Official Winter Meetings Thread

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Jarlin Garcia

For the major league team??? He hasn't pitched above A ball.

[AlbionHero]

Yep. Anyhow, this may sound silly but bear with me, it's not about winning in one year and man it pains me to say that since I've never even so much as seen a pennant winner in my years as a fan of this team but it's about building a consistent winner year in and year out.

This is exactly how I feel. I don't want to overpay for some guy who might be good for a year or two to win NOW and give up our future. Or trade away our young studs for guys who are only signed for one year. I'd rather have a lower chance of winning the World Series for a 10 year period instead of having a higher chance to win it for 2 years and then have no good players left.

Like I said before, all you need to do is make the playoffs. You don't have to be the most overpowering team in the regular season, just enough to make it. And once you make it, anything can happen.

[orioles119]

Chen was 44th in the majors last year in ERA.

If that's ace level stuff, then we've really lowered the standards.

If you're just basing ERA then, Chen finished ahead of Jered Weaver, a supposed TOR for the Angels.

Another supposed "ace", Justin Verlander, finished 37 spots behind Chen with an ERA of 4.54.

Shoot... maybe Tillman is the ace, since his ERA was better than Chen's.

[sportsfan8703]

Chen was 44th in the majors last year in ERA.

If that's ace level stuff, then we've really lowered the standards.

That makes him a middle of the pack #2. I'll take that for next year.

[Guest]

This is exactly how I feel. I don't want to overpay for some guy who might be good for a year or two to win NOW and give up our future. Or trade away our young studs for guys who are only signed for one year. I'd rather have a lower chance of winning the World Series for a 10 year period instead of having a higher chance to win it for 2 years and then have no good players left.

Like I said before, all you need to do is make the playoffs. You don't have to be the most overpowering team in the regular season, just enough to make it. And once you make it, anything can happen.

Making the playoffs in the A.L this year is gonna be hard.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tigers?src=hash">#Tigers</a> getting Alfredo Simon.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="

">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

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[mcgraw238]

Yeah I definitely agree with you there. Need to do more work on the system. One thing I got at in Frobby's MLB page about 100M contract page is I want us to be the kind of team that develops 100M talent. I want us to be the kind of team that gets surplus value out of guys.

Exactly. Shopping in the $100 million market is not where we should be and is not something I have advocated in the past. We need to develop elite talent and lock up the talent that is willing to stay, See Jones and Hardy. The elite talent that isn't willing to stay should be moved for additional controllable talent.

[lovetoaster]

Did they win? All They did was get hot for 3 weeks.

Well guess what...that's all it takes. The Cardinals have done that a few times recently, and they were not exactly at the top of the payroll list either.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Source: Kemp trade will require extensive medical reviews. Kemp, Grandal, Wieland all have significant medical histories.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="

">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

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[sportsfan8703]

I love people using the Royals they got lucky 1 year. The owner is now cutting more pay roll they gonna finish 4th place in the A.L Central this year.

The Royals suck. Luckiest team since the miracle mets. The Royals wouldn't even have finished above .500 in the AL East last year.

[sportsfan8703]

Well guess what...that's all it takes. The Cardinals have done that a few times recently, and they were not exactly at the top of the payroll list either.

That and to play in a mediocre division. That's the Cardinals magic success strategy.

[Palmoripken]

Exactly. Shopping in the $100 million market is not where we should be and is not something I have advocated in the past. We need to develop elite talent and lock up the talent that is willing to stay, See Jones and Hardy. The elite talent that isn't willing to stay should be moved for additional controllable talent.

Yep exactly.

[weams]

Simon back in the AL. I guess that is good.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Dont worry, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a> fans. Coming up....the Rule 5 draft.</p>— Eduardo A. Encina (@EddieInTheYard) <a href="

">December 11, 2014</a></blockquote>

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At least the beat reporters are catching up.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dodgers?src=hash">#dodgers</a> eating $32M in Kemp deal drops responsibility for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Padres?src=hash">#Padres</a> from$107M to 5-$75M or $15M per yr</p>— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) <a href="

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What a steal.