2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

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DeadsetAce said:
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damn really? impressive as hell. second base isn't exactly a "light" position either
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Still, Mariners aren't near contention yet IMO, and the opinion of a great number of people. To say Cano is going to make an immediate impact, sure, but I can't see his signing as a guarantee to win the West.
 
dland24 said:
Proshares said:
 
dland24 said:
What is the projected Yankee lineup as it currently sits? I am aware that they will probably add a 2B or another OF, but what does it project to right this second?
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IDK what order they'd put em in:


McCann

Tex

2B

Jeter

3B/Johnson

Soriano

Gardner

Ellsbury

DH
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Thats what I was asking.  :lol:
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:lol: my bad D.

Best guess?

Gardner
Jeter
Ellsbury
McCann
Tex
Soriano
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Johnson

What they should have?

Ellsbury
Jeter
McCann
Soriano
Tex
-
Johnson
-
Gardner

The other two pieces are really important obviously :lol:

Plus, I'm not accounting for A-Rod. He can still be there.
 
Mariners have much more work to do to improve from being the second worst team in the division.
 
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For the homie @Deuce King.....

Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over.

Label owners hate me, I'm raising the status quo up.

I'm overcharging nz for what they did to the Cold Crush. 

Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us.

We can talk, but money talks, so talk more bucks.

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Happy Birthday homie.
 
Welcome to Flushing, Curtis Granderson. I hoped it was a three-year deal. Oh well, we need some veteran batters anyway.
 
Gonna miss Robbie
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, but at the same time glad we didn't issue another 200+ MM contract.

Best of luck in Seattle Cano.
 
Granderson an obvious upgrade for Mets.

The New York Mets' four-year, $60 million deal with Curtis Granderson addresses a very dire need, as their 2013 corner outfielders ranked somewhere between leeching and homeopathy on the effectiveness scale. Even if Granderson, recovered from two fractures that ruined his 2013 season, only gets back to where he was in 2012, he'll help the Mets right away -- but his age and low contact rate don't bode well for him remaining so through the end of the contract.

The Mets get about a two-win boost from Granderson, considering all aspects of his game, versus the collection of left-fielders they used in 2013. That might be worth the $15 million a year they're paying him, given their market, although the fact that the team lost 88 games in 2013 and isn't likely to be much better in 2014 doesn't help matters. (The Mets will lose their second-round pick to sign Granderson, as their first-round pick is "protected" from free-agent compensation, a loss but not an enormous cost to the team.)

By 2015, however, the team should get Matt Harvey back for most of the season, Zack Wheeler should be further along, and one or both of prospects Noah Syndergaard and Rafael Montero will be in the rotation as well, giving the team an effective and cheap rotation that could easily make them contenders -- assuming the offense holds up its end of the bargain. I imagine this signing is aimed at that goal: respectability in 2014, but actual contention in 2015 and beyond.

Counting on Granderson beyond this next season means believing he's not going to show any substantial decline in his age 34 through 36 seasons, which is probably not realistic; his 2011 season was a real outlier, but even before his injury-marred 2013 season he'd already begun to chase more pitches out of the zone and lengthen his swing to try to maintain that 40-homer power output. He's patient, but when he falls behind pitchers can force him to expand and he struggles to adjust to even out the count. He's well below-average in center, but the Mets have an outstanding defender there in Juan Lagares and can afford to put Granderson in left, where he should be more of an asset and where he can withstand any loss of speed or reaction times that comes with age.

What this may add up to is paying Granderson $15 million in each of 2016 and 2017 to be more of an $8-10 million player, which is a paper loss the Mets might be willing to take in exchange for what he delivers in the first two years of the deal and the chance that 2011 rears its head one more time. The Mets already have Chris Young to fill their other outfield spot, more of a high-risk/high-reward signing, meaning their best chances to continue to improve their 2014 roster come on the infield, where they could certainly do better at first base than Ike Davis and Lucas Duda or at second base than defensive liability Daniel Murphy.

But I'd interpret this deal as a sign that the Mets want to at least field a more competitive team in 2014 while gearing up for real contention once they get Harvey back and have more of their potential rotation-of-the-future in place.
 
dland24 said:
For the homie @Deuce King
.....

Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over.
Label owners hate me, I'm raising the status quo up.
I'm overcharging nz for what they did to the Cold Crush. 
Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you hoed us.
We can talk, but money talks, so talk more bucks.

:lol: :pimp:

Happy Birthday homie.
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Thanks @ dland24, I appreciate that. Hope to see you at tailgating on Sunday......i'll hit you up.
 
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WS/Jonny Gomes Bday cake from his house warming party a couple weeks ago. Must be a close knit clubhouse to have some of your teammates show up.
 
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