buddha
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give it time.
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javy!
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i'm really stunned that coolbaugh hasnt been fired yet. just as a sacrifical lamb.
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also took the white sox four years. but those teams had gm's who traded assets for good young players who served as building blocks for their 90+ win teams. the tigers did not do that.
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took the cubs 4 years too. this is detroit's sixth season of rebuilding. #fireavila
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torterella to the flyers. seems like a perfect fit for the philly area. gritty and torts.
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honestly, i dont know anything about these prospects other than what i read. and ive read a lot. i trust yzerman enough to be happy with whomever he takes. i'm old enough to remember being surprised by the seider pick and EVERYONE questioning it. that said, connor geekie just has rasmussen written all over him. i hope they dont take him.
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so ivey is smarter than we may have thought.
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interesting. he's tiny.
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theyre really high on those defensemen.
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great, so it will end up being shai gilgeous alexander again.
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i think the major difference was dombrowski's ability to turn water into wine, and Al's ability to turn wine into Jose King and Franklin Perez.
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watch, next year javy will have a career year and correa will get hurt and we'll all be saying Al is a genius. lol.
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what bolded part? you dont know what illitch told him he could offer. we know he wanted to be the highest paid ss in baseball. the twins made that happen and the tigers didnt. that's what we actually know.
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you dont know what illitch said about the contract money. neither do i. i said baez was an ok signing but i wanted correa (or seager) because he's a much better player. beaz would - at the very least - help with their team defense. i did not expect baez to be this bad (although i did expect him to be 220/290/440ish). i think baez will get better at some point. i dont like the idea of paying baez for his decline years but understand that's what is necessary to sign a player.
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i would say avila did a great job of getting the best ss on the market. baez was an ok consolation prize, i guess, but he's the inferior player and he's older. on the plus side, he didnt cost as much, but i dont really care about that. i guarantee one thing: whatever i would have said, you would argue against it for the next ten pages of posts. so go ahead: your move.
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even more amazing is that the guy in charge of that farm system was promoted.
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they failed to get him. he was the best player available and they failed to make him an offer he would accept and/or simply failed to sign him. instead they signed javy baez, who has been terrible. why do you consider this an example of avila doing a good job?
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because one offer locks him in at that low price for a decade and the other lets him go back and get a bigger price next year.
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speaking of a complete and utter horseshit...
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i'd wait for the deadline rather than make that deal.
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boo.
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that's what i meant. if wood gets filler and the #26 pick, grant should be worth at least a late lottery pick.
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could be. i think youre wrong, but we'll never know for sure.
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i understand. i'm saying that at the time they made that offer it was a low ball offer (look at what seager got). instead of waiting and seeing how the market played out, they paid javy baez. in the end, if they would have waited, they may have been able to get correa for $36 million this year. we'll never know. what we DO know is that correa did eventuay sign a deal for short term money. and that a rival team got a better player than us on a better deal, ergo why i think avila played the market badly. again. maybe if he had a history of making good deals i would be more charitable to him,but his history of poor management and timing leads me to believe he simply got played again.
