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formermav43

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  1. McCormick is a perfectly acceptable option in CF. It will be much easier to upgrade 1B and/or LF.
  2. But even if that’s true, there’s no real back end of a contract on a guy who’s 40 next season. No one is giving him more than 2, *maybe* 3 years regardless. They’re absolutely willing to do that. Edit: Verlander signed his previous extension prior to the 2019 season. Had nothing to do with COVID.
  3. It’s not quite the same level, but Brantley at 2/$32M is relevant too-that was top 15ish for OF in AAV.
  4. How does Verlander not count? His salary still makes him one of the 10 highest paid pitchers in MLB, and that’s giving it to a guy who theoretically could have been worthless.
  5. That’s not a bad deal based on the way he’s pitching today, but I’m not sure 33-34 year old Valdez is even going to be replacement level (see Keuchel, Dallas).
  6. FWIW, Valdez won’t hit free agency until 2026. He’ll be 32 and groundball pitchers (and he’s the most extreme one there is) don’t tend to age well at all. I doubt he’s an extension candidate.
  7. That’s not really accurate. What they won’t do is sign higher priced older guys for longterm deals. There’s no reason to believe they wouldn’t be willing to bring Verlander back for 2-3 seasons at a higher AAV. I mean, they just gave him $25 million (with an option year at the same price) when he hadn’t really pitched since 2019.
  8. There’s a much larger sample says that indicates he sucks. As bad as Meyers was this season, his triple slash line and wRC+ are basically identical to Brinson’s career average across over 1,000 plate appearances.
  9. I gather that your degree wasn’t in Classics.
  10. It's odd for the Giants. Not so odd for the Astros, who have turned a worthless minor league free agent into something, even if it's just cash.
  11. McCormick has put up 1.7 WAR. That would rank 10th among CF if all his innings were there (not to mention, if he played full time, he’d probably be more like 8th with the additional games). He can obviously handle it defensively, all the advanced metrics said that last year and this season too. He was already a slightly above average bat last season, and he’s only gotten better, cutting his strikeout rate dramatically and increasing his walk rate to over 10%. What more does it take to prove you’re an everyday player?
  12. Puritans were not monolithic-it was a movement, not a formally defined schism. The Pilgrims were part of the more radical Separatist faction. I’m not disputing those differences you’re pointing out between them and some other Puritans, but they all fall under that big umbrella term.
  13. This is correct. The Pilgrims were Puritans, but they were Separatists who wanted to establish their own churches as opposed to those Puritans who wanted to reform the Church of England.
  14. Get a room, you two. You deserve each other.
  15. That’s what Vazquez is for (because, face it, Maldonado is still going to be getting nearly all the starts). The emergency guy is going to be defense first.
  16. That isn't an abbreviation. It's a word. The parallel would be writing DEFENSIVE instead of DE (or frequently just E when it's on a "whiteboard"). No one has ever done that. It should just be E - that's consistent with other 1 letter abbreviations for positions, and there's no possibility of confusion, because the only other position on defense with an E in the abbreviation is defensive end, and that's effectively what edge is replacing anyway.
  17. This is such an annoying trend.
  18. Pittman ran a 4.76 at the combine.
  19. I’ll take whatever is behind door #3.
  20. Sounds like every other bullpen.
  21. Live look at KD?
  22. Meyers' abysmal wRC+ this season is *still* better than Brinson's career average. Hard pass.
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