MrChupacabra

I spy two.

Bert Blyleven rules.

That gif pretty much sums up my life. I'm just less green. And I have less hair.

Super smash left and bottom Israeli soldier broads. Also smash the other two, because why the fuck not. Trash the fat thing above me.

Does not appear so. From this afternoon:

serious perveract potential. Where the tits at?

And it just keeps going:

Tigers signing Torii Hunter to a 2/26M deal. That lineup is gonna be filthy in 2013. Jackson, Hunter, Cabrera, Fielder, Martinez. I still can't wrap my head around the Marlins situation and just have to laugh about how fucking terrible of an owner Loria is. Read some rumor yesterday that their 2013 payroll is going to be like 12-25m. Ha. I feel bad for Giancarlo Stanton if he doesn't get traded too. edit: realized i said "worst gm in the game" in my last post and meant to say owner. MLB has to get Loria the fuck out before he embarrasses the game any more than he already has.

Holy huge fucking Blue Jays/Marlins trade about to go down? And by huge trade, I mean for the Blue Jays. Marlins are either gearing up to lose their remaining 20 fans or they're freeing up money to make a push for Greinke or Hamilton or something. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/11/blue-jays-close-to-acquiring-josh-johnson.html edit to state that it really doesn't fucking matter if they make a push for big free agents, because that team is entirely dead in the water if they make that trade. I feel bad for Mike Redmond for coming into that fucking mess in his first season as a manager and also having to deal with one of the worst GMs in the game.

Yeah, like i said, he isn't worth that much in my opinion, but we'll have to see how much value teams are placing on him. Any way you slice it, I think a team is going to end up with a contract that handcuffs them on the back end of it. Even worse if he goes to a NL team where he can't DH for the last few years of the contract. In terms of BJ Upton: You can't seriously think he's worth upwards of 20m a year? Only two center fielders getting paid that much are Kemp and Wells. And the only other two above 15m are Granderson and Werth. Not that my team is going to be signing any outfielders, but I would certainly be furious if I was a fan of a team that signed Upton for more than like 4/50. Edit: I mean, shit, Upton's batting numbers are nothing impressive with a career .255 average and .336 OBP. And his numbers were down in 2012 with a .246 average and a sub .300 OBP. If you're looking at WAR, he was at 2.6 in 2012, ranking 16th among center fielders. Granted, not all of them are on the free agent market, but to think that he deserves more than 10m a year seems completely insane to me. I'd even be mad if my team signed him for 4/40. It's also not like he's a young guy who we haven't seen at the major league level and he might develop into a way better player. Dude is 28 and has played 100+ games since 2007, and 40+ in two previous seasons.

I understand that the back end of his contract is going to be unpleasant, but the same can be said for Fielder, Pujols, etc. Teams pay them the huge money because they want to win now (on the front end of their contract). I'm not saying its smart in terms of the big picture, but thats the way it goes sometimes. Like I said, who knows if he'll get 7/175, but its certainly possible if you get two or more big budget teams who both have their hearts set on signing him. And yeah, Dodgers have been mentioned, but thats never gonna happen. They are already on the hook for a bunch of big contracts and probably have a lot higher priorities than another power bat.

Marlins are definitely a fucked franchise, but Mike Redmond has the potential to be a spectacular manager. Complete opposite end of the spectrum of Ozzie. When he played for the Twins, all the other players and management had nothing but great things to say about the guy, even if he was just a backup catcher. Loria is out of his goddamn mind though and will probably try to have him fired after a couple months and continue the revolving door of Marlins' management. And Hamilton is going to get more than 6/125 for sure. Apparently he's asking for 7/175, though I don't know if thats gonna happen. edit: He has said he's going to give Texas the opportunity to match any other offers he gets, so it does seem like he'd like to stay in Texas. To be honest, I think a lot of it comes down to Greinke. If Rangers spend big on Greinke, they're probably not going to go after Hamilton. If they don't, I could definitely see them pursuing him a bit harder. Also depends what other big free agent bats are doing.

Well, the 2012 season is done and through at this point and all the offseason moves are for the 2013 season, so we might as well get rolling on a new thread. Re-subscribe, re-bookmark, whatever you gotta do. This is the MLB thread now.