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Looking to deal some guys like Crawford, Lackey, etc, for little more than roster and cap space if anyone is interested. Both valuable enough to not just be cut, but they'd likely come cheap.
Caimans 🐊 on
July 13, 2013 11:30 PM
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Locke and Castro are available. Not exactly Koufax and Bench, but at those prices.....two pretty good growth stocks. Locke's numbers are just OK, but he could be a very good otto pitcher in that ballpark.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 13, 2013 10:42 AM
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WAR Horse's trade block has been updated!
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 13, 2013 10:29 AM
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Darin Ruf gets to face two lefties today. The simple pleasures of the fantasy nerd's life....
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 13, 2013 10:04 AM
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man...check out WARs pitching!
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Aroldis just threw a baseball 104 MPH.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 12, 2013 10:39 PM
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Don't poke the bear.
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From Durham Bulls twitter feed re: Gattis - ""El Oso Blanco," spanish for "strikes out with bases loaded."
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Yep.
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Recouping $
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What's with all these add/drops lately? Is this the new clever strategy or something?
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Durham Tobacconists's trade block has been updated!
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Lucky Strikes's trade block has been updated!
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Please ?? the correct spelling is "JEEtuh"
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 11, 2013 9:08 AM
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With the way the industry is talking about Derek Jeter this morning, the Knights could climb right back into this thing...
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Darvish and Cain both hurting, Cliffy Lee and Shark getting shelled. When will top-tier ottoneu pitchers stop being jerks?
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 11, 2013 7:37 AM
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Eckfords ⚾ on
July 11, 2013 7:36 AM
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WGW -- Yes, but in this league, only one of them was in my active lineup...
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 11, 2013 7:36 AM
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Newly followed on Twitter: @HeardOnMLBT. Groundbreaking stuff...
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they gave up a combined 8 HRs in this league too :)
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In my other league Shark and Lee gave up a combined 8 HR.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 10, 2013 10:38 PM
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Shark is getting absolutely crushed tonight.
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Just landed in Quad Cities. Never been here, but will be here for three nights. Tight schedule, but may try to sneak in a River Bandits game to catch Corea, Appel. They start a four game series tonight, but I think Appel just pitched
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That guy is dialed in.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 9:13 PM
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Bottom line is that Jed is going to win because he somehow convinced Adrian Beltre it is August 9th instead of July 9th
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Yeah with all those SP, I feel like you have the flexibility to trade me Darvish for Joel Peralta.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 8:52 PM
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I have an idea. Just trade Stras, Darvish, Hamels to me for a real solid RP and see if that works.
Caimans 🐊 on
July 9, 2013 8:43 PM
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So I can see both sides of the argument. Not sure that the sheer number of minor leaguers killed Enrico's season, but it certainly didn't make it easier to recover from underperformance / slow starts.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 8:41 PM
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You can move prospects for more MLB talent, but most teams don't really want to trade for prospects until late in the year.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 8:39 PM
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If you have 28 MLB players and, let's say, 5 of them just crap the bed. You are in major trouble.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 8:38 PM
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hit more bullseyes in terms of them being useful contributors.
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 8:38 PM
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I think no matter how your roster is built, owning $30+ players who struggle is a killer. Tough to recover from that when you have a $400 salary. But I do tend to agree with Trey's point that if you have 38 MLB darts to throw instead of 28, you're likely
Eckfords ⚾ on
July 9, 2013 8:37 PM
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Durham Tobacconists's trade block has been updated!
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Enrico Palazzo's trade block has been updated!
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heh, fair point. Inspirational locker room speeches!
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I mean, sounds like good coaching to me...
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I mean, WGW, do you think you're good b/c you're playing matchups? You're good b/c Segura and Gomez have gone crazy and all your hitters have been healthy and above expectations, and Matt Harvey has gone completely nuts and your RPs are averageing 8/IP
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and FYI, in the scenario I laid out (excluding the 3.5 P/IP for the extra inning) my P/IP would be 4.90. . . so, um, same spot I am today
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so basically, I've "lost" 300 points. So If I'm sitting at 8900 the entire calculation is different? Cmon people. It is insane how aggressively we're working backward from predisposed notions of what happened, rather than looking at the facts
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of course, I also have 75 IPs extra to play with. Let's say I use terrible SPs in their place at 3.5 P/IP for another 262 pts
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if all went well from day 1, let's say I'd have 150 RP IP at 6/IP, that means that I've "given up" 500 points thus far
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WGW -- inaccurate. Hard to say exactly how many RP innings I've gotten, but ballpark over the ones I've used, call it 75 or so innings, and hard to say average, but conservatively let's call it 4.5/IP, so that's 337.5 points
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having those points plus another 3-5 SP that you can rotate to play matchups is key and now you would still be within shouting distance and hoping those studs can turn it around in the second half and have the half that WAR did
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not alone....you have given up at least 700 points for not playing RP from the start and that was a decision from the beginning of the season...not just working backwards
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at the height of my attempt to win, my SP rotation was Strasburg, Price, Anderson, Darvish, Hamels, Sabathia, Fister. Ok, if you think that that isn't deep enough to win but I defy anyone to list a deeper staff. It just didn't work for a bunch of reasons
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its just reasoning backwards from a conclusion. Aren't Hamels and Sabathia (at least entering the season) studs? I traded prospects for them. Who else was I supposed to acquire?
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I started adding RPs. with my SPs tanking, I stopped . . .
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you have to many high level prospects that you werent willing to forego this year which is fine
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ok I see your point, but I dont think you can win on the back of just 5 stud pitchers...you have to play matchups with the lesser pitchers and have RP. You didnt have much of either so when SP was down, you had nothing else to supplement with
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hits and HRs allowed being the biggest variants among things pitchers control
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