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Honestly I don't think it matters.

Maybe in that the arb $ going to relievers who had already been a closer makes them pretty much market value.

To get a top 100 guy for a bullpen arm, my belief is the contending team will need to buy into the reliever being so dominant they will be the guy they hand the ball to in the ninth of the playoffs. Colome and Herrerra are both good but they would very likely be middle relievers on any contending team, and will return similar. Unless maybe there is a very bad run of injuries and they get lucky.

And people will claim this is revisionist but many pointed it out at the time. Rutherford had developed no power, and seemed to be a classic case of older high school prospect who may have been overrated due to a more mature body. That said with the exception of Florial the yankee prospects that were traded out that summer have busted, though one largely because of the white sox power box. What was that fake ken rosenthal deal? Florial, Mateo, Adams? I was through the moon for that. Cashman man. If he's trading you a prospect that prospect probably sucks.

He's been traded twice including once at the deadline. He has less control and is 30 now. Why would he suddenly be worth way more? He'll need to hit the kind of dominance he only achieved once in his career. I hope it happens.

He's working on his offspeed/breaking stuff and that seems like worthwhile development in the minors. I think he'll be up in like mid july.

I dislike this trade regardless of whether colome plays well. I didn't dislike it because colome is bad, I disliked it because the amount of money he was getting in arb and relatively short term control made acquiring a similar player in free agency pretty comparable without giving up narvaez. I'd rather have traded/released Castillo, rolled with Narvaez and a player like Jeff Mathis as the defensive catcher, and laid the ground for Seby this year. Apparently some want to flex on it because Colome has pitched well (he is a good pitcher), but it's the process I didn't like. Now, certainly could pan out if he keeps it up and is a truly elite deadline piece with a year of control. But considering he's been traded twice with fairly meh returns, I'm not optimistic.

Dang woke up and saw Kanny actually scored some runs but in the least interesting way possible ha.

Same infield dimension as everywhere ha

Tilson and Cordell both hitting well in Charlotte.

If only someone had done this work for you all.

Just incredible scouting signing Santana and then being so ecstatic to get him in the rotation immediately.

I honestly don't find them that different except because of flexibility OF often includes some higher ceiling FA than 2b typically will. Probably your ideal RF (ish) FA last year would hav been Brantley who got 16mm, vs. Lemahieu who got 12. Then you have a bunch more older 2b that are probably more certain to be around slightly below average than the same quantity that was available last year. But there's also just playing Curtis Granderson in RF on a minor league deal option and hope.

Why? He wouldn't be "blocking" Moncada. Moncada would be the 2b if he had signed, and we'd just have a great infield and would need to find a RF. Had Harper signed, we'd have Moncada at 3b and would need to find a 2b. We theoretically have either prospects that can replace both, or are dealing with positions that are typically affordable on the marketplace. So it didn't matter, and getting an elite player was more important. But Machado's plus defense would be nice.

Yeah it went from "oh no there's a fire at Notre Dame" to "holy sh*t Notre Dame is going to be completely destroyed" in like 15 minutes. Really sad.

They are solid top ten. I dont understand how you mark someone as a "poor start" for getting injured, but adolfo has been on top 100 prospect lists. I don't understand why it's so obvious that we should bank on Madrigal but so foolish that we could bank on one of four outfield prospects to provide production in the corner outfield. Your reasons why Harper was the superior fit has two ifs on it. But Harper >>> any of the OFers we will put up, and Machado >>>> Madrigal so I guess it didn't really matter anyway.

It's true, but I really have a hard time just accepting that every 2-3 years he reverts to being a complete disaster that has to be rebuilt.

I'm all for Cordell getting his shot, as if Palka doesn't get a hit today it's almost sadistic to keep him out there. I'm just really disappointed in Cordells year last year and not sure it means he'll be that good offensively. But when we are getting so little defensively and literally nothing offensively from Palka, it's absolutely the point to make the change. But I'm also at the point where Engel should be CF and Leury RF regardless, sadly for offensive reasons.

Like if you asked me to bet who would have a better OPS after their next 150 ABs Adam Engell or Ryan Cordell it would be a tough call for me.

I like Cordell's defense and was very happy for his homer and double in limited at bats but let's keep in mind if you include last years MLB at bats he's just a .478 ops in the majors. He also had a sub .700 OPS last year in Charlotte. It was a bad year for him, but it's not so obvious he's going to be competent.

Basabe and Adolfo are not fringe top ten org guys.

Jrue is a top 10 point guard for sure. It's definitely what you said, but I just don't see it mattering. Porter will be a huge expiring the year after next, and jrue is good. It will definitely max the bulls out as like a 5 seed optimistically but not sure what else they will do.

dunn probably has negative value at this point. I don't see it happening unless it somehow becomes part of a 3 team trade for AD and Ball truly forces his way out of the NoLa part. Would not be against it, I do love his defense and passing. Getting Jrue holiday would be nice even though it would max out the cap next few years, but I am pretty sure he will net a much prettier package than bulls would give up.

When I first saw this I thought, that's a bummer, but I kinda thought it was all made out of stone and it would just be a contained fire. It's pretty much destroyed and they don't seem to be able to put it out Very sad. Even as someone who doesn't like church tourism abroad, notre dame was incredible.