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Guy has a lot of clubhouse issues, which concerns me. He's also had some injury issues. However, when he's been healthy, he's been very good and we have a good track record when it comes to getting guys healthy and getting the most out of our pitchers. I like this move from a pure depth perspective.

 

Robin is going to have to earn his pay though. Some definite personalities in this lockeroom.

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QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 07:03 PM)
Latos still had solid peripherals last year. Honestly expected him to sign somewhere for $8-10 million, great move for that price. I assume there will be incentives in there though.

 

No incentives according to Cotillo, which is amazing

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QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 01:09 PM)
So now Erik Johnson is traded for an OF?

Unless it's in a package for a young cost-controlled OF, I'd rather use him as depth and stash him in AAA. Despite a nice rebound in 2015, I think his value is still pretty suppressed. Even a little bit of success at the majors would go a long ways towards restoring his value.

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If decisions on rotation spots were made independent of paychecks this should be pushing on Danks more. We have 3 lefties in the rotation without him, it makes sense to keep Johnson over him from a right lefty standpoint. In terms of performance I don't have confidence that Danks can out perform Johnson. So the only reason Danks would be safer is because we gave him a really bad contract and would look bad to put that paycheck in the pen. Such a poor reason to make a roster decision. Good organizations don't make decisions that way.

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Using this as an excuse to trade Erik Johnson would be a mistake. Again I ask, how many innings can you realistically rely on Latos to pitch? This move was to bolster pitching depth.

 

And people, please stop calling things low risk/high reward. Low risk/high reward is impossible. You make me cranky.

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QUOTE (QuickJones81 @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 02:14 PM)
If decisions on rotation spots were made independent of paychecks this should be pushing on Danks more. We have 3 lefties in the rotation without him, it makes sense to keep Johnson over him from a right lefty standpoint. In terms of performance I don't have confidence that Danks can out perform Johnson. So the only reason Danks would be safer is because we gave him a really bad contract and would look bad to put that paycheck in the pen. Such a poor reason to make a roster decision. Good organizations don't make decisions that way.

 

Hopefully you're right and that is the case but I highly doubt it. If he doesn't show up to ST looking any better than he has the past 4 years(looks even worse when you type it out) just cut bait with him. We're on the hook for his salary either way and he's probably more valuable to the franchise not pitching than he is putting up his usual 4.7+ ERA.

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QUOTE (shysocks @ Feb 9, 2016 -> 01:15 PM)
Using this as an excuse to trade Erik Johnson would be a mistake. Again I ask, how many innings can you realistically rely on Latos to pitch? This move was to bolster pitching depth.

 

And people, please stop calling things low risk/high reward. Low risk/high reward is impossible. You make me cranky.

Why is low risk/high reward impossible? We're not talking about trading equities here. Latos is a guy who has consistently been a 3+ WAR pitcher when healthy (and only 28 years old) that can be released for a total of $3M if things go south.

 

I'm not sure what else you would call this signing other than low risk/high reward.

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