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johnsilver
I’d like to see a rotation late in the game with Smith and taz to keep him fresh so he doesn’t wear out and the FB dip to 91-2 like it has late in the season after wearing out. Taz’s arm will break they don’t take care. Gone already are his explosive 95-7 fb he could reach back for and has to stay 93-4 now most of the time, with it seems *maybe* a 95 early in the season before they wear him out..
Still like to see him approached with a 2-3y deal if it could be had with decent terms now that they should be able to keep his workload around 50 games. Same with Koji as long as he would be willing to take a pay cut on a 1y deal to stay.
gobucs
Everyone needs to stop over reacting on the jaso signing. Its only a matter of time before Josh Bell plays, Morse is on bench, and Jaso is sent down or released.
stormie
Closers were overvalued before the sabermetrics boom, which is why their salaries have stagnated. Guys like Mariano and B,J were making $10 million a year when the top starters were not making much more than $15 million a year, it was positively cuckoo.
rburgh
Mike Napoli (1 E per 129 innings in his ML career, 6 DRS per season), Carlo Santana (1 E / 197, -3 DRS/yr, also plays a mean guitar and has multiple gold records), Victor Martinez (1 E / 152, -1 DRS/yr), and Stephen Vogt (1 E / 132, -4 DRS/yr) all transitioned from C to 1B at the ML level. These seem to be reasonable estimates of what the Pirates might expect from Jaso.
In comparison, Alvarez averaged 1 E per 41 innings and posted -17 DRS/yr. It seems like the risk the Pirates are taking by moving Jaso to 1B is minimal
dlevin11
Mike Napoli should be on list of successful transitions from catcher to 1B