Pears Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 1 minute ago, gmen81 said: I like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 5 million is a good price for Grandy. Not sure if he's the answer to our lead-off problems, but I think he replaces Bats' numbers from last year rather easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Monahan Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 5 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: 5 million is a good price for Grandy. Not sure if he's the answer to our lead-off problems, but I think he replaces Bats' numbers from last year rather easily. Adds a lefty to the lineup too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 55 minutes ago, Sean Monahan said: Adds a lefty to the lineup too. I think we still add one, maybe two more outfielders imo. Signing Cain and trading for CarGo would be perfect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Monahan Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 25 minutes ago, Pears said: I think we still add one, maybe two more outfielders imo. Signing Cain and trading for CarGo would be perfect. What’s CarGo make? That seems like a lot of salary to take on for this regime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 14 minutes ago, Sean Monahan said: What’s CarGo make? That seems like a lot of salary to take on for this regime. Oh Gonzalez is actually a free agent. I thought he was still under contract. We should be all over him then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Jays just stole Randal Grichuk. Wow. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isam Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 20 minutes ago, Pears said: Jays just stole Randal Grichuk. Wow. If Pham flops and grichuk puts it together, cards fans will bring out the pitch forks and torches to their gm's office. Good trade for the jays. Love the Grich. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckNORRIS4Cup Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Definitely like the trade! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiznak Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Randal Grichuk = Colby Rasmus. Good outfielder, terrible bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 32 minutes ago, shiznak said: Randal Grichuk = Colby Rasmus. Good outfielder, terrible bat. They got him for potential... there’s an underlying stat that says he’s gonna kill it and I think he’s going to break out Donaldson style at the plate. And that stat is bat speed. Balls leaving his bat were 2nd only to Stanton. Other guys top 10 in that category include Miguel Cabrera, Donaldson, Cespedes, Trout and Goldschmitt. I think we’re going to see him break out this year. But I personally look forward to our outfield if it’s Granderson-Pillar-Grichuk that will even provide much improvement over last year. I don’t know if RG’s arm(rarely watch the NL) is as good as Joey Bats was... but one has to think that the speed difference may allow him to get to balls that JB couldn’t, therefor needing to make less big throws to 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiznak Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 51 minutes ago, Standing_Tall#37 said: They got him for potential... there’s an underlying stat that says he’s gonna kill it and I think he’s going to break out Donaldson style at the plate. And that stat is bat speed. Balls leaving his bat were 2nd only to Stanton. Other guys top 10 in that category include Miguel Cabrera, Donaldson, Cespedes, Trout and Goldschmitt. I think we’re going to see him break out this year. But I personally look forward to our outfield if it’s Granderson-Pillar-Grichuk that will even provide much improvement over last year. I don’t know if RG’s arm(rarely watch the NL) is as good as Joey Bats was... but one has to think that the speed difference may allow him to get to balls that JB couldn’t, therefor needing to make less big throws to 2nd. That's what AA thought as well when they traded for Rasmus, potential. A lot of baseball scouts back then said Colby had all the tools to become a 5-tool player. As a fan of the Cardinals, he doesn't have great disciple at the plate, much like Morales and Smoak. He goes for the big hits, rather than just putting the ball in play. Case in point, he only walked 26 times, in 412 plate appearences while striking out 133 times. I mean, for what they gave up, it isn't much, but I don't expect him to have one of those "breakout" years that will propel him into the superstar level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHitman Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Grichuk and Granderson are some good pick-ups at decent salaries. I wonder if Carrera is on the way out now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckNORRIS4Cup Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 1/19/2018 at 6:28 PM, TheHitman said: Grichuk and Granderson are some good pick-ups at decent salaries. I wonder if Carrera is on the way out now? They signed him not to long ago.... Hoping Pearce is gone in a trade for pitching. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieBush Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 1/19/2018 at 7:41 PM, shiznak said: Randal Grichuk = Colby Rasmus. Good outfielder, terrible bat. Randal Grichuk will always be known as the guy taken directly ahead of Mike Trout in the draft. Not a bad player, just not Mike Trout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) On 2018-01-19 at 6:19 PM, shiznak said: That's what AA thought as well when they traded for Rasmus, potential. A lot of baseball scouts back then said Colby had all the tools to become a 5-tool player. As a fan of the Cardinals, he doesn't have great disciple at the plate, much like Morales and Smoak. He goes for the big hits, rather than just putting the ball in play. Case in point, he only walked 26 times, in 412 plate appearences while striking out 133 times. I mean, for what they gave up, it isn't much, but I don't expect him to have one of those "breakout" years that will propel him into the superstar level. Yes that’s the bad thing the K/BB ratio. However Smoak showed much improved plate discipline and hopefully with Donaldson as a mentor and possibly some work on plate discipline hopefully Grichuk can improve too. Another downfall is how bad Grichuk is vs offspeed stuff. The Rog is about the same as Busch stadium but the parks of the AL east seem smaller than the division RG just came from so I wouldn’t be surprised if he can improve to 30-40 dingers. All the while getting to balls that Jose couldn’t get to last year on defence. At this point I see it as a fair trade for Leone as it’s true that Greene can hit 100 mph regularly but struggled in AA( a league known as favouring pitchers a lot). So he may never be an impact pitcher at AAA let alone the MLB. Moving Leone out also makes way for Carlos Ramirez and his minor league 0.00 Era to be in the jays bullpen. He had s 2.70 Era in his 12 mlb games last year. Edited January 21, 2018 by Standing_Tall#37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 On 1/19/2018 at 4:29 PM, Pears said: Jays just stole Randal Grichuk. Wow. Karma for lowballing us for Donaldson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHitman Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Damn, it has to suck to be a Miami fan atm. Just a short while ago the team seemed like it was finally putting together a competitive team that could potentially compete and in a short span their future ace (Jose Fernandez) has passed away and they've traded away Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna, Dee Gordon, Adeiny Hechavarria, and Cristian Yelich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 21 hours ago, TheHitman said: Damn, it has to suck to be a Miami fan atm. Just a short while ago the team seemed like it was finally putting together a competitive team that could potentially compete and in a short span their future ace (Jose Fernandez) has passed away and they've traded away Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna, Dee Gordon, Adeiny Hechavarria, and Cristian Yelich. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckNORRIS4Cup Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 On 1/26/2018 at 3:39 PM, Bob.Loblaw said: Lol too funny, but so true sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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