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That would be the safe bet, honestly.

One thing that happened though is when Stroman and Gausman signed their QOs the b-tier pitching options suddenly went from somewhat plentiful to much less attractive. Is there a dependable pitcher after Bauer? It's basically Morton and Tanaka, two pitchers very much, uhm, mature.

Maybe not but it's easier to get a star when you have a star. And if AK ends up as good at talent evaluation as Denver was they might be able to find something to fit around him.

Hence the one year deal. People were outraged at length for pomeranz and now money for Smiley. Both indicated competition. This didn't come out of no where. I don't watch the giants ever, but his curve usage goes way up, becomes a huge swing and miss generator, the giants figured out some tunneling thing or something with him and that's repeatable. Zaidi's choices in SF have been confusing, but they have had some decent wins in player turnarounds with smyly and gausman.

I think realistically Houston is going to be a bit hamstrung in wanting to provide a soft landing for Harden and get some feedback on where he wants to go. On that end, I'm not sure he'd want to go to chicago (he was not on the Donovan OKC teams, there is nothing to lure him). But that aside, I think I would want 2021 draft picks, salary relief, and young talent. The knicks might have a shot with that said.

This reminds me a bit of the pomeranz deal last year. Soxtalk was equally angry. But if the scouts/analysts in Atlanta thought that there were real changes from Smyly realized last year, they were probably not the only ones. I'm not sure it means that much for quintana or any others, many of which teams are planning on slow decline, and have many peers but not that many teams.

Harden will go to bkln is my guess.

this is going exactly where I thought but still interesting the 2nd/3rd place votes.

Yeah I just actually read it instead of skimming bolded names. Oh well, thought there was an interesting "bullpen arm"+ for starting pitcher swap.

There is a simpler answer: that the vaccine isn't going to be a lucrative product, and the company will be higher in value due to good sentiment than it will in the future as it searches for other uses for the technology.

There was something in here I've been playing around in my head but just couldn't peg the phillies at the point of doing: Aaron Nola.

Could be. Lux tax definition vs. actual paid out salary.

I actually voted for Madrigal but I guessed board would go for Stiever just because he's been a trade candidate for 18 mos now.

I'd be surprised, I think they like their Carolina set-up.

I used to laugh at them but then their insane decisions still ended up netting them more playoff appearances than the sox during the 2010s (not hard).

I think these are pretty easy but wondering where we'll end up My guess:

This is using that madrigal assumption but I just can't imagine the rockies seeing Nick Madrigal as a prize. Obviously at the right price, marquez is one of the best pitchers we could get, control or not. But I just have a hard time believing that's what the rox would want.

Totally agree with this. Both $$/War and surplus value always feel like a retrofitting exercise and never that helpful as a predictive measure.

I obviously like the talent, but I just don't think the sox are at a point where they need to pay out of depth for the exhorbitant talent price for cost-control.

Ah, J&J was going for double that amount.

If Jake Burger gets selected in the rule 5 I'll eat a hat.

Did not expect Moderna and Pfizer to release phase 3 preliminary results ahead of J&J. Considering both those had data ready sooner than expected due to the surge of cases, I wonder when oxford/Astrozaneca, Johnson&johnson drop.

Good stuff. Could be wrong, and I am I'm guessing it would be about Tyler Johnson, but I don't think sox will claim anyone, nor anyone will be claimed.

That's a shame. I imagine in one year's time we'll be posing hypothetical trade deals for odorizzi, personally.

Yeah pretty sure this is right and the same 1 year approach durant kept doing. Oladipo, man, I don't know how many will take a chance on that. I kinda forgot how restricted bulls are this year at salary, but porter gives them an extremely tradable salary to either help facilitate or take a chance.