Robocaller

I got Alex Jackson. but also Ricky Henderson!

He hasn't played above A+.

He had the 2nd highest OPS on his team (though the highest average). The team average OPS was .919

next year will be his age 26 season.

I had heard he was asking for $300M. I guess the Sox said: We're going to give you $331M and you're going to like it!

sometimes if you polish a turd, it becomes a bright shiny turd that can give you a couple years of decent (or even excellent) production. All of these guys they have been acquiring have something going for them, in spite of crappy performance. And they don't have a ton invested in them, so they can cut bait and move on.

You can't teach a pitcher to increase the barometric pressure in the park. . . . . . that we know.

Assuming some other team wants him or we do not want to stash him in Nashville.

I find it hard to believe, but the Brewers seem to have identified the new undervalued resource as pitchers who have ERAs over 5. I'd rather have this guy than Kelley.

Every game against STL is worth two games against any other team, as they are our main competitor.

How about this for the first 41 games (in parentheses are the guys who are the first guys up in the pen: M-miley, A-ashby, H-Houser, L-Lauer--assuming they weren't used in the previous game or two, and they'd go 2 or more innings): March 30: Burnes (A, M, L). April 1: Woodruff (A, H). April 2: Peralta (A,H). April 3: Lauer (A,H) April 4: Miley (A,H). April 5: Burnes (A, H). April 7: Woodruff (A, H). April 8: Peralta (A, H). April 9: Lauer(A, H). April 10: Miley (H). April 11: Burnes (H). April 12: Ashby (H). April 13 Woodruff (H). April 14: Peralta (H). April 15: Lauer (H). April 16: Miley(H). April 17: Burnes (H). April 18: Ashby. April 19: Woodruff (M). April 20: Peralta (M). April 21: Lauer (M). April 22: Houser (M). April 23: Burnes (M). April 24 Ashby (M). April 25: Woodruff (H, M). April 26: Peralta (H, M). April 28: Lauer (H, M). April 29: Burnes (H, M). April 30: Ashby (H, M). May 2: Woodruff (H, M). May 3: Peralta (H, M). May 4: Lauer (H). May 5; Burnes (H). May 6: Ashby (H). May 7: Miley (H). May 8: Woodruff (H). May 9; Peralta (A, H). May 10: Burnes (A, H). May 12: Lauer (A, H). May 13: Miley (H). May 14: Woodruff (H). Min 5 days off after a start (except bumped up Burnes once to avoid a day off). Burnes gets 8 starts, Woodruff 8, Peralta 7, Lauer 7, Miley 5, Ashby 5, Houser 1. Miley started in the rotation, cycled off for a couple of weeks, Ashby started in the bullpen, Weren't many opportunities for the 7th guy (Houser) but that could change if someone is nicked up and misses a start or two; Houser could get as much work as he could take as the first guy up. I think this could work. Could bump up Burnes or Woodruff occasionally.

you needed to put that in a colored font.

Except lefties aren't what we need if beating STL is job one.

Those 3 are all RHP; Lauer, Ashby, and Miley are LHP. I could see them used to pitch the 6(7)-8th innings in relief of our TOR righties, and slipping into a starting slot when needed. Man, I would love to try that.

I guess he's a solid #4-5 starter if he's back to normal (pitched OK at the end of the year). If I had Burnes, Woodruff, Peralta, Lauer, Houser, Ashby, and Miley, I might try something amusing like piggybacking my 4th and 5th starters. though Lauer, Ashby, and Miley might be too many lefties. Or. . . maybe use them as multi-inning guys avoiding needing a dedicated 7th inning guy. Whomever was most rested would start in the 4th, 5th slots. Actually I kinda like this idea since we could really use a top late inning guy at this point. Don't know if any manager has the balls to do this, considering future contract concerns among the "starters."

That seems the more likely outcome. But the Cards had flukey-good years from a few important (and not young) players; they could have a flukey-bad year. And our rookies (and Winker and Toro) might produce, and Ashby could have his breakthrough year.. So it's not a forgone conclusion at all.

Or maybe because Hiura was so badly managed, continually getting starts against LHP. He should have had at least 20 more starts at DH against RHP (and more than that if he kept up his production).

WAR is a counting stat, and those other guys played more.

He has pretty extreme platoon splits. Which teams in our division suck vs. lefties (Cardinals don't)? Another example of throwing crap at the wall and seeing what sticks. Sign a half dozen more. Or, ya know. someone who is really good.

No, it's obvious that the A's overvalued Ruiz enormously. Now, maybe they'll end up being right, but probably not. Any site like BTV can only give average values. Making good trades is all about identifying GMs who value your players more than you do (or value their own players less than you do). Sometimes those discrepancies between values are huge.

I believe they base it on some statistics of recent contracts. It's a model, so it will never be exactly correct in predicting trades, and will be far off for some.

You really need to get off the deferred payments bandwagon. As it is, you're the only guy on it.

Thanks, several of the rankings and discussions seemed pretty far off, but it's very subjective and fungible once you get past #7 or so.

I think it's a bad attempt at a joke. But even if Tatis had half the value that BTV gives him, you'd have to give up Woodruff and Quero. At full value, it would be Chourio, Mitchell, and Ashby.

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