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    Quote Originally Posted by yisman View Post
    overkill

    strange move for them to go after chapman
    Not gonna lose many leads with those 3 in the pen.

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    No starting pitching, but great bullpen!

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    Scott Kazmir to the Dodgers.

    3-year deal worth $48 million

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shortstop View Post
    Scott Kazmir to the Dodgers.

    3-year deal worth $48 million
    Dodgers could go with an all left handed starting rotation now. Kershaw, Anderson, Kazmir, Wood and Ryu.

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    Orioles Sign Hyun-soo Kim

    By Zach Links | December 30, 2015 at 10:30am CST
    DEC. 30: Sung Min Kim of River Ave. Blues reports (via Twitter) that Kim will earn $2.8MM in 2016 and $4.2MM in 2017. His contract allows him to become a free agent upon completion (as opposed to arbitration eligibility) and also stipulates that he cannot be assigned to the minor leagues.
    DEC. 23: Baltimore has announced the signing.
    DEC. 16: The Orioles have agreed to sign Korean outfielder Hyun-soo Kim, Dan Connolly of The Baltimore Sun tweets. The deal, worth $7MM over two years (link), is pending a medical review. Kim, he adds (link), is on his way to Baltimore from Korea tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSpoon View Post
    Dodgers could go with an all left handed starting rotation now. Kershaw, Anderson, Kazmir, Wood and Ryu.

    that is ca-RAZY!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSpoon View Post
    Dodgers could go with an all left handed starting rotation now. Kershaw, Anderson, Kazmir, Wood and Ryu.
    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    that is ca-RAZY!


    Yeah, I haven't heard of that ever happening before.

    In fact, it's very rare to have even three southpaws in a starting rotation...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shortstop View Post
    Scott Kazmir to the Dodgers.

    3-year deal worth $48 million

    can't believe kazmir is getting 16 million a year. I wouldn't want that contract

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSpoon View Post
    Dodgers could go with an all left handed starting rotation now. Kershaw, Anderson, Kazmir, Wood and Ryu.
    Now that something you see to often!!!

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    You Bet!!!

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    MLB.com’s Jim Callis lists his ten breakout prospects for the coming year. Among the interesting names to watch is Jake Bauers, a little-known piece of last year’s blockbuster three-team trade that sent Wil Myers to the Padres and netted the Rays Steven Souza. The rising youngster could make that deal sting even more for San Diego than it has already. Likewise, pitchers Josh Hader of the Brewers (added in the Carlos Gomez/Mike Fiers deadline swap), Frances Martes of the Astros (who came from the Marlins in the deal that sent Jarred Cosart to Miami), and Cody Reed of the Reds (a part of the Johnny Cueto flip this past summer) could change the calculus of the transactions that brought them to their current organizations, in the estimation of Callis.

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    Happy New Year !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by koz-man View Post
    Now that something you see to often!!!
    I don't recall seeing it at all in recent years

    closest was the Rockies I guess when their RHPs got injured

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    Quote Originally Posted by yisman View Post
    I don't recall seeing it at all in recent years

    closest was the Rockies I guess when their RHPs got injured
    typed to fast. meant to say ...

    Now that something you don't see to often!!!

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    There’s been plenty of action on the free agent market for starters, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some big earners still out there. Lefty Wei-Yin Chen rates as the best remaining option, in the estimation of MLBTR’s Tim Dierkes, and he’s said to be chasing a $100MM contract.
    Whether or not he gets there, that’s probably not even a reasonable ask for the next two names on the list. But both of them — Ian Kennedy and Yovani Gallardo — have some contractual upside of their own.
    We’ve seen pitchers in this general range score deals in the four-year, $50MM range in recent years, sometimes quite late in the offseason. (In the winter of 2013-14, Matt Garza signed in late January, while Ubaldo Jimenez waited until the middle of February.) Of course, that same year, Ervin Santana waited even longer and ended up settling for a one-year deal at the qualifying offer value (which was, at the time, $14.1MM).
    For teams looking to add sturdy, mid-rotation arms, there really aren’t any other options available. The trade market remains a plausible option, to be sure, but there really aren’t any obvious candidates begging for a taker that would fit the mold of these two right-handers.
    When Dierkes took stock at the outset of the market, he ranked Kennedy and Gallardo back-to-back (as the 19th and 20th-best players available) and valued both at identical rates: four years and $52MM. Interestingly, both present rather different profiles.
    Kennedy, who just turned 31, has posted career-best strikeout numbers over the past two years (9.3 K/9) while holding his walks to a reasonable level (3.0 BB/9), leading both SIERA and xFIP to value him as a mid-3.00 ERA-equivalent contributor. He’s averaged 196 innings annually dating back to 2010, an impressive record of durability, while contributing a useful (albeit unexciting) 3.88 ERA.
    In spite of all those positives, though, Kennedy has finished three of the past four seasons with an ERA north of 4.00. With his fastball velocity sitting above his career average and a double-digit swinging strike rate, it’s easy to attribute the poor run prevention to bad luck. Really, though, it all just poses a dilemma: is Kennedy’s long ball susceptibility — last year, Kennedy posted a MLB-high 1.66 HR/9 to go with the second-highest (17.2%) HR/FB rate — the product of poor fortune or poor pitching?
    Gallardo, who’s about to reach 30 years of age, has more or less matched Kennedy in terms of annual innings (194 since 2010) while outperforming him in bottom-line results (3.66 ERA). Indeed, if we focus just on the last two years, it’s no contest in the earned run department, as Gallardo has worked to a sub-3.50 mark.
    But things don’t look so great when you dig a bit deeper, as he’s gone from a modern-Kennedy-esque K:BB ratio (9.0 K/9 vs. 3.1 BB/9 in 2011-12) to a career-worst ratio of 5.9 strikeouts and 3.3 free passes per nine. Gallardo has continued to generate grounders on nearly half of the balls put in play against him, but his velocity and swinging strike rates have both tailed off noticeably. Things came to a head last year, as every major ERA estimator put him at 4.00 or greater, with SIERA calling him a 4.59 ERA-equivalent performer.
    Really, this comparison is most interesting because both Kennedy and Gallardo have avoided any major injuries in recent seasons, are only about a year apart in age, and have generally landed in the same range in terms of how many outs they can get before handing things off to the pen. From there, it’s a question of how you view recent results, the relationship of peripherals to runs allowed, and luck.

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    I would not want Kennedy or Gallardo in my rotation.

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    Griffey should've been unanimous

    shame they are so against it

    three left him off

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