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best comment i read so far about the contract length.   "There are Phillies fans not yet born that will be throwing batteries at him in the later years of this contract".

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From Levi Weaver's column in The Athletic:  

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Gammons rambles way too much and it's like his editors are afraid to touch his work, but I like him because he loves baseball.  Not just MLB.  Gammons loves BASEBALL. And he hit this one out of t

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11 hours ago, pops said:

He will replace jansen as the closer before the all Star break. 

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Jansen is recovering from surgery to correct a heart condition that had weakened him last year.  I expect him to have recovered come April.

 

But it's nice to know Kelly is there.

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2 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

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Jansen is recovering from surgery to correct a heart condition that had weakened him last year.  I expect him to have recovered come April.

 

But it's nice to know Kelly is there.

You're probably right. I think they will use him more in the 7th and the 8th. I hope he has success there. Loved him in St Louis. Always seemed like he was on the edge of breaking through

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KC signed Terrance Gore to a $650K/$350K split MLB deal. He’s out of options & won’t make the OD roster. Why can’t they divorce themselves from this guy? They sold him last year, now he’ll be a fairly rich AAA scrub. He has one more career hit than Beau. And if there’s exactly one thing KC needs more of, it’s fast guys that can’t hit. 

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How did I not know he didn't have a hit until this past year?  He's been around 5 years now.  I don't get why he even plays the minor league seasons.  Can't he stay in shape at home and be ready to go pinch run for someone in the playoffs?

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14 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Gather around, all of you --l-like-Harold-Reynolds dolts

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i was watching when that happened but i was doing other stuff.  i had to rewind my dvr just to make sure i heard it correctly.

in his defense, slugging is one of those brand new sabermetric/moneyball/advanced analytics stats and you can only keep up with so much information.  right?

 

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19 hours ago, Scraps said:

Trevor Cahill to the Angels for 1 yr 9 mil.  

Basically the same player as the hype machine Eovaldi last season 

#FlameAway 

yep. Eovaldi is one of the stranger cases of someone being overhyped recently. he's been the same guy his whole career; he throws gas; he's mediocre; he got hot late last season; that suddenly makes him a coveted FA?

 career numbers: .454 win percentage, 4.16 era, 1.348 WHIP, 640 k in 850 IP. just staggering numbers. total dominance. 

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2 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

yep. Eovaldi is one of the stranger cases of someone being overhyped recently. he's been the same guy his whole career; he throws gas; he's mediocre; he got hot late last season; that suddenly makes him a coveted FA?

 career numbers: .454 win percentage, 4.16 era, 1.348 WHIP, 640 k in 850 IP. just staggering numbers. total dominance. 

He started throwing a cutter last year which he didn’t throw with the Yankees. He’s different than this his career numbers would indicate 

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I think there is more value in the Cahill signing than Eovaldi's, but 2018 was arguably the best season of Eovaldi's career (on a rate basis), and certainly his best since 2014.  He was not mediocre (there were maybe 30 SPs better than him last year on a rate basis).  He also significantly changed his pitch mix last season by upping his cutter usage, making it harder to contact his four-seam (probably through some tunneling effect).  His four-seam has typically underperformed its velocity, but last year he was able to get the SwStr% on that pitch over 10%, giving him three different double digit SwStr% pitches (not very many SPs can do this).  

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