El_Duderino
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5 minutes ago, Jim'sKid26 said:
Corn, I think that's a fair assessment. Santander could also be in that conversation. My "knock" against Adley is he doesn't catch every day. When he's the DH he is very good but his value is not elite there. Mateo has brought it this year nearly every game. Just my $0.02.
No one catches everyday
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31 minutes ago, amdcpus said:
Will Rutschman finish above or below .500 OPS on the season? I'll take the under. 24.5 years old and getting embarrassed by players 5 years younger than him. Just pathetic
I will take this bet.
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I mean I will say, ownership has been better since John took over…
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6 hours ago, Frobby said:
So of course I saw Adley’s three outs, but missed his homer. The strikeout was on a borderline inside fastball taken for strike three. Good pitch from Liberatore. The other two outs were high fly balls pretty deep in the OF, where he just got under them a little too much.
I really liked how he looked framing Grayson’s pitches, even though the ump had a pretty tight strike zone. He did allow one stolen base and the throw was a bit wide right, pulling the fielder off the bag to catch it. Overall, my impression is that Adley has looked a bit rusty defensively since his return.
I happened to see the homer. He also appeared to just get under it, it was a high inside fastball. Awkward swing on it, and it just carried.
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I get annoyed at how backwards this is. MLB actively making it harder to receive their product.
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The classic baseball player golf swing. Very steep, tons of speed and athleticism to square it up. Lot of slices in his future.
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17 hours ago, ShoelesJoe said:
I don't think Harper was ever going to sign long term with the Nats, and they knew it. He had a serious dispute with them over the contract he signed after being drafted in 2010. There was bad blood there and he was always going to bolt DC the first chance he got.
“I sat there with my wife and said, ‘Babe, we’re going back. We’re going back to D.C.,’” Harper said. “If they offer me anything close—I want real money though. I don’t want deferred money. I wanted them to understand that. If they would’ve deferred a little bit of it, I would’ve been fine with that.”
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2 hours ago, Frobby said:
“Unwillingness?” The Dodgers’ annual revenues are $200 mm+ higher than the Nationals’. The Nats have spent a much higher proportion of their revenue on payroll than most teams over the last decade. They don’t have the capacity to spend as much as the Dodgers. Harper and Rendon would have cost more than $65 mm/yr to keep, plus luxury tax.
They outspent the Dodgers in ‘19.
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4 hours ago, BohKnowsBmore said:
Apparently the Nats FO does...
I pin their problems less on draft misses and more on their unwillingness to spend like the dodgers. Their lineup should have a core of Turner, Soto, Harper, Rendon.
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Who cares. They also signed Soto who is on an early HoF track.
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Horrible timing for it too…
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“He may not be a guy that plays more than 100 games a year, best-case scenario,” Moore said at the time. The GM emphasized that the Royals “love Mondi to death” and have no plans to move on from him but simply “can’t, obviously, count on him as an everyday player.”
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1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:
I don’t think we know that he is “for sure” a SS either.
Or that he can hit…
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I haven’t watched many games this year, what happened to Fry?
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Jim Bowden ranked his top 50 prospects on the Athletic, O’s had two.
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15 hours ago, CompuCoach said:
There's a difference between "projected" and "potential." There are a fair number of guys with All-Star potential, but only a select few come out of the minors with those kinds of projections already on them (like Rutschman).
Fair point. This whole exercise is subjective, but I feel like our list of top guys isn’t as impressive as the Braves/Dodgers/Padres from recent years.
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1 seems high. I see two potential all stars and then….
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1 hour ago, Sports Guy said:
I just don’t get the idea of paying but money for one of the SS or third baseman (which is where Seager needs to go) before further evaluation of Henderson and Westburg.
Because those level of guys, who are still that far away don’t/shouldn’t stop you from filling a gaping hole on your ML team. Not only that but one literally can’t have enough SS types. Look around at actual contenders… Seager and Turner, Tatis and Machado, Lindor and Baez.
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10 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:
He was expensive, coming off an injury and not as effective as previous years.
The Yanks basically cleared the chaff off their 40 man.
Right- moved him at his absolute lowest point of value. Having said that, it was still too little
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Can’t believe we got so little for Britton
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New thread: Why Colton Cowser is our best prospect
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4 hours ago, Frobby said:
What I’d like to see is the D-Backs go on a 20-game winning streak, so that we can actually win a few games but still get the top draft pick.
Whatever it takes to force Elias not to overthink the slot bonus game next year.
Mateo may be the best story of the Orioles season...
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Right - but why knock him for a standard that no one reaches.