God no.Originally Posted by greenmonster24
God no.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
I'd rather see Schoop and Britton in a package deal. Schoop is a 2nd baseman, is 26 and has a lifetime average of nearly 260. He isn't having his best year so might be cheap. He has good size and is from Curacao. We could have the middle infield from the ABC islands. Britton would be the key piece but Schoop might prove to be useful going forward.
Maybe, unlike what many have been saying, it's a buyer's market.
He got away with those 2 pitches in a new league when no one faced him yet. You can only get away with that for so long.
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Chris Davis contract is from 2016 to 2022. 23 Million only a million more then Hanley. If we can resign after year and not have pay Kimbrel huge as he get a deal greater then Chapman probably. I predict Cubs they keep letting there closers walk and will after letting Davis walk see how important a closer is in post season or Nationals even Phillies could sign Kimbrel. Moreland numbers have gone done sense Hanley left.
He got away with it a year and a half and made the allstar team before being hurt. But being hurt seems to be his 3 pitch, so there is that.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
That logic does not fit here.
Pom started 13 games in the AL in 2016. He then followed with an excellent season in 2017. He started 32 games.
In 2016, Pom faced the...
Yanks 3 times
TBR 3 times
DET 2 times
LAA , BAL , CLE , SEA 1 time
He then faced these AL teams in 2017
5 NYY
4 BAL
4 TBR
4 TOR
2 CWS, HOU, KCR, OAK
1 CLE, DET, MN, SEA, TEX
His 2nd half ERA was better than his first: 3.01 vs 3.60.
I guess injury then.
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Absolutely not. Davis has literally been the worst player in baseball this season, and is signed until 2023. We are already paying Pablo not to be on the team, do we really want another one of those situations? I wouldn't want Chris Davis and his horrendous deal under any circumstances.
Davis is in the midst of the worst full season be a full time player in the history of the game.
The King of TalkSox has Spoken.
I don't see a reason for the Orioles to include Schoop in a Britton deal and sell low on him. He would be a nice get, but he's coming off a 5 WAR season and is only 26.. Injuries derailed this season, but that doesn't make him just a cheap throw in.
Pomeranz pitched 25 innings and had 16 BB's in Pawtucket and Portand. Jeez. In the Majors you walk batters your playing Russian Roulette.
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I beleive his only good start was the last one. We are reaching on him coming up and doing well. I'm not expecting the best, but I'm a Sox fan so it kind of falls that way.
i think the people that aren't impressed with his stuff are correct. He's only good at the top of his game, and he needs to hit close to mid 90 to be at the top of his game.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
Pomeranz didn’t get by on smoke and mirrors. He had a fastball that hitters said played a lot harder than the 91.3 mph he averaged. He’d work that pitch up while using that devastating curveball down. The other thing fangraphs doesn’t really take into account is the varying speeds on his fastball. Last year, I saw him throw fastballs in the same game of 89 and 95. He’d vary his speeds as well and threw just enough cutters to make the pitch a viable concern for hitters. Two things have killed him this year, one fixable and one likely not. This year, the top end velocity is gone. That may not be fixable. The other is he lost command of his curve. He can regain that. Without his ability to go with heat up, he cannot reset the batters eyes to make the curve that much more devastating.
Thornburg and Smith are two relief pitchers DD brought in that have not done the job to date through injury, stupidity or what have you. The two have been far less stellar than we had hoped. Brasier has been excellent. So hard to tell when we bring in relief pitchers.
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