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I do like that Heyward action though.

Quote from: R-V on October 04, 2016, 04:44:27 PM
Noodling on opposing starters for the NLDS. The only way to get two starts for Thor/Bumgarner is for them to pitch at least once on short rest. I'll take the Mets please.

Mets
Colon
Syndergaard (short rest)
Lugo/Gsellman
Colon (short rest)
Syndergaard

Giants
Cueto
Bumgarner (short rest)
Snork
Cueto (short rest)
Bumgarner

Go Mets.

That was fucking great.

Reds up 7-0 headed into the 7th. Go Reds!

Also, nothing new here, but Joey Votto is awesome. He's hitting .500/.605/.759 since the ASB. And yet Marty/Thom hate him because he only has 12 RBIs over that span.

I dig. Cubs have cornered the market inefficiency market.

He's held RHBs to a Jose Macias-like .580 OPS over his career. But I have no idea if that makes him a ROOGY or not. He's also wrote a book on Mormons.

And...Coughlin is leading off today and in LF.

Tier 1A

The Padres also got Yasmani Grandal with Alonso. They then of course traded Grandal to get in on Matt Kemp and his replacement level excitement. The Padres are fun!

Marlins have acquired old friend Larry Andersen Andrew Cashner. He of the 3.2 WAR since leaving the Cubs. God I love Theo.

Quote from: SKO on July 28, 2016, 09:45:14 AM

Quote from: D. Doluntap on July 28, 2016, 09:08:10 AM

Quote from: SKO on July 19, 2016, 09:22:36 AM

Quote from: R-V on July 19, 2016, 09:16:48 AM
Among all MLB hitters with at least 80 PAs against lefties, Javy is 5th in wRC+. Right in between Goldschmidt and Donaldson, and even better than Bryant. Not a bad guy to have on the playoff roster against guys like Kershaw and Bumgarner.

It's really cool to watch Javy develop as a player. He's basically going to be a 3 win player this year as a super sub, and you can tell he's only beginning to scratch the surface. He's focused on not striking out so he's making contact with a lot of bad pitches, but he's started walking a touch more of late and you hope eventually he'll learn he can wait for that one pitch to drive and the 40 homer potential we all know is there will start to surface. He's maybe the most exciting player on the team already and I'm daring to let myself dream that in a year or two he could be the 35-40 homer middle infield unicorn everyone said he could but most likely never would be due to the contact issues.

If Hendry was still the GM, I have a feeling he'd end up going down the Ryan Harvey path. Which I think leads to a Shoney's somewhere. God I love Theo.

To be fair to Hendry, it's extremely rare that any organization takes a free swinger like Javy and fixes them to this extent. It's why almost every projection by every system after 2014 basically wrote Javy off. It takes a special organization, coaching staff, and player to make the kind of changes he has made.
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That's correct and all...but I stopped being fair to Hendry ages ago. Sometime around the "Lemons" bench era.

Quote from: SKO on July 19, 2016, 09:22:36 AM

Quote from: R-V on July 19, 2016, 09:16:48 AM
Among all MLB hitters with at least 80 PAs against lefties, Javy is 5th in wRC+. Right in between Goldschmidt and Donaldson, and even better than Bryant. Not a bad guy to have on the playoff roster against guys like Kershaw and Bumgarner.

It's really cool to watch Javy develop as a player. He's basically going to be a 3 win player this year as a super sub, and you can tell he's only beginning to scratch the surface. He's focused on not striking out so he's making contact with a lot of bad pitches, but he's started walking a touch more of late and you hope eventually he'll learn he can wait for that one pitch to drive and the 40 homer potential we all know is there will start to surface. He's maybe the most exciting player on the team already and I'm daring to let myself dream that in a year or two he could be the 35-40 homer middle infield unicorn everyone said he could but most likely never would be due to the contact issues.

If Hendry was still the GM, I have a feeling he'd end up going down the Ryan Harvey path. Which I think leads to a Shoney's somewhere. God I love Theo.

From a baseball standpoint (somehow ignoring the fact that Chapman is a dickhead, which, isn't easy), I think it's an overpay but not by that much. I think Torres may turn into a fine player, but he could also be Felix Pie/Brian Dopirak/Jason Dubois/Ryan Harvey/Josh Vitters/Eric Patterson. All of those are guys I wish Hendry had traded. Maybe Theo thinks he's selling high on Torres?

The biggest issue with this trade is that Clayton Richard is still on the team. Oh and Chapman is a dickhead.

I hope this first inning of Mike Mayers debut never ends.

Guh. Seems pretty old.