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Is arbitration over yet?
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 22, 2013 1:34 PM
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Not too many of those in NY. Was more talking about the buster olneys of the world.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 19, 2013 4:24 PM
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Not too many of those in NY. Was more talking about the buster olneys of the world.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 19, 2013 11:34 AM
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Winning the WS will definitely silence all those STL fans...
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I hope the Cardinals will just win the WS already so I can stop listening to people gush about how perfect their organ-eye-zation is.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 19, 2013 9:30 AM
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Go Cardinals! Now it's Clemson's turn to make my day...
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FYI I plan on cutting Kershaw and Miggy so please don't add to them kthxbye.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 18, 2013 11:39 AM
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Yep, agree. You want the owner to feel the burden of the $ for as long as possible w/o forcing then to cut the player. Making a player harder to trade may also be a similar strategy
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I think making the dollars stick to their owners is the main thing. Identity/talent of player doesn't even matter that much. You just don't want to add to sure-fire cuts. I'm guessing this is why no one is adding to Cliff Lee.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 18, 2013 7:41 AM
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Holland was arguably the best RP in baseball last year.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 18, 2013 7:39 AM
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I think Granderson may have taken over the title of most baffling arb$
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Ok, Holland was way better last year than I thought, so bad example. Still have to assume there are a lot of place holders out there (Luebke, Profar, etc.). I still think the goal is to force owners to carry the burden of the Arb $ for a long (years) time
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Does making Greg Holland $13 instead of $12 make things tough for you?
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David Price is a great example. That was not like a really outstanding contract, but presumably people are adding to it in order to make my rotation difficult to justify.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 17, 2013 10:53 PM
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Right, totally agree. Some of the top contracts I'm not even bothering to mess with because I know it won't force the owner into a really tough decision.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 17, 2013 10:52 PM
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it's not just the underpriced contracts though....it's also about making some contracts that are accurateley priced just expensive enough so that keeping them hurts or everyone else who wants to can also bid on them
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Before arbitration, I thought there were maybe 15-20 obvious under-priced contracts that could be targeted. I count 68 different players receiving arb $ so far (and counting). Insane.
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I'm at $26 with three teams still left to spend, so yeah, I'm getting the full $33. Pile it on...
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Yeah it's really dumb honestly.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 17, 2013 3:55 PM
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Arbitration should take a week, not a month
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Y'all are making it harder for me to trade David Price.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 17, 2013 2:09 PM
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People are not liking Chris Sale's salary. Or just ace's salaries in general.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 17, 2013 2:08 PM
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It's kind of hilarious, the dollars allocated to my players are changing wildly by the hour
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Arb won't finalize till the deadline. Can adjust at any time between now and then.
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Will arbitration end when all the money is allocated, or will it not finalize until Nov 15?
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I'm taking it slow. Make sure I don't eff up my first moves in the league.
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and 30 days
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$101 left to go....
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Kershaw threw more innings his age 20 year and I think we can agree he turned out okay.
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Fernandez just had a ton of innings put on a very young arm. Why allocate to someone who will experience forearm tightness in six months.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 16, 2013 8:52 PM
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*subject to change but those were the guys I wanted to initially highlight
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I allocated to 23 different players
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I would love to allocate more to Fernandez (did $1) but there are several underpriced assets on that team and I think its good to spread the wealth for some of the teams.
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My bad. I wasn't adding my allocations and the other allocations. Seems like they should be displayed as a total, not separately.
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My allocations are pre-alpha status. Lots of changing around to come over the next few weeks.
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I allocated my $25 to only 13 players (2 over the obvious 11 min). Seems like most other people are spreading the wealth
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So far.
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Looks like he's got $7 right now so 1/2 others must have given him some $$
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So you ($3) and me ($2) are the only ones that assigned any $ to Fernandez. That's absurd.
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re Puig/Fernandez, not the Pitching/Hitting thing. The Pitching/Hitting comment is just too general to this process where you're trying to just pad underpriced assets
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As the individual who has allocated $3 of the $4 put on Jose Fernandez already, I cannot disagree with WAR more
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So who wants David price?
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 16, 2013 7:26 PM
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Allocating to Fernandez over Puig is nuts.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 16, 2013 7:15 PM
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By the way, I agree with your general point. More of a commentary on the Soler thing. But there are some SP that are severely undervalued. I'm putting $2-3 on Jose Fernandez for sure.
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So we shouldn't assign arb dollars to pitchers but we should to guys who have played 50 games at A ball?
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I can see a scenario where these allocations change in a frenzy just before the deadline...
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the splitting up of "your allocations" and "others" is kind of annoying, Scherzer Sale and Davis all have $13 but that should all be in one place
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I would be shocked if Davis didn't wind up getting near the $33 max
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Davis at $13, so he is tops, then the next two are SP
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I don't like that the top two allocate-ees are pitchers. Put your money on hitters, people! Pitchers will just break on their own, you don't need to inflate their salaries.
Eckfords ⚾ on
October 16, 2013 4:37 PM
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