bmags

I don't think they are "banking" on that, their position to deal became much worse with the injuries they are dealing with.

well, Seth Curry was pretty damn good, and Embiid could get hurt. If we rely on pristine health so do all of em.

Remember when Steve Cischek was like "wow I'm hearing mlb is nearing a deal! closer than people think!" And that was like 2 weeks ago.

Pace's trading of firsts was further compromised by his constant trading up in later rounds.

Sox long play of hoarding DHs finally paying off.

Some of these prices...I don't think bulls will have a deal today. Hopefully they can sign Dragic.

Why did Manfred think him talking was a good thing.

Not as big of a deal in grand scheme of things, but last year was apparent the struggle to get game day staff especially when things started in June. Adding more uncertainty this offseason to an already extremely tight labor market makes me think (hopefully) April will be a pretty brutal gameday experience when they already shortstaff the stadium.

I find the nba salaries and cap system endlessly fun with respect to trades now that nearly every franchise has a smart front office.

I always find the DR so funny because all the pitchers are walking like 10 batters a game yet all the batters have like 2% walk rates.

I feel like for sox prospects we very rarely get info outside of affiliate ball, sometimes BA gets some backfield stuff.

It is a much easier position for Schoen though with 2 first round picks, no mandate on QB, no massive sunk amounts in players you get little back for cutting. And some GMs are very open about their plans, others aren't. Schoen apparently knew this was a job targeting him for months compared to Poles.

Choice bits. I'd add we've talked about a lot of these and why this forum is great: Colson Montgomery: Wes Kath: Both ranked above Oscar Colas: A very nice write-up on Romy: Overall, I think this was an encouraging write-up. I'll maintain what I said in the other thread, I think our International strategy is poor when we don't have the amount of draft picks smaller teams do AND while Shirley is going big on a smaller number of targets. BUT - a lot of these guys in this write-up do have good potential but basically nobody on this list save Popeye and Romy did much to earn any sort of praise last year. FWIW the write-up on Vera was great, I just don't think Law has anything to go on yet.

https://theathletic.com/3118912/2022/02/09/giants-gm-joe-schoen-wants-to-create-40-million-in-cap-space-heres-how-he-can-do-it/?article_source=search&search_query=dan duggan Everything Joe Schoen is saying makes me think he is going to be a very good GM.

I feel like everyone is throwing out bulls trade acquisitions from west coast teams. This is a problem for me because I fall asleep at 9 and have no idea it Richaun Holmes is good ?‍♂️

That guy is so thirsty and I wish him well but posting any random DM he gets is just too annoying. To be quite honest I think Davante deserves whatever he gets but that'd be horrible process for the bears.

I am not down on that stuff. This team is dramatically different than a year ago, and the reason it's so much better is it added some extremely high value players. When they are gone, we don't have the team chemistry to survive this much turnover. If you'd tell me what a bulls team led by Derozan/Lavine/Vuc with Matt Thomas playing 15 min a game would be I'd say like 38 wins? That's about what they are. It sucks, but I still think with a full team those guys are extreme difference makers defensively.

No, Vuc is much better than this team than Sabonis, who would demand space that Lavine/Derozan work in.

I'd much rather be Indiana.

I love this team but this season has become extremely difficult to go for it. We may very well be a play-in team considering the top-strength of the division by the time we get back Caruso/Ball. Our trade chips are often injured, our picks are rare. Supplementing the bench is about all we can do. It's really hard to go all in when we aren't a #1 seed but maybe a #7 or #8 seed even if we are fully healthy at the end.

There are too many annoying news cycles but man if we could eliminate the “? *player* removed all references to team on instagram” I’d be slightly happier

lol I am with you. This stuff was required and was desperately boring. You know what I wish was impressed upon me 1000x over in high school? Math is literally a skill and one that you get better at, and that STEM majors are more about endurance than finishing with a sterling A record. I think by far the coolest stuff at our school was A) a teacher applied for a grant that brought some new version of CAD software. At a HS reunion I learned nearly all the kids that took that in my class got internships in this since they had familiarity few professionals had and had become engineers/architects and B) a different teacher applied for a grant to bring in genetic analysis tools where we were sequencing genome. I did take this class and it was my favorite STEM course. I just feel like you can't learn everything in school, but some stuff you can only learn in school. I learned how to hand-file taxes in high school. I have never hand-filed taxes since and googled it when I needed it. That was 3 weeks plus of having us deal with every possible deduction.

They didn't draft Burger because they needed a 3b gmafb.

Good stuff from Steph Noh, though it sounds like bulls are still behind in bidding for Poeltl's services https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/hidden-gems-jakob-poeltl-is-the-best-center-that-nobodys-talking-about/1acr9r7wz5mg913hug0jnr42sk I like AKME's player evals though, they are on a different board for player acquisitions than everyone else.

Yeah, I think reality is when you throw up the 2016+ draft classes up they'll likely be middle of the pack when controlling for the lack of comp picks. I just don't think for a team that will be in the bottom third of draft budget every year they can use their international budget for small, higher certainty players. They can't survive with both smaller draft classes AND small international classes, even if it brings in a certain starter every 2 years. Either they need to go for depth in the draft while shooting for their stars in INTL, or they go big in the draft while going for volume and depth, but this current strategy of targeting just a few guys in both is giving a tiny, tiny margin for error. It's a numbers game for the sox, they have to figure out how they can compete organically with their fake big market constraints.