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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.

Mendick and Seby producing this year would be nice indicators of player development. I think for the elite players its not necessarily player dev working as much as luck and scouting philosophy. But a good player dev squad should squeeze the most value from every player, so you get a solid stable of people like this. Mendicks power improves, his numbers are never good enough that you believe, not since W-S. But I don't know, if you get a tyler saladino level player from him that's really nice!

I get why, but this seems like a gift if you are the Jags, but obviously not if you give up the #7 pick.

this allowed me to watch the hong kong flick "City on Fire" and it was really good and I'm pleased with this app.

I don't really agree, Rosen was put in by far the worst situation of any QB last year and he had some really nice moments. Has a lot in common with goff/trubisky there. I think he's good.