Happy Black Friday! Oops, sorry, I mean Happy African-American Friday! As I type this, I'm being trampled at Bed, Bath and Beyond. "There's enough Scrub Daddys for everyone!" The Diamondbacks got a head start on Black Friday sales on Wednesday when they traded Jean Segura, Mitch Haniger and Zac Curtis to the Mariners for Taijuan Walker and Ketel Marte. What's that old axiom, if you don't know who the sucker is at the table, you're the sucker. Mariners, you're the sucker. If anyone forgot that the Diamondbacks fired Dave Stewart immediately following the end of the season, this was a reminder. If Stewart were still there, the Diamondbacks would've traded Greinke for Todd Walker. As Dave Stewart would say after reading that, "I'm not mad at ya." Don't love the move to Chase Field for Walker, but the NL West makes that medicine go down a little easier, chim chiminy chim chiminy chim chim cher-ee! Walker had a 8 K/9 and 2.5 BB/9 last year in 134 1/3 IP. That goes up to 8.5 in the NL West and he's pretending to yawn as he puts his arm around a low to mid-3 ERA. The only thing that's stopping you from nodding your head like a plus-size Pez is that Walker hasn't done it yet. He's only 24 years old, not doing it yet isn't a great excuse for never doing it. For 2017, I'll give him the projections of 12-11/3.44/1.18/153 in 160 IP. Anyway, here's what else I saw this offseason for 2017 fantasy baseball:
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