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The difference is that one person is a legitimate reporter, and the rest aren't. This is fake news.

538 pegs the Bulls with 27 wins this year, 4th worst in the NBA. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-nba-predictions/

This is how I look at it. Looking up his fangraphs numbers, he didn't lose velocity or have any other big redflags to say that his stuff is gone. Gray would be far from the first guy who couldn't pitch in NYC. Even his xFIP and FIP were 4.17 and 4.10, despite his ERA being 4.90. I think more teams will be willing to take a chance on a soon to be 29 year old starter who than was a 33 year old reliever with the same basic contract prices.

While it is probably not illegal, it is definitely a moral and ethical lapse on the part of Levine to speculate about something like this, especially if the team or player didn't tell him this directly.

This and the OF may well be the strongest positions in the system when you factor in Fry and Bummer as well.

Not the Yankees.

I have to imagine SOMEONE would offer significantly more to the Yankees than this steaming pile.

There is a lot of circumstantial evidence out there that a good chunk of those are basically a backdoor for players to get stimulants with the banning of speed.

More adult conversations?

He'll never hit for power tho.

He had better hope he is right about the ADD because that isn't something you want to be wrong about.

Let me put it this way. Davidson outhit Avi this yaer.

The two work out together in the off season. I heard Aaron Rowand on a podcast last week talking about it. Row really like Ruth.

It's so simple, how did they not think of it

Who?

The Dodgers did give up Luis Avilan to get us to take on Soria.

With his free agency status, not really. He is in the group on the way out, and cheaply replaceable.

The point is to get players who will be on your next playoff team. Either through developing them directly or trading the guys who you have to get them. I don't see Avi giving us either, especially with the group of OFs we have on the horizon. Even if all of the OFs we have currently ready fail, then we move on to the Robert/Eloy/Gonzalez generation. If those guys all fail, and somehow we are a near playoff team is that is only a RF away, we can still go back to free agency and find another OF. This isn't Avi or nothing. This isn't Avi or Cordell/Delmonico. This is seeing if we have anything in this current group of OFs and adjusting accordingly.

Are they letting Leury go?

For my two cents, it isn't worth having him block a player for a low price anyway.

yeah, again, if that offer was something realistic, he would already have been gone when he had 2+ years of control left and during a career year. He is going to be a free agent this time next year which already means that unless he is putting up superstar numbers, his value is low. Let alone the fact that even at his best he was an all bat/bad RF, which is also not something teams want. The system is loaded with high ceiling OFs, and if they all really do fail, we can always go back to free agency and find another Avi Garcia. Matt Davidson put up a better offensive number than Avi did in '18.