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Post by joshv02 on Jul 14, 2016 21:10:35 GMT -5
Every player he has added to this team has a major league track record. It is fair to debate the loss of the future value to the team with the prospects, but irregardless of the outcome of the player performance, I don't think any of his moves can be questioned for the benefit of the major league club vis a vis addressing deficiencies on the 25 man roster. How bad a GM would you have to be if your acquisitions didn't help the major league team? That is absolutely not the standard we should judge transactions with. Shelby Miller helped the Diamondbacks major league roster, too. Well, maybe not Miller...
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 13, 2016 5:17:40 GMT -5
With that trio, the Sox will have their best pitching prospect collection arguably ever. Very exciting. 2005: Lester, Papelbon, Sanchez, Buchholtz
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 8, 2016 21:58:17 GMT -5
Right. It's the pcl. He isn't having a very good offensive season. But, he is a defensive plus player with good speed and is very young, so more than holding your own at AAA with those attributes is good. (But note that I'm not a believer. I'd bet on an 80 wRC+ career before 100.)
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 8, 2016 21:04:41 GMT -5
We all are
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 8, 2016 10:26:48 GMT -5
Which is why these negotiations are not shocking. He really should not have fell to us. There isn't a negotiation. At the end of the day, there will only be a choice. Within 48 hours of the deadline (presumably after Dalbec and Shawrayn are done), Groome will be offered $4mm, give or take, which will constitute the remainder of the draft pool at the time. Groome will likely be told that he is Plan A, bla bla bla, but that they will need to line up Plans B and C and therefore will want an answer by the morning of the deadline. Since Grrome will be getting the balance of the draft pool, there isn't a negotiation - it's take-it-or-leave-it. Groome, his family and his advisor will have to decide whether to take the money. I'm sure that is how it will play out, but its been a negotiating until now. I'm sure they each have been in contact, and if the Sox new it would take $3.5mm to sign Groome now, they would. The position they are developing comes out of a need to made a conditional threat (don't take that the wrong way, this is specifically a negotiating context) and make it believable. In other words, presumably they said what their top line is or close to it, and they are lining up the dominoes to make it clear that their hands are tied (i.e., their threat has come to life).
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 7, 2016 21:25:08 GMT -5
What would "on the record mean" in this context?
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 7, 2016 19:14:02 GMT -5
Pretty neutral splits for a guy who's presumably going to be a platoon player here (career 96 wRC+ vs R, 102 wRC+ vs L). still, There us no such thing as a left masher. Hiss platoon split is not markedly different than expected from RH 99ish wRC hitter .
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 7, 2016 19:08:00 GMT -5
Kopech's last punchout to end the 4th was at 100mph according to the announcer. :wink:
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Post by joshv02 on Jul 1, 2016 7:00:31 GMT -5
This is neither the right thread nor the right board, but I'll write it succinctly so that jemi can quickly move it to some forum that isn't read. I only write this for posterity/people who care. I don't think you really want a conversation as the same thing has been said to you a half dozen times. You reduce people to single trait. Sometimes its race (Tanaka, Acosta, etc.), sometimes its something silly like the school they want to (Lavarnway). You then extrapolate from that single trait to something essential about the individual person ("Acosta was suspended because of his life in poverty!"; "Lavarnway will work hard and be smarter at pitch calling than anyone else!"). Its a very simply logic failure, and its compounded by more complicated issues that you treat like immutable qualities (like race or ethnicity). You keep getting it wrong, yet you keep doing it. Racist? Stupid? I don't really care which applies.
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Post by joshv02 on Jun 29, 2016 22:41:25 GMT -5
You are a stereotype of yourself. Or a troll. I can't decide.
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Post by joshv02 on Jun 29, 2016 14:02:17 GMT -5
He may have been the other guy in the altercation with Kopech. He was not. Did he shoot Kennedy?
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Post by joshv02 on Jun 20, 2016 22:19:36 GMT -5
Emphasis on +.
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Post by joshv02 on Jun 20, 2016 6:20:19 GMT -5
Otto's is fantastic for late night pizza for sure, but Slab is all the rage for pizza in Portland right now. My favorite spot before a Sea Dogs has to be Salvage BBQ though. Great BBQ, good beer list and close to the park. +1 Plus Holy Donut. Mmmm. Donuts.
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Post by joshv02 on Jun 14, 2016 20:29:50 GMT -5
Please, no politics on the main board. The threads become hard when people challenge each other to a duel as is.
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Post by joshv02 on Jun 10, 2016 20:46:46 GMT -5
Law is incredibly nice both in person and in email. If you aren't a weirdo, just reach out.
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Post by joshv02 on May 22, 2016 18:38:37 GMT -5
Well, historically pitchers' velocity peaks at age 21-22, and stays relatively steady through 25-26. After that there's usually a small (1 mph) decline, with a slow downward trend until the early 30s, after which there's usually another, more significant drop. So, I should've said "The odds are highly against him ever sitting 92-94..." There are guys who improve their velocity in their mid-20s (Chicago's Quintana is a great example; Cliff Lee did very slightly in his late 20s too), but it's not the norm. Wouldn't that data be only for the selected group of pitchers in the majors?
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Post by joshv02 on Apr 25, 2016 7:15:10 GMT -5
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Post by joshv02 on Apr 15, 2016 7:22:10 GMT -5
Benintendi's power knows no ends.
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Post by joshv02 on Mar 19, 2016 9:36:55 GMT -5
[Placeholder to write post justifying position I've previously taken with no new data.]
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Post by joshv02 on Feb 23, 2016 8:51:31 GMT -5
Christ. Another Jersey kid for Temple to dream on.
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Post by joshv02 on Feb 20, 2016 21:41:00 GMT -5
Other channels may be appropriate, too...
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Post by joshv02 on Feb 17, 2016 10:42:13 GMT -5
Definitely still not where he was a few years ago body-wise. Neither am I.
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Post by joshv02 on Feb 12, 2016 11:10:48 GMT -5
Right. People disagree. Some companies hire someone, others don't; colleges let some people in but wish they let in someone else; football teams pass on some QBs until the 6th round. I don't understand the criticism - that humans have different opinions from time to time?
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Post by joshv02 on Jan 15, 2016 13:54:30 GMT -5
How does he add 10-15 runs on defense from Hanley, and then say that changes the win projection from 92 to 86-88?
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Post by joshv02 on Jan 15, 2016 12:38:37 GMT -5
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