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mike156
While I’m happy for the data, I have to admit I never would have thought that a Free Agent Face-off between Jerry Blevins and Boone Logan would ever generate so much excitement. Click-bait?
darenh
Seems a disproportionate amount of effort dedicated to two forgettable players.
trace
Virtual ink is limitless.
Jeff Todd
If you have ideas on something worth writing about, I’m all ears.
aknott1
I’m glad you wrote this article. Been a slow day on the site and I’m grateful for something to read.
CursedRangers
Agreed. As a baseball junkie anything is better to read than nothing. Outside of the Sale trade and the EE drama it’s been a pretty boring offseason.
patborders92
Shapiro and Atkins laying out there offseason plan and doing nothing so far to address there goals. Toronto Blue Jays: Rebuild vrs trying to compete in 2017
doolittle
How about an article on how to better evaluate potential trades? Prospects, veterans, years of control, contract obligations, etc.
Jeff Todd
Sounds hard! But I like the concept … something like, “how to construct reasonable trade proposals for comments and chat questions.”
aamatho18
You have no idea how helpful this would be to some of the commenters who have no idea how to put together a trade.
mike156
I think I made the first comment, so maybe I need to come up with a suggestion. How about a round up series–top 3 remaining needs for each team and possible matches? You can break that into NL and AL, or by division.
Jeff Todd
That’s a good idea! Thanks. Ha, I had been thinking of something like that … maybe this is the impetus I need to do it.
BTW, I was serious with my question. There’s very little in the way of info bouncing around right now.
Jeff Todd
Ask and ye shall receive!
mike156
To quote my kids (on other matters) Awesome!
mike156
I knew you were. And I believe it that there’s not a lot of hard info flying around. The produce has all been touched already, and if I were a GM thinking about something, I’d rather think quietly, then move, because even a moderate increase in price from other “interest’ might make the investment not worthwhile.
DeadliestCatch
Thinking of ideas.
1. Better educate the commenter about the importance of key stats for pitchers and hitters. Say you discuss ops+ or something. Help people understand differences and similarities to other hitter measurements
2. What about taking an early look at next years draft for the 1st round. A lot of sites do mocks I cannot say ive seen mocks here. Introduce people to the prospects sooner- justify why you think so and so will be drafted by such team.
3. Maybe do a farm system update for each division- maybe pick a bonafide player who you think will be the next big thing for the club and a dark horse nobody talks about that you see contributing for the club in the near future.
4. What about letting commenters do submit a trade theyd like to see and you pick a couple to discuss the possibility and how might the trade be tweaked to make sense for both teams.
5. If i am not mistaken a lot of players have done that sacrifice x percent of future earnings for guaranteed money. Maybe do an update about how that is going for the players who have made the deal?
6. Maybe do a look at current injured players for each division and look at where they are in their rehab and estimated time to return.
skyb
The stats for dummies series, in a KISS format, is a great idea for a lot of readers, plus you can recycle it regularly. At this point you have plenty of readers that understand the importance of non traditional stats, even starting at OPS, but just don’t know what they mean in very basic terms. Next is why each is important. Finally, and hardest, is what is a good number for each. For example most have their concept of what a good batting average is (albeit irrelevant), but even after grasping the concept of even a simpler stat like OPS it typically takes awhile for a casual fan starting to embrace new stats to establish a concept of what is good for each. A new convert may easily understand what OPS means, but have no clue whether .750 is good or not. Obviously stats that benchmark against the league are easier…
Mark 20
I enjoyed the article Jeff.
chesteraarthur
What seemingly crazy move will the rockies make next!?
baseball0021
Not much else to write about this time of year…
hojostache
I like Blevins a but kire bc he can face a righty in a pinch.
metseventually 2
I can’t understand any of what you just said, but Blevins was affective to righties. He isn’t much a LOOGY but just a solid reliever
rper4182
Agreed
AddisonStreet
Logan, I guess? Um.
rper4182
Headless?????? Um why
Jeff Todd
Probably how the image showed up on the app.
MatthewBaltimore23
I don’t know. They are really close. This free agent showdown I thought was kind of cool.
digimike
Jerry Blevins beats a headless Boone Logan every time!
jd396
But Blevins has no torso. Perhaps we can affix Blevins head to Logan’s body?
Eureka! We have created Barry Blogins!
MrMet19
I want one of these guys, we can use the money we get from dumping Jay Bruce!
seamaholic 2
Hang in there MLBTR-guys! There will be stuff to write about soon.
muggs
No JP Howell?
Who ends up with the Cubs? Blevins, Logan, Howell, Doolittle, Xavier Cedeno, Brad Hand?
Make your pick!
Jeff Todd
I should’ve at least mentioned him … will add.
rper4182
Blevins is more effective pitched well when facing lefties
rper4182
Howell solid bounceback canidate
chesteraarthur
Boone Logan has a cooler name, so he wins.
Jeff Todd
Counterpoint: Jerry Blevins is awesome on Twitter.
chesteraarthur
But is he awesome enough to make up for his rather boring Jerry Blevins-ness?
Jeff Todd
I think he’s a very interesting guy, even if his name could’ve been given to a “Fargo” character!
R.D.
Logan has spent the last 5 years in Coors and Yankee Stadium and hasn’t hiccuped.
I’d be very interested to see him in a pitcher’s park.
TennVol
How about an article on the Jays first real post-season under the Shapiro-Atkins “Indians Way” philosophy. Last post season, Atkins came on and let Tony LaCava run the show until he was acclimated to the Jays. LaCava signed Happ and Estrada early as Atkins first came on and made most of the decisions until Atkins was up and running and knowledgeable of the team. Many people credit Atkins for that signing, but, it was really LaCava and the old Anthopoulis crew that made the decisions last off season. Atkins started bringing in a lot of outside staff and replacing existing staff in January and February after most of the post season was finished. Atkins said early in this post season that getting younger, more athletic and more left handed was his primary goals for this offseason. So far, that hasn’t happened. However, there is still time for things to change.
jdgoat
Saying Atkins wasn’t the one behind the Estrada/happ signings might be true, but it’s not on lacava anyways. We all know it’s Shapiro running the show, so he was the real one pulling those strings
jdgoat
And they’ve done a fine job anyways.
jd396
I actually love posts like this. On my OOTP game I frequently draft the entire league into new teams all by hand myself and end up faced with questions like this! Harder than it seems!
mattblaze13
Come someone remind me what the “LOOGY” acronym means?