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Awful. Stan just tightened the noose around his own neck.

Huh? From 2012 to 2017 Kyle Seager was a borderline all-star or better every single year. He put up 25.6 fWAR over that span, good for the 3rd best of all 3B, and 13th for all hitters in baseball. Seager has been awesome. He is now 31, so his ceiling may only be 3+ fWAR a season for the remainder of his contract, but if he can be had for cheap, especially with money coming back, I would be all over that. He's a lefty who can slug 25+ HR and doesn't strike out very much along with good defense at 3B. I'm in.

Again, why are the Rockies just giving away Jon Gray???

Basically what your post boils down to is....you hate our farm system and disagree with the industry consensus of it being a top ranked farm system. Hard to get any more pessimistic than that

Good point. We always had a top of the line farm system 2011-2014 and that got us no where. Baseball America/Prospectus ranked the system #27 in 2011, #30 in 2012, #28 in 2013, #21 in 2014. And all that amazing talent got us no where in 2016. Ugh. Mired in mediocrity again! /Green

I'm fine with trading Rodon in a deal for Senzel, but I just don't think Rodon fits the Reds timeline to compete. Rodon needs to go to a contender if we are going to move him. Maybe Rodon to a team like the Dodgers who may lose Ryu, for a package around their catching prospect Keibert Ruiz, who was 19 when he made AA ball this year and is in a Dodgers system that is deep with catchers. https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=sa872528&position=C

The Show 18 is the first time I haven't bought a baseball game in maybe 16 years. Like you said, they just don't change enough from year to year. Yes, they are still very good and very polished, but I will likely be buying it every OTHER year now unless some big advancements take place. Really wish 2K or someone else would make games to push SCEA to have to actually compete for our dollars.

I'm only 1 hour in, and so far it's just tutorial type missions. No open world for me yet. And there seems to be a LOT of gameplay mechanics to remember. I can already tell the "make sure you eat or else your guy will be weak!" aspect of the game is going to be annoying. I understand the need to provide food for the camp, but having to make my guy open his satchel and eat a can of beans so I can finish a mission seems like it's going to be lame. I'll be putting in a couple of more hours tonight though.

My crazy Republican uncle who is a minor celebrity in my area on local radio has already started calling all these bombs fake and that it was Democrats planting all these to frame Republicans in to looking violent. So I'm sure this ridiculous van covered in obvious Pro-Trump paraphernalia will only stoke his theory of this being a giant conspiracy to make Republicans look bad. I can smell the mockery already.

How murky is our future 3B situation?

Nick Senzel is someone I've been thinking about figuring out to acquire. Would you guys do Cease and Rutherford for Senzel? I would. Senzel is going to be rated over Cease by virtually all publications, but the gap shouldn't be that large. The Reds also just drafted Jonathan India, so they are kind of loaded at 3B right now, but India being a few years away helps delay the need to worry about Saurez blocking him. Senzel is going to be ready for the majors by June. And the Reds seem to be atrocious at developing pitching, so Cease would likely anchor their core rotation until Hunter Greene makes it up.

Where do people get off thinking Jon Gray sucks and can be had for spare parts? In about 3 full seasons worth of starts (89 starts), he has a 10.3 fWAR. That's about 3.5 fWAR per year. That's firmly above average and borderline all-star quality. His ERA wasn't shiny and he gave up a lot of dingers this year, but his other peripherals have been great over his young career and he has an arm you can dream on. You'd literally have to give up Yolmer + Dunning + Burdi or something like that to get Gray.

You just answered your own question.

Definitely not implying that he's a prospect. Just surprised he was released after successful offensive seasons.

White Sox sign C Darrell Miller to a minor league deal. He just turned 25 and is only played in A-ball. What confuses me about his B-R page is that in 2017 rookie ball with the Royals after he got drafted he hit .376 with 5 HR, and a 25/25 K/BB ratio. Then he got traded to the Dodgers and got sent to A-ball where he hit .310/.365/.612 for an OPS of .977 in 15 games before he was released. He finished up his 2018 season in Indy ball with the Schaumburg team. Just a weird career path. Maybe the Dodgers just had no room for him, but having only had success so far, it's strange to think he had to go play for an Indy ball team halfway through the year.

Not only profit, but $300M+ in profit. Wonder what the fudsters will say next now that they can't claim that Tesla has never turned a profit (They actually had prior to this).

For a brief time we had both Dunning brothers in the system.

Josh Paul, wow, I haven't heard that name in like 15 years. Had no idea he was the Angels bench coach.

The Rockies, the Broncos, the Avalanche. The entire state of Colorado.

I think the Cowboys are trying to take advantage of a weak division. They are actually 5th in the NFC in point differential. Their +17 leads the division despite being 3-4. And speaking of point differential.....the Rams are at +107 right now. Jeeeeeeeezsus. Another blowout next week vs. the Packers and they could have twice as many Point For as they do Points Against.

I think the Sox SHOULD do it (and offer Rick a bench job if he's willing), but I think the Sox are far too loyal to do something like that. It seems to cold for their style.

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2018/10/21/report-joe-girardi-waiting-for-opening-with-cubs/ Although of course the article only cares to go in depth on the Cubs situation, Heyman tweeted out that Girardi is holding out for a Chicago team. That being said, does anyone feel the Sox would do to Renteria what the Cubs already did to him before, and ditch him right before the team gets good? Is that something you'd want to see?

I swear when I saw this I thought it was Eloy's 30 year old big brother. That kid does not have the face of a 17 year old.

Well last year one of the guys I was pushing hard for was Buchholz, and he ended up signing with the Dbacks and having a really strong year. Only 1 start did he allow more than 3 runs, and only 1 start did he ever walk more than 2 batters. This year I'll go ahead and throw my hat in for (Well Buchholz is a FA again. So do that a flipable piece in July) Trevor Cahill. Just going off of fWAR/IP, he had the best year of his career in 2018, and quietly in Oakland. He put up a 2.0 fWAR over 110 IP. But looking at his pitchFX, what I like is that his slider got MUCH harder and the usage went way up. He added 3 MPH to his slider over any other season. And we went from a previous career high usage of 8.8% of the time, to 18.9%. He's also throwing his change-up at a career high. He will be 31 when the season starts. So what type of offer do you throw him? Not really sure how much anyone trusts him to pitch 180+ IP. He hasn't done that since 2012. 2 yrs/$16M, with a team option for a 3rd year at $12M with a $2M buyout? That will promise him $18M over 2 years, with a potential for $30M. He likely becomes just a flip candidate, unless this team is ready to be good in 2020 and his 2021 option year. And as a crazy under-the-radar deal..... go out and grab Garrett Richards. He had TJS back in July, so he's out until 2020. But see if you can get him on some incentive laden deal. No idea what that would be, but it was done last year with Drew Smyly on a 2 yr/$10M deal. Obviously Richards is much better than Smyly.....so... 3 yrs/$30M? Basically the deal comes down to 2 yrs/$30M when he's fully recovered. Try to work in some option for a 4th year at $18M that vests if he pitches 350 IP over the 3 year deal, otherwise it reverts to a club option for $9M. Something creative like that. So Cahill and Richards. I could see Marwin Gonzalez being a target from the hitting standpoint. But those guys aren't as valuable as flip candidates, so it's hard to dream on value moves with hitters.

3 yrs/$48M with a team option for a 4th year at $20M. But someone who is ready to win now will probably offer him an opt-out after 2 years, so if he really has figured it all out, he can cash in a massive FA deal after 3 good years in a row and he will only be 30 years old.