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12-08-2022, 07:51 AM | #1381 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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I'm gonna be that guy and say that I actually like this move. People bitched incessantly about the black holes in the lineup. This fixes one of them. Yes, Murphy is better and younger, but the A's would have likely wanted a brutal price for those years of cheap control. Moreover, defense from the catcher position will improve from Knizer and decline only marginally from the washed up version of Yadi. His bat is good enough to profile at DH if Herrera ends up being worthy of more time behind the dish.
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12-08-2022, 09:13 AM | #1382 | |
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No idea on the value chart..... |
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12-08-2022, 09:23 AM | #1383 | |
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I would have given them both Winn and Gorman. Winn is a redundant prospect and who the **** is Gorman? Kyle Schwarber minus the ability to play even bad defense? Look at how much value Schwarber provides when he hits 40+ HRs. He's slightly above average for an every day player. |
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12-08-2022, 09:43 AM | #1384 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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I have a hard time believing they'd take the first package. Noot is a 5th OF and Donovan just a utility guy.
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12-08-2022, 09:45 AM | #1385 | |
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12-08-2022, 10:14 AM | #1386 | |
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12-08-2022, 11:00 AM | #1387 |
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12-08-2022, 11:36 AM | #1388 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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Both a Noot/Donovan/Graceffo package or Gorman straight across for Murphy is 100% reasonable. Gorman straight across is goddamn robbery. Mozeliak has traded the wrong guy so damn many times at this point that he's simply paralyzed. He realizes he has no idea who's actually good so he just won't move ANYBODY. And thus we end up with a roster full of B tier prospects who are quality players but who aren't going to win you a championship. Noot had bettter be legit. There's some real sneaky Brandon Nimmo potential there. But that's the top 10% of his development curve and ain't all that likely. Mozeliak is just so damn risk averse because of his own mistakes that he's a governor on this team's ability to actually contend. He needs to go. |
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12-08-2022, 11:38 AM | #1389 | |
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This is his arb1 season. And Murphy does more than play 'solid' defense - he's one of the best defensive catchers in the game. If Gorman/Murphy was actually on the table, it's just a completely absurd miss from Mozeliak. |
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12-08-2022, 12:28 PM | #1390 |
Rabbi Goldmann
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Ben Clemens of FanGraphs contract prediction: 4/$80
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12-08-2022, 12:36 PM | #1391 |
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Didn't mean to cut him short...still just flabbergasted it was that attainable. I thought when they said they were asking the moon, it was something like Jordan, Winn, Tink Hence, and one or two of our top current outfielders.
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12-08-2022, 12:39 PM | #1392 |
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He also waits too long often on prospects and then can't get what he could have earlier. He can't evaluate talent period.
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12-11-2022, 09:44 AM | #1393 | |
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Mo is just an idiot who knows how to make money for Dewitt. That's fine and dandy. Make him president of operations, let him make that money for Dewitt. Let someone who knows talent make player decisions. |
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12-11-2022, 01:50 PM | #1394 |
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https://fansided.com/2022/12/11/st-l...los-rodon/amp/
Setting Mo up for his “missed it by that much” yearly act. |
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12-11-2022, 10:13 PM | #1395 | |
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