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1 hour ago, CanadianHalo said:

Marsh/Sandoval/Renigfo/additional prospect(s) for Quintana and Contreras 

Dipoto would be all over that.  May even sweeten the deal.

6 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

Erick, not Eric:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=julio-000eri

6 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

Julian, not Julio:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=leon--000jul

6 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

This appears to be the correct spelling. 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=yon---000edw

Thank you for your invaluable contributions. 

3 hours ago, True Grich said:

Thanks, Santa, and Merry Christmas to you and the missus. I'll leave some cookies and 21-year old Single Hot Chick out for you.

Which do you eat first?

Never mind.

1 hour ago, Hubs said:

Worrying about his results last year at a 3.9 ERA/FIP and a higher road ERA... is recency bias.

I've been guilty of it too, like with Cozart, but I really felt he'd turned a corner.

Bumgarner is going to cost around 20-$22 M per season. That's big money, but it's not insane money.

15 of his 34 appearances were on the road, 19 at home.

He pitched in Boston, St. Louis, Oakland, Arizona x 2, San Diego x 2, Milwaukee, Los Angeles (Chavez) x 2, New York, Miami, Pittsburgh and Colorado.

At Boston, he gave up 5 runs in 5 innings. St. Louis, 6 ER in 5 innings. Colorado, 5 ER in 5 innings. 6 ER in 3.2 innings against the Dodgers. His Road ERA in those 4 starts was 10.60... his road ERA in the other ones? 3.79.

 

And games where he didn't give up a run his era was 0.00.  You're cherry picking.

And his ERA will climb being in the AL with the designated hitter.  His road stats might be what he sees in the AL.

41 minutes ago, zenmaster said:

You think we'd go 0-18 in those games with a pitcher other than him?

When your bullpen gets taxed to the point they are ineffective, yes.  a 7 inning pitcher makes a hell of a difference.

Of course we should be able to do that for a lot less than $36 mill a season.

5 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Arismendy Alcanfuck off.

If he makes the big club he'll need to change his last name.  I don't think they can stock jerseys that say fuck off.

3 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

I guess you can trade Cozart after all. I am going to miss him and his 12 games he played for the Angels. 

Post of the year (thread).  

5 hours ago, failos said:

don't be a wise ass you know what I mean

You're new here, aren't you?

42 minutes ago, Lou said:

4 minutes 11 seconds

So how's the 12 step program going?

Interesting teams on this list, looks like they want to eliminate the whole Pioneer League:

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/all-42-teams-reportedly-up-for-elimination-in-mlbs-minor-league-reduction-proposal/

Remember when baseball wanted to contract the Angels? I hope they back down on this too. Several of these teams look profitable.  

On 12/2/2019 at 1:18 PM, Stradling said:

I read this tweet, was it you that posted it?  Maybe it was on FB.  

I know I posted something similar on Quora.  I don't think I tweeted it though.

All joking and whatever @tdawg87 posted aside, wasn't the ruling on the Sox about being unbecoming of a baseball player? The rule seems to apply here. Banning of all involved might be harsh, but fair.

Three things kept Tommy John from the hall of fame:

1.  Sinkerball pitcher - soft throwing pitchers have a hard time making it.

2. The Chicago White Sox (early 1970's)  - those were some absolutely putrid teams the White Sox fielded.

3. Having Tommy John surgery which robbed him of a year and a half.  ;)

@Dochalo

My head hurts.

So is a sneak off the roster when no one is looking candidate?  He pitched for the Mariners last year, so I assume Dipoto doesn't want him.

7 hours ago, yk9001 said:

Why wouldn't anybody but the rich guy who owns the team and benefits from the the use of the stadium?

What are you, one of those socialist libtard welfare queens who looks to the government for handouts?

Isn't the whole site full of them?

Oh wait!  I thought you mentioned Drama Queens in leotards....

My bad.

3 hours ago, RBM said:

Tropeano is out of options and was going to get $1.1 M or more in arbitration. Keeping him was never a consideration by anyone who gets paid to understand the process and make recommendations or decisions. 

They probably should have got rid of him sooner.  That's the bad part about any depth.  

2 hours ago, Lou said:

he should switch to the Optigrab 

A friend of mine visited the set for this movie - the gas station was a closed station they had set back up.  They also had put up some ungodly amount that they were charging for gas like $3.50 a gallon (gas then was around $0.80) and some lady came up the station and was pissed that no one would pump her gas.  She also wouldn't believe it was a movie set.

Hmm...

So if you're a player an KNOW someone is taking drugs, and you don't report it, you're off the hook?

What a screwed up sport we have.

1 hour ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

Also, "working it on" pretty much means they agreed but the paperwork isn't done. Short of that, no one says anything.

Facts.

Always giving us facts....  

Texas doesn't have a state income tax.  If he signs with the Angel's or the Yankees, he's going to ask Boras why his take home is lower.  

28 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Skaggs should have at least changed out of the Cowboy outfit before OD'ing. Now he just looks like a drugged up homo.

This is just wrong on so many levels.   Funny as hell, but wrong.  

8 minutes ago, Adam said:

Terry Smith - will the same style of pitching staff management used this year be used next year?

 

Eppler - We'll do what works best. 

Which is double talk for "nothing we've tried so far"

4 minutes ago, SlappyUtilityMIF said:

You're welcome! 

 

But, but, but, it takes 2 seasons to make it right...

Robles and Bedrock were the only two and Robles needed innings. He was not a product of White!

Bedrock was injured and at the time there was plenty of time for him to revert.

Doug White offered zero longterm and brought nothing to the game.

I think Nagy fixed Robles.  The Mets wouldn't allow him to throw one of pitches, and the Nagy did.  

I really wondered about Barria.  It looked like there was no direction from anyone when he was pitching.  

17 hours ago, stormngt said:

Ron Washington..........f that!

It would be humorous though.  Maybe that Ranger Fan guy that lives with his mother and goes through way too much Kleenex would post again...