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I really like a lot of the teams, and I think bucks will be competitive against any finals team, but how much of the winning percentage will be driven by the bottom half of the conference being the pits? The bulls themselves are buoyed by how bad the teams beneath them are. Detroit was at least decently competitive last year, now the injuries destroyed them.

It is unbelievable to me that the Bulls are somehow only 3 games back from a playoff spot, but also could be better than 6 teams in the league, let alone the conference. The nets with irving back will probably expose a gap, but man, as bad as the east always is, it is astonishingly bad this year.

That would be fine if he actually did that but he has really only had one class that looked like that.

If trading moncada makes them better over the next 4 years you consider it. But you are overvaluing years 5-7 when you don't have near enough information to do so. The rebuild has developed a fetishism of the long-term that has made it feel like it is always worth sacrificing the immediate year just to improve competitive odds 6 years from now.

Mets THIRD lol

so BA did a "top 100 prospects of the latam class 2019" Sox only had one guy, it was yolbert (at #33). Just hope they either way overproduced from the penalty classes or were right about tatis/sanchez

They could have an arbitrator rule. Players could submit independent evals and opinions from independent sites like BA saying they were likely ready and likely to be better than what was live, teams could provide internal statements, etc. If a bearing on the ruling is what is available on mlb roster, it could provide more jobs to vets as teams try to show they had a better option on the club. I could see it being better than this.

Tyler flowers glasses pt. 2

I don’t think this is right though. Thomas, Arod, Ross were mostly just guys that hang around and do some spot coaching in spring training and are generally available for org events. Mendoza, at least in her announced position, they said she’d have input in player evals and roster construction. That’s a different level of access.

Mieses and Comas were on track at least. Kannys the jump, so we’ll see who has a possible big league future quick.

absolutely. It was insane either side allowed that.

Awesome on Thompson/Dalquist. That's about what they did with Adams too (though adams/danish pitched a bit more their first year post draft). Kanny/W-S not going to be the most fun this year, but Kanny still has some stuff to watch. Really excited for short-season ball though and see some of the progression from last year. Bounce back years for Bush/Sosa would be great.

oh man, so much nicer not to have to x out of 15 autoplay videos. Congrats on this, I'm sure it was a huge effort.

I guess I wasn’t alone

Tough to summarize. But it was first time I’ve ever heard him, not even sure I remember an article interview after his new role. Hes very enthusiastic and I appreciated that he got really wonky while explaining things very clearly. He covered a couple times the difficulty scouting prospects across different maturity curves, such as a prospect from Vanderbilt who is already on a mlb nutrition and hitting plan be a guy at Indiana state. He brought up that Gladney was drafted by them largely because he was an EV darling at a workout they held. He said they would not favor college over high school under him (and I believe him). I appreciate how available Hostetler made himself to blogs and media, but he was a bit arrogant and loved to mostly talk about how much they knew about guys. Shirley loved to talk about the process of evaluating guys. He was super interesting. This from Y2Jimmy summed up my thoughts

Mike Shirley was SUPER impressive

So glad I have a replacement for BHB

Oh my god I’m way too excited for this.

Id look at Scott kingerys personally. I wouldn’t care anyway, just bring him up.

Madrigal can't check the boxes at the top of the list, amirite

Reading your posts you'd think little women bombed instead of making $130 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.

But he was a 130 wRC+ player 2 years ago and 121 wRC+ last year, and has averaged 120 wRC+ over 4 years.

Romine, that crappy guy they just signed.

Good luck and stay safe.