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Absent salary coming back I'm not sure that's enough.

Yeah the whole rotation is a tough question, as it is the main driver of their salary commitments.

These are the types of deals that are very hard to grasp what the value would be. If we could leverage our depleted salary to dampen the return then its attractive. At full price, not attractive. But the nats also have a core of young players, they could realistically shed a lot of salary and re-tool. Players like Ryan Zimmerman aren't longterm issues, but he saves them 18 million this year. Eaton would save 20 million off books. They have Soto/Robles/Taylor. Kieboom to replace Rendon. So if we are a part of just shedding to allow younger prospects to form a new core, give them flexibility to assign money to bullpen, they are probably better than they are now.

Yeah I sorta like Bleday more as a 1 year phenom since there was such a pronounced change that led to the success.

Uh, yeah the nate jones and rodon roster spots are not the points of the roster I'd take issue with. Adam Eaton was 2 WAR for 95 games, for 10 million. Still pretty good.

You wrote those dollar amounts as if they are bad when in fact they are very good.

Like if we took back anibal sanchez...that should cut some prospect cost.

They had a scene on Cersei's prophecy.

Though I do wonder if acquiring salary would be enough.

I don't hate this. Hahn will get killed going up against Rizzo again though.

Definitely an el duque nod

just want to say again that this start time sucks.

I like them a lot.

Eh, I wouldn't expect that his first few years.

You see guys, Anderson is a righty. While Tilson is a lefty. It's unstoppable if you put them back to back.

You guys are so silly. Madrigal will have a homer before June 1.

so...ugh. Walker obviously can make me eat my words, but in terms of planning, not taking a HS pitcher in round two last year was so dumb. But anyway, I still like Walston in round 2. I have to wonder, is Leiters kid worth the 4 mill tag then? seems like he's destined for college.

And Moncada/Cano

https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2019/05/developing-less-efficiency-player-development-lead-success/ Here is part 2. Pretty interesting series.

Let me start with I think comps are useless and I will not be convinced otherwise. However, I want to know what people think of when they hear a comp and apply it to the player. a) Do they hear the comp, think of the comp's prime and apply those numbers as a likely prime era for the player? b) Do you just think of that comps best year and imagine that as every year of the players career? c) Do you think of the comp's career average and imagine a yearly baseline of that for the player? d) Literally imagine something like the same start middle and end from the comp to the player. e) Something else My impression is people do (b). Like what does it really mean to you that Andrew Vaughn is compd to Josh Donaldson? That he will have a prime as an MVP candidate? That he is a perennial 30 home run guy (starting from what year?) Not snarking actually interested.

today starts the offensive breakouts in birmingham and kannapolis. Madrigal will hit a homer. Robert will hit a ball into the gap and sprint so hard around first that instead of moving forward he just starts digging out the dirt from underneath him until he creates the longest tunneling system in the united states.

I think the Bucks may do it this year.

The problem with this is it imagines a baseline of absolute zero...meaning if you expect a GM to fail on every move by contrast Hahn is not so bad. But when you compare him to an average GM it is not impressive, especially given resources.

Oh...well

Didn’t see an inning, figures. Tilson well on his way to that .280 avg with 40 sbs