Going all in vs. Folding.
Fold= Fuld

+1

The chance to get a home town discount sailed back in spring training and possibly in June.

The baseball playoffs more than any sport not named Hockey are a bit of a crap shoot. That series they did win they were a heavy underdog against the Twins and ended up sweeping them.

MLB doesn't have RFA or UFA.

Cespedes tends to be a bit over-rated amongst a lot of folks as well. He certainly has all the raw talent/tools in the world, however the league has caught up to him a bit the past 2 seasons. Still a solid 3 WAR a year type guy, so essentially the A's are giving up 4 WAR over the next 1.25 years for a few months of…

As painful as it is to see guys like Garrett Jones (few years ago), Liriano (Last year and some of this year) and Worley excel after leaving the Twins, the silver lining is it is for the Pirates who had a real long drought of shitty years and deserve a winner.

True, at the time when someone tells you that you can trade a multiple Cy Young winning Ace for a net result of guy who may someday give you a couple of decent to above average years pitching in the 6th and 7th innings, you gotta take that trade, no?

I don't know about you but I would much rather have Jim Hoey, Kevin Mulvey, Deolis Guerra and Phil Humber over Johan Santana, Carlos Gomez and JJ Hardy any day!

I was actually at that game, Swisher absolutely destroyed him on that play, and while he wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire prior to the injury, he never really "recovered" as a major leaguer.
Interestingly enough he actually had a pretty good year last year when he went back to Japan, playing on the same team…

He will be a Pirate by 2017.

His numbers weren't great but not awful at the plate that year 96 OPS+ and he was a stud defensively, even in 103 games he put up 2.2 WAR. The shocking thing about Nishioka wasn't his offense being bad, but he was an absolute disaster in the field and had no business playing SS in the MLB.

The best part is we traded JJ Hardy to make room for him!

Best contact Arcia has made all year.

And Bonds played in smaller parks, the talent was more diluted because of more teams etc etc

What does that even mean?

Oh, well I guess that settles that.....

Piazza clocks in at .997 OBP in that scenario, apparently he only put the ball in play 4 times in his whole career on a 3-0 count. (I don't know how to find how many times he actually swung and missed unfortunately)

While its really not even worth responding to such garbage it should be noted that Bonds was putting up 30-46 HR while being that "contact speedstar (Any season with 30+ SB)

98-2002 was probably his peak where he averaged 6.8 bWAR a year.