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On December 14 2012 08:32 MassHysteria wrote:
Yup, and the Red Sox Giants won 2 of the last 3 titles so that's it for about 70 years or so... Yankees Dodgers dynasty is up next.
That may be true, but as long as it really rekindles the rivalry, I will be happy. I have never had as much fun as I had when watching hardcore rivalry games between the the Giants and Dodgers, when tempers fly and the teams are not just opposing sides, but enemies. I love it. This is also why I think they should do away with interleague play and have more divisional games, games that actually matter, games that fans really want to see.
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On December 14 2012 08:21 TheAmazombie wrote:
Also, Ryan Dempster, 2-year deal with the Red Sox. Too bad...I always thought he would have been a good fit with my G-Men.
I like him with red sox, he comes cheap for this year, on a two year deal, and has potential to be a solid number 2 or a amazing number 3.
So who is going to make the most ridiculous offer for sanchez? In a more sane market i would love him to the sox for 4 years 12 million a year, but now its more like 6 for 20 a year. Man i love it when the free agent market is thin.
Sanchez to the cubs for 5/75
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On December 14 2012 08:38 Jaaaaasper wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 08:21 TheAmazombie wrote:
Also, Ryan Dempster, 2-year deal with the Red Sox. Too bad...I always thought he would have been a good fit with my G-Men. I like him with red sox, he comes cheap for this year, on a two year deal, and has potential to be a solid number 2 or a amazing number 3. So who is going to make the most ridiculous offer for sanchez? In a more sane market i would love him to the sox for 4 years 12 million a year, but now its more like 6 for 20 a year. Man i love it when the free agent market is thin. Sanchez to the cubs for 5/75
I wouldn't say cheap, but that's the market rate for such a shallow pool. He didn't pitch so well at Texas last year (kinda unlucky with a .338 BABIP), but I don't think he's an AL pitcher, and certainly won't survive the AL East throughout the season. Always loved his pitching motion...one of the most quirkiest if I ever saw one.
Well, Sanchez going to the Cubs is a slight surprise, given that they are still a couple of years away from any contention in the playoffs. He's still mulling an offer from Detroit, and should take that offer if he wants to get another shot at the World Series.
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So who has the better lineup now? Dodgers or Angels?
Dodgers:
Carl Crawford
Andre Ethier
Matt Kemp
Adrian Gonzalez
Hanley Ramirez
Mark Ellis
Luis Cruz
A.J. Ellis
Angels:
Mike Trout
Erick Aybar
Albert Pujols
Josh Hamilton
Mark Trumbo
Howie Kendrick
Alberto Callaspo
Chris Iannetta
(Kendrys Morales)
I would give it to the Angels for the better depth, but if Crawford and Hanley starts producing like they have in the past I think the Dodgers would have the edge. And as for pitching, Dodgers take it easily.
Either way, it will be very interesting to watch my Giants play them next year. Our lineup doesn't even come close, but our players play with so much heart and camaraderie. Also, if Lincecum reverts back to form, our rotation is about as solid as it gets.
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Gonna laugh so hard when neither team makes the playoffs.
Angels are probably a legit contender now. Maybe.
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On December 14 2012 08:38 Jaaaaasper wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 08:21 TheAmazombie wrote:
Also, Ryan Dempster, 2-year deal with the Red Sox. Too bad...I always thought he would have been a good fit with my G-Men. I like him with red sox, he comes cheap for this year, on a two year deal, and has potential to be a solid number 2 or a amazing number 3. So who is going to make the most ridiculous offer for sanchez? In a more sane market i would love him to the sox for 4 years 12 million a year, but now its more like 6 for 20 a year. Man i love it when the free agent market is thin. Sanchez to the cubs for 5/75
And the Tigers keep Sanchez at 5/80 mil. Locking up one of the strongest top 4 rotations in baseball.
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Cubs leaked it too soon. Bet they're regretting that.
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I wonder what the Tigers are gonna do about that fifth rotation spot with Rick Porcello and Drew Smyly. Both are only 23 and have huge ceilings but I guess one of them will have to go to the bullpen or worse, traded.
The Tigers' payroll was ridiculous even before they re-signed Sanchez, so I really hope they don't sign Rafael Soriano. As good as Bruce Rondon seems to be, I don't want an unproven rookie with only 9 innings pitched in AAA to be the closer for a team with serious world series hopes this year.
Edit: Thankfully Dombrowski has said he doesn't want to sign Soriano, but he's extremely high on Bruce Rondon. Guess we'll see what spring training has in store.
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On December 15 2012 18:44 Ferrose wrote:
I wonder what the Tigers are gonna do about that fifth rotation spot with Rick Porcello and Drew Smyly. Both are only 23 and have huge ceilings but I guess one of them will have to go to the bullpen or worse, traded.
The Tigers' payroll was ridiculous even before they re-signed Sanchez, so I really hope they don't sign Rafael Soriano. As good as Bruce Rondon seems to be, I don't want an unproven rookie with only 9 innings pitched in AAA to be the closer for a team with serious world series hopes this year.
Edit: Thankfully Dombrowski has said he doesn't want to sign Soriano, but he's extremely high on Bruce Rondon. Guess we'll see what spring training has in store.
Porcello is likely to be dealt. Try and get a reliever or SS out of the deal
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I don't know that trading D'arnaud would be worth it or not. I'd rather see Arencibia gone. But I guess if we're going all in for 2013, it makes sense if he could have a season like last year's.
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On December 16 2012 01:06 feanor1 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2012 18:44 Ferrose wrote:
I wonder what the Tigers are gonna do about that fifth rotation spot with Rick Porcello and Drew Smyly. Both are only 23 and have huge ceilings but I guess one of them will have to go to the bullpen or worse, traded.
The Tigers' payroll was ridiculous even before they re-signed Sanchez, so I really hope they don't sign Rafael Soriano. As good as Bruce Rondon seems to be, I don't want an unproven rookie with only 9 innings pitched in AAA to be the closer for a team with serious world series hopes this year.
Edit: Thankfully Dombrowski has said he doesn't want to sign Soriano, but he's extremely high on Bruce Rondon. Guess we'll see what spring training has in store. Porcello is likely to be dealt. Try and get a reliever or SS out of the deal
Yeah, I heard about them maybe trading Porcello and maybe Brennan Boesch to the Pirates for Joel Hanrahan and maybe or another player, or maybe trading Porcello to get Asdrubal Cabrera. I don't want to see Porcello go though cause I think he'll be good later on since he has great sabermetric numbers but not great ERA and WHIP.
But I think most people want him gone, because they just go "but dude his ERA is almost 5.00 he sucks."
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Well, I can't fault Toronto for all of these moves, they see the AL East being vulnerable with the Yankees and Red Sox retooling, and Baltimore should regress a little. The Mets got good prospects and I think they can develop into a strong rotation 2-3 years from now. Of course, the Wilpons are still bad owners, but Selig has a good relationship with them, so they won't be forced to sell.
I wonder who's going to pay for Rafael Soriano now, he opted out of a $14 Million option for a chance to close.
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R.A. Dickey seems like a pretty interesting dude!
From thestar.com(http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/mlb/article/1303328--12-things-to-know-about-r-a-dickey)
R.A. Dickey is an articulate deep-thinker with a dark past and the meanest knuckleball the major leagues have seen in a long time.
That’s only scratching the surface.
Now that he’s coming to Toronto as another one of Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos’s earnest off-season acquisitions, it’s time to peel back some of the layers of this man of mystery.
1. R.A. stands for Robert Allen.
2. He’s 38, and spends much of his time in his hometown of Nashville with his wife, Anne, and their four kids.
3. When warming up, Dickey gets pumped up to “The Imperial March” from Star Wars (a.k.a. Darth Vader’s theme song).
4. When he’s up to bat, he strolls out to the theme song from “Game of Thrones.”
5. He creatively names his bats. One is called Hrunting, named after the sword used to kill Grendel’s mother in the epic poem, Beowulf.
6. Another is called Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, inspired by a weapon in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit.
7. He’s slated to publish a trio of children’s books. One of them is a picture book called Knuckleball Ned, a story about “staying true to yourself through adversity.”
8. He keeps a stack of books in his locker to peruse in his free time. (Last summer, his reading list featured John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Killing Lincoln, by Fox pundit Bill O’Reilly.)
9. Dickey is known to pepper his speech with words such as “edifying,” “antithetical,” and even “deus ex machina.”
10. His acclaimed autobiography, Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball, came out this year.
11. The book revealed that he was sexually abused by his female babysitter when he was 8, and by a teenage boy when he was in Grade 4.
12. Dickey is a born-again Christian.
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Mariners trade Vargas to the Angels for Morales.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8763648/los-angeles-angels-trade-kendrys-morales-seattle-mariners-jason-vargas
As a Mariner's fan, pretty excited about this trade. As almost everyone knows, seattle desperately needed a middle of the lineup bat. And since we're bringing in the fences at Safeco, Vargas's value was diminished for Seattle since he's a flyball out pitcher. So I don't mind trading him away, though I did like him. Also, we have good pitching prospects coming up the farm system that should be around soon to fill in gaps in the pitching rotation if we need.
I am a little worried about how they're going to find room to play Morales, Smoak and Montero at two positions. I'm really hoping smoak develops this year...
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On November 15 2012 01:41 a176 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 15 2012 01:21 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Henderson Alverez is going to be a very very good pitcher... like 150+ career wins.
sorry ... in what way do you think alverez is a good pitcher?
Super late reply but Alvarez is the only blue jay ill miss in this trade. He had bad year, terrible control and he may need some mechanical changes, I don't know. This guy has sick stuff. Mid 90s fastball with a ton of movement, very good change up. One day he'll be at the front of someone's rotation, I'm sure of it.
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red sox and pirates working for a trade with hanrahan and a unnamed going to the sox for two b prospects and two unnamed players. This could be the sox freeing up rosters spots, but the unnamed players make me wonder if there is something more than cherington picking up another relief pitcher. Maybe a back up catcher to go with him.
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