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looking at his stats, Raines' knees seems another tragic victim of Olympic Stadium brutality along with guys like Vlad & Dawson Yeah, he started missing a lot of games starting in about 1987. It’s pretty common for outfielders who get a major portion of their value from speed to have a major fa...

He’s played 179 games at SS in his career. Not well, mind you. So I suppose he could be a Javy back up on a short term basis.

There are plenty of arguments to be made that the Hall has already jumped the shark. I don’t think the inclusion of Tim Raines is one of them.

Brian wrote:I want to believe this guy is real and is sneaking around the hotel with spy equipment and he heard "Claudio to the Br.." and ran off to the next location

Both teams have been in Milwaukee at one point. Easy mistake.

I hope he’s getting paid a crap ton of money. I understand the view that maybe a second chance for a head gig never comes along, but there’s basically no chance the Orioles are going to be competitive in the 3 or 4 years he’s there before inevitably getting fired, no matter how great a manager he mi...

I’m not a fan of relievers in the Hall I never understand this. I overstated my feelings on this. I should have said, I’m not a fan of closers who racked up huge save totals by only pitching 65 innings a season, often in less than high leverage situations. They’re objectively less valuable than you...

I’m not a fan of relievers in the Hall, but if they must be in there, Smith should be one of them. From ‘82 to ‘91, he had a 2.29 ERA while averaging 90 innings pitched, 31 saves, and 92 Ks to 33 BBs. In 1983, he had a 1.65 ERA over 103.1 innings pitched. Lee Smith is part of my favorite series of h...

yeah darvish is winning cy young this year. That’s not the most ridiculous proposition in the world. IF he’s healthy enough to pitch 180+ innings and IF he performs just a bit better than his career averages, he’ll be a top 10 Cy Young candidate. It’s not real likely, but it’s better than a lottery...

Pie Traynor is the only position player in the HOF with a lower WAR (36.3) than Baines (38.7). Some notable differences between the two though: Traynor: 1941 games, 6 Top 10 MVP finishes Baines: 2830 games, 2 Top 10 MVP finishes Your Lowest 10 WAR's of players voted into the HOF by the BBWAA: - Pie...

Do they expect Yadier Molina to catch into his early 50s?

It should be called Rickettsville soon, or are we already there? Wrigley is an old, dead rich white guy. So is Sheffield. Seems inevitable that there will be a Ricketts street or square or whatever. (Clark was a Revolutionary War general, Addison was a doctor, and Waveland was named that way becaus...

https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1068260343397404672 Pretty good gamble for the Pads. He’s been a good pitcher when healthy. Not quite apples to apples, but you can compare the $15M for 2 years they’re paying Richards to the &17M for 1 year the Dodgers are paying Ryu, and this looks like a...

By the way in doing this I saw that righties only hit .150 against Chatwood. .359 OBP. Oooof. If only he could throw strikes.. Through his first 650-ish innings as a MLBer, Chatwood threw 4.2 BB/9. Higher than you might want, but something you could live with, with his GB rate. He threw 8.2 BB/9 in...

TomtheBombadil wrote:Waiting on Arenado over Harper/Machado is dumb and very hard to believe

Right. If you’re going to do that, why not just wait another year for 29-year-old Mike Trout.

And in a pinch, he can probably get you 30 or 40 innings out of the pen.

Mexico City is awesome but they don’t need a MLB team at the moment. Mexico City is way too big and has way too much money in it for it to not eventually happen. Not this next round of expansion (or moves if Oakland and TB can’t get their crap together), but maybe the round of expansion after that....

Cubswin11 wrote:https://twitter.com/jorgecastillo/status/1062088096999591936?s=21

$17M for a 32-year old starting pitcher who hasn’t topped 130 innings in any of the last 6 seasons seems a bit steep.

I’m just suggesting asset that Astros want (starting pitcher or outfielder) + big contract that somewhat fits into Astros’ roster (starting pitcher or outfielder) in return for something with a smaller contract than what the Cubs traded.

Astros a decent salary dump trade partner? They just lost McCullers to TJS. Verlander and Cole are their only other returning starting pitchers and they’re both FA’s after 2019. They’ve got a few promising rookies and can move Peacock back from the pen, but that’s not a particularly impressive start...

JudasIscariotTheBird wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHr8NxA8raw

I’m pretty sure that’s what Don Mattingly was actually saying.

Sammy Sofa wrote:The Cubs have long trafficked in guys who love sliding like dickheads, so he'd fit right in.

The warm, tender embraces of Javy Baez more than make up for anything his teammates may have done.

Is he going to be the first pitcher since Dave Dravecky whose arm literally falls off his body while pitching?

If Hamels’ option isn’t picked up, or maybe even if it is, young, buy-low, change of scenery candidate starting pitchers:

Stroman, Fulmer, Bundy.

I had no idea that Gibbons had managed Toronto for 11 (non-consecutive) seasons.

Thed Hoyerstein wrote:Brewers are certainly resembling Maddon's Rays sans the creepy manager thing

You’re drastically underrating how creepy Craig Counsel is. I mean, just look at him.