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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: JR
Date: November 5, 2013, 6:28 pm
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No way in hell.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: November 5, 2013, 6:45 pm
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--- Quote from: Deeg link ---
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> Seriously, after the deals they made last year you doubt this
is possible? These are the Royals.
>
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Actually, the Royals rolled the dice last year and lost a
prime prospect, but they didn't exactly get beef hash in return.
Another decent deal this year, and they could contend for a WC.
However, I doubt Zimmer for Smarj. Barney maybe.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: November 5, 2013, 6:57 pm
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I wasn't really clear what he was implying if Zimmer would be
offered or they were just kinda thought about it and instead
we're going to offer a bunch of A ball or lower players. Zimmer
also had some sort of injury issue at the end of year that might
have involved a shoulder as well. ABTY does have connections to
the Royals FO because of his last job, so I'd take this as a
better informed than his usual stuff.
The Royals will have a 1 year window before Shields leaves as a
free agent, limited cash to replace Santana so an over pay might
not be really far fetched.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: Deeg
Date: November 5, 2013, 7:17 pm
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--- Quote from: CurtOne link ---
>
> Actually, the Royals rolled the dice last year and lost a
prime prospect, but they didn't exactly get beef hash in return.
Another decent deal this year, and they could contend for a WC.
However, I doubt Zimmer for Smarj. Barney maybe.
>
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But Shark isn't beef hash as far as I'm concerned...
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: Robb
Date: November 5, 2013, 9:27 pm
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What's wrong with hash? I love beef hash.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: StrikeZone
Date: November 5, 2013, 9:30 pm
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The Royals also have a GM trying to win in order to save his
job. He may be a Jim Hendry looking to make a Matt Garza trade.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: brjones
Date: November 6, 2013, 10:59 am
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Rockies beat writer Troy Renck has indicated on Twitter over the
last week or two that he thinks there's about a 60% chance
Dexter Fowler is traded this offseason. I wonder what he'd
cost...pretty good OBP guy, seems like a good fit with the Cubs.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: November 6, 2013, 11:15 am
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2013 Home/Away
Home .311/.396/.478 OPS .874
Away .214/.343/.335 OPS .678
Career
Home .298/.398/.430 OPS .880
Away .241/.333/.361 OPS .694
Anything greater than Barney would be too much.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: brjones
Date: November 7, 2013, 3:52 pm
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That's something to worry a little about...but I think Coors
home/away splits get overstated for a few reasons:
1. Outside of Coors, the NL West is a hard place to hit. Three
of the other four parks are pitcher's parks (Petco, AT&T Park,
Dodger Stadium). About one third of Fowler's career road ABs
have come in those three parks. He has an OPS of about .630 in
those three places, compared to about .725 in all other road
parks. If the Cubs traded for him, he'd pick up a high
proportion of his road PAs in two parks that are good for
hitters (Miller & Great American) and two that I perceive as
fairly neutral (Busch and PNC).
2. Most hitters are a little better at home than on the road.
3. I don't have any proof for this, but I imagine that Coors is
such an outlier as a hitter's park that it results in a kind of
"hangover" effect when the Rockies go on the road. Many Rockies
hitters likely have pretty different approaches at home than
they do on the road because it is so much easier to hit. But in
a more neutral park, they probably wouldn't make the same
adjustments.
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Re: Hot Stove 2013
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: November 7, 2013, 6:46 pm
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Those are all fair points, but his offense is going to drop off
some. His defensive advanced stats are bad to just below
average. I just don't think he'd be worth the prospects or
provide much improvement over Sweeney/Lake.
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