 2-3 year window to try and win it all once they've got their re-build chips in order. Having a FA SP on a 5-7 year deal for 120 million plus is not a good fit for the Brewers' strategic direction IMO. What good is an old, untradeable Arrieta to the Crew in 3 years time? At that point, he'll be consuming 33% of their annual payroll.
Agreed on the Cubs and the overpayment/length of contract. But I guess for a cashed up team, it's SOP. 3 years from now when Yu is ragged and posting 4+ era's, they can cut him and sign the next guy.....maybe the Mets can pull an Adrien Gonzalez then and pick him up for the minimum, lol.
Eat a few prunes I hope.
Brewers with some fireworks! Yelich I like. A lot. He was worth the prospects, steep though the price was. Very few, if any teams, wouldn't improve by adding Yelich.
Cain? I think 5/80 isn't toooooo horrid, but I was surprised to read how hot the Brewers were to sign him. Apparently they targeted him early as their main FA focus. Sure, Broxton was shaky last year, especially the high K's and low BA, but these are common issues with young dudes and the stats will improve. Cain for 5 is much more palatable than Cain for 7 though.
What this team needs is an ace. Or at least a Lynn-type pitcher who can give you 200+ innings and a mid 3 ERA...keep you in the mix until the trade deadline when aces become available....
Looking for AGon(y) to post just enough to stick around...somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.45, 18 dongs, 66 RBI.
Mets sign up the arbitration guys. 9.225 million for Ramos. Wow. Nice work if you can get it.
Bargain for the Mets. If Bruce performs to his historical averages, 13 million a year is cheap.
LoLLLLLLL! Classic! Looks like the work of a pissed off bagholder with serious coding skills!
Thanks for organising sskillz1. May you be rewarded for all of your hard work by the Mets trading for cutch next week!
When, since the advent of monetary policy, has "how to pay for it" entered the political conversation in any meaningful way?
The key for me in that article was Horizon's use of a fine-tuned sales staff to get their scammy drug sold. KTOV will need a partner for KIT-302 if they want similar results.
3 years $38 million is a bit of a stretch for Chatwood IMO. yeah, the dude pitches better away from Coors, but who doesn't? I guess time will tell if his road record from 2017 translates into the #'s the Cubs hope they're getting. Seems to me Chatwood is an innings-eating guy at best; his BB to K ratio isn't too impressive...and wow, just noticed the guy has 1 career shut out. I know they're hard to get with the 5/6 inning hook these days, but $38 million for a guy who has 1 career shut out. Guess I'm just old, lol.
Chacin has 1 career shut out as well. Difference is that earlier in his career, Chacin pitched at Coors and pitched well. And the other difference is the price tag. 2 years, $16 million is a significant cost saving for what amounts to the same stats. Chacin had a great bounce back year last season; of course we'll see what 2018 brings for both of these guys, but when you're working the wire in Milwaukee, a few million here and there is everything. I only wish the Crew had traded Braun 2 years ago when he had some value. The Dodgers were interested back then....and had the trade happened, the Crew could probably have paired Braun in the OF this year with Kemp for the MLB minimum!
Brewers sign Chacin to a 2 year deal. This guy had a great 2017; 32 starts and an era under 4, which translates into what all teams need: an innings eater who gives you a chance to win on most days he's taking the ball.
I like the off-season moves in Beertown this year: Hosmer and Martinez? Let someone else overpay for these guys. Same with Darvish and Arrieta. The model of paying huge money for guys who might give you value for 1/3 of their contract is a big problem in baseball today. There ain't too many Max Scherzers out there: guys who get paid a ton and are worth it over the life of the contract.
The new sexy in baseball is finding and paying tomorrow's stars before they hit free agency and the GM has to blow the bank on a deal that everyone knows is going to suck (except for the player and his agent). Matt Kemp is going to hit some homeruns this season for someone other than the teams that are paying him....not so sure about Adrien Gonzalez, which makes him a perfect fit for the Mets!
Hey Skillz, I saw the Mets play the Dodgers last August when I was in the states. Your boys hit 3 HRs in the bottom of the first inning. The running joke was that the apple in centerfield didn't inflate after the 3rd HR because 3 Met HRs in one inning just doesn't happen! Coda: the Mets got 1 hit the rest of the way and lost 7-4.
10 large I'd waaayyyyy too much to pay cc imo. Yes, he had a decent year in 2017, but the knees aren't getting any less creaky, the fastball is slowing down and he'll be lucky to clock 100 innings imo.
Damn skillz, it ain't even pitchers and catchers yet and you're spewing bitterness like the metties are 12 games out in April. I'll grant you that your team does suck and has no chance in that division, but the allure of the off season is that all teams have equal records.
Face it: 2015 was an abberation. Cespedes got hot, Murphy got hot, the pitchers'arms stayed attached. Hasn't happened like that in Flushing since '86. Won't happen again for some time. But it is NY and the expectation is there to spend some $$.
Gloat now, you'll be crying later, lol.
The only hope for those of us decent people cheering for the downfall of the evil empire is their lack of starting pitching. No way Severino and CC match last year's numbers. I'll even predict Judge tops out at 23 homers while easily taking the K mantle for the AL. They make the playoofs, but this time, Kluber closes out a series for a change and we have this same conversation a year from now after the yanks sign machado and harper, who they convert to 3rd base.....
I completely agree.
As a Brewers fan, this Stanton trade makes me puke. Baseball has lost its way. The only model that can redeem the sport is the revenue sharing NFL model, which recognizes that parity is what keeps a sport healthy. Super teams are crushing the NBA fan base and baseball is next.
I agree that this trade should be investigated and overturned. Cashman vs Jeter in the front office is about as fair as Jeter vs Cashman at SS. Unreal.
Hopefully this works out better than the Josh Hamilton signing! I suspect Ohtani will put up decent numbers...nothing Cy-esque, but decent. And he'll certainly fill some seats.
There's a reason a lot of MLB washouts sign to play in Japan but very few Japanese players make the jump to the majors.
It would be a great signing if the Ms get Othani. I'm just happy it's not the red sux or skankees scooping him up.
Chone Figgins redux in Seattle. Jimpin Jerry trades for Dee Gordon ...to play CF....
2 questions:
Do you believe in hard and fast milestones for HOF induction, ie, 300 wins, 3000 hits, etc?
Do you think there should be any allowance for a player's club house contributions and fluency in the game or do go strictly by the numbers?
Yup, Belle was an absolute beast, and I agree he should be in. Being a terrible interview should not hurt your HOF chances, but sadly, these writers have egos...and they do the voting.
Past precedent does rear up it's ugly head though. How can you let Ozzie and his 2460 hits in and not Omar and his 2877?
I gotta say that unfair as it is, I think players who spent their entire career with a single team have an advantage with HOF possible induction. Somehow that longevity translates into a mythical portrayal of a player as a franchise icon: "Mr Cardinal". It might seem insignificant but a couple of votes can make the difference for guys who are borderline.
Writers like their own. Most writers never played beyond pony league, so their academic approach to the game gives a "thinking man's" player like Omar a reasonably big edge over a morally shady character like Andruw Jones, even though Jones was a great CF in his prime.
It's true that Omar doesn't have the big batting #'s, but I like the thought that #'s aren't everything when considering HOF entry.The one # Omar does have is 11 gold gloves. That's a pretty impressive stat, and IMO, is good enough to get his 2877 hits over the line for entry. In 2020.
I'd take Omar over Ozzie as my SS, even without the back flip.
Thanks, LOL. I too am planing to do better next contest! Thanks SSKILLZ for the admin. It's good fun to be sure..
Yup. steveschiets and I are really battling into the final week!
boy, who hasn't thought of that idea while watching your team's best hitter get wrung up on a called 3rd strike 6 inches off the plate....
I for one would hate to see it, though it's probably inevitable. That said, aside from the loss of jobs, because let's face it, if the home plate ump goes, why do you need ANY umps on the field, it's hard to make the case for live umps.
This goes much further, as it's hard to make the case for live humans in many jobs these days.
The M's need a first baseman. Alonso is history.
Earpieces and mics between the plate and the mound. Adds a whole new dimension to stealing signs.
Lots of great bargains out there in bio land after the recent sell down. Chuck tax loss selling into the mix and a lack of finite dates for strong catalysts and you begin to see why this stock sits where it does.
Ha! NOBODY kicks me out of last place!!