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What happens if you take out his best games though?

I’m fine with Madrigal, I think he’s easy to upgrade over but he’s better than say Brett Lawrie. I just enjoy the hyperventilating from the group that heard we drafted a short, heady second baseman who doesn’t strikeout and decided he’s Nellie fox.

It's good news for his next team.

No the big thing was accuracy. People were calling him kyle boller 2.0, with dumb nfl front offices falling in love with arm talent over clear accuracy issues. He only threw for 57%. I mean Wentz was looking good at that point so the small school stuff was not near as big of a hit. He also had a terrible game against Iowa to open up 2017 that was the first time draft twitter saw him, and so they were enraged when he was still linked as a first rounder.

It's just a time for accountants to get excited that people are actually going to discuss tax law.

I think it was just especially bad with Allen because there was the draft nerd consensus on accuracy, and anyone drafting Allen was proof of the nfl front office stupid vs. draft hive. Then that year happens and it's back to just "well we know absolutely nothing" on whether a qb will succeed, but also after jimmy G and tannehill we can't even figure out who will stay good or bad.

He should get credit for “not darnold”. Im not sure there is a draft that underscores how much I hate nfl media (but especially nfl draft Twitter) more than that one. Buffalo was just crushed for drafting Allen. Jets were thrilled to get Darnold.

That's the thing. Zaidi took over this aging, underperforming team in a huge market. Everyone expected them to tear it to the studs. And he just kinda doesn't? They just targeted players they thought their better coaching could turn around. Work on drafting and scouting better. Helps he probably has strong backing of owner, but it seems like they are just focused as a front office at learning how to do things well, and trusting that when they start really rolling they'll be able to keep finding these players they are good at maximizing the value on. I mean most exciting parts about Katz now isn't even Giolito, it's that he worked on that San Fran pitching coach staff.

Ok so last year was the outlier, not this year.

every league. Every. League.

Yes, suspense. Hitchcock was famed for his 8 hour long movies where the likely scenarios were given in the first scene and then he strung you along for 8 hours until you realized you didn't even give a shit anymore.

The outcome is no different. Does this feel like a materially different offseason than last year? Or the year before, or before. The White Sox play free agency more than most teams so it has been more interesting, but this is just ridiculous. And next year there are like 8 top ten short stops in free agency. How fun! Going to be great to have the entire market ice cold as we writers rationalize that we need them to sign for the rest to shake out.

It's no different than the last 3. Everything in baseball incentivizes being more excruciating in order to get an advantage.

Come on, basically the entire free agent class is still unsigned. There were some trades, but there are more teams than the white sox.

But snell is better than any of the free agent starters near Hendriks cost.

So amazing how Manfred thinks so hard how to improve the game, but continues to watch his league make it harder for the top talent to play in their league.

I don't care what artificial constraints need to be put in place...but baseball has to get a better offseason. It gets worse every year.

we talking about the twitter account or the GM or both

Omar Khan is interviewing for Houston. My tops remain him or Smith as president, and lure them with a long-term deal.

Not to be confused with actual talent, but I kinda feel like the giants are the most interesting team in baseball. They are operating just way differently than I’d expect.

I’m not sure we need a Tony LaRussa re: re: fwd: Email style post every thread

I thought so. I think it’s 7 GM jobs and 6 HC

I definitely have memorized the wife origins of all primary free agents yes

NYT election needle would be furiously shaking toward Toronto right now.

Yeah, but they undercut the argument. No school can become Alabama or Ohio State and there are several more schools like it. They have the history, donor base, fanbase, athletic department, state support, etc. that allow them to get the best coaches and ensure the carousel never ends. It never ends even when they have make a wrong move. But Clemson is in a major conference, and happened to find one of the best college coaches in the country to build a power house. They aren't Cincinnati, they are a good enough program and have enough support to pay him so cost isn't the problem. But if Dabo leaves, it's very likely "clemsoning" returns. If you are a school in a major conference and start piling up 10 win seasons multiple years in a row, you will get the benefit of the doubt in a 4-team playoff over the upstarts like a Cincinnati or coastal carolina. So it's not a blue blood problem, it's a small conference problem. Like I root for Missouri. In bizarro world where Mizzou starts putting together 10-win seasons and has an 12-1 year with a conference championship game win, do I think a 10-2 Ohio State would jump Missouri? No. Would a 11-0 Cincinnati? Probably Not! Not unless it had some really great wins, and that's complete luck of the draw in schedulemaking to be in a smaller conference where you had to schedule years out. It's a question of whether this playoff should specifically elevate those conferences and programs when they have great years. I don't know the answer. UCF probably would have made it in most years. Boise State would have been a lot more fun than a lot of crappy bcs matchups 10 years ago.