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As the great scene in band of brothers once said “the only way you’ll get through this is to admit you’re already dead”

i unno man.

Yeah. I mean, obviously you have to spend money somewhere and he's good. But with WR money rising fast, and guard money rising fast...do I want $22 mill in a LB who has had some very inconsistent years and has held out twice in one contract? I unno.

now roquan holding out. Not gonna lie, I'm not sure I'd pay that guy.

I guess to be more clear, talent wise I don't have an issue trading Vaughn. But team construction wise, I feel like our offensive production doesn't improve as greatly as if we can stack multiple 130 wRC+ guys and a 150 wRC+ guy in Soto (Abreu, Vaughn, Robert). Needs a lot more heavy lifting. BUT, I also get it. Vaughn has no positional value. THis at least gives us a tolerable outfielder who absolute mashes RHP. Team construction is much better. But our budget will be maxed and farm cleaned out. With vaughn I just feel like we would have such a good offense with the following AND HEY IF YOU ARE SOMEONE READING STILL WHO IS GONNA SAY "THIS ISN"T HAPPENING" just leave this is good stuff here Lineup of SS Anderson (120 wRC+) CF Robert (126 wRC+) RF Soto (156 wRC+) 1B Abreu (147 wRC+) DH Vaughn (129 wRC+) C Grandal (like 10, not even looking it up) LF Jimenez (like 80 i think) 3B Yoan Moncada (76 ish) 2b JOSH HARRISON (93) so when you remove Vaughn you are bumping in Pollock, and after that en fuego first 4, you have a lot of bounce back candidates but still a pretty shit back half for 2022 so far anyway.

well, it was rejected. And, gotta tell ya, not on the players side on this. I hope they can take their earnings, go home, and exploit more kids with their own academies. Otherwise, not sure how they can justify how this. They already lost the moment they capped it. Just admit it and move on.

I woulda gone for "should we just go ahead and award the Oscar to..." and then you could have started with "the chicago white sox" Then by the 2nd paragraph it'd be clear you were discussing Oscar Colas. It's great posting.

And it's just funny because all of the indelible TA hits in my head are him just absolutely getting all of a ball pulling it out to LF (like his Brad Keller HR).

absolutely wild

What are your observational analytics?

nice thanks, banner blindness

ugly DSL game so far Chappelli was DHing then was PH after 2nd ab. https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=07/25/2022

that actually sounds harder

friends of the park will not look kindly to the cities proposed plans of increasing amenities that may bring more people to the park, which goes against its main purpose of looking pretty for lakeview condo owners.

dalquist might net us a bounce back middle reliever. He has very little value.

I still think Vaughn hurts us in a way others don't. But I do get you are at least getting a real outfielder (yes hes bad this year) and a lh one.

we were all there. Nothing we could do.

to be honest the pitchers (with a big caveat being our new free agents) have held up their end on availability. Maybe too much.

I think both are guys that know what it takes to be ready, teams know that, and both will try to wait for the first big tackle to miss significant time and make leverage there.

Colas 99th percentile might be current Juan Soto Juan Sotos 99th percentile is Barry Bonds

Alright, the bookends are done, now lets fill out the...fillings.

correct, helps against RHP not left. But considering: Eloy vs. RHP - 84 wRC+ Engel vs. RHP - 93 wRC+ Sheets vs. RHP - 96 wRC+ Pollock vs. RHP - 57 wRC+ And considering Engel/Sheets are backups, he doesn't hurt us. I do think Happ is a perfectly fine addition, but I just don't see reynolds as likely. If I was Cherington I'd rather wait until the offseason and see if he has a nice 2nd half.

would also prevent the Guardians from getting Sean Murphy. And what will happen is the As take back Carlos Perez and him and Langeliers become the best catching duo in history.

BA org rankings of the teams in the running: Which three teams do you view as the favorites to trade for Soto? Padres 8 (21st in BA) Dodgers 7 (7th) Cardinals 3 (18th) Mariners 3 (1st) Mets 3 (16th) Rays 3 (2nd) Yankees 3 (11th) Giants 2 (17th) Blue Jays (19th) Brewers (25th) Cubs (15th) Rangers (9th) Red Sox (11th) Has nothing to do with farm rankings and everything to do with which orgs aren't run by cowards.

The bears are very interesting in my emotions. I so desperately believe they needed to clear the decks and re-set for a year, but it is very difficult to undercut Fields. But also, Fields was not Justin Herbert last year. Or anything close, and I also think it's prudent to not act like the guy is the future when he still hasn't shown that. But also he can't show it when you put this offense out there with him. But also great QBs can still show to be good in shitty offenses. But I would have been fine with shitty position players as long as they had given him strong oline. And man, this one could really be awful. I am holding out hope this FO/coaching staff are super oline whisperers, but this looks bad.