Harold's Leg Lift

Meet the new boss same as the old boss. I'm out

This Monfort stuff is wild. He may have really screwed the pooch with this one which would be a real shame.

Losing on purpose is really hard to come back from.

I was gonna say I'm out on the Bears but now I may be back in.

Leave it to the players to be the adults in the room.

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and it begins.

The physical evaluation of Schultz is pretty easy. He's an enormous intimidating presence on the mound with a funky arm slot that makes hitters look foolish. He can spin it, has feel for a change and has a good chance for above avg command despite all those long levers he's a decent athlete. The questions with him start with the mental/toughness side. He didn't pitch last spring and no one really knows why. He did show up on day one of the summer and was ready to go and even had a couple outings in the fall where he threw 70-80 pitches. If he comes out this spring and continues that he's an easy 1st rounder and likely top half of the first rounder. If he comes out of the gate slow or his innings/outings are being managed by his agent (Boras) people will start to question how much he really wants it.

I saw where an exec said trading Fields is a possibility. If they did decide to trade him would they be able to come close to recouping what they gave up?

I don't know how anyone can put major league grades on a 16 yr old. If they do they're double or even triple projecting which is risky as hell or just flat out guessing which is most likely. It's hard enough to project 18-21 year olds but 16 yr olds. Fuggedaboutit

That was a bullshit rumor. Crochet was never made available to the Cubs.

The players LOVE Boras. He has all the power.

They're getting there. Slowly but Shirley...I mean surely.

I'll take that action.

Ideally you want your utility player to be a really good defender because defense is the main role of the utility player but if any team is going to buck the system and employ a bat first utility guy it's going to be the Sox. The best case is they trade one or two of their redundant players so they can field a good and versatile team instead of trying to shoe horn limited players into open spots.

That was the dumbest football game I've ever watched.

The exchange is rushed and clunky and his feet are slow and heavy. Watch a real big league 2B do that same drill and the difference would be glaring.

The Chicago Square Pegs In a Round Hole

Good lord.

How on earth did they not shit can Nagy after last season. They let that clueless bastard keep his job after they knew he lost the team. That's really hard to believe even for that F'd up team.

I think there should be a profit cap. Cap how much the owners can make off the talents of the players at $25M a year and the rest is distributed to the players and employees. That would go further to even the playing field than capping how much the players can make.

Eugene Freedman is crushing the owners because of this horse shit proposal. This guy is the best at explaining what is really happening in the negotiations.

That's the swing he's had. Looks like he has a little more rhythm in his hands but the length will probably always be there.