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It is but it's currently a mediocre receiver group and Woods is not going to be paid much after this year.

If russ was a top 5 qb for them it would have been fine. Everyone was wrong that Caroll was "holding him back" and they should let russ cook and all the nfl hot thought. Carroll clearly did a good job hiding Russ's weaknesses and giving him better improv receivers than timing ones like Jeudy. Denver had a ready made defense for a championship and a young locked up receiver core, also a well thought of Oline. The combo of trading for Russ and handing the reigns to Hackett has to be among the worst 1-2 punches in history. But Payton to date has made everything work on offense so maybe it won't matter. SHows the value of willing ownership vs. what a certain chicago man provides.

That said, Mulkey has grown on me so I probably listen to it more than with Hanley. Not a fan of their producers either.

I have always felt like all of haugh's garbles basically boil down to "why didn't you run the touchdown play"

I think it’s more about the home coming stuff. Chicago high school basketball has a big following locally and those groups love seeing them on the bulls.

This new Score host standard of implying you know things but not saying them is such bullshit. Im not surprised by the TA comments. Mentioned it before but the front office being such cowards in their availability with fans have hung the players out to dry to receive the bulk of the anger.

I’d imagine bears will call on Robert woods. Excellent blocker and will be year 2 after ACL

He’s better than our 4th option in the minor leagues. Amazing argument.

Poetic justice will be when we sign manny machado to a 1 year $15M deal with $10 mil team option for his age 36 and 37 seasons and send out marketing emails

I did think last year that Remillard should have been up instead of Sosa's foray to the majors to only get spot duty. I think Remillards a future coach in the org.

I also didn't realize how few attempts he had at 2b. I mostly just saw him being bad on the leaderboard. He'd probably have been much more gradual descent as he was still seen as strong by oaa, it was really just DRP that started to hate him in MN.

it is kind of astonishing how quickly he went from defensive wizard to bad without any real injury.

Weirdly enough andrelton Simmons was awful at 2B last year

you don't need to trust him as the only infielder. But Leury Garcia had a 44 wRC+ last year and that was his stronger side of the platoon. It's true that's 4% better than Romy, but was also in 160 more PAs. Whether or not that's the best case for Romy, it's certainly no case to be made for leury. Now alberto, romy, leury ... all bad vs RHP. But they tried to buoy that in benintendi/colas and returns to from Grandal/moncada. 2b was never going to help us vs. RHP.

Jake Marisnick is Leury Garcia career offense with actual centerfield defense. Romy is leury garcia infield defense with actual power. There is really no depth he provides. The last thing this team needs is a low-obp, high groundball, average defender as depth. He was a very nice piece when he was a controlled versatility guy, but hanser alberto is just as good as him and he's in AAA. Nobody is gonna give that guy an mlb deal.

I think garcia will be dfa'd. The downsides of rewarding a player for a strong aug-oct. They won't let that happen again.

good luck to bennett

I get why they are asking, but I feel like the constant banging drum of asking the players about fans skepticism is inviting a players vs fans dynamic that is better placed in front office or...if he ever spoke...JR.

Very possible, I hope so, actually. OR next year we sign Kolten Wong in late february after anxiety on what jose rodriguez has ever done, and sosa barely playing in mlb, and for $3.5 mil it's a steal.

I accidentally deleted a sentence but the second line was supposed to transition to how I think there's still a bit of talent in this group to improve the system. Especially Nolasco, but shilling, freeman, Cronin, Avila, Alexy especially have real paths to the majors which you'd hope to see. But only two starters in that list.

yeah I disagree. The reason I disagree is because if you put romy or sosa at 2b to start the season and after two weeks they are awful the org would be terrified and sign some guy like jose iglesias to immediately step in. Andrus is going to get a lot more runway to be bad, at least thru june. I hope he's good as he was last year, but we've seen plenty of older 30 year old players suddenly fall off a cliff, and they get plenty of time to right the ship. Younger players? Unless Hahn has seen them in the top 100 they get zero rope.

it's possible the first people were also the people happy about this?

just feel like carlos perez has a separate standard than everyone else, even those who are very likely to grade as utility infielder as well. that said, there's still quite a few pitchers in here that may show more. I'm guessing ryan burrowes made the top 30 then. Gonna be a big top 30 for international signees.

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