Offseason Hotstove Thread

Wacha’s injury struggles appear to be less invasive upon his success now in his early 30’s. If he could get himself back into the range of 180 innings he could again reach the levels of his 2015 17-7 season. When he’s right, he’s nasty… besides, I like being able to say Wacha-Wacha when he’s pitching…

Dodgers getting Glasgow and Margot?

Hope this takes them out or at least cools them on Yamamoto but I doubt it.

I don't think I ever bothered to look up Tyler Glasnow's body of work before, but it isn't anywhere near what I thought it would be.  He's 30 years old and has a career record of 30-27 with an ERA+ of 107 and a WHIP of 1.206.  Last year when he won 10 games was the first time he had won more than six in a season.  It was also his season with the most IP at 120, which along with the 111 he pitched in 2018 are the only times he's thrown over 100 innings.

To be fair, working through his injury issues, in his last five years he has an ERA+ of 137 and a WHIP of 1.013.  Still, he's only won 26 games in that span and has averaged 67 IP per year.  Sounds like the kind of pitcher the Dodgers seek out -- high ceiling, very fragile, likely to spend most of the year on the IL.  He would fit in perfectly with Walker Buehler, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May and even in recent years Clayton Kershaw.

Manny Margot is straight out of the Harrison Bader - Trent Grisham mold.

The only reporter I trust is ol' 1970s reporter pipps with his orange turtleneck and corduroy jacket.

Without question.  We were all better off with Pipps on the beat, wearing out shoe leather, using that otherworldly charm and Forest Gump serendipity to confirm backup attribution while protecting the source.  Driving that yellow 1966 Ford Mustang convertible, wearing the trilby's hat, irrepressibly drawn to the most frightening stories into dark alleys, voodoo shops, abandoned Victorian houses, and graveyards armed with only a tape recorder and a 16mm camera Rollei 16S camera with electronic flash. Pipps would also have had a leather-bound martini kit with a wooden handle and a half-opened fifth of Macallan Whiskey.  But, not the 18 year old bottle, as he is well aware that the 12 year old is the better glass (Pipps, check out Stephen Fry talking about Kingsley Amis toward the end of the interview at the 35.35 interval).  



And, the mention of the Jeeves and Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse excerpt:

“…And he shrinks, no doubt, from the prospect of being addressed for the remainder of his life as Sir Lemuel.”

“His name’s not Lemuel?”

“I fear so, sir.”

“Couldn’t he use his second name?”

“His second name is Gengulphus.”

“Golly, Jeeves,” I said, thinking of old Uncle Tom Portarlington, “there’s some raw work pulled at the font from time to time, is there not?”

“There is indeed, sir.”