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Reds tidbits 2016 (Sponge Bob Tight Canadian Pants)

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Tanner said:
Signed a Cuban shortstop who never gets on base. Should fit right in. Probably hit 2nd.
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I'm not 100% sure but I believe they went full frontal Reds and didn't just sign a banjo hitting Cuban Juan Castro, they shot their international signing pool wad for the next two years on the guy.
 
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Juan Duran gets busted for PEDs and suspended 80 games.

"Who?" you ask. Exactly.

His suspension is 50 games for the PEDs and 30 more for still sucking.

Reds being the Reds they had this limp dick on the 40 man and now, I believe, he counts against it even on suspension. :lol:
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Stepping out of character for a second here. Look at this:



Votto's practice bat

Might be one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
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get back in character!

Hell I can do that:
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Soooo, John Lamb (one of the supposed MLB ready good young pitchers) had back surgery in December.

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Advice for the young man; forget baseball. If you can get up off the table, have all your limbs still attached and can walk again then do so. Don't ever look back.

Odds are you are a fucking dead man and is just don't know it yet.
 
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Dave Cameron from FanGraphs gives his list of 10 worst off season moves.


Fucktards make the list twice

#8: Reds Blow International Budget
Acquire: Alfredo Rodriguez
Cost: $6 million signing bonus; $6 million tax, future signing restrictions

Blowing your bonus pool can be a very good strategy in MLB right now, as other teams have shown by going on ludicrous spending sprees. But the Reds decision to blow their bonus pool out of the water in January — after most of the best players available in this period have already been signed — in order to bring in a player who Ben Badler described as a “third-to-sixth-round” talent is a curious one for a team in need of an infusion of young players.

Setting aside Rodriguez specifically, since I don’t feel qualified to make a judgment on his future, the Reds decision to go over their bonus pool this year dramatically limit their ability to sign players the next two years, since the penalty includes a restriction on signing players for more than $300,000 during that time. The Reds will have the second largest bonus pool for this coming July 2nd period, and given their Major League roster, will probably have one of the largest pools again in 2017 as well. Rather than using their extra spending ability to load up on talent during those classes, the Reds will now have to trade away much of their bonus pool allocation since they won’t be in the market for elite international talents.

Like with Arizona’s decision to sign Yoan Lopez a year ago, there seems to not be enough of a return on this investment to justify the penalties associated with going over their pool allocation, and the Reds can’t really afford to be leaving talent on the table right now.

#7: Reds Rebuild By Selling Low
Acquire: Jose Peraza, Scott Schebler, Brandon Dixon
Cost: Todd Frazier

On the one hand, criticizing the Reds for not getting enough for a guy that everyone knew was available is tricky; if other teams were willing to pay more for Frazier, they certainly could have. And the fact that the Dodgers also traded Frazier to the White Sox, rather than finding another party to give them even more of a finder’s fee for facilitating the deal, suggests that Chicago may really have made the highest bid for the third baseman. But the Reds decision to take the closer-to-the-majors package the Dodgers were offering is a bit curious, given the fact that they’re nowhere near contending, and Peraza’s short-term value is diminished by the club’s inability to open up a spot for him in the line-up.

Taking less long-term value to acquire Brandon Phillips replacement, before you ensure that Phillips would indeed waive his no-trade clause to play elsewhere, means that the team took a lighter package than they could have gotten from the White Sox directly, but also don’t get the benefit of having Peraza play everyday in 2016. And at these prices, the team may have realistically been better off holding on to Frazier, hoping he had another big first half, and then seeing what his market looked like in July. Instead, the team sold low on one of their best trade chips, and now their path back to contention looks even longer.
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Jaxbuck said:
Dave Cameron from FanGraphs gives his list of 10 worst off season moves.


Fucktards make the list twice
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I don't know about that first one man. I mean:
..is a curious one for a team in need of an infusion of young players..
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is pretty much the opposite of how I feel about the current organizational structure. They need to add mlb ready talent; they have infused about all of the young players that can possibly be infused.
 
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ochre said:
I don't know about that first one man. I mean: is pretty much the opposite of how I feel about the current organizational structure. They need to add mlb ready talent; they have infused about all of the young players that can possibly be infused.
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I think the semantics of "young" and "talented" are being confused

The quantity of young players isn't a question. The mediocre to dubious scouting reports on most of them is what concerns a lot of folks I think.

Me, I'm not all that concerned. It's the Reds. They will fail.
 
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