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AvatarDan Szymborski
4:07
It practically turned him off to working in baseball for years
Ben Clemens
4:07
Lol dangit I complimented the chat.
And now they're saying that that should be a hit, and that Gurriel wants the RBI.
complimented the broadcast, rather
Dystopian Future
4:08
Pierzynski is full of good points today, and he's right again here; that ball's on Meadows, he's coming in; though it should be noted Lowe gave himself a terrible angle on that ball.
4:09
The best storyline if the Dodgers win is if they'll give a ring to d'Arnaud.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:09
"We decided to give a ring to Jeff Bridich as he did such a good job helping us this last offseason."
Jason
4:09
I see that the "homer or error" trend is still holding true for the Rays.  Sad that the NL couldn't live up to their side of it yesterday.
Rockies
4:10
The Yankees should vote the entire COL franchise playoff shares.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:10
"Thanks guys, do you have any other players you don't care enough to bother with for us to check out?"
Dystopian Future
4:11
Speaking of Bridich, did you see that apparently it was his idea to put the opt-out in Arenado's contract? https://www.denverpost.com/2019/10/01/rockies-nolan-arenado-opt-out-cl... And that Arenado didn't even care about having an opt-out at the beginning? I'd laugh if I didn't feel so bad for Colorado.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:11
Ben Clemens
4:11
It's a tossup whether Dan or I said snarkier things online about this.
Just.... Yikes.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:12
to say nothing of what Dan told the Denver Post this week
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:12
"Did you go to Harvard Upstairs Medical College too?"
Ben Clemens
4:12
Ah, now that I didn't see.
AvatarJay Jaffe
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:12
I actually toned down the snark!
Geust
4:12
Wait was Voros with the Boston org last year?
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:12
no, 2004
Ben Clemens
4:12
Oh my, the headline here:
Rockies “like a good 1985 front office” when it comes to free agency, pundit says
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:12
No, 2003-2005
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:13
right, i meant the 2004 championship
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:13
I actually said a few nice things!
Ben Clemens
4:13
Yeah they really put the hot take in the headline there.
Dystopian Future
4:14
Jeff Bridich and Mickey Calloway should work together on a team sometime as GM and Manager. Just for scientific study.
Ben Clemens
4:14
I'm willing to give him some benefit of the doubt on the opt-out thing and say that he was just talking nonsense.
AvatarJay Jaffe
4:14
in my attempt to say something nice I should have specified that I meant only the 2016 version of Mark Reynolds and only via bWAR
Ben Clemens
4:14
But it's not hard. I'm a dope with no team and no computer programming experience and I wrote an article about valuing opt outs just this year!
stever20
4:14
The Yankees should vote the entire Oriole pitching staff playoff shares.
Ben Clemens
4:15
Heck, I'll email it to the Rockies if they need it.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:15
The broadcasters have officially lost interest in the game.
Geust
4:15
Ben you could probably get them to pay for it
Ben Clemens
4:15
Here was my conclusion:
If I’m valuing the opt-outs correctly, Arenado’s deal compensates him significantly more per WAR than Harper’s or Machado’s.
4:16
And a swing andn a miss here:
On the other hand, wait, what? Free agency is supposed to give you more leverage because you get to negotiate with more teams. Maybe the Rockies are higher on Arenado than ZiPS. Maybe my model’s wrong (again, I don’t think so). Most likely, though, the Rockies decided they were going to go out and sign Nolan Arenado, and he said he wanted eight years and $260 million with an opt-out.
AvatarDan Szymborski
4:16
The BBWAA is pretty insistent we not share our votes.
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