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Great start to the day! (If you exclude the horribly depressing majors)

Yeah, though you could say he just lost his legs and he'll be much better conditioned for basketball, something that conditioning for is hard to recreate. I wouldn't say that, because I have very little confidence in Lavine being good.

The weird thing to me is there feels like a huge disconnect between how their top 100 lists play out and their interviews about players. I like their interviews, but pipeline basically hedges by saying like 90% of prospect are between 45 and 55 FV, and they are so slow to drop players clearly having difficulty at higher levels.

PIpeline is so conservative with dropping players down. Curious how many would take Rutherford over Adolfo at the moment

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?cid=&lid=&org=145&sc=&sid=milb&t=affiliate&ymd=20180622 In DSL news, Jose Rodriguez was 0-3 with a K.

I'm surprised Callis didn't drop Robert from the way he was talking about him. Nothing negative, he just sounded like he felt they placed him too aggressively early.

Not really getting Ricky's strategy here.

The only positive sounding thing you could spin about Trayce's offense is he would have been in the top 15 of best offensive pitchers, except he also got about 10x the at bats of most of those people.

The exit velos of balls hitting off Palka's glove are insane.

Interesting lineup possibilities now LF - Sanchez CF - Palka RF - A Garcia 3b - Davidson SS - L Garcia 2b - Moncada 1b - Abreu C - Anderson DH - Engel

I do think Lavine will be valuable when he realizes his limitations, but I don't want to pay a max deal for a jr smith/jamal crawford type.

You guys don't know how to enjoy a good thing. Leury is maybe the best example sox have had in developing a position player recently. Leuryforever.

LEURY IS BACK!

Also relevant to this all:

I think this also is why I support what the Mavs did. A lot of drafts have these "Well they are the best player this year" guys, if you think Doncic is a different level go get him. It's NOT like trading a draft pick for a veteran, they'll get Doncic on rookie level pricing and will get all of the advantages of that.

I'm also wondering at what point they give Hoiberg a roster that isn't fighting against the basic elements of his system.

The benefit to trading future value for current is the certainty of who you get, but it requires certainty Doncic becomes a star and not a mediocre guard. I believe Doncic is better than what the typical years top 3 draft pick offers, and so getting him is better than the potential get next year.

Maybe Seby told him to stop throwing the ball 4 ft outside the zone.

RIght, based on past history it seemed the most likely area bulls could succeed in a rebuild is via draft, it seems less likely that will be available. Lucy with the football.

IMO not even worth paying attention to. He has had so few reps last few years.

I do think there is a good case to be made that drafting the best player you think exists in the hopes of compiling assets to have ready to trade out when a team is being forced to trade a star or is ready to offload a top draft pick is equally fine in order to get the stars needed to compete. The thing that obviously undercuts it is our front office is unlikely to operate this way and is more likely just to fall in love with some good not great players who try hard (cough taj gibson). Evidence of this exists in their not investing into a larger scouting and analytics department when they decided to rebuild, it is in fact one of the smallest depts in the league. If they were planning on finding value whereever it exists, you'd want a system to do that. The bulls do not have it. I'm sympathetic to the view that Carter was a good pick, will be good, but also this is a bad sign of things to come. They kept Robin Lopez thinking his value could be turned into something, it didn't, his value to the bulls on play time directly undercut their value in the draft. Same with Niko, they made a bet it would work out in their favor, I do not expect it to. In my alternate reality, we traded future assets to get Doncic, whom I think will be a star. We sign Clint Capela to pair next to Lauri. Try and find a better PG fit for the pace. We roll with this core and try to find consistently more 3pt shooting and develop a 3rd star. Capela is RFA, i would "overpay" in hoping Rockets view lack of flexibility as too big of an issue. Or, you drafted Robert Williams as C at 22 and try to trade him to them later. That is a future I have confidence in. This one, still have zero clue.

This is great.

This is just spot on.

This is true. We’re in a worse position. Would have had to give up a top 5 protected pick too, plus maybe 22. But maybe that wasn’t enough. Atl has a guy, and would only move if they could guarantee that. Couldnt do it without moving Orlando out ahead of them. but just wish we’d have overpaid for a guy I think could be a star.

It is literally how the Rockets have consistently built their contender. Draft the best player you can, spin the assets for better players. They also have a scouting dept larger than 3 people though.