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MLB Off-season Thread 2015-2016 IOTI Back to the Future was a lie

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Dmncnby2k9

Banned
Windu said:
Has goose gossage seen this yet? Has it passed his approval?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...ple-to-put-ipads-in-the-dugouts/#2937e03f26f5

iPads in dugouts this year.

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facetime to the bullpen
 
X

XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Beckx said:
is it worth posting the Power Pro 2016 video in gaming?

i assume it will just be full of "i hate Konami" posts and that's it, but maybe i'm wrong.
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Worth a shot I guess. I didn't bother posting any Pawapuro stuff on gaming side until we had those two western releases coming back in the day.
 
C

CygnusXS

will gain confidence one day
You guys, I'm so excited for Minor League Opening Day next Thursday. I've got it marked in my calendar and everything.
 
W

wbsmcs

Member
Just finished drafting in my league. 10 team league (I know it's small, but my group of friends have never been able to locally find 2 more reliable people).

Traded my 2nd/5th round for a 1st/8th, so that's how I have Harper and Stanton

C Travis d'Arnaud
1B: Joey Votto
2B: Rougned Odor
3B: Maikel Franco
SS: Xander Bogaerts
CI: Wil Myers
MI: Francisco Lindor
OF: Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Stanton, Starling Marte, Carlos Gonzalez, Christian Yelich
U: Stephen Piscotty, Michael Taylor
DL: Jung Ho Kang (3B/SS)

SP: Danny Salazar, Carlos Martinez, Luis Severino, Hisashi Iwakuma, Carlos Rodon, Anthony Desciafani, Jake Odorizzi, Matt Moore

RP: Huston Street, Roberto Osuna, AJ Ramos, Jason Grilli, Luke Gregerson

Not sure if I like how it turned out. The way the draft was happening no pitchers I liked were in my range. I didn't want to reach a round early for guys like Felix or Thor so I just ended up taking the best player available. Ended up filling up my OF real early and figured might as well grab 2 top 4 SS. I think I might have to trade one of them for a corner infielder because Wil Myers isn't going to cut it for me for the time being. Even though I waited on pitching I am pleasantly surprised with the way it turned out. Those are all guys I like for the price I payed...hoping for big years from Salazar, Rodon, and Desciafani.
 
C

CheDominik

Member
zulux21 said:
I've hated the danks signing from the start as they logically had a choice between him and Mark Buehrle and chose him since he was a little younger even though Buehrle had been such a great player for the white sox. The amount they paid for danks felt right for Buehrle but way to high for danks.

here we are years later and that still easily holds true. It's mostly just frustrating watching him continue to take a SP roster slot when there are a number of prospects that could likely perform as well if not better than him in the farm (as his numbers are not impressive) I was really hoping he would be long relief and we could start moving one of the younger guys into a full MLB starter spot, but then johnson had a bad spring and danks had a decent one.
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The Danks signing was great when it happened. Pre injury Danks averaged 4 WAR per season and took a below market deal. Everyone pegged him for a 100M+ deal in free agency. Injuries happen and it's remarkable that he came back from his injury at all. Johan Santana had the same injury and he didn't come back. Choosing Danks over Buehrle was a no brainer.

edit: Can't wait for opening day and watching Major League on Saturday as as my pre Opening Day ritual.
 
J

jbug617

Banned
According to Heyman the Padres front office have discussed trading for Panda but not sure how strong is their interest. Would need the Sox to eat some money and Padres are a team the Sox can trade him to without him blocking it.
 
X

XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
SBNation: What every team would look like if trades and free agents didn't exist

Atlanta Braves

Hitters
Lineup

C Brian McCann
1B Freddie Freeman
2B Elvis Andrus
SS Andrelton Simmons
3B Yunel Escobar
LF Martin Prado
CF Gregor Blanco
RF Jason Heyward

Bench
Evan Gattis
Tommy La Stella
Jose Peraza
Adam LaRoche
Garrett Jones

Pitchers
Starters
Adam Wainwright
Julio Teheran
Alex Wood
Kris Medlen
Jeff Locke

Bullpen
Craig Kimbrel
Neftali Feliz
J.J. Hoover
Blaine Boyer
Sean Gilmartin
Chasen Shreve
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Boston Red Sox

Hitters
Lineup
C Blake Swihart
1B Anthony Rizzo
2B Dustin Pedroia
SS Xander Bogaerts
3B José Iglesias
LF Jacoby Ellsbury
CF Mookie Betts
RF Josh Reddick
DH Hanley Ramírez

Bench
Jed Lowrie
Christian Vazquez
Travis Shaw
Brandon Moss
Jackie Bradley, Jr.

Pitchers
Starters
Jon Lester
Anibal Sánchez
Clay Buchholz
Brian Johnson
Henry Owens

Bullpen
Jonathan Papelbon
Hunter Strickland
Alex Wilson
Casey Kelly
Junichi Tazawa
Frankie Montas
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Miami Marlins

Hitters
Lineup
C J.T. Realmuto
1B Adrian Gonzalez
2B Robert Andino
SS Josh Wilson
3B Miguel Cabrera
LF Marcell Ozuna
CF Christian Yelich
RF Giancarlo Stanton

Bench
Chris Coghlan
Mark Canha
Logan Morrison
Matt Dominguez
Kyle Skipworth

Pitchers
Starters
José Fernandez
Tom Koehler
Andrew Heaney
Adam Conley
Brad Hand

Bullpen
A.J. Ramos
Steve Cishek
Chris Hatcher
Arquimedes Caminero
Nick Wittgren
Jason Vargas
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New York Yankees
Hitters
Lineup
C Francisco Cervelli
1B Dioner Navarro
2B Robinson Canó
SS Eduardo Núñez
3B Adonis Garcia
LF Brett Gardner
CF Austin Jackson
RF Melky Cabrera
DH Peter O' Brien

Bench
John Ryan Murphy
Slade Heathcott
Mason Williams
Abraham Almonte
Rob Refsnyder
Gregory Bird

Pitchers
Starters
Masahiro Tanaka
Phil Hughes
Luis Severino
Ian Kennedy
Manny Banuelos

Bullpen
Mark Melancon
David Robertson
John Axford
Tyler Clippard
Dellin Betances
Adam Warren
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San Francisco Giants
Hitters
Lineup
C Buster Posey
1B Pablo Sandoval
2B Joe Panik
SS Brandon Crawford
3B Matt Duffy
LF Brandon Belt
CF Mac Williamson
RF Nate Schierholtz

Bench
Jarrett Parker
Ryan Lollis
Juan Perez
Andrew Susac
Ehire Adrianza

Pitchers
Starters
Madison Bumgarner
Francisco Liriano
Chris Heston
Matt Cain
Clayton Blackburn
Zack Wheeler

Bullpen
Sergio Romo
Jason Grilli
Josh Osich
Tim Lincecum
Carlos Villanueva
Cody Hall
Steven Okert
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Seattle Mariners
Hitters
Lineup
C Rene Rivera
1B Alex Rodriguez
2B Asdrubal Cabrera
SS Brad Miller
3B Kyle Seager
LF Luis Valbuena
CF Adam Jones
RF Shin-Soo Choo
DH David Ortiz

Bench
Mike Zunino
Ketel Marté
Michael Saunders
Ichiro Suzuki
Dustin Ackley

Pitchers
Starters
Félix Hernández
Hisashi Iwakuma
Doug Fister
Chris Tillman
Michael Pineda

Bullpen
Carson Smith
Josh Fields
Mark Lowe
Shawn Kelley
Matt Thornton
Taijuan Walker
Carter Capps
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GK86

Homeland Security Fail
New York Mets

Hitters
Lineup

C Kevin Plawecki
1B Lucas Duda
2B Daniel Murphy
SS Wilmer Flores
3B David Wright
LF Nelson Cruz
CF Carlos Gómez
RF Michael Conforto

Bench

José Reyes
Ángel Pagán
Juan Lagares
Drew Butera
Ike Davis
Jose Reyes (restricted)

Pitchers
Starters

Matt Harvey
Jacob deGrom
José Quintana
Scott Kazmir
Collin McHugh

Bullpen

Jeurys Familia
Joe Smith
Hansel Robles
Steven Matz
Dillon Gee
Jon Niese
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X

XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Awesome story on how former top international prospect Gustavo Cabrera has battled back from a horrific accident that should have ended his career:

http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_29688837/san-francisco-giants-top-prospect-starting-over

To everyone in the Giants organization who was involved in his rescue, repair and rehabilitation, it is pure astonishment.

"There's nothing, at least for me in almost 25 years in baseball ... ," said Giants minor league training coordinator Mark Gruesbeck, struggling to find the words. "I couldn't even come close to comparing to it."

To save his baseball life and limb on that desperate day, Cabrera required much help. It had to be coordinated. And it had to be immediate. These are the stories of his saviors.
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Pablo Peguero answered his cellphone, and the voice on the other end was frantic. In between sobs from Gustavo Cabrera's mother, Alexandra Alvarez, he understood that something terrible had happened.

She told him that Cabrera, just 17 at the time, had a fall in his home. He was balancing a plate of food when he dropped a cup of water. He tried to pick up the cup while bracing his right hand on a glass table and slipped on the wet floor. His right arm went through the glass. Blood was everywhere. Just above his throwing hand, he severed every sinew, nerve and major blood vessel down to the bone.
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The operation took almost five hours, with Hansen and Lee simultaneously repairing structures using a multiheaded surgical microscope. Repairing those 11 tendons was the most straightforward part. Reconnecting tiny blood vessels, using sutures that can't be seen with the human eye, was delicate but nothing they hadn't done hundreds of times.

It was reconnecting the nerves that most concerned Hansen and Lee. A cut nerve dies off in both directions. After 48 hours, there usually isn't enough living matter that can stretch to reconnect. Patients who aren't seen quickly enough usually require a graft from a living nerve taken from elsewhere in the body.

"And when you have to use nerve grafts, the functional recovery falls off the map," Hansen said. "It would have meant a lack of function forever."

Another few hours and Cabrera would have required nerve grafts, ending his career. If he had stayed in the Dominican Republic another day, he would have lost sensation in his hand for the rest of his life. He might have lost the hand altogether.

"Any nerve cuts like the ones he had, you don't want to call it a nonrecoverable injury, but a full recovery is rare," Hansen said. "I don't know that we left the operating room thinking, 'We repaired everything, and hey, he's going to do great.' But we thought maybe, just maybe, he had a chance."
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They traveled often between Arizona and San Francisco for follow-up appointments, and it became clear that additional surgeries would be required. Cabrera's skin near his wrist had become so thin that the wound kept opening up. He couldn't continue his rehab. Unless something was done, it wouldn't be long before the scar tissue would become so thick that it would turn his wrist to concrete.

So three months after the initial surgery, Hansen devised a solution. He performed a microvascular free tissue transfer, or a "free flap" operation, in which a section of Cabrera's right thigh was removed and grafted onto his arm.

"We're not talking about a skin graft," Hansen said. "You couldn't just lay something paper thin over the top. It had to be healthy, durable tissue with a blood supply."

In the microsurgical procedure, blood vessels from his thigh tissue were connected to those in his arm. Hansen removed masses of scar tissue as well. Cabrera, once he healed from the procedure, would be able to ramp up his rehab.

Then came the next complication. During his rehab exercises, Cabrera tore one of the repaired tendons in his thumb. So six months after the accident, he underwent a third procedure in which a tendon from his right ring finger was removed and fashioned into a thumb tendon.

That was May 2014. Cabrera has not required any additional surgeries, although when his hand becomes fatigued from overuse, the tendon sometimes seizes up and causes his thumb to spasm toward his pinkie.
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Rodriguez, who moved to Arizona so he could help Cabrera adapt to U.S. culture. Last year, when Cabrera took batting practice for the first time, Rodriguez recorded a video with his cellphone and shared it with the coaches and players back in the Dominican.

"They saw it," Rodriguez said. "They could not believe it."

Cabrera estimates that he has regained 85 percent of his hand strength and 90 percent of his sensation, and he patiently hopes that the remainder returns as well. He cannot be frustrated with what he still lacks. Not when he asked a specialist after the second procedure about his outlook and was told that it was a 99 percent certainty that he'd never play baseball again.

"It's always going to look different than his other hand or anybody else's," Gruesbeck said. "But for the most part, he's back."
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clav

Member
wbsmcs said:
Just finished drafting in my league. 10 team league (I know it's small, but my group of friends have never been able to locally find 2 more reliable people).

Traded my 2nd/5th round for a 1st/8th, so that's how I have Harper and Stanton

C Travis d'Arnaud
1B: Joey Votto
2B: Rougned Odor
3B: Maikel Franco
SS: Xander Bogaerts
CI: Wil Myers
MI: Francisco Lindor
OF: Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Stanton, Starling Marte, Carlos Gonzalez, Christian Yelich
U: Stephen Piscotty, Michael Taylor
DL: Jung Ho Kang (3B/SS)

SP: Danny Salazar, Carlos Martinez, Luis Severino, Hisashi Iwakuma, Carlos Rodon, Anthony Desciafani, Jake Odorizzi, Matt Moore

RP: Huston Street, Roberto Osuna, AJ Ramos, Jason Grilli, Luke Gregerson

Not sure if I like how it turned out. The way the draft was happening no pitchers I liked were in my range. I didn't want to reach a round early for guys like Felix or Thor so I just ended up taking the best player available. Ended up filling up my OF real early and figured might as well grab 2 top 4 SS. I think I might have to trade one of them for a corner infielder because Wil Myers isn't going to cut it for me for the time being. Even though I waited on pitching I am pleasantly surprised with the way it turned out. Those are all guys I like for the price I payed...hoping for big years from Salazar, Rodon, and Desciafani.
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That's a pretty good batting lineup.

Is Wellington Castillo on the free agent wire? You could upgrade your catcher for almost nothing although I guess at that depth it's difficult to say whether he really is worth that.

Not sure about Moore and Rodon. You may want to look at some prospects.

Why do you have Gregerson? Does your league score holds? edit: I see Braves are using a committee. Eh. Terrible for fantasy baseball owners.

Stash Jose Berrios if you can afford it.
 
G

GK86

Homeland Security Fail
Mets final roster:

Lineup

1. Curtis Granderson, RF
2. David Wright, 3B
3. Yoenis Cespedes, RF
4. Lucas Duda, 1B
5. Neil Walker, 2B
6. Michael Conforto, LF
7. Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
8. d'Arnaud, C

Bench

9. Plawecki, C
10. Wilmer Flores, IF
11. Eric Campbell, IF/OF
12. Juan Lagares, OF
13. Alejandro De Aza, OF

Rotation

14. Matt Harvey, RHP
15. Noah Syndergaard, RHP
16. Jacob deGrom, RHP
17. Bartolo Colon, RHP
18. Steven Matz, LHP

Bullpen

19. Jeurys Familia, closer
20. Addison Reed, RHP
21. Antonio Bastardo, LHP
22. Jerry Blevins, LHP
23. Hansel Robles, RHP
24. Henderson, RHP
25. Verrett, RHP
 
F

Frozenprince

Banned
GK86 said:
Mets final roster:

Lineup

1. Curtis Granderson, RF
2. David Wright, 3B
3. Yoenis Cespedes, RF
4. Lucas Duda, 1B
5. Neil Walker, 2B
6. Michael Conforto, LF
7. Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
8. d'Arnaud, C

Bench

9. Plawecki, C
10. Wilmer Flores, IF
11. Eric Campbell, IF/OF
12. Juan Lagares, OF
13. Alejandro De Aza, OF

Rotation

14. Matt Harvey, RHP
15. Noah Syndergaard, RHP
16. Jacob deGrom, RHP
17. Bartolo Colon, RHP
18. Steven Matz, LHP

Bullpen

19. Jeurys Familia, closer
20. Addison Reed, RHP
21. Antonio Bastardo, LHP
22. Jerry Blevins, LHP
23. Hansel Robles, RHP
24. Henderson, RHP
25. Verrett, RHP
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God fucking dammit Terry.
 
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