As the winter meetings commence, the A’s continue their quest to find the best LHH hitter/reliever ~5 million can buy…
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As the winter meetings commence, the A’s continue their quest to find the best LHH hitter/reliever ~5 million can buy…
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Congrats batgirl on Stanford’s women’s soccer title, vanquishing the Heels.
Congrats Cal on securing a berth in the commuter school bowl at Levi’s.
Congrats to anyone who already abandoned college sports watching. If the Tar Heels men’s hoops team is any guide the sport is avert-your-eyes hideous.
Strasburg back to Nats for 7/245. That’s pretty crazy. Cole might hit 300.
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All the lefties
Love the sidearm delivery. Can he also farm crickets?
My elbow hurts from looking at that picture.
At least ask about Merrifield, Billy.
Okay, but doesn’t a guy like that also deserve to be playing for a potential winner like, say, the A’s? I mean, do him a favor here.
No one cares about your fantasy team.
It’d be nice if he didn’t treat spectacularly blowing a top 10 overall pick in the draft as such a joke.
Or at least use as much cost/risk strategy on the A’s roster as he does with his fantasy football team.
Other lulz
Time for the annual Considering of the Wieters
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Salary dump for Cole?
Having to give away your #1 draft choice after one year in short-season ball in order to dump a bad contract isn’t a heck of a lot better than wasting your #1 choice on Kyler Murray.
Maybe they’ll give us Jo Adell if we can scrounge up the money for Pujols.
We moan about the annual $5M for the crappy reliever (Casilla, Rodney, Diekfarland) but man do they have a legacy. Gary Matthews Jr., Vernon Wells, Josh Hamilton, and on a smaller scale this past season but still worse than anything the A’s have ever done (jury still out on Khris), Matt Harvey and Trevor Cahill. With Pujols they knew the final 3 years or so would be bad taken independently, but the guarantee of at least 3 world championships before that made that one worthwhile.
Cozart only has 1 year, $12M left.
Fangraphs estimates the surplus value of Wilson’s draft slot at around $18.4 M (on top of the $3.4 M signing bonus paid), so on the surface this is a steal for the Giants. Of course, as we know even many mid-1st rounders never amount to much, and it’s possible that his value has already fallen since the draft.
Too bad Angels
LOL.
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AT 36M for 2020 Cole will make more than the youngest 15 A’s big leaguers combined. Maybe 20.
Nomar Mazara from the Rangers for the White Sox’ second round pick last year.
Kind of a weird trade. Mazara has been in the bigs for four full seasons without once posting a league average wRC+. On the other hand, the prospect the Rangers got back is only a year younger than Mazara and hasn’t played above A ball so whatever.
Would love to see us find a way to get this guy
WE could dangle Chad Pinder!
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So, a hanging Chad?
I’m sure all you Old Blues will be running to get your Redbox Bowl swag. Go Cal State!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1204483503351427073
I gave the notion of attending the Redbox Bowl the 45 seconds of consideration it deserved, then stuck my credit card back in my wallet.
Along with the Cal State blunder there, the scenery selections really hit the spot for a game played in Santa Clara.
The seats between the bullpen and the foul poles will be particularly intolerable with netting on top of the oblique angle view. Why not net off the bbq terrace too, basically the same risk.
Treinen to the Dodgers:
Good for him, and I thought so; evidently there was some trade value there BillyForst let slip away.
Roark to the Jays:
Thank goodness we’re not in the journeyman starter market right now.
Rendon to the Angels:
They keep trying, but how much does it matter if Trevor Cahill is your Opening Day starter?
Coliseum nets to the foul poles:
That’s just silly at the Coliseum. At Yankee Stadium, sure.
Hawk Harrelson joining Bill King as a Frick Award winner:
Oh my god no. I was glad Bill eventually was chosen but I stopped taking that thing seriously 10 years ago.
Lowrie back to the A’s?:
Sure, why not.
Wait. The COLISEUM to the foul pole? WTF. It makes sense in the bandboxes. But here? There’s zero risk. Hell, I’ve done behind the dugout. The ball doesn’t move that fast by the time it reaches there. That’s insane.
not that i was holding on very tightly, but can pinpoint my completely lost the thread on england moment at the kid on the hospital floor photo.
and all i keep thinking is, that was just finger exercises for 2020.
Rule 5: A’s lose Mark Payton to the Reds, get Vimael Machin (lefty-hitting infielder) from the Cubs, via the Phillies somehow.
Pickin’ Machin!
And Buddy Reed as the PTBNL. Not bad, I remember liking him out of the draft.
To recap on winter meetings: I feel like Machin, and SuSlu’s belief that they’re acquiring a 2B from outside the org, means that one of Barreto/Neuse/Mateo is almost certainly gone. Probably to KC for that reliever.
If we target Lowrie, I really hope there’s a way to get Nimmo as well. It’s more likely if the A’s were one of those orgs that can just eat Lowrie’s salary and get Nimmo to make up for it, but of course we’ll be asking for money if we get Lowrie.
Not a fan of some of the other 2B options. Cesar Hernandez, maybe, but not that interested in guys like Frazier or Sogard.
From Slusser article re Lowrie, an unnamed MLB exec: “it would be better than Halloween III, Die Hard III, Godfather III.” So very bad, then.
Return of the Jed III?
I think you’ve just coined the caption of the next bleacher banner.
Hmmm…Marisnick
iswas the one breather in that lineup, so if that’s the upside…Edit: Marisnick was traded to the Mets last week for a couple minor leaguers.
Great fielder though. And unlike Marisnick, this Reed guy switch hits. Sounds like a useful fourth outfielder.
Popeyes chicken sandwich lives up to the hype.
This blows it away. I will die on this hill. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/08/five-ingredient-fried-chicken-sandwich-recipe.html
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But I have to wait at least an hour and the Popeye’s lines are no longer THAT long.
Brett Anderson to Brewers
you knew he wanted to hit
Howard D terminal
It takes a nation of NIMBYs to hold us back.
I got a letter from the city council, the other day. I opened and read it. It said they were suckers.
Kluber to the Rangers. I wasn’t expecting that.
Weird move for a team that doesn’t seem like they’re close to contending, but OTOH they may be able to flip him at the deadline for more than they gave up. Surprising that a contending team wasn’t willing to make a similar offer.
They’re just covering up for the fact that their house was on fire.
I’m hoping our own stadium survives today with minimal damage.
Yup, wondered about that same thing
It was certainly an appropriate ending for the second iteration of the Oakland Raiders.
I hope Clay Wood has a designated driver tonight.
An uninteresting battle of futility capped by a blown win seems about right to cap the second iteration of the Oakland Raiders. Mostly not contenders, mostly not entertaining, with enough occasional flashes and heavy costumed nostalgia to sustain a fading zeitgeist through its long demise.
I wonder if Clay likes the tradeoff: much more pristine grass, fewer game day paychecks.
Dont forget a classic “the refs robbed us” to make it seem closer to good than it is. (Thanks to the NFL I did not see the game and refuse to look for video).
Given that he’s getting a little older, I’m sure he’ll love the tradeoff of not having to pull all nighters converting the field.
Nothing has changed.
Fuck that garbage company/site I hope they go down in flames
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It sounds like are going down in flames, no? Also, I don’t fuck things that I’m likely going to get some sort of disease from. That site will definitely give me one of those. A literal hard pass.
OTOH, this feels familiar.
Can we sell them freekraut.org?
The last one I was reading was Sickels, so no loss at all. Also, they are assholes.
That bit in the CEO’s post about how the fired contractors have the privilege of continuing as “Community Insiders” with special access had me rolling on the floor.
. AB5 1, SBN 0
Seriously, Italy, what the fuck?
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Brewers on a nice run here:
Friday: Brett Anderson
Monday: Josh Lindblom (26th player in the second game of a doubleheader; Jim Johnson with the BS and L)
Tuesday: Ryon Healy
Today: Eric Sogard
Justin Smaok [ducks]
Mmmmm….smoked duck.
Meanwhile, the Nats addedto their collection of terrible ex-Oakland relievers by signing Fernando Abad.
They traded him to us in the first place!
Speaking of which, Gio signed with the White Sox.
Twins on a nice run here:
12/19: Daniel Coulombe
12/20: Tyler Clippard
Today: Homer Bailey
Today: Rich Hill
Hopefully they have acquainted Mrs. Hill with Target Field’s carry-in bag policy.
Bailey and Hill on cheap one-year deals both seem like good gambles. I wouldn’t have minded the A’s re-signing either one at those prices, even with a rotation that is putatively full.
Right, the rotation is “full” but it seems unwise to push Puk/Luzardo to a full season’s workload even if they stay healthy. That plus Montas/Manaea’s injury issues means that this rotation will have reliability problems. I would’ve rather paid Bailey the 7 million instead of Diekman/McFarland and moved Puk or Luzardo into the bullpen at a certain point to limit innings.
With the additional roster spot, they could have also gone with a 6 man rotation that went down to a 5 man in case of injury and/or late season push. Give them both the starting experience while limiting innings. Bullpen gets taxed, you still have a fresh arm to take the back half of a game if need be.
Austin Beck
Mateo
Neuse
for McNeil and Lowrie
Who says no?
John Fisher.
No way the Mets agree to that – there’s talk that the Indians want McNeil for Lindor but the Mets won’t give him up.
That package for Nimmo/Lowrie (and money) could be plausible.