Marlins trade Justin Bour to Phillies

[emkayseven]

Lee, considering that you've previously said on this message board that you're from Alaska, and that your real name is Lee Stoops, and given that Finsanity's IP address traces to Kotzebue, AK, and the internet says that Lee Stoops has addresses in Delray Beach and Kotzebue, AK, I'm going to let you explain how there are two Marlins fans in Kotzebue, Alaska, a city of 3,200 people.

Then let me know which account you'd like to keep going forward.

[fish16]

haha wow that is some A+ detective work right there.

[AdamRavs]

Lee, considering that you've previously said on this message board that you're from Alaska, and that your real name is Lee Stoops, and given that Finsanity's IP address traces to Kotzebue, AK, and the internet says that Lee Stoops has addresses in Delray Beach and Kotzebue, AK, I'm going to let you explain how there are two Marlins fans in Kotzebue, Alaska, a city of 3,200 people.

Then let me know which account you'd like to keep going forward.

I came in to check on the Bour trade reaction and left with this gold!

[tjfla]

Lee, considering that you've previously said on this message board that you're from Alaska, and that your real name is Lee Stoops, and given that Finsanity's IP address traces to Kotzebue, AK, and the internet says that Lee Stoops has addresses in Delray Beach and Kotzebue, AK, I'm going to let you explain how there are two Marlins fans in Kotzebue, Alaska, a city of 3,200 people.

Then let me know which account you'd like to keep going forward.

Ouch.

Hey its possible that Kotzebue,AK is a Marlins city. They got places in Philippines that love certain basketball teams in the NBA

[gustavopim]

Ouch.

Hey its possible that Kotzebue,AK is a Marlins city. They got places in Philippines that love certain basketball teams in the NBA

I mean, there's also a big chance that both guys have South Florida ties and met in a small city in Alaska and one invited the other to use this board. Also, they're probably like-minded guys with a same profile.

[Namaste]

This website NEEDED something juicy like this!

Thank you Lee and emkayseven.

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My gut was telling me it was weird that we had 2 new semi regular posters in the same year.

[Finsanity]

Buster and Molina are awesome for so many reasons.

2018
Posey .297/.369/.403 AVG/OBP/SLG, 5 HR, 40 RBI for $21.4M this year, and $21.4 for the next 3 years as well.
Molina .288/.334,/.474, 15HR, 53 RBI for $20M this year and two more.

But, at least they're good defensively. Well... actually Molina is 37th in SB% and Posey is 55th.

You're the fantasy player, or at least living in fantasy land if you think the Giants and Cardinals are getting good production for their money.

Is Boston any good? Their catchers are Leon, Vazquez and Swihart.
Cleveland? Yan (Yawn?) Gomes.
Houston? Brian McCann makes $17M, and another $15M next year. At least he's contributed a .206 average and 5 HR when healthy thus far this season.
Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington? Suzuki, Flowers, Alfaro, Knapp, Wieters, Severino, Kieboom.
Cubs? Contreras.
Arizona? Murphy, Mathis, Avila.

The only catcher you'd want from the list of division leaders is Conteras, who is young and comes in at $600K pre-arbitration this season. But, then you look at his numbers... and he's kind of Brian Anderson in catcher's gear. Hardly an earth-mover.

Point is this (thanks Todd), MLB catcher is a plug and play position. Very high-risk, prone to wearing down and to my original point (thanks again Todd) Soto would have been more valuable to the Marlins moving forward than Realmuto (for serval reasons - team control, salary, injury risk and... production).

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Lee, considering that you've previously said on this message board that you're from Alaska, and that your real name is Lee Stoops, and given that Finsanity's IP address traces to Kotzebue, AK, and the internet says that Lee Stoops has addresses in Delray Beach and Kotzebue, AK, I'm going to let you explain how there are two Marlins fans in Kotzebue, Alaska, a city of 3,200 people.

Then let me know which account you'd like to keep going forward.

Right, because there's no chance we could be related? Time to turn in your CSI badge and pick up your Douche card.

[Nick]

Lee Stone and Lee Stone Jr. make up 1/3rd of our regular posters now. LMAO.

[Finsanity]

Lee Stone and Lee Stone Jr. make up 1/3rd of our regular posters now. LMAO.

RIght, because who wouldn't want to hang out with you? Virtual or otherwise?

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Buster and Molina are awesome for so many reasons.

2018
Posey .297/.369/.403 AVG/OBP/SLG, 5 HR, 40 RBI for $21.4M this year, and $21.4 for the next 3 years as well.
Molina .288/.334,/.474, 15HR, 53 RBI for $20M this year and two more.

But, at least they're good defensively. Well... actually Molina is 37th in SB% and Posey is 55th.

You're the fantasy player, or at least living in fantasy land if you think the Giants and Cardinals are getting good production for their money.

Is Boston any good? Their catchers are Leon, Vazquez and Swihart.
Cleveland? Yan (Yawn?) Gomes.
Houston? Brian McCann makes $17M, and another $15M next year. At least he's contributed a .206 average and 5 HR when healthy thus far this season.
Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington? Suzuki, Flowers, Alfaro, Knapp, Wieters, Severino, Kieboom.
Cubs? Contreras.
Arizona? Murphy, Mathis, Avila.

The only catcher you'd want from the list of division leaders is Conteras, who is young and comes in at $600K pre-arbitration this season. But, then you look at his numbers... and he's kind of Brian Anderson in catcher's gear. Hardly an earth-mover.

Point is this (thanks Todd), MLB catcher is a plug and play position. Very high-risk, prone to wearing down and to my original point (thanks again Todd) Soto would have been more valuable to the Marlins moving forward than Realmuto (for serval reasons - team control, salary, injury risk and... production).

[Nick]

RIght, because who wouldn't want to hang out with you? Virtual or otherwise?

Kids these days have no respect.

[fish16]

If t hey are gonna say the same mindless, baseball ignorant things can we just merge the accounts and save us some reading?

[lou]

2018
Posey .297/.369/.403 AVG/OBP/SLG, 5 HR, 40 RBI for $21.4M this year, and $21.4 for the next 3 years as well.
Molina .288/.334,/.474, 15HR, 53 RBI for $20M this year and two more.

But, at least they're good defensively. Well... actually Molina is 37th in SB% and Posey is 55th.

You're the fantasy player, or at least living in fantasy land if you think the Giants and Cardinals are getting good production for their money.

Is Boston any good? Their catchers are Leon, Vazquez and Swihart.
Cleveland? Yan (Yawn?) Gomes.
Houston? Brian McCann makes $17M, and another $15M next year. At least he's contributed a .206 average and 5 HR when healthy thus far this season.
Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington? Suzuki, Flowers, Alfaro, Knapp, Wieters, Severino, Kieboom.
Cubs? Contreras.
Arizona? Murphy, Mathis, Avila.

The only catcher you'd want from the list of division leaders is Conteras, who is young and comes in at $600K pre-arbitration this season. But, then you look at his numbers... and he's kind of Brian Anderson in catcher's gear. Hardly an earth-mover.

Point is this (thanks Todd), MLB catcher is a plug and play position. Very high-risk, prone to wearing down and to my original point (thanks again Todd) Soto would have been more valuable to the Marlins moving forward than Realmuto (for serval reasons - team control, salary, injury risk and... production).

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Right, because there's no chance we could be related? Time to turn in your CSI badge and pick up your Douche card.

The Giants have paid Buster around $115 million in his career so far, and they've gotten 39.3 WAR. I think they have profited give/take about $250+ million. He's due about $65 million next 3 years and I suspect he's going to be able to manage a 6 WAR rendering this still a quarter million profit for San Francisco based on production, and ignoring multiple world series wins.

Molina has ironically made around $115 also, with 37.9 WAR, so yea. They've profited around $250 million too and he'll probably also last a few more years.

The Marlins would be so lucky to acquire, and keep, a player like this. Regardless of position. That kind of production you just don't replace anywhere on the diamond.

If you want to segregate out the twilight years of their career and say they aren't as valuable as their prime years, sure? Are you saying you don't want to sign players from age 28-31 because you might get some lower production - albeit still good - years at ages 33 and 34? Is that what you're saying? That's dumb if you are if over the lifespan of a deal you kill it.

I think you have serious hindsight bias based on how good Soto has been so far too - of course a young 4+ WAR player is better than an older 4+ WAR player with 2 years of control - but we also don't know how good Soto will be. He's definitely a centerpiece for Realmuto though, who is a 3 year proven commodity at a position where it's tough to get production from so you can really become great loading up on 1B/LF types for cheap who are much more common and productive. You would never bet landing Suzuki/Flowers versus common 1B/LF types.

No one also argues catchers aren't more injury prone so you're also creating your own hysteria. You said, Buster Posey is replaceable which is just fucking stupid at what he has done.

[tjfla]

The JT market if he says no to extension is

Washington
Houston
Colorado
Arizona

[Erick]

That was my point. Two hall of fame catchers... who are also replaceable parts in the machine. Posey had a great 2014. Otherwise, he's never driven in 100, numbers look kind of like how you'd expect Realmuto to play out. Molina same thing. More glove, less bat. Career high of 82 RBI. Meh.

LOL

[Lee Stone]

Lee seems to have found a kindred spirit in this Finsanity fella. What are the chances?

That would be a kin spirit, as Finsanity is my son Jake. He lives in Kotzebue, Alaska, teaches PE, and coaches basketball. A super high school baseball player in high school, he was the LOSING pitcher in the first sanctioned high school baseball game ever played in Alaska (Ketchikan vs. Juneau in about 1990). His son led all of college baseball in homers at the halfway mark of the season a few years ago! He visits Florida every summer and can't stay away from Marlin stadium.