Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
If he gives half of his offensive value back every season through his awful defense and baserunning, yeah, giving him 400M to stick around for the next decade is hardly appealing to me.
Hitting is the hard part of baseball and he's still a five win player despite all that. But I probably wouldn't pay him either, but don't think the package for him will be that all attractive considering what the Padres got for Soto. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Ocotillo:
Hitting is the hard part of baseball and he's still a five win player despite all that. But I probably wouldn't pay him either, but don't think the package for him will be that all attractive considering what the Padres got for Soto.
He was a five win player this year. He wasn't one in 2022 and 2023, so it's not like that is a guarantee going forward either.
And you just went into great detail as to how the Jays' situation is quite hopeless (and it's hard to disagree unless the league finally decided to change the divisions up). That's not a guy you should be keeping in their situation; that's a guy you should be dealing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TEX:
IMO, the Royals did enough early on, that they'll hold on to the WC.
We'll see. I hope so. It's getting real difficult to see where more than 10 wins comes from the rest of the way, and that's assuming we take 2 out of 3 from the Nats (which should be doable but it's a road series oh and also our offense sucks currently).
The question is will 85/86 wins be enough? Need to avoid Detroit/Boston getting hot. We can take care of Detroit on our own next week. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
We'll see. I hope so. It's getting real difficult to see where more than 10 wins comes from the rest of the way, and that's assuming we take 2 out of 3 from the Nats (which should be doable but it's a road series oh and also our offense sucks currently).
The question is will 85/86 wins be enough? Need to avoid Detroit/Boston getting hot. We can take care of Detroit on our own next week.
I think so. And that's exactly it, none of the other teams are hot either. So they may have just enough cushion, with only 22 games to go. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Who isn't? The Jays are garbage.
Although it's obvious the Jays would have had a better record than the Royals this year if they switched schedules. The White Sox may actually be the worst MLB baseball team in a century.
Fun fact:
Take away the Royals record against the White Sox this year (who the Jays were 5-1 against, by the way) and the Royals STILL have a better overall record and winning % than the Blue Jays. So the Royals are still average without the White Sux.