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Guys that come off the bench on a team that won 25 games are not core.

Letting him walk for nothing would be preferable to me than signing him while underneath the salary cap long-term. I'd love him on a mid-level exception. I"m not wasting cap space on a bench player before we know our core.

So long as he doesn't suddenly play DH in low-a that's fine with me.

For the record, I wasn't saying they would get a second, I was saying it would take a 2nd to trade him mid-season.

Good gellinger quote on nunez from this article: https://theathletic.com/571707/2018/10/08/a-tour-of-white-sox-instructs-provides-a-snapshot-of-the-rebuild/?redirected=1 “(Nuñez) was always pretty much a one-side-of-the-plate guy and now he’s learned how to cover the other side of the plate and it really showed this year,” Gellinger continued. “You tend to see that guys who hit the outer two-thirds of the plate tend to have higher batting averages. The guys that maybe cover the inner half of the plate maybe hit for more power, and know how to pull the ball a little bit better. But to be able to do both like Nunez did this year, he really improved on hitting the ball on the outer part of the plate.”

I like Portis but I wouldn't re-sign him and I think he is someone who will get exploited the more minutes he plays.

And FWIW Jimmy's use of media isn't that different from LBJ he just isn't Lebron so it doesn't work.

Totally agree with this. Him and wade were garbage with the youth, rondo was great. Its one of the reasons I think Rondo will be great in LA this year, not as a player of course, but as a glue guy to support ball/ingram when lbj gets antsy.

If he starts at 4 Carter Jr needs to be t 5. The reason parker was benched was because Parker/Lopez was so incredibly slow it caused the awful defense in first four games. When Markannen gets back though, you then have Portis as a #3 PF, unless you try him again as a small C where he has not shown to really handle well. Markannen at 5 should be tried more, but comes at cost of WCJ. I like parker as a person, but it's really unlikely this contract ends up paying off, and I'd rather the team have built an identity this year. Hard to do with such a strange fit.

So Parker is now our 3rd string PF and it took 3 preseason games for Fred to find out what garpax should have already known that he is not a 3.

There's nothing they can do about Wiggins. Guy isn't moveable. Guarantee if it was up to thibs he'd trade wiggins and KAT and roll with that 3rd stringer unit, taj, and he'd be on the line with Mike James in a heartbeat.

No guys that was a good post.

Gonna be honest, from a distance the Jimmy show is kinda fun.

No way, mission accomplished.

*licks chops* The bears had about 5 straight years of horrendous injuries that I started to wonder if they'd ever get lucky in opposite way. This year has been a good year for being healthy knock on wood.

Could be, mlb could have a failure to report, could have communicated with the traffickers for players. The SI report indicates mlb itself is being investigated, it's unclear what for.

It's not that I think you are wrong that mlb punishments won't follow, it's just I don't think the precedent you are citing will be what it looks like because MLB itself may have liability.

I do want to stress that a big difference here is that this is an FBI investigation and not an MLB investigation, that the MLB themselves may be under investigation, and so the "punishment" may very well be criminal charges or fines. The response to that would be systematic reform, I feel, not individual team punishment. For mlb to respond to this by releasing the guys from the dodgers contracts doesn't seem to match with the charges, to me at least.

I'm on the cj abrams train.

Not now, but it is prorated and I've stopped assuming the nfl cap is a restriction on any one deal.

"But they are going to get that from anyone right now" - guessing this was they are NOT going to get that from anyone. I don't want to trade howard in season, but for the team to work cap wise he's definitely a guy you won't re-sign and bears trading for cheap rookie deals is a good idea. But, I love howard, he plays so hard and doesn't complain. I hope he gets a playoff game just squeeking through a hole that didn't appear to exist and rolling into the end zone for a game clincher.

That's nice to hear about Sosa, we are finally getting notes about his future after two years stateside. He doesn't walk, but he has had a really nice k-rate, and I feel better about a player like that learning to be more selective (which may play for more power). As an org, we are pretty well deep on shortstop but still need anderson to be a star. Anderson Rondon Mendick Mendick to me has a chance to be a saladino. Important only in that the team used to have to pay for saladinos, and now have been finding players like Sally, Mendick, maybe Laz in late rounds. That's good. Sosa Sosa to me is the only interesting SS prospect. Delgado of course could get there if he shows more. He has a nice foundation, is just handling things while young but has a nice hit tool. He could be the one that finds power and takes off. Curbelo/Delgado Nice tools, need production. Curbelo next year will be important. We've had players like Adolfo set back for eyars with injuries get finally healthy and take off, hopefully that happens, he will no longer be the youngest in the league. Delgado, just needs to hold his own. Yrizzari His goal should be utility guy. But if he can't make it to Charlotte in 2020 he should probably convert.

Yeah unlikely but in offseason I could see it. Definitely would require a 2nd round pick. But if you were philly wouldn't you rather go big and get leveon?

I actually think he tries but he basically just really wants to be 1-1 situations with his guy, but no nba offense is just giving you static isos on the wing. So as soon as he gets down on the defensive end and the offense sets up with some screens and movement he just end up WAY out of position, and then he tries to aggressively make up for it and gets himself in WORSE position. There was a point when the d was setting up and lavine lost his man on a sudden screen, where his man came up and was handed the ball and shot a 3. Lavine made the strangest route to the ball he ended up behind his own teammate on the screen, and his response was to push Lopez in the back to "guard" his man. It's just cluelessness combined with overzealousness.

It's not fair to markkanen to put him and lavine in the same sentence. Markkanen gets in bad matchups but tries, Lavine runs around like a chicken with his head cut off. He has just very, very bad feel for nba team defense.