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0 for 14 huh.

lol nagy is taking back playcalling duties.

I think Madrigal was probably the last of the "black swan" fad. I'm not writing off that he can be a useful player yet, but his pick stings a lot because as you said, a lot of the internet scouts were writing very intriguing write-ups about him - that they then started backtracking on almost immediately after selected. But I think early 10s, late 00s there were quite a few great players that were unlikely successes. And I think there was short time where teams started trying to convince themselves they figured out what made some of those rare cases succeed and ignored warning signs and started taking them in first rounds instead of third or later. I think that has stopped. But whatever this is probably more of an mlb draft discussion, I didn't watch last night, and am not really that concerned about having a meh 2nd baseman

I don't know that sounds a lot more fun.

I learned that I can't stay up past 930 anymore so I'll see you guys on saturday.

love when zach wilson still exists past ten and trading a first and 3rd to move up lol.

Phew, now that we have a thread not started by @Chicago White Sox we may have a chance

Last year opening day taught us that Giolito was a bad pitcher and Moncada would be MVp

Lots of availability on cvs this morning for J&J too

Im guessing it’s just Bundy has considerably worse numbers vs LH. ...but Leury isn’t good vs RHP so ?‍♂️ Leury seems like a fast starter typically thou

Forgive me I had a dumb day but what pitcher are we facing?

My first cd was the flintstones movie soundtrack. I remember my brother begging to see judgment night because the soundtrack lol. Probably got it thru columbia house.

It's times like these I miss the 90s. We are missing out on a music video of lil nas x dancing in between fighting kaijus. I have been interested in doing those "rent a theater" things at amc, maybe this is the movie for it. Not renting out a theatre for "first cow".

interesting. Every godzilla reboot i've watched has been terrible, and every king kong film I've watched has been terrible. But put them together

9:05 start time sucks, had no idea it wasn't going to be a day game. Excited and all, and typically I'd complain in other years about why don't northern teams play west/south, but meh. Now it did snow today, so maybe it's better.

I think the swing isn't working but a lot of that stuff in there is just "he didn't work out so it must be all this stuff". I mean bragging that he hit .350 in Arizona? Lol.

Jeeze I'm sorry to hear that. I hope it clears up soon, sucks that she'll be in limbo with a second round through the summer but I know UK was doing mix-and-match trials with different vaccines.

IL 7-day average now at 110k/day, about 10% from 10 days ago. Hoping we get some bigger jumps soon as J&J comes online + more eligibility.

I was inspired by the Cease for Cy Young article. All bold predictions are always stuff like "mookie betts will be better than mike trout this year" and it's like okay, but those are two great players. Gimme this chex mix bold and spicy, not cheddar crunch.

Jose Ruiz is our best reliever

I'm not advocating that, I've done research before on the hell pit of college picks k'ing greater than even 20%. But Kendall was also awful in his cape cod league stint and had more gap power than pure power. Fabian lit up the cape code league as I think the youngest guy there. This year I would bet more than any some of the tried-and-true draft heuristics will fail us. I'd be too scared to bet on Fabian, but it's a weirder case than Kendall.

dang.

anyone know what they are allowed to do before MILB starts?

At least fabian has power.

I would definitely classify myself as surprised by that turn.