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Right and really you have to just hope he can stay above 90. But even if he goes to high 80s, you could be looking at some late era bartolo colon seasons (mets hopefully) which are still not particularly bad if you are getting a 3 year contract at decent rates. If he maintains though you could either have a productive, stable vet that you could trade if team is sucking. If he is ivan nova, then I still think you can get out of the contract and it was just worth a shot. But he may still be looking for 80 mill, I have no idea. At that price no thanks.

If nothing else, showcasing covey in a role where he can show his optimal value versus shoehorning him into one that highlights his weakness could help create value during a year they are not competing. I'd have argued the same with Davidson. It's really a team set-up thing though. I believe in it for must win games, but don't feel like sox are talented enough to manage its value throughout the season which would put them at a disadvantage. But I feel like sox want to find traditional roles within the players they have, so letting them play out that role is probably best. This is the horse we have so may as well just let them figure out the way they want to play.

This is insane. Leury is the best outfielder on this team.

I have to say I love the BA guys but I canceled my subscription. I was shocked how little content comes in between big lists unless you follow college baseball. They need to do more writer chats.

It's going to be a form of accurate. Waiting for some "breaking: Nick madrigal suspended 80 games for violating mlbs performance enhancing drugs policy"

Why write that

that hasn't helped either. Basically need to put him in a straight jacket when he gets to first base.

Definitely reminds me of Moss/Rice team

I have never seen any player get as many sliding injuries as him. I have to wonder if most players play through it? For a while since he bulked up so much between his cuban leagues and US debut I thought his body was adjusting, but it's ridiculous now.

Its crazy, that org is a windsock right now. Heard Raiders may try to pull off an offseason of kyler murray, leveon bell, and antonio brown. It would be a fun circus at least. Definitely an oakland vibe to that group.

Yes, he is supposedly pitching without restrictions.

I assume its the substitute group but you are right I haven't seen robert in since friday. Also strange that Basabe is in that group.

Yeah I think this will be one of the most interesting Charlottes since first few months of 2017. Would have been more interesting with Basabe, but alas.

Jimenez/Anderson/Giolito vs. Pads Moncada/Madrigal/Cease vs. Cleveland

Are you using "offensive" as a descriptor for position player or literally offensive rating?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-spt-bulls-michael-reinsdorf-interview-20190304-story.html A painful read. KC Johnson toes the line of a decent, hard question but allows an unbelievable amount of wiggle room. It almost reads like it was an email?

Lots of media to teams recently. Jeff Sullivan (fangraphs) -> Rays as an analyst Jessica Mendoza (espn) -> Mets as a front office position yet still retaining sunday night baseball duties which is kinda weird.

Yeah...it's hard to tell because JRs gut instincts are always to self-police contracts to players that will not be used to increase labor leverage. Just reading the rundowns of the harper signing from the philly perspective, they did make it seem like they prioritized machado and then harper opened up around when we all heard, mid january or whenever. So there are things out there that make it seem like it was mostly JR self policing. But it just wouldn't surprise me if the phillies owner and JR shared their top-line numbers for both players, and the sox was higher than phills for machado and theirs for harper was higher than sox, and they agreed not to bid against eachother just to bid up the price when they know the other team will go higher. There you have the phil rogers ...intel? insight? tweet that the sox don't feel they will get harper and don't want to just bid up the price against phils when they won't get him. But reading the athletic rundown from the phils perspective. They were offering 330 million. They weren't going over. They preferred that be as long a contract as possible, and eventually agreed to 13 years. So if the sox had offered 10 for 330 I think they get him. If they offer 12 for 335 I think they get him. But they didn't because apparently internally, if we believe kenny williams, they valued harper at below machado, who they tried to hardball and lost.

Its hard to tell with them. We thought they'd be all over rutherford in 16 and drafted collins. But 17 sounds like the one draft that it fell to them in the least opportune way. They had smoke around Adell and I think they would have taken him, but they had way more smoke around Jeren Kendell and they took burger. That draft though was riddled with unathletic college hitters with good power and k : bb rates, which all fit burger.

Right, you can look at who he has been traded for to date. The guy is what he is, pretty decent reliever getting paid market rate to be so. If he was making 1 million he'd be really nice to have, at 7 mill this year and probably 8 next year, it's not going to get you more than some 16-30 prospect on a teams list.

They have seemed open to selling comp picks though, so I really hope they keep their ears open for that.

k. If you think you are operating in hindsight, go ahead.

If Bears splurge on a player I could see it being justin houston, who has gotten paid and may want more "fit" at end of his career, and it's a big draft class for edge. Or he'll get paid like 20 mill by the colts. edit: originally said sox not bears.

That was mostly two years ago but he survived birmingham which is a tough park for him, as seen by only a .373 slugging percentage at home. But he did a decent job getting on base and I'm a fan.

at this point with his struggles moncadas baseline is league average hitter and 2 war player. If he never improves this is his production. Thats one player in a package of 4 and 2 others are still promising.