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  1. 2 hours ago, BornOrange said:

    In the offseason, I would like to see if someone gets moved to first.

    Tucker, Alvarez, Brantley, or Reddick should be playing first next year.

     

    1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

    Gurriel to DH?

    Gurriel and Diaz as utility players.

    I want Alvarez and Tucker (if he can hit MLB pitching) to play as much as possible. Maybe Tucker can play right, but it seems both of them may be best in left field.

    Brantley needs to stay in the lineup, so we have 3 guys for LF and DH. One of the three can go to first, or maybe go to right and have Reddick play first.

     

  2. 1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said:

    However I notice Randy Quaid's name in the trailer- if he flies a plane into the side of the last Japanese carrier I will go to the front desk and ask for my money back.

    I noticed Dennis Quaid's name in the trailer.

  3. 4 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    At some point good pitching will figure out alvarez weak spots. In the meantime I’m enjoying him crushing the hell out of mistakes. He is dialed in right now

     

    3 hours ago, Gourmand said:

    Opposing pitchers already know the weak spot but it's not easy to bust him with hard stuff inside and hit the high corner. His plate discipline is too good, which is why I expect him to generate a ton of walks in this lineup when he's not crushing bombs. 

    Starting pitchers normally throw on their second or third off day in between starts. 

    I wonder if it is possible for Alvarez to get some batting practice from Verlander and Cole?

  4. 4 hours ago, Jshep34 said:

    Need to get bags, puma and biggio to call a game. Just them .

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    I was thinking the same thing earlier this week when Berkman was doing one of the games.

    Biggio would do play by play because he would take the whole thing seriously and his Type A personality would kick in.

    Berkman would be the goofy color commentator with lots of stories.

    Bagwell would sit back and rag on both of them the whole time.

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  5. 39 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Myles Straw vs. Eric Yelding/Gerald Young/James Mouton/Brian Hunter, discuss.

    Willie "Mays" Hayes wasn't just a fictional movie character, but a stereotype. Too many players with a ton of speed prefer to hit the ball in the air rather than utilize their speed to its fullest advantage. Not all of those players had the "runs like Mays, but hits like shit" problem, but some of them did. The passage of time and my faulty memory prevent me from naming names.

    I hope Straw doesn't fall into that category, but a quote from this week concerns me.

    Someone asked postgame why he doesn't bunt more. His response was something like "People have always been telling me I should work on bunting more. I don't know why but I just haven't worked on it much." 

    I hope I'm wrong, but that immediately got me to wondering about how coachable he is. Anyone who sees his speed automatically assumes he should take advantage of it by bunting to get on base. I would imagine that every manager from little league, high school, college, and each level of the minors saw that potential....and yet Straw says he hasn't worked much on bunting.

    Yes, I know bunting isn't as prevalent as it used to be and isn't worked on as much. And yes, I know I am probably reading way too much into one postgame quote.

  6. 8 hours ago, UTHornFan014 said:

    Doomed

    Bregman 0-4 after getting paid. Waste of $100 million

    This right here.

    I don't understand all the optimism.

    1. Bregman is 0 for the season. We should have traded him before before we got anchored to that huge contract.
    2. Springer is only hitting .200. That'll kill you in the lead-off spot.
    3. Correa has been out for the entire season.
    4. We don't have our Cy Young winner (Keuchel). Who cares about JV? I prefer winners over runner ups (sic.....I hate runners up even more)
    5. Our bullpen is going to be overused if we keep throwing Pressly and Osuna every single game.
    6. Diaz is a disaster. He is batting .000 while Marwin G. single-handedly has the Twins in first place.

    We're fucking doomed.

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  7. Here's an SB Nation article about Dallas Keuchel.

    MLB Daily Dish - The Tricky Part About Signing Dallas Keuchel

    Spoiler

    Dallas Keuchel is still on the open market. Today is March, 15th, the season starts on March 28th, and one of the best pitchers (two, actually) in this year’s class is still unsigned. That’s not great.

    This isn’t unprecedented of course. It was almost a year ago, March 20th, 2018 that Alex Cobbreached his deal with Baltimore. Keuchel is most definitely hoping for a Cobb-like outcome. Despite waiting about as long as physically possible, Cobb still ended up getting a plenty respectable 4 years/57 million from the pitching-desperate Orioles. Keuchel would take that deal and sprint out the door at this point.

    But there’s a tricky aspect to a potential Keuchel contract. It’s certainly not unique to just him as other pitchers have found themselves here, but it is worth noting because of the conundrum in which he and his potential suitors find themselves.

    Keuchel wanted a 5-year deal. That’s been reported enough by enough sources that’s it probably safe to call truth. It’s also safe to say, at this point, that isn’t going to happen. Most teams have very little interest in giving any pitcher a 5-year free agent deal, much less those who reside on the wrong side of 30.

    So the conventional wisdom says take a shorter term deal. Keuchel most likely has a few different 2-year deals to choose from but this where the tricky part comes in. If Keuchel isn’t going to get the long term deal he wants, then a 1-year deal makes more sense for him than a 2-year deal. He can bet on himself to have a good year in 2019 and hit the open market next year and still only be 32. Where a 2-year takes him to 33, and makes it that much harder to get the multi-year deal he seeks.

    So you might be saying, okay why doesn’t he just take a 1-year deal then? Well, teams might not be offering a 1-year deal. You see, Keuchel has draft pick compensation attached to his free agency. That means teams are giving up a draft pick to sign him. And because of how the system is set up, those teams lose the same pick regardless of whether they sign him to a 1-year deal, 2-year deal, or 5-year deal. It’s easier to stomach the loss of that pick knowing the player you gave it up for is going to be around for more than 1-year.

    So 1-year deals don’t really make sense for the teams. 2-year deals don’t really make sense for Keuchel. And anything over 3 years most likely isn’t happening. You see the dilemma. There’s a very small sweet spot that can potentially make sense for both parties.

    I’ve said a few times, something around 3/50M makes sense for everyone but, there are teams who don’t even want to go to 3 years. Now he could still sign a 2-year deal if he concedes or a 1-year deal if a team concedes but a contract for him is a bit trickier than it seems.

    We’ll know soon enough.

     

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