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You know it's funny but the actual poll options were good but nobody discusses them. The winner was that he should have tried to stop it internally so at least it was clear it was being directed by Luhnow.

I am very excited to do mine but it's too early can't believe people doing it before even arb projections.

Ah. Yeah I looked at him last week but didn’t see any mentions of him so figured there wasn’t interest in the NL teams.

Quatraro?

Said in my post a while ago. It's not for me that he needs to be paired with someone younger, it will be easier to swallow for me if it's clear with the pitching coach and other coaches and player dev staff that their efforts to modernize their player dev does not end on the field. If he's just overseeing accountability and handling the bullpen, I'm sure it will be fine.

I thought about this too long which isn't a good sign.

Players I'm excited to see: Glasnow, Azorena (Its going to take a while before I can spell that right from memory), More Dustin May/Buehler, Mookie in RF and Bellinger going to be fun. But a Glasnow/Kershaw game will be epic.

I think this is the long and short of it for what they have to play with. I wouldn't be surprised if new TV deal + shortened season meant sox plugged their losses in 2020. And that's a big reason why FA signings may delay. Teams may wait to see likelihood of starting 2021 with fans, maybe being more optimistic if the nov 2020 J&J vaccine drops.

Had the Braves won last night I think they could beat Rays. I don't think there is much talent diff between them and Rays. Dodgers talent diff feels much higher but their rotation has not played up to potential in playoffs last decade. Anderson and Fried were filthy and they are only gaining Soroka next year. That's a big 3 that rivals anyone. Wright got rocked in the CS but can definitely become a good-to-great piece. If anything I think Braves should be happy. In early august it was looking like their wealth of pitching was falling apart. Between injuries and players like folty and touissant falling off of a cliff, along with FA signings like hamels not playing and soroka injured, it was rough. Then Anderson and Fried dominate and you remember that if players from a group of prospects become elite and not just good it does so much for a rebuild. They have Pache arriving for good. Riley and Waters probably for good. Money that went to a sandoval or markakis and ozuna can be redistributed to plug up holes.

I agree very disappointed in Miller. That said, i don't think it's accurate to say he was a whiff of 2 second round picks. That year we picked James Daniels in the 2nd, then traded a future 2nd for a 2nd that year. So it was the equivalent of losing just one second rounder.

Excellent matchup

I’m confused. I was told the bears are very stupid and dumb but the team they beat last week is winning handily. Confusing!

Nagy is such trash as a play caller. Absolute trash.

Man this is gonna be a nail biter. Need a big time play.

Good question that I can’t answer...but last night the announcers made it seem like it would be a team option that prior to last night Morton didn’t think they’d pick up the $14 mill.

Congratulations to the nfl for beating the bears this week. WTf is going on

Touchdown!!! wellp nvm. Vilma thrilled at this turn of events

Watching Mike Davis be so good should open us up to idea it’s def oline + nagy

Find a partner who loves you the way Jonathan villa loves teddy bridgewater

The league needs to sit down with Kyle fuller and tell him if he’s allowed to play football in this league

Man the bears offense is just awful. Nagy please for the love of god give up play calling. Pace how the hell did you go into a season without any backup interior lineman?

Ah good call forgot about that.

Can they review that aspect of it?

What an infuriating last 5 minutes of the reds giving every call to the Panthers. Insanely frustrating.

There’s a couple things I don’t like about this: - If we are trading mlb “ready” pitching like cease to me it’s only to get an immediate upgrade on pitching. - your assessment of Yaz is that of a player we’d buy at his ceiling and likely to decline. There are plenty of RF options and I’d hate to lose a piece like cease that could be used to buy better pitching