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Hahn read the room too much, Getz doesn't read the room at all.

Pretty wild that Rendon's 52 games played in the Covid year is almost his most games played in a season with the Angels.

Alternatively, Dominic Fletcher is Dominic Fletcher, but the prospect they get back for Taylor at the deadline can be anything. He can even be a Dominic Fletcher.

Sosa, Vargas, Ramos, Baldwin, Meidroth, Fletcher, DeLoach. I get that these guys don't all fall into the same "prospect" category and aren't necessarily on the same timeline. I also get that the majority of them are unlikely to amount to major leaguers. But if you're not willing to invest in them a bit and let them take their lumps in a season like this one, then it seems like you aren't ever going to do that. And I fully acknowledge that you need some veterans on a rebuilding team, but just like last year, this year's roster is shaping up to be curiously old for a rebuilding team. Why? To what end? I'm not necessarily advocating for any of them to be handed a job. I'm all for some spring training competition. What I'm concerned about is that some of the younger guys will make the opening day roster but be given sporadic starts, which doesn't exactly set them up for success.

If they prioritize giving at bats to veterans instead of the younger guys in the name of a marginal improvement in the W/L column, I'd say that is stunting the rebuild. I understand it's just an "If" at this point, but I think it's a real possibility.

I agree that they’re trying to thread that needle, but the offseason moves don’t exactly scream “at least we’ll definitely be better than last year.” Basically they’ve put themselves in a position to potentially both stunt the rebuild AND be just as bad as last year. Which is an almost more impressive threading of the needle. Bravo.

Always what you like to see on a rebuilding team.

Lol Bulls. Down 63-22 with 3 min left in the first half.

Hey, improvement! No expectations + no results > Expectations + no results

Yeah I still don’t get the Drury thing.

I see multiple DH’s in that lineup and Ramos isn’t one of them. It’ll be interesting to see how Venable mixes and matches things.

BREAKING: The Dodgers sign McCovey Cove and the Robert Clemente Bridge, both of which will be inserted into the already excellent Dodger Stadium backdrop before Opening Day.

Bickering requires a second person.

Had to test the hypothesis one last time.

I just wanna give a shout out to the “HOT!” tag that shows up on some threads for helping identify which ones currently have bickering, and thus which ones to avoid.

The more Bulls thing would be that 3 of those 10 will end up decent and they’ll trade 1 of them and keep the other 2 so they can be just good enough to continue playing the Hawks in the play-in game forever.

It's a good thing you're accumulating all these draft picks so you can start developing those 9-10 very good players.

No one suggested Colas playing there yuk yuk yuk

Zach and DeMar in Sacramento. TA and Yoan in Anaheim. Looking forward to the Chargers signing Teven Jenkins and Coleman Shelton. Sorry, Chargers, I don’t make the rules.

Man, the Bears are gonna be doing some HEAVY lifting for foreseeable future as the only Chicago team that is even remotely interesting to me.

Imagine going to 27 Sox games.

Any past Sox rivalries are totally dead to me now. I’m too preoccupied with hating the Sox to care about their rivals.

Is this supposed to be for us personally or in general? Personally, it's obviously JR. In general, the Dodgers probably need to go on a Yankees 1996 - 2000 type run for them to truly be villains. Otherwise they're just a loaded team that didn't win titles. I'm kind of torn on the Chiefs. I'm as sick of them as the next person, but I do appreciate witnessing greatness. That's sort of how I ended up feeling in those later Patriots years as well.

In my extremely objective opinion, the Titans are the perfect fit.

It seems like there are way less “no doubt about it” awful teams going into this season than usual. Like, it wouldn’t be the craziest thing in the world if the A’s, Pirates, Nats, Reds were still hanging around at the trade deadline. I left out the Angels intentionally.